# 14 Rice at Every Meal

One of the hardest things to keep off a Hawaiian's diet is rice. Rice at Breakfast, Rice for Lunch, Rice for Dinner. Only one thing finishes these phrases: Spam, Eggs and ________. Beef Stew with _____. Chili and _____. Shoyu chicken and _____. Loco Moco comes with _____. Only one thing taste better than mash potatoes and fried fish, Rice, of course. Imagine if 7-Eleven didn't sell products with rice, all that would be left is slurpees and water. Well, maybe not but a bento wouldn't be the same. Rice is the staple food of the Hawaiian islands. Every home has a rice cooker, and every child grows up learning to cook rice. We say cook rice but we don't really cook it, we just wash it. If asked to do so many Hawaiians wouldn't know how to cook rice on the stove. Well disciplined Hawaiians learn to cook rice very quickly at an early age. If not, then suffer the consequences of being called back into the house with the most embarrassing line a kid could hear from his/her parents, "Eh! Kimo! Git back in hea and cook rice befo' you go play outside!"