Is Uncle Ben local American rice or Thai rice, had old bag from Euro land seems was from USA/Canada but rice looks like Thai Rice.
Rice isn’t native to the Americas. In California both kinds of rice are commercially grown. The US is one of the biggest exporters of rice.
False.
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Uncle Ben would have folded long ago if they only have wild rice in their boxes.
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Label laws allow the processing country to be labeled as the origin. Rarely is the country things are grown in the labels origin.
Rice grown in china, imported to Taiwan and rebagged or otherwise processed here can be labeled from Taiwan.
I never had wild rice (I think, unless there another name for it)
It’s most similar to red or black rice varieties (not glutinous) in Taiwan, but even more primitive. A mix of dark and light brown tones
The Korean branded rice we buy in the UK is a product of the US. It is definitely from Earth.
Usually sold in health stores like Sun Harvest or Trader Joes.
How do you have Mexican food without rice?
You have corn.
They gave us maize and tamales.
Tamales are from Guatemala.
Can buy from UK shop to taiwan, but sure is same uncle ben, or copycat
Rice, corn and other grass seeds all have American native species. Or, at least, species long cultivated and inbred.
The term “rice” alone is meaningless in the sense of say indica or sativa (intentional plug, but don’t get too excited…). But aside from the cannabis “grains”, quinoa “geians” etc. the Asian rice grains are a different genus. For the Canadian graß seed rice species check zizania
Uh, the root of the word tamalli is Nahuatl. Pretty sure it was a thing in the area encompassed by present day Mexico for at least 7000 years.
Interesting in UK, it is not call Uncle no more.
It’s not called that anywhere since around 2020.