Why do Southerners eat rice?

we eat rice too

It grows easily down there and works well with their cuisine

literally everyone eats rice here

Where do you find room around all the potatoes?

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Everyone eats rice.

The fuck are you going on about?

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this

You bet!
>tfw I'm hungry now

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>Unpeeled garlic in the middle of a rice dish
Truly the pinnacle of good taste

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for what purpose

People here eat pasta, potatoes and rice. I would guess pasta is eaten the most because cheap & easy to make and rice the least because not as trad as potatoes. But really, we it all of them in relevant amounts and I'd be surprised if any developed nation is different.

To add flavour without cutting the garlic, because then it becomes a pain in the ass to remove it from the dish.

But you don't remove the garlic, you eat it. Garlic is a food.

Some foods are better as a condiment my man

You eat condiments too

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But garlic in rice, at least the spanish rice, isnt as good because you need to boil the rice with water, which sometimes breaks up the garlic and definitely gives it a bland (As bland as a garlic can get I guess) flavour and a mushy texture that isnt as tasty as fried or roasted garlic. Thats why you toss it aside sometimes. Actually, when the garlic is unpeeled it keeps its flavour and form better when cooked as the peel helps to protect the garlic from the boiling process.

We like rice and potatoes equally.Rice is what we eat in 95% of the meals tho

why not satuee the garlic and add it after you cook the rice

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>decent people
>posts picture of dish from India

You see, paella isnt the only spanish rice dish, there are several more, and in some of those they actually satuee the garlic before, but in that type of rice dish they put the garlic that way because otherwise, the flavour would change. It also depends on the chef, as it varies depending of the person, family, region, etc.... You will usually see garlic used in this way when the rice was cooked "A la leña" where people use firewood (firewood=leña) to cook the rice like in pic related

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There´s a traditional food in Peru thats like a stir fry with pepper sauce and different kinds of sea food like squid and shrimp. Shit is tasty as fuck, especially with ceviche.

pic related

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