Canned Spanish Rice
Yesterday evening my boyfriend and I were at the grocery store. We were looking for rice, I said that I definitely did NOT want canned Spanish rice to go with our burritos because I do not like canned Spanish rice. That's when it all started.
My boyfriend, though he may have been joking, said there was no such thing as canned Spanish rice. I swore up and down that there was, and proceeded to spend the next thirty minutes looking through this major grocery store chain trying to find canned Spanish rice. I failed to find any.
I have since spent quite some time looking online for canned Spanish rice. I cannot find any ANYWHERE!!!!
I know that it exists. I know that I am not crazy. I know that canned Spanish rice is NOT a figment of my imagination. I'm going to try looking at more stores around here. I will find canned Spanish rice!!!!!
posted by M. @ 8:41 PM
24 Comments:
Old El Paso has canned spanish rice. I found it online.
Check in the spanish food section.
I went through almost the exact same conversation with my husband. It was was my youth. If it didn't come in a can or box... we didn't eat it. I've now gone the total opposite route... all fresh or frozen. I think it was more common in the canned spam era. LOL.
I have used canned Spanish Rice for years. The brand was VanCamps Spanish Rice. I too have been looking all over for it in the past few months and am unable to find it anywhere. I used it when I made a meatloaf and it was delicious. I have found on the internet that VanCamps was purchased by ConAgra so they may have stopped making it. Sure wish I could find a can of VanCamps. I will continue my search although I feel it may be futile.
I did eat and enjoyed canned spanish rice and it was very good.
Van Camps were the manufacture but it no longer available,unfortunatly
Bill
I've been looking for canned spanish rice because my boyfriends mother wants some. Finally found it at Kroger in the ethnic foods isle. La Preferida brand.
AWESOME EASY CABBAGE ROLLS
2 lbs ground beef
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
2 cans Van de Camp's Spanish Rice
2 cloves minced garlic
1 large head cabbage
1 large can tomato juice
1 package kraut (from meat section)
sour cream for garnish (adds an awesome zing)
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Gently remove leaves from head of cabbage. Cutting the base of each leaf from the core eases this.
Place leaves in boiling water until flexible. Drain, set aside to cool.
In a large bowl, add beef, salt, pepper and 2 cans of Spanish rice. Mix until blended.
Place a portion of beef mixture at the base of the cabbage leaf and roll up. Place each cabbage roll into a buttered or sprayed 9x12 dish with the seam of roll side down. Finish filling all leaves.
Pour the tomato juice over the rolls, leaving 1/2 inch from top for meat juices and mound on the kraut.
Cover with foil and bake for 1 hour. Serve with a dollop of sour cream to really add some great taste
We used canned spanish rice in cooking for years, made by VanCamp's. They quit making it in 2005. Havrn't found anything equal yet. Sad.
Believe it or not, I am right now researching this very subject for work. A customer asked for "Van Camp's Canned Spanish Rice" which she said we used to carry. Of course I did not find it in our system, but I asked one of the old grocery guys and he said our chain stopped carrying it. I have now been to Wikipedia, where I learned that Van Camp's (now a ConAgra subordinate) stopped making it in 2005. Too bad: the customer wanted to buy two whole cases.
- Michael (mikepaulc at yahoo.com)
How funny to see this. I was doing a Google search to try and find some, because I too remember having it when I was a kid, AND I loved it! All I remember is that the label was black and there was a bowl of rice on the front. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who misses it.
There is a canned Spanish Rice that is labeled by Vande Kamp. HOWEVER, my husband loves it, and I can't find it in Columbus, OH in the store that I USED to buy it at. Please IF anyone knows where I can get this please let me know.
Thanks!
A little over ten years ago it was sold by a supermarket chain called PRICE CHOPPER. I bought it in Dutchess County, N.Y. I can't find it anymore. I loved it. Del Monte is NOT the brand of Spanish rice I bought. It was not a 'name brand'.
I love canned Spanish rice. I used to buy it at a supermarket in Dutchess County, N.Y. The supermarket chain is PRICECHOPPER. I know for a fact that the brand I bought was not Del Monte. It was not a name brand label.
I love canned Spanish rice. A little over ten years ago I used to buy it at a supermarket in Dutchess County, N.Y. The supermarket chain is PRICECHOPPER. I know for a fact that the brand I bought was not Del Monte. The label was not a name brand. I have never seen a canned Spanish rice label that was a name brand.
Van Camp's made spanish rice in a can, but stopped making it about five years ago.
El Paso did make canned spanish rice. I used it all the time to make stuffed peppers b/c all I had to do was open the can. It made the BEST stuffed peppers. I haven't seen it lately so I asked. They said it has been discontinued. I haven't found any I like as well for stuffed peppers. I was online looking for the canned spanish rice & that's how I found your comment. You are RIGHT!
I'm having a very similar experience looking for canned spanish rice. I had it all the time when I was growing up and it was much better than anything offered today in a package. Spanish rice in cans was available long before most grocery stores had ethnic sections, even though none of the older store managers are able to remember it.
Old El Paso did make a spanish rice which I used in a recipes for years now I can not find it and anything I try is not the same . I would love to find it.
When I was a kid in the early '60's my mother would sometimes make (or heat) as a side dish a canned Spanish rice and I could swear that the brand was something like "Menner's" although I can't find anything in reference at all online. I hated it as it had diced peppers and onions in the can too. The label was black and I remember an illustration of a woman flamenco dancer on it. We lived in New York and I'm sure she bought it at the local supermarket.
A friend and I were just talking about this! There's a company called 'La Preferida' that sells canned spanish rice. If you are ever in TN, you can find it at Schnucks grocery store.
http://www.lapreferida.com/products.html#
I, too, have been searching for canned Spanish rice. They looked at me like I was crazy! I used it often years ago in a recipe for stuffed green peppers. I think I remember it having been made by Franco-American. Thanks for the hint to check in the Old El Paso section.
My mother used to make her stuffed peppers using canned Spanish rice. I have been looking for it for years and cannot find it anywhere. I'm now wondering if tamales in a jar still exist.
Last night my husband made a Spanish style soup with rice, tomatoes, etc. I was looking forward to enjoying it, but when I tasted that soup, it tasted just like the canned Spanish Rice that my parents made me eat when I was a little girl (I'm now 62 years old, a geezer!) and I hated that Spanish Rice. I couldn't eat the soup my husband cooked!!! LOL
Canned Spanish Rice. Yes, from the 1950's. As a child it activated my gag-reflex! I suspect it was very inexpensive. A square meal in my family may have been: fish sticks, kidney-bean salad, spanish rice, and canned apple sauce with cinnamon sprinkled on top as a gourmet touch. At least those cold kidney beans hid well in my ankle sox! Thanks 4 the memories. ^_^
Casa Fiesta makes canned Mexican style rice. I just bought some out of curiosity and came across your post trying to see if it will taste okay. haha
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