The only source I find that mentions rice eaten specifically in Scandinavia
mentions “risengröt,” but unpon further investigation, I find that risengröt is simply the
Norweigan word for rice porridge. Of course, the Norse know very little
about anything, especially about making rice porridge, so I’ll make sure to
provide the correct Swedish version.

I called my father to ask him about what sort of rice he ate at home, his
only reply was “Uncle Ben’s.” Rice doesn’t grow in Sweden at all, so mostly
they eat Uncle Ben’s or another variety or preprocessed dried rice. I must
conclude that most rice eaten in Scandinavia is of the unclebenica variety,
as it is neither indica nor japonica, but rather some pre-cooked,
short-grain, sticky-white, highly-polished, nutrition-free,
artificially-enriched rice. Bleh.

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