I remember when I was on a training seminar in the USA a long time ago. We were some 8 filipinos sent to a small town in Minnesota, USA. They fed us the normal USA food they had for 5 straight days. At the end of the seminar we were getting restless. The host asked where we would like to celebrate the end of the training. We all chimed in, somewhere where we can eat rice!
Imagine, Filipinos going for 5 straight days without rice, it is insane! Absolute torture! The only place they knew they had rice was a Chinese restaurant. Good enough. We chowed down.
Now imagine the regular Filipino today. I can observe from a 3rd party point of view because I’ve been raw for some 3 months now.  Filipinos are hooked on rice. No, addicted to rice! Rice in the morning, noon and night. Rice cakes in the mid afternoon or mid morning. It is insane. Add bread to this along with the rice. Add the sweets, the coffee. Ok, let’s stick to just the rice facts.
No wonder Filipinos used to suffer from Beriberi, that vitamin B deficiency owed to eating just polished rice. Ross Horne says asians with rice as staple have increased pancreas sizes due to the daily load. It is insane. There is monotony. Rice monotony. And Filipinos don’t notice it.
I’m glad I’ve cured myself of rice addiction and lived to blog about it.