I’m not down playing breads significance. I’m disagreeing with your implication that as a staple item rice is as easy to cultivate differences in as bread would be. You implied that when Europeans discovered rice they thought " wow there should be more kinds, we can make this more versitle" like the Asian people cultivating rice for centuries had missed the obvious unlike the bread inventing Europeans.
The whole thread is about Europeans/Westerners who find that there are different kinds of rice that can be mixed, vs Chinese/Asian people who don’t view rice that way (what the original commenter said). I’m not passing a value judgement here, I just think it’s an interesting cultural difference. Maybe that difference doesn’t exist but then you can take it up with the other commenters on this thread, I’m just going off of what they said as I personally never until today thought that there was a problem with mixing different kinds rice. Also maybe it’s really just that it’s impossible to get tasty mixed rice, but my personal experience would disagree and also obviously if one type of rice takes half as long to cook then I’ll put it in the cooker midway through so is there really a problem or is it just a cultural thing? There sure are a LOT of things Europeans get worked up about that don’t really matter, for instance I think that dipping fries in ketchup is an abomination but also I recognize that this is just a cultural thing so maybe the same thing is happening here.
