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“The flight attendant screamed ‘who spilled rice?’ and is walking up and down the aisles,” the passenger tweeted. “They are refusing to leave the gate until someone cleans the rice.”

The passenger claimed the flight attendant told the passengers they “were not raised right” for refusing to take ownership of the mess. Due to multiple travel delays, it can be assumed this flight attendant was likely having a bad day and is not always on a warpath by nature.

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To make things worse, another passenger allegedly took advantage of the delay caused by #RiceGate and went to the bathroom while the whole who-spilled-the-rice saga was being sorted out. However, according to the Twitter thread, this only delayed the flight even further, because even though the flight crew eventually got a broom and cleaned up the rice, the plane couldn’t take off without all passengers in their seats.

The over-dramatization of the whole event made it more comical than anything,” wrote the Twitter user.

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At the end of the day, the plane safely took off and landed, but #RiceGate will likely live rent-free in passengers’ heads forever. The icing on the cake came when turbulence during the flight apparently did not allow flight attendants to pass out any complimentary drinks or snacks. You have to wonder if that turbulence would have been a problem on a non-delayed flight.

So what’s the moral of the story here? Well, don’t be a coward, for one thing. Had the rice spiller owned up to their mistake, this would not have ballooned into a catastrophe that’s now being picked up by news outlets. But most importantly, think twice before bringing rice onto a plane. Or tuna. My friend almost got into a physical altercation with a man on a plane who was eating tuna.