I wrote this when I was back at my site about 2 weeks ago. Sorry if the rice shortage is over.
No, there is not a rice shortage here, but apparently I heard that there is a rice shortage in the U.S. I saw it on CNN in Spanish, but I'd imagine that most of you guys reading this have not even heard about it. I haven't seen anything about it on CNN in English yet. Apparently though, Sam's Club and Costco have placed limits on the amount of rice any one customer can buy.
My Doña was the person that was telling me about it. It was quite the interesting conversation. She asked me how much prices were going to raise in the colmados. Hmm, how do I explain to her that there are no such things as colmados in the U.S. Also, how do I explain to her that rice isn't really a staple food for everyone like it is here, so it's not as huge of a problem as if there was one here. I told her that I maybe ate rice once a week back in the states and she couldn't believe it, because here we eat it everyday. I also told her that I thought it was more of the minorities that eat rice more often. Gosh, I probably sound really discriminatory and ignorant on this issue, so please forgive me. Also, forgive give me if it is a bigger problem than I'm making it sound. But anyways, just another little tidbit of my life I thought you might enjoy.
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Ummm yes totally inappropriate, Kevin!!! I'm an American minority and I love me some rice! You got a problem with that?? Hahahaha...kidding. One time I was reading the Red Eye and they published some quotes from people about the Atkins diet. This asian kid said, "I think it's discriminatory against Asians. We eat a lot of rice!" Hahahaha.
ReplyDeleteAs for the shortage, I don't know much about it either. But I do know that you can only buy up to 4 bags of rice at Sam's Club and Costco. Really that ain't a big deal. My family eats rice everyday, almost three times a day, and a bag can last for maybe two, three weeks. I think they are blowing it out of proportion. What is one american going to do with 4 bags of rice??? Now if each Costco member buys 4 bags of rice and ships it to poor countries, then that would be awesome. But you know there's some crazy people that do buy those 4 bags b/c they are freaking out about it and then they end up wasting it.
As always, the govt./media just love scaring the shit out of people! Bastards!
Yeah they ran out of brown rice the other night at Chi Tung. I was fucking pissed
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