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Patria-Kaye Aarons | Plastic truths or lies?
Published:Wednesday | December 21, 2016 | 12:00 AM If it isn't plastic rice, what is it?
For a week now, there have been widespread fears across Jamaica that plastic rice is being sold throughout the island. The fears began with a video from one woman who was cooking what should have been gungo rice and peas. What was concerning was the fact that regarding the contents of the pot, what should have been rice was stretching. It resembled a heated marshmallow, and it caused eyebrows to be raised.
In explaining away that video, some were suggesting that the spoon she was cooking with (which was plastic) was melting from the heat of the pot at the bottom and that it was that which was stretching - the spoon and not some mystery rice. The woman denies that claim...
Published:Wednesday | December 21, 2016 | 12:00 AM If it isn't plastic rice, what is it?
For a week now, there have been widespread fears across Jamaica that plastic rice is being sold throughout the island. The fears began with a video from one woman who was cooking what should have been gungo rice and peas. What was concerning was the fact that regarding the contents of the pot, what should have been rice was stretching. It resembled a heated marshmallow, and it caused eyebrows to be raised.
In explaining away that video, some were suggesting that the spoon she was cooking with (which was plastic) was melting from the heat of the pot at the bottom and that it was that which was stretching - the spoon and not some mystery rice. The woman denies that claim...