Is rice a requirement for a meal for everyone else? Just curious, is this a sign of gullah geech?

[Samori Toure]

I'm from north florida, and when I think about it, growing up like 95% of our meals included rice. I remember as a grown man messing with a broad from NY she thought it was odd.

Does anyone else here have a similar requirement?

You cook a meal for my family without rice and everyone is like

Meanwhile, I go to cookouts and meals at other people's house...they'll have some veggies that taste good but there's no rice!!!

My grandmother and mother always cooked rice at every meal too. I took that African DNA test and learned that my maternal line is Mende from Sierra Leone. My grandmother's family is originally from Eastern North Carolina near the South Carolina border.

 

[TheKongoEmpire]

My family is Nigerian so yes…almost EVERY meal.


Pick a rice…jollof, fried, coconut, plain.

Same in Haitian culture. Diriz a pwa, diriz blan, diriz djondjon, you name it.

 

[TheKongoEmpire]

What’s interesting is almost all cultures in the world eat the same staples. Grains(rice, wheat or corn). Tubers (potatoes and cassava).

Inuits may be the only people I can think of that didn't traditionally rely on these staples.

Does matouke count?

 

[Samori Toure]

Its a caribbean/african thing. Rice is pretty much the default for every meal, white rice rice and peas rice and beans etc you name it

It is an African American thing too. Mende people were brought to America to grow rice. They are the Gullah Geechee people. They used to make rice cakes.

 

[Dzali OG]

rice and beans/peas

Not gonna front. I get pissed when restaurants make rice a separate side item. I don’t like that

Yeah it's like

 

[Dzali OG]

Charleston, SC native sir…feel naked without it. Grits or rice was a must with almost every meal growing up.

Sugar or salt ma'am

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

My family is Nigerian and always ate rice but surprise surprise, diabetes runs in the fam. Def not mando, I went like 10 years rarely cooking rice (i didn'tmake it at home but i would eat sushi or chinese etc). I just started buying it again

It's whatever.

 

[Pure Water]

I've never been to a cookout that had rice. That's wild to even think about Macaroni, yes. But rice? Hell nah.

Rice at a cookout is outrageous.

 

[ReasonableMatic]

Rice is included in like 90% of what I eat, it’s wild versatile too.
I couldn’t even imagine life otherwise

 

[Nokids]

Grew up on rice with every meal

Oxtail rice and peas
Curry chicken white rice
Stew chicken and rice etc

Had a shorty that wouldn’t cook no rice just potatoes or veggies. I’d feel empty as fukk Taught her how to cook it was a staple after that

 

[King_Kamala61]

I'm from north florida, and when I think about it, growing up like 95% of our meals included rice. I remember as a grown man messing with a broad from NY she thought it was odd.

Does anyone else here have a similar requirement?

You cook a meal for my family without rice and everyone is like

Meanwhile, I go to cookouts and meals at other people's house...they'll have some veggies that taste good but there's no rice!!!

In Louisiana all our dishes came with rice. We eat rice more than Asians and eat more beans than Hispanics

Louisiana...winning the Diaspora Food Wars Solo

 

[Phitz]

Gullah/Geechi, Creole, and Florida carry on more "foreign"(and not just food) than 'sterotypical' American.... but they are 100% American.

Those never been enslaved free blacks from Texas and Pennsylvania ate similar dishes too.

 

[King_Kamala61]

My family is Nigerian and always ate rice but surprise surprise, diabetes runs in the fam. Def not mando, I went like 10 years rarely cooking rice (i didn'tmake it at home but i would eat sushi or chinese etc). I just started buying it again

It's whatever.

I ain't know you was West African...how you got so orange? Are there more Naijas like that?

 

[hashmander]

My family is largely Caribbean/southern flavored n rice is a staple.

We don't do mashed potatoes like that at all.

Once in a blue moon.

White rice/rice n peas.

If we put out a spread at Thanksgiving n swapped rice for mashed potatoes I promise there's gonna be words.

Grew up on rice with every meal

Oxtail rice and peas
Curry chicken white rice
Stew chicken and rice etc

Had a shorty that wouldn’t cook no rice just potatoes or veggies. I’d feel empty as fukk Taught her how to cook it was a staple after that

same here.

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

I ain't know you was West African...how you got so orange? Are there more Nails like that?

i'm mixed. my other people are native american. they don't eat a lot of rice.