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Q: Why do Chinese snub brown rice?
They always tell me that it's only convicts who eat brown rice in China
Their pathetic worshiping of anything "white"....?
TedDBayer:
Silva you don't understand what makes sense. Go sit in the corner.
Most Chinese I run into consider anything too far removed from white/bright to be "black." My dark blue shirt? "Too black." The darker skin on my arms despite being obviously white-looking? "Too black." Night photography, even with a beautiful, well-lit city visible in the background? "Too black."
Brown rice? TOO BLACK!
White rice has been preferable all over Asia for hundreds of years, if not longer. Although it may be explained as esthetically more pleasing than brown rice, there's actually a practical side to it as well. White rice keeps much longer than brown, as the parts of the rice that go rancid are removed in the polishing process.
because they don't know brown rice is healthier.
and I am also sure that those who say it is because it is not white have something to it. it is a country of opposites, in Yin/Yang there is no grey.
When I've eaten brown rice (admittedly in the UK) all the grains have always remained separate, i.e. they don't clump together like white rice does, this makes it very difficult to eat with chopsticks. This may have something to do with why it isn't very popular in China. Of course it could also have been my cooking methods.
Who exactly is "they"! lol! They could be your friends, your neighbors, your classmates. Here is a little advice: "Don't believe everything 'they' have to say!" (
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He he, I said: "believe"!
