I just want to clear one thing up. In Hawaii, the term is ALOHA SHIRT. Hawaiian shirts is what tourists call them. No one in Hawaii, where they originated from calls them Hawaiian Shirts, unless of course you are some FOB tourist. So in the interest of accuracy, "ALOHA SHIRT" is correct. Ok, maybe most in the rest of the country won't notice, but I guarantee you, every local in Hawaii cringes when they hear them refered to as HAWAIIAN SHIRTS. What pops into our heads is, "Fricken clueless mainlander:. In Hawaii when we want to dress up and go out on the town, we don't put on a suit. We put on our "dress" Aloha shirt and make the rounds. We also have our everyday Aloha shirts, for work and just cruising. When I was still in the PD, and did an extradition from the mainland to Hawaii, I never wore a suit. I only had one, and that was strictly for court. The mainland PD's always could spot the Hawaii Detectives there to pick up a prisoner by the Aloha Shirts we wore.

It really isn't necessary to wash your rice anymore. The practice is age old, but mostly because in the old days, rice wasn't shipped in the nice bags. They were shipped in big ugly burlap bags. The cargo was often left sitting on docks awaiting distribution, all the while rodents and whatever else wanted to make a home in the large pile of rice, did. So back then unless you liked your rice with a helping of rat droppings and rat urine, you washed your rice.  While were on the subject of doing stuff but we don't really know why. Does anyone notice how old folks peel the skin of manapua before they eat em? Thats because in the old days a lot of manapua makers in order to get a smooth finish on their manapua, instead of brushing on a concoction of flour and water to make em look better, the baker would take the mixture in his mouth and spray it out onto the manapua, kinda like a spray bottle (they didn't exist yet) without the bottle.