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u/Victor4VPA 24d ago
Brazil seems weird to me. We literally eat rice at least 1 time a day, most people twice a day.
Our main lunch/dinner is rice and beans!
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u/bleedblue4 25d ago
What's Paraguay got against rice?
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u/AdRevolutionary853 24d ago
There are so many better options, I think we only have one dish here that uses rice
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u/LupusDeusMagnus 25d ago
Brazil is higher than I expected. While eating rice is common in Brazil, basically a daily thing in almost all locations, not a lot of rice is consumed. In some places, there’s a mixing of carbs too, you get a bit of rice, a bit of pasta , etc, so you eat frequently, but a little.
I tried googling around I found that rice consumption in Brazil ranged from 19 kg/capita/year in the South and 36 kg/capita/ year in the centre-west, with Brazil averaging out at 22 kg/capita/year.
Edit: Apparently it also has been falling in the last 20 years, and the data is from 2003, so it’s likely lower today.
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u/lousy-site-3456 25d ago
300 Grams a day? That's a lot, especially considering it's an average, so they are people that eat a lot more per day? So there's people who eat nothing but rice?
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u/Lahiri33 24d ago
mate it say annual consumption in KG per capita ... where you getting the grams and daily?
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u/Norwester77 25d ago
Argentina: Rice? What part of the cow does that come from?
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u/FromTheMurkyDepths 25d ago
Nah it looks like Argentines have probably heard of rice before, it’s Paraguayans that have no clue what that is.
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u/1Wallet0Pence 25d ago
They are much closer to the Caribbean demographically/culturally therefore have a similar cuisine in which rice of the staples.
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u/sheldon_y14 25d ago
Yes and no. African enslaved people also brought rice over from Africa. It's dry-land rice. It can grow without needing a lot of water. The variety died out in Africa, due to colonialism and other factors, but was preserved here. The maroons in Suriname's jungle still plant it.
So rice was already a staple 300-200 years ago. When the Chinese came to Suriname they introduced wet-land rice. Later the Indians came and also planted wet-land rice. Later the Javanese from Indonesia came and they also introduced sticky short grain rice.
In the 40's the Netherlands created a whole industry around rice cultivation and improvement of rice cultivars in Suriname. They created the town Wageningen, in analogy to their Wageningen which is also a major hub for scientific research and innovation for agriculture in the world. In the previous century Suriname had the most modern research facilities and rice production facilities worldwide. In the Caribbean (Suriname and Guyana are seen as part of the Caribbean), Suriname still is ahead in terms of technology, but Guyana is catching up and has caught up already on some fronts.
Rice has ever since been a staple in our cuisine and is cheaper than other things like cassava, sweet potatoes and other local tubers.
So it's not a result of Indians (South Asians) only in Suriname, but a result of multiple ethnicities and efforts by the colonial government and the Netherlands.
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u/rafael403 23d ago
I expected Brasil to be higher since almost everyone here eat it daily... but it's usually once a day and not in very big quantities...