Karla.

This just popped into my head as I was reading about rice dishes.......

So I was working one day slogging on painful feet as it was hour 9 with and the line was about to begin for 2nd breakfast. Someone mentioned the other line that was to the left. Shuttered and now a holding area for dishes, staff meals and odds and ends.

The Dutch chief cook began to explain that at one time both lines were open and the Dutch ate from one and the Malaysians from the other. Segregated food lines on a heavy lift platform. What was interesting was that he then detailed this by stating that when he said Dutch he meant all the whites on board and Malaysian, you guessed it non white.

The Americans when they came on board one trip (I guess some years ago) decided that this was not right and viola, one line now and this is where you can still see the frustrated Dutch as they have to line up to get their food with everyone else. His words.

As to the rice dishes. I was reading a comment on simple rice dishes and the writer was mentioning satay sauce as a regular condiment in The Netherlands. Back to the line. It was funny to see that the trough always had white rice, noodles( mee made with whatever noodle we had on board) and fried rice (nasi with anything) for the `Asians` but in reality the majority of the Dutch ate this religiously along with a few other colonial treats.