alt Hacker NewsParboiling and draining rice has been a long-running European joke. Frenches do it as well. It absolutely ruin all short grains. It's a cooking method specifically for long grain rice as used in South Asian cooking, for which steaming would be wrong. And that is the point.
Something is missing in our exchange here.
Why would people purposefully ruin their food to make a joke? I sincerely doubt entire nations of people cook their food, purposefully ruining it, then laugh over the fact.
"Oh that rice was terrible! Let's cook it that way again!"
Yet you've attested this twice now, and in a thread discussing how to remove deadly arsenic from rice.
You seem to want to discredit this study. You've claimed the study was false, was made up in jest.
It's not some weird joke.
Whatever you're trying to say, please don't do it by trying to discredit something designed to save lives. It's uncool.