Ah. I don't think of cooked rice as a common wedding-dinner dish, but I guess it must be common in parts of the world that eat a lot of rice in general (and who

Ah. I don't think of cooked rice as a common wedding-dinner dish, but I guess it must be common in parts of the world that eat a lot of rice in general (and who don't have the same default association between "rice" and "weddings" that we do in the West). What I heard: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fanciful_drawing_by_Marguerite_Martyn_of_a_newlywed_couple_at_St._Louis_Union_Station,_1906.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fanciful_drawing_by_... What they meant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirin_polo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirin_polo