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> It's actually terribly expensive compared to a bag of rice and potatoes What about the time cost? To make food from fresh, you need significantly more time

> It's actually terribly expensive compared to a bag of rice and potatoes What about the time cost? To make food from fresh, you need significantly more time to prepare and cook the ingredients. You also need more frequent shopping trips to ensure fresh food is ready for cooking. If you're working long hours or working shifts, or are living on your own, this becomes significant. Also of course rice and potatoes on their own are not very nutritious. Brown rice is better than white rice, but that takes longer to prepare again. Preparing a meal from fresh also takes more willpower and energy than selecting more immediately available calories. I'm pretty sure that's a lot easier after coming home from an office job rather than a 12-hour factory shift.

frank2 7y ago
>Brown rice is better than white rice The cultures that have for thousands of years depended on rice for most of their calories have used mainly white rice.
- chimprich 7y ago
  I don't think that's true. White rice is processed brown rice. Brown rice surely has a much longer history.
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IanDrake 7y ago
I've cooked a week's worth of rice in about 30 minutes and you can cook a potato in the microwave in 5 minutes. Again, we're right back to where we started with elitist mentality. You think poor people care about brown rice VS. white rice? What next, are you going to say, "yeah, but organic, free range, free trade, hand picked, carbon neutral rice costs 5x more, and what, no salad?". No one cares but you. What I see here is a bunch of rich people projecting their difficulty making a simple meal on to poor people.
- chimprich 7y ago
  > I've cooked a week's worth of rice in about 30 minutes and you can cook a potato in the microwave in 5 minutes. It takes rather more effort to make an appealing and nutritious meal than microwaving a potato. [Edited to avoid pointless arguing]

frank2 7y ago

>Brown rice is better than white rice The cultures that have for thousands of years depended on rice for most of their calories have used mainly white rice.

chimprich 7y ago
I don't think that's true. White rice is processed brown rice. Brown rice surely has a much longer history.
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IanDrake 7y ago

I've cooked a week's worth of rice in about 30 minutes and you can cook a potato in the microwave in 5 minutes. Again, we're right back to where we started with elitist mentality. You think poor people care about brown rice VS. white rice? What next, are you going to say, "yeah, but organic, free range, free trade, hand picked, carbon neutral rice costs 5x more, and what, no salad?". No one cares but you. What I see here is a bunch of rich people projecting their difficulty making a simple meal on to poor people.

chimprich 7y ago
> I've cooked a week's worth of rice in about 30 minutes and you can cook a potato in the microwave in 5 minutes. It takes rather more effort to make an appealing and nutritious meal than microwaving a potato. [Edited to avoid pointless arguing]