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30285: lyall (comment) confused about rice (fwd)
From: Jd Lyall <maitre@lyalls.net>
dlyall writes:
Indeed, why is Haiti exporting rice to the US when it cannot produce enough
rice to feed itself and also imports large amount of rice from the US? Who is
the exporter?
...However, I do see a silver lining in this situation. Once Prof. Meharg has
proved that Haitian rice does not contain high levels of arsenic, the Haitian
rice growers can start charging a premium for their "clean" rice.
Haitian rice exported? I hadn't heard that. But, there should be no mystery if
true. The USA imports Indian and Thai rice while exporting calrose and 'lucky'
rice.
[Trujillo and sons rice is called 'lucky' rice in Hayti] Haitians won't eat
short grain or medium grain rice.
Traditional haitian rice is yellow (from parboiling?) and of a very old
provenance. Kindof like heritage roses? We have heritage rice and heritage
sugar cane. It tastes different. And costs a lot more. Haitians in Miami could
be paying a premium for real country Haitian rice. Good deal, if so.
All this complaining about imported USA rice is off the mark, mostly by folks
who don't know actual rice eaters. The amount of rice CONSUMED in Haiti is
vastly greater than it was 25 years ago. The amount produced in Haiti remained
about the same. According to statistics I saw a few years ago, that is.
Imported rice has taken the place of pitimil. Poor people used to eat pitimil,
now they eat imported rice. Rice tastes a lot better, but pitimil is pretty
nutritious. Pitimil is Sorghum; used as cattle feed in this country. There must
be many different types of sorghum as well, cause my grandparents used to press
sorghum like sugar cane to make molasses. I don't think pitimil does that.
Africans resent being given free yellow maize meal by USA relief. They think
yellow maize is animal food. Humans eat white maize. I was told this in a bar
in Kenya by a resentful and drunken Masai dude.
I bought some Mangos last week in a kalifornya super market. From Peru. Tasted
like cardboard. Where are the haitian mangos?