Rice is very small. Wouldn’t it make more sense if each grain was like 8 oz? Then you’d only have to eat a couple rice

  • @aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social
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    565 months ago

    Unfortunately, our ancestors hunted giant rice to extinction. I understand scientists are attempting to de-extinct them by splicing the missing genes with coconuts, their closest living relative. This is why you find so much coconut rice out there these days.

    • @afunkysongaday@lemmy.world
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      105 months ago

      Are you sure it’s not because oxygen levels used to be higher in prehistoric atmosphere and because of that larger forms of life were able to sustain themselves through respiration? Oxygen levels dropped, giant rice went extinct?

      • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        55 months ago

        You’re both conflating two different things. First, a meteor wiped out the giant rice letting the smaller and meeker rice inherit the Earth. Second, Oxygen levels were always at 20%, but back then there was a lot more of it.

        • @hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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          95 months ago

          Woah I had no idea…I always just assumed that the size of the grains decreased proportionally with the retreat of the polar rice caps at the end of the last rice age.

          • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
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            35 months ago

            Indeed, but a larger factor was the plate tectonics which over the millennia become smaller and more fragmented, resulting in smaller plates and reduced food portion sizes.

  • @Dkarma@lemmy.world
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    195 months ago

    Op doesn’t cook obviously…lol It’d be like cooking a whole potato and take like an hour per rice.

  • Davel23
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    155 months ago

    Then what would you do if you were hungry and wanted 2000 of something?

  • Nougat
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    105 months ago

    In all seriousness, the rice we have today is “large rice.” It’s certainly been selectively bred over thousands of years to produce the largest grains.

  • @deegeese
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    15 months ago

    If you want an 8oz bite of rice, ancient people invented bao to solve this issue.