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Dad is just serving up a not-terribly appealing lunch.

DAD: There you go! Amazing all this, isn’t it? I mean, imagine being able to freeze rice. Fantastic.

TOMMY: (poking the contents of his plate nervously) Dad, how did you cook this?

DAD: What, the rice? You just bung it in a pan of boiling water for fifteen minutes or so.

TOMMY: But Dad, doesn’t ordinary rice take 15 minutes to cook?

DAD: Oh I don’t know. Perhaps.

TOMMY: But, Dad, if you boil frozen rice for fifteen minutes doesn’t it turn into a gluey, sticky mass like this?

DAD: (peeved) Well I thought it was all right!

TOMMY: Dad, if you’re cooking the ordinary rice and frozen rice for the same amount of time, then what is the point of having frozen rice?

DAD: Well you can store it in the freezer, can’t you!