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Uncle Ben

  • 20-08-2018 9:17pm
    #1
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,918 ✭✭✭✭


    Scandalous rice portions in each bag :mad:

    Hardly enough to feed a mouse.

    Never again.


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  • #2
    verycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭verycool


    https://www.unclebens.co.uk/contact-us?reload


  • #3
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,687 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    How many rice grains are there?


  • #4
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    Racist.


  • #5
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,401 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Scandalous rice portions in each bag :mad:

    Hardly enough to feed a mouse.

    Never again.

    Mice rice. It has a nice ring to it.


  • #6
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    "Uncle Ben"

    We used to call it bugle


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  • #7
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Of rice and Ben.


  • #8
    Sal Butamol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭Sal Butamol


    who the fcuk buys these microwave bags of rice?

    you can buy 1kg of basmati rice in tesco for only about a euro.

    10 mins and its done.


  • #9
    Try_harder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    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


  • #10
    jaxxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Scandalous rice portions in each bag :mad:

    Hardly enough to feed a mouse.

    Never again.


    With great rice, comes great responsibility.


    Or... something to that effect.


  • #11
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Depends on the size of the bag. There's two portions in a 250g bag.


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  • #12
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    037a5da43aea923d7929642fdd1523d7.jpg


  • #13
    zapitastas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 498 ✭✭zapitastas


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


  • #14
    Captain Red Beard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 872 ✭✭✭Captain Red Beard


    jaxxx wrote: »
    With great rice, comes great responsibility.


    Or... something to that effect.
    One small step for rice, one giant leap for ricekind. Maybe.


  • #15
    DChancer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭DChancer


    Not enough rice for the price?


  • #16
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,479 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    I bought one of those precooked bags of rice recently, (something I rarely eat as it is a starchy carb that helps pile on the pounds), specifically because the portion is small(ish) where if I bought a uncooked bag I'd make way too much and scoff the lot in no time.

    So I for one am glad the portions size is small is the point.


  • #17
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,918 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Are Am Eye wrote: »
    Racist.

    Just the packaging.


  • #18
    NOVA MCMXCIV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭NOVA MCMXCIV


    I'll Uncle your Ben!


  • #19
    vectorvictor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭vectorvictor


    Easy on Ben. Only person to ever give me a free wok.

    Best uncle EVER!


  • #20
    NOVA MCMXCIV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭NOVA MCMXCIV


    I'll give you a free wok!


  • #21
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    vectorvictor wrote: »
    Easy on Ben. Only person to ever give me a free wok.

    Best uncle EVER!


    Was that a non stick Wok?


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  • #22
    vectorvictor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭vectorvictor


    NOVA MCMXCIV wrote: »
    I'll give you a free wok!

    Saucey! Keep on Woking if you know woks good for you


  • #23
    Yester
    Registered Users Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭Yester


    NOVA MCMXCIV wrote: »
    I'll give you a free wok!

    What's a wok?


  • #24
    vectorvictor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭vectorvictor


    Yester wrote: »
    What's a wok?

    It's all farreenn don't worry about it , get the chip pan out


  • #25
    NOVA MCMXCIV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭NOVA MCMXCIV


    Yester wrote: »
    What's a wok?
    A wok is a versatile round-bottomed cooking vessel, originating from China. The use of the wok is very prevalent in South China (particularly Guangdong Province). It is one of the most common cooking utensils in China and also found in parts of East, South and Southeast Asia, as well as becoming a popular niche cookware in all the world. They're used in a range of different Chinese cooking techniques, including stir frying, steaming, pan frying, deep frying, poaching, boiling, braising, searing, stewing, making soup, smoking and roasting nuts. Wok cooking is done with long-handled utensils called chahn (spatula) or hoak (ladle). The long handles of these utensils allow cooks to work with the food without burning their hands.


  • #26
    vectorvictor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭vectorvictor


    NOVA MCMXCIV wrote: »
    frying, steaming, pan frying, deep frying, poaching, boiling, braising, searing, stewing, making soup, smoking and roasting nuts

    User supervision is recommended


  • #27
    Are Am Eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    And do you get much use for the wok?


  • #28
    vectorvictor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭vectorvictor


    Are Am Eye wrote: »
    And do you get much use for the wok?

    I put it to wok regularly, to be honest it woks my world


  • #29
    Yester
    Registered Users Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭Yester


    Yester wrote: »
    What's a wok?

    It's a thing you throw at a wabbit.


  • #30
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,641 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Just the packaging.

    I think he meant riceist.

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



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  • #31
    vectorvictor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 745 ✭✭✭vectorvictor


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    I think he meant riceist.

    Now you're just splitting grains


  • #32
    EagererBeaver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,534 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭Yester


    vectorvictor wrote: »
    That's so 1994

    Lol. I was just working that out.


  • #38
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,546 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    This thread is toast...


  • #39
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,498 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: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭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: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭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: 18,676 ✭✭✭✭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: 17,424 ✭✭✭✭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: 23,918 ✭✭✭✭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: 6,256 ✭✭✭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: 7,793 ✭✭✭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: 6,256 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


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


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