A celebration of simplicity: Egg Fried Rice

Scrambled-Egg Fried Rice (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

Hi Everyone,

Let me start with a cliché – with apologies to all English teachers the world over – “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”  The other day I heard that there is still a stigma attached to buying Egg Fried Rice.  A friend told me that there are still people who look down on Egg Fried Rice as “poor people food”. To purchase Egg Fried Rice still means that you are too poor to buy one of the meat or seafood versions of fried rice. I remember that people used to feel that same way