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Uncle Ben

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  • #32
    EagererBeaver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,158 ✭✭✭EagererBeaver


    I just had a panic attack in my kitchen


  • #33
    NOVA MCMXCIV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭NOVA MCMXCIV


    I'll have a panic attack in your kitchen!


  • #34
    vectorvictor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭vectorvictor


    NOVA MCMXCIV wrote: »
    I'll have a panic attack in your kitchen!

    Talk about getting your noodles in a twist and going completely prawn crackers


  • #35
    NOVA MCMXCIV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭NOVA MCMXCIV


    vectorvictor wrote: »
    Talk about getting your noodles in a twist and going completely prawn crackers
    I'll prawn your crackers!


  • #36
    vectorvictor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭vectorvictor


    NOVA MCMXCIV wrote: »
    I'll prawn your crackers!

    That's so 1994


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  • #37
    Yester
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,500 ✭✭✭Yester


    vectorvictor wrote: »
    That's so 1994

    Lol. I was just working that out.


  • #38
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    This thread is toast...


  • #39
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,506 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Try_harder wrote: »
    If you're a woman and you want to maintain weight, you should eat per portion: 104g

    If you're a woman and you want to lose weight, you should eat per portion: 37g

    If you're a man and you want to maintain weight, you should eat per portion: 130g

    If you're a man and you want to lose weight, you should eat per portion: 50g

    What about those gains though?


  • #40
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Convenience rice is a weird one. I mean it's pretty convenient as at it when you buy a kilo of it.


  • #41
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    super_furry wrote: »
    Convenience rice is a weird one. I mean it's pretty convenient as at it when you buy a kilo of it.
    but the microwave pouches are done in 2 minutes rather than 10 minutes and involved no washing up.


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  • #42
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    I thought this was going to be an RIP thread

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #43
    Conor Bourke
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,426 ✭✭✭✭Conor Bourke


    silverharp wrote: »
    I thought this was going to be an RIP thread

    It is. Rice in Pouches.


  • #44
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,396 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    I'm calling cultural appropriation on Uncle Ben's ass.

    Rice is Chinese staple.


  • #45
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Are Am Eye wrote: »
    Racist.

    I think Ben is paid a wage in return for filling and packing the little bags nowadays. New legislation and all that. So not racist.

    In fact, YOU could be pulled up in front of the racism courts for patronising an old black man and insinuating that he can't fill little see-through perforated plastic bags as thoroughly and as competently when they pass down the conveyor belt in the rice packaging factory as a white man of a similar age and background.:eek:


  • #46
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,371 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Uncle Bens is owned by a supermassive American foods conglohommerate. If removing one grain of rice per packet means someone on the board of directors gets to buy a shiny new Tesla Model S they'll do it.


  • #47
    Try_harder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    pickarooney wrote: »
    What about those gains though?

    Uncle Ben's Protein Rice?

    Its brown, looks disgusting, GAINZ!!!


  • #48
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Try_harder wrote: »
    Uncle Ben's Protein Rice?

    Its brown, looks disgusting, GAINZ!!!
    Uncle Ben has a range of quinoa and wholegrain rice...


  • #49
    imme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    zapitastas wrote: »
    Used to be a Chinese on Dorset street called uncle Ben or maybe it was uncle b. Damn memory

    Yes,
    uncle b was on the left hand side going into town, wasn't he?


  • #50
    vectorvictor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭vectorvictor


    imme wrote: »
    Yes,
    uncle b was on the left hand side going into town, wasn't he?

    You're just pouring fuel on the fire now....

    https://amp.independent.ie/irish-news/jail-for-arson-bid-on-owner-of-chinese-takeaway-26136703.html


  • #51
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,371 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Uncle Ben will be a thing of the past soon. Racist connotations apparently


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  • #52
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,873 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    The rice is too white anyway


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,642 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    silverharp wrote: »
    I thought this was going to be an RIP thread

    It is now.


  • #54
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    This belongs in the woke-ism thread because its yet another "woke" thing that I couldn't give a f*ck about. Its not like we won't be able to find the rice once they change the name.


  • #55
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Are Am Eye wrote: »
    Racist.

    You mean Ricist, surely?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #56
    ranto_boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭ranto_boy


    As well as the name change, they're removing the image of the black man from the products. I guess racists will be happy?


  • #57
    The Mighty Quinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭The Mighty Quinn


    skynews-uncle-bens-rice-new-logo_5105575.jpg


  • #58
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    We might aswell get rid of Captain Birdseye while we are at it. Too white.


  • #59
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,709 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Ridiculous. Aunt Jemima is getting the same treatment this year too.
    Those brands have a story based on real black people, something that is lost now forever because of this ridiculous culture.


  • #60
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    A change of no substance. All for show.


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  • #61
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,709 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    You'd look at the packaging and say Ben looks like a nice fella, be a good chat and knows his grub. The woke culture just cancelled a black man, hows that for irony.


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