Why Poles not like rice?

What is the reason polish not like rice?; even they eat a lot of potatoes, which have more calories!

I think rice is gaining popularity here. Especially rice prepacked in ready to cook sachettes which you simply put in boiling water for 15 minutes and then remove.

Rice is eaten more South of Europe. In Poland and most of Europe, people eat potatoes and that's it. Personally it fits me as I LOVE potatoes and cannot put rice into my mouth without vomitting it right away. If I had to travel to Asia, I would be very uncomfortable (probably eating in international hôtels and at McDo ;)).

Oh la la... And BREAD!

Poles like potatoes. They also like rice, and the sachettes that Polsyr mentioned are available on market for probably 15 years now and very popular.

Of course, some Poles eat rice but basically like in most of Europe, potatoes are the thing. I've met 2 or 3 Poles who don't like potatoes ;).

(For instance, tiny rice production in Camargue region, in South-East of France, is more than enough to cover the rice consumption in all France - this is to say that rice is not the thing in Europe). In Spain, Italy, Greece, they eat more rice though but it is not the no.1 priority in their diet.

Rice isn't terribly unpopular. There just isn't a tradition of eating it, and it's becoming more common.

And it's not all potatoes. Have you heard about kasza (groats)? Fasola (beans) ?

Kasza (kasha, groats) - edible seeds of cereal crops - have been the base of the Polish cuisine for a few hundred years. With time, groats were supplanted by potatoes, however they are eaten to this day in Poland, mainly on account of their healthy character and the wealth of nutrents. In Polish cuisine, buckwheat groats, millet groats, barley groats, and semolina are well-known.

tastingpoland/food/polish_food_ingredients.html

Well Gołąbki is very popular in Poland and rice is used as part of the filling....although I think originally buckwheat was used.

It is not a matter of calories.

Eat white rice is just a waste. Is a pure simple carbohydrate that have a nutritional value close to Zero.

Since i completely abandoned it, my shape got even better.


Dependings of the parts of Asia, they put Rice in the sandwhiches at fast food too. In Singapore i went to KFC just discovered that there was rice inside it later. By the way, it was soaked in extremelly hot spices that gave me a terrible belly ache.

Potatoes come originally from America (when I say America I mean the continent and not the dammed US, freaking ignorants those who use the term America and mean a country)... I cannot imagine how the food would look like in many european countries without potatoes.

Thanks to the spanish empire, you have potatoes, so be thankful, specially to those of direct spanish ancestry born in the american continent

Why are you trying to impose meanings from one language on another. In some languages, like Spanish, America (América) refers to all of both continents while in English it refers (by itself) to a particular country. There's nothing ignorant about words meaning different things in different languages.

it IS America though, to us. Do I have to apologise for not being Spanish or something?

OR course not, no seas tonta.

When I speak Spanish I follow Spanish usage and use América to mean the continents, when I speak English I follow (American) English usage and use America to refer to a specific country. In theory Polish follows Spanish usage but most people follow English usage more closely (I've heard both). In Polish I call America (Stany) which seems to the most common way of referring to the country:

Polish person noticing my accent: where are you from?
Me: Ze stanów.

like 'the states'? yes we use that here, too, mostly. ..:)

I do get sick of being told we are 'tonto' or ignorant or whatever , usually by Spanish speakers. They call us 'Anglo Sajons' fgs but I too polite to complain.:):):)

Rice is a bit alien to the Northern Diet. We eat a lot of it in the UK, but only because of our colonial past and obsession with curry.

Try to explain that to a German. Ukraine or 'the' Ukraine. lol
White rice is horrible for you as it is loaded with sugar.
I think in the old days it was territorial do to climate and growing conditions for availability which has been passed on to the next generation.

I have noticed that ALL my Polish relatives (from ancestry) in "America" do not eat rice and prefer spuds.
Here in the Caribbean countries (Jamaica) you can expect rice with almost every meal served.
Rice, red beans, coconut milk (to sweeten it) boiled with scallions, called rice & peas.
Then we ad either pepper sauce, curry, tomato, ketchup or whatever to spice it.

Why are YOU trying to impose the use of the word America and mean a country and not a continent? .You are using the term wrongly, it does not matter how most of english speakers use it.

As a native speaker of language which comes directly from Latin, I am allowed to call you Barbarian, since that is the team for lutheran-protestan Barbarians like you!


I simply call you Barbarian

back to the topic please

But rice is sadly deficient in nutrients. Rice-eating countries produce small-sized people whose bodies lack iron, Vitmain A and many other essentials. neededd for balanced developemnt. Read on:

The most damaging micronutrient deficiencies in the world are the consequence of low dietary intake of iron, vitamin A, iodine and zinc. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is prevalent among the poor whose diets are based mainly on rice or other carbohydrate-rich, micronutrient-poor calory sources. Rice does not contain any β-carotene (provitamin A), which their body could then convert into vitamin A. Dependence on rice as the predominant food source, therefore, necessarily leads to VAD, most severely affecting small children and pregnant women. In 2012 the World Health Organization reported that about 250 million preschool children are affected by VAD, and that providing those children with vitamin A could prevent about a third of all under-five deaths, which amounts to up to 2.7 million children that could be saved from dying unnecessarily.

Because kasza tastes better, and comes in a lot of different versions :)

But you will definitely find people who prefer rice, potatoes or nuddles to kasza. There is no rule.

I have no idea why kasza is not popular in the western Europe :)

must be ricephobia.

In our home kasza gryczana (buckwheat graats) are an at least one a week staple. I also like oat as well as millet porridge for brekafast. Gołąbki made with barley (kasza jęczmienna) are tastier than the rice variety. But that's jsut my take on it. To each his own! But all those grains are far less nutrient deficient than rice.

I really like rice, especially long-grained rice, loose after cooking and not sticking together.

As it did before with healthier grains


It has its uses however in some countries' cuisines it dominates.


I do it the Delia Smith way. Works every time.

I like better Japanese or Korean rice. However you can only eat so much, it is not a Polish staple food.

When I do rice my instinct is to go the Spanish route, with cinammon, cumin (kmin rzymski) and tumeric (kurkuma) (maybe chicken broth, chopped onions and paprika etc). Oddly I mostly haven't liked the paella I've had in Spain (they have a tendency to undercook it).

I also like italian style rice polenta (just boil and cook and stir till its a porridge) but only with a spicy sauce.

I don't mind east asian style rice with east asian food but don't make that much at home,

Never much liked risotto (just doesn't hit for me)...

In Turkey once I had rice mixed with vermicelli that was incredibly delicious maybe the best rice I've ever had...

Same.

The North African way with cashew nuts, almonds, raisins and chopped lambs liver is nice.

In PL I do it without the liver and just sling a bag of bakalia in.

Because it is low in calories. As such, rice was always useless in providing Poles and Polesses enough energy to survive harsh winters in this region of Europe.

Last but not least, it isn`t grown in Poland.

However, there is a version of gołąbki - cabbage meat parcels - which exploits rice for the stuffing.

Ignorance as usual from you, rice is fairly low in calories, but not that low, and of course it depends how you cook it and what you serve it with.

red beans and rice make me feel nice. youtube.com/watch?v=1504RX3uLpc

A Jamaican staple
Poles would rather have spuds than rice

Spuds are a staple, but rice is more elegant.