What’s the Difference Between Instant Rice and Regular Rice? by cheri | May 24, 2012 | Ingredients 101, Interesting or Strange, Recipe, Rice/NoodlesHaving food poisoning one time caused me to revert to my white-starch-eating childhood ways. I had regular old Uncle Ben’s instant rice for the first time in…..I don’t even remember the last time. And lemme tell you….Plain old instant...