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submitted 8 months ago by caboclo@lemmy.eco.br to c/shitposting@lemmy.ml

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

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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 10 points 8 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 5 points 8 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 9 points 8 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 3 points 8 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.

[-] Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

“Clever girl…”

[-] Fisch@lemmy.ml 25 points 8 months ago

The world if big rice 🤤

[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 8 points 8 months ago

Big if true

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

From all the time savings not having to figure out how to eat the last of the rice on your plate, and not having to clean rice grains out of fork tines.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago

TIL potatoes are just very large rice.

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

I like my rice gooey on the outside and tough on the inside, like a nice steak

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I like a nice breeze between my privates thanks

[-] Davel23@kbin.social 15 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

5 lbs of peanut M&M's.

[-] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

Have some Pringles, silly.

[-] Nougat@kbin.social 11 points 8 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.

[-] smashboy@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago

Pfff, they need to try harder then.

[-] Aquilae@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

We need a /c/shittyasklemmy

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

We have developed large rice:

[-] caboclo@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] wopazoo@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

Like a loaf of bread?

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Haha! This is the funniest shit I've seen all day.

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