Bread crumbs, Panko and otherwise

[kobuta (The Original Passionate Cucumber)]

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Some Italian bread crumbs come with herbs, but Japanese panko I but has nothing and is itself rather blabs. I suppose it could smell off, but I’ve never found that with with my old panko.

Err, that was supposed to be “bland”…stupid autocorrect on that phone. And not to make it weird that I’m replying to my own post, I just took out a small bag of plain rice I bought at the local grocer and noticed a best by date. I’ve never noticed this before from the bags from the Asian grocer, but I suppose I go through those quick enough. This was supposed to be “best by April” which isn’t too bad, but I just made some last week when I had rice pilaf and didn’t notice any taste or texture difference.