I am not a cooker. I do not excell, nor have I ever, at the culinary arts. What I do well is fix things, and make money. This allows me to pay others to either cook for me, or purchase prepared meals for heating and consuming. Also I don't like to eat breakfast/lunch. So the logical solution is quick, easy meals such as canned ravioli, instant ramen, dinty moore, etc. You know, the typical lazy fat american stereotype (excluding the mcdonald's). So when I saw the latest and greatest from Rice-a-Roni and Uncle Ben's I was happy. Yay, I thought, another option for lunch. Little did I suspect that these new items were really part of a government conspiricy to dispose of large amounts of crap upon the unsuspecting public. They are really, really bad. Don't buy them...either of them....I mean, really they are the same damn thing. Go ahead and take a look at them next time your at Aldi. The bag, the horrible chemical aftertaste of my soul crying in pain, everything looks identical. It's like having two choices that are exactly the same. Either way, I've taken the liberty of reworking the advertising some a bit for both brands, to more accuratly reflect the true flavors that come through. Really, honestly....I wouldn't eat this shit if it was free. I'd eat MRE's over this any day of the week. Seems I'm not the only person out there thinking this.