rice: it's what for dinner, and lunch, and maybe even breakfast

We have a local friend who lived in Europe for 3 months. One of the cultural differences he noted while he lived there was how SMALL the rice packages were in the grocery stores. It was fun to hear him describe how tiny the rice packages seemed to him. He had to buy so many, many packages at once! Because here, when rice is on the menu almost every day, you gotta sell it in these kinds of quantities... or in packages like this in case you need a few kilos worth... And there are aisles completely devoted to cooking oils to fry up all that yummy food to go with the rice.

That small package of Uncle Ben's you have in the pantry just won't do!