Do you guys find it weird if someone eats rice with salt and milk?

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1. It’s not necessarily common, but it is a meal with carbs and protein, so you do you.

2. That would strike me as a meal someone might put together if they didn’t have access to other foods. Adults generally don’t drink milk unless it’s in a coffee drink, and also rice is usually eaten as a side dish with other food like meat or vegetables with a sauce. Both of these choices are seen as odd on their own, so even more odd to make both of them at the same time.

   edit: Do you mean you cook the rice in salted milk? This would make more sense, but I’ve still never seen it before, Google is showing recipes for rice puddings and arroz con leche. I was imagining this as a beverage and main dish lol.

3. I grew up eating rice with a little brown sugar and milk for breakfast. My wife grew up eating rice with butter, salt and pepper for breakfast.

   I think it may be a southern thing.

4. Not weird at all for me.

5. Seems very weird to me. I would ask for a taste.

   You make the rice with water then add milk right?

6. You do you. It’s not something I would eat (I prefer my rice with soy sauce) but it seems reasonable for you to eat it when you like.

7. It’s weird, but I put yogurt on my rice

8. you’re a few steps away from delicious rice pudding

9. Rice is bland af so salt helps a lot. I’ve also added coconut milk many times to the recipe. Regular milk is a bit more out there but hey you do you

10. Sort of, but it’s a combination that kind of makes sense.

11. I’ve it’s not something I would eat but if you like it that’s what matters

12. My Dad said he did that back during the Great Depression. He was from Arkansas.

13. I have heard of it but I don’t know any who does it.

14. Corn grits would be more common here but basically the same thing. Sometimes you’d put milk in it to make it more rich but water would work. Also usually served hot.

15. I have some older relatives that either did eat it like that or still do. Like someone else said Depression era probably so may have connections there. I have eaten it. It’s fine. Not really my thing but I don’t typically comment on what other people eat nor do I care. I eat what I like and you do what you like.

16. I’d say “not common” instead of “weird.” It’s definitely flavors that work together. It just isn’t a common dish in the US.

    Honestly it isn’t all that different than congee which is a big staple in parts of Asia.

17. I am from the south and hadn’t heard of this until recently. They grew up eating scrambled eggs and rice.

18. I like to make rice pudding in the winter, which is essentially rice cooked in milk with some baking spices.

19. My dad ate it this way, but my grandmother made hot cereal nearly every morning and served them the same way, just with an added pat of butter.

20. Milk and sugar perhaps. With cinnamon and raisins. Hell yeah.

21. I’ve never heard of rice with milk, unless you’re cooking rice pudding

22. It sounds like a version of a hot cereal. Not to weird, but not common.

23. My grandmother used to serve us rice with milk and sugar in it.

24. There are so many different ways to eat rice that I’d hesitate to call any of them weird.

    Also, you’re allowed to eat weird stuff if you want to.

25. No, it doesn’t sound weird. America is a huge place with a lot of different food cultures.

    I do that exact same thing with corn grits. Different plant but same result.

26. My wife is Irish and she grew up eating that.

    It actually comes in cans too I think. There’s a Scottish butcher shop in Kearny, NJ, down by the Lincoln Tunnel area that we go to sometimes and they carry a ton of British and Irish foods, including canned rice porridge of some sort.

    Aside from doing low carb now for 20 years, I don’t get it. But it’s 2/3 of he recipe for rice pudding, which I do like but can’t have too often.

27. I use to put maple syrup on rice for breakfast

28. Its not common. I’d assume its an ethnic dish though.

29. I try not to judge others foods, sometimes its a cultural thing, sometimes its an upbringing where they just think its normal. No reason to even care if its their comfort food, not mine, idk if that makes sense lol

30. Sounds good.

    Do you have stomach issues? I know people with stomach issues that eat that

31. [Just gonna leave this here ](https://tenor.com/blToS.gif)

32. My grandpa was full blooded Italian and ate this as a dessert.

33. Sounds like a struggle meal a broke college student would have. Nothing weird here.

34. My mom used to make sweet rice that had milk, butter, and sugar in it. I’ve heard of others having it, too.

35. Sounds unusual but since rice is tasteless you can do anything with it like other grains.

36. Rice with warm milk and sugar before bed is is a comfort snack for me.

37. Sounds like you’re making porridge, so no, not really weird.

38. Never heard of anyone doing that

39. We used to eat leftover rice with cinnamon and sugar and milk for breakfast when I was a kid.

40. Its definitely weird, yall are tripping.
    There are better struggle meals if you’re going to eat like that.

41. I had sugar instead of salt in that several times when growing up. Obviously the flavor would be different because of that, but it’s hardly weird.

42. I never ate mine with salt, but sugar instead. It’s filling, and if you like it – you do you.

43. I’m an old man who’s learned that life is far too fleeting to be concerned with other people’s culinary preferences.

    No, it’s not weird. Eat whatever you like.

44. I’m originally from Germany and we add milk, sugar, and cinnamon.

45. I ate that occasionally growing up.

    But we would put sugar on it as well.

46. I’ve never seen it done. But you do you.

47. In Europe, they have rice pudding and rice as porridge. Americans are more into oats and corn for our fiber.

48. No, no, no! Brown gravy on rice!