We didn't do rice in a bag, but we only ever used Minute Rice. I didn't have the slightest notion how to cook regular rice when I left home.
Oh, me too. Either runny or dry and scorched, for the longest time.
Madhur Jaffrey taught me to make reasonable basmati rice, but the first short grain rice I could expect success from was jasmine, so for a long time jasmine was our go-to rice.
I expect that entire nations could laugh at that, like someone googling the recipe for ice cubes. But I'd just never seen anyone successfully make cooked rice out of rice! :0
Hehe. And meanwhile, I probably knew ten different things to do with a potato.