Most of what is farmed in Mississippi and the rest of the country isn’t food that goes on Americans’ tables. It is soybeans grown for animal feed, corn grown for ethanol, rice grown to export to Central America and so on. The fruits and vegetables that Mississippians eat are probably grown in California or in other countries.
Genuinely it has been a godsend, I haven’t bought American style rice since basmati became cheap.
Basmati is so fuckin good.
i love how the grains stay nice and separated. makes making fried rice so much better
fr. Basmati and jasmin are so much better and I wish arborio and other short grains were as cheap.
And of course the media whines whenever something becomes more affordable and the average consumer benefits. But when labor is so affordable and abundant some people who are perfectly capable of work are written off as unemployable? No one cares. If anything they’ll frame porky as the victim because too many people want to work for him and the poor widdle guy can’t handle all the choices.