Lawson now sells old rice as “vintage” onigiri in Japan (soranews24.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

6 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] pleasestopasking@reddthat.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Why is rice being stockpiled but not cycled out?

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 3 points 4 weeks ago

https://winneram.com/does-rice-expire-does-rice-go-bad-faq-we-answer-your-questions-about-rice/

Standard varieties of dried "white" rice are generally non-perishable when stored properly. It tends to be extremely shelf stable (there's a reason disaster preppers stock up on white rice in their emergency food rations).

If stored properly, white rice will last at least 10 years—if not forever. Since white rice is dry, mold or bacteria have trouble growing; and since white rice doesn't contain fat, it won’t go rancid.

White rice is basically the hard tack (clack clack) of the east.

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 2 points 4 weeks ago

White rice is basically the hard tack (clack clack) of the east.

Calm down Max.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 4 weeks ago

I've made hard tack because of Max Miller. Hellfire stew, too, and it was surprisingly good. I did season it a bit more than just hard tack and bacon, of course, but it's a pretty damn good dish.

Oh oh - he alluded to Weenie Royale in his video about food in the Japanese internment camps, so I looked up a recipe for that and made it a couple of times. Also surprisingly good, albeit a bit of a historically accurate reminder of the cruelty of human beings while eating it.

load more comments (-1 replies)

this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025

10 points (100.0% liked)

Not The Onion

17877 readers

254 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world