The fuck you think many forms of pilaf is, especially the Armenian one? Y'know... the stuff that's mass produced, packaged and sold in the US as Rice-a-Roni?
Every day, there are hundreds of millions of people who eat rice with pasta. If you'd like, I could give you my filthy Lebanese grandmother's recipe for the stuff. It's really very nice. Lamb's breast. Lamb's tallow. Butter. Carrots. Parsnips. Onions. Rice. Broken spaghetti. Caraway. Cumin. A good vegetable broth (or lamb stock, if you've got it). It's quite simple to make and just tastes nice.