Why are Americans anti-rice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:His family is weird and possibly poor white.

How do I know? My family consists of poor white people who are also weird and raised on poverty food.

I thought rice was poverty food. Like rice and beans. Which I actually like.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:His family is weird and possibly poor white.

How do I know? My family consists of poor white people who are also weird and raised on poverty food.

I thought rice was poverty food. Like rice and beans. Which I actually like.

How can someone literally associate a type of grain used in nearly all cuisines throughout the world and associate it with poverty/status/class?? Where did you grow up?

[Anonymous]

Probably growing up we heard things like, “there are children starving in China”.

[Anonymous]

I love rice but I eat it less often than I used to because I heard there was arsenic in a lot of varieties.

[Anonymous]

We eat a ton of rice. It’s my 14 year old’s favorite food. Her first choice is white but she likes brown rice too so we often have that. We use the instant pot and it’s super easy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because Americans, being among the unhealthiest populations on the planet earth, have gotten it into their idiot fad-diet brains to be petrified of "carbs" - failing to realize that the healthiest and longest living populations on earth eat a mostly carb-based diet.

You think the people OP is describing, who eat spaghetti with hot dogs, are “afraid of carbs”?

Are you able to read? Serious question.

OP listed two foods her IL's eat. She didn't say they eat spaghetti with hot dogs.

I have family members who like to eat lower carb. If I serve a meal where the carbs are incorporated (e.g. spaghetti with meat sauce, jambalaya) they'll eat it, but if I serve something where there's a side dish of carbs -- whether that's bread, or mashed potatoes, or rice, they won't take any. It's one way to reduce the calories of the meal.

Yeah. Really odd that people are coming in over and over to post about this supposed combination.

What is actually hilarious is that spaghetti and hotdogs is an Asian dish loved by Filipinos. The combo is super common and is readily available at pretty much any Filipino gathering. 😂

+1

If anyone has ever been to a Jollibee (Filipino fast food), they have that on their menu. I had it for the first time when I was pregnant and, oh my gawd, it was so crazy good.

[Anonymous]

I eat rice but I definitely wouldn’t want to eat it every night. That would be boring, and also it’s not super nutritious.

[Anonymous]

Hot dogs are gross.

[Anonymous]

Until fairly recently, most rice in the US was long grain. Not the lovely super long grain rice you see in India and Pakistan, but a long grain with an awful texture. I grew up with Japanese short-grain rice and thought American long-grain rice tasted terrible. I also didn't understand the obsession with rice grains that did not stick together, as short-grain is slightly sticky and delicious. It doesn't surprise me at all that many Americans don't eat rice on a regular basis.

[Anonymous]

I'm Japanese and rice makes me constipated

No rice for me.

[Anonymous]

America is a big, diverse country. Lots of us eat rice. Some of us eat rice every day. Rice with gravy, rice fritters, rice cereal, rice pudding, fried rice,
jambalaya, black eye peas and rice, red beans and rice, casseroles made with rice, soups made with rice…. You get the idea.

Helpful hint: Generalizations about “Americans “ based on your spouse and his family, or any one person and their family, are probably limited, at best.
If you’re not part of a group — like Americans— you really want to be careful about making generalizations about that group to members of that group.

[Anonymous]

Is an anti-rice person a ricist?

[Anonymous]

We always ate rice growing up and I serve rice to my family now. And we are white American.

[Anonymous]

American midwesterner here... growing up we ate little rice, and one of my two parents can't stand rice. The other only likes it in moderation.

If I didn't worry about nutrition, I would eat nothing other than rice everyday lol. I married an Indian man, and once I discovered there was literally a dish that consisted of yogurt + rice, I realized I needed nothing more, and when he goes on business trips away that's what I eat for dinner . So, some of us love rice.

[Anonymous]

White American from the west coast. My family eats lots of rice, but I also grew up with health-conscious parents who served foods my friends would call 'weird' back then like farro, barley, couscous. I have noticed that many of my childhood friends' families served mostly instant rice if they were going to have it (yuck).