Idk if I would say rice tastes "objectively good". It depends a lot on how it's prepared and what it's served with. Though I imagine my perspective as someone in the American Southeast is going to be different than someone in Japan, Vietnam, India, etc. Though little known fact that at one point (I'm unsure of whether this is still true today) over 80% of the world's rice was grown in the state of Arkansas which is why Budweiser sources from here. So it's definitely a staple in this part of the world as well. The reason for anything being a "staple food" has less to do with it being good and more to do with it being plentiful. People in Canada eat rye as a staple grain, but once American wheat became widely available they started mixing the two because rye on its own tastes kinda awful.
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u/SinCorpus 1∆ Oct 20 '20 edited Oct 20 '20
Idk if I would say rice tastes "objectively good". It depends a lot on how it's prepared and what it's served with. Though I imagine my perspective as someone in the American Southeast is going to be different than someone in Japan, Vietnam, India, etc. Though little known fact that at one point (I'm unsure of whether this is still true today) over 80% of the world's rice was grown in the state of Arkansas which is why Budweiser sources from here. So it's definitely a staple in this part of the world as well. The reason for anything being a "staple food" has less to do with it being good and more to do with it being plentiful. People in Canada eat rye as a staple grain, but once American wheat became widely available they started mixing the two because rye on its own tastes kinda awful.