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I've watched the pasta discussion this week.  I switched to corn pasta for
the very reason that the rice turned into a tan, unappetizing blob on my
plate.

Corn comes in spirals, elbow, spaghetti and even angel hair.  The only shape
that rice comes in and corn doesn't is lasagna noodles.

Vicki
WA