Hah. It's funny how cultural taste is. Me? I strongly prefer barley to rice, and brown rice to white rice. White rice is... comparatively quite plain, to my

Hah. It's funny how cultural taste is. Me? I strongly prefer barley to rice, and brown rice to white rice. White rice is... comparatively quite plain, to my palette. Sure, I'll eat some, especially if there is some sauce or something to put on it... it's not offensive, but there isn't a lot of flavour, and the texture is comparatively uninteresting. Barley, on the other hand, has a very interesting, rich texture, and a nice nutty flavour. I will eat a bunch of barley. As a kid, my parents would make me Mochi. They were hippies, so it was the brown rice mochi. Lately, I've been craving the stuff, and every time I ask my asian friends, they get me white rice based mochi, a very different (and in my opinion, much less flavorful) food. I eventually figured out where I could mail-order the brown rice mochi from. So good! but, again, made for hippies, so unlike the white rice mochi, which comes in individual plastic packs, this stuff comes in big sheets you need to cut up. Hippies. grumble. But yeah, I think a lot of this is just cultural factors. I can't imagine eating tofu with nutritional yeast if I didn't have it for breakfast nearly every day of my childhood. Or nutritional yeast at all, for that matter. That stuff looks like fish food, and really, what else do you put in your mouth that is that color? But it's so good on popcorn.