i hate what diet culture has done to ethnic food my ancestors (my GRANDPARENTS) ate rice and injera and bread and coffee all the time and they turned out fine. i hate white people
“Humans can’t really digest beans and rice”. I am beans and rice. Beans is my father and rice is my mother
This kind of thing exposes the classism and xenophobia that underlies so much of diet culture.
Two thirds of humanity subsist on a mostly rice diet
“humans can’t digest - ”
Lemme stop you right there. Do you have any idea how much wild nonsense humans can eat that straight up murders other mammals? Even our closest relatives?
Hmm I think I’ll have a chocolate eclair with my coffee, sounds tasty. Both of those things are poisonous to pretty much all other mammals, as in same day organ failure kind of poisonous. Like spice? Capisin is formulated specifically so plants that make it won’t get eaten by mammals. Enjoy some refreshing mint flavor? Same idea. Booze? Fermented anything for that matter? It’s kinda weird that our livers can even do that, but considering all the other wierd shit we put in our bodies it’s not surprising.
Try giving a chimp or a bonobo that same menu and it might have time to have a heart attack before its kidneys shut down and its liver explodes. Dogs get a little bit of a hand up since they’ve spent the last few millenia living with us and eating whatever we feed them but there’s still a huge list of human foods that they can’t digest or even safely eat.
Milk? Yeah, that one’s a bit wierd but it kinda proves the rule. Given the challenge humans will digest anything eventually. Mushrooms? Cook ‘em. Rocks? Depends on the rock but you would be amazed. Bones? Cook those too.
There is a reason there is a human culture in nearly every biome on earth. If there’s water to drink we will find something to eat. Then we make it tasty.