“We were raised on lentils, brown rice, Neil Young, and solstice celebrations.”
“He was all over me like brown rice!”
“What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.”
“Wish you were here, we can get lost in the forest together and eat bamboo rice.”
“I blame the lentils.”
“A Japanese can live on a teaspoonful of rice a day. We were the best breed of worker they had ever hired in their lives.”