View Single Post
  #5 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to alt.food.asian
blake murphy[_2_] blake murphy[_2_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 19,959
Default why rice is more important in Asia ????????

On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:13:02 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:43:30 -0400, blake murphy wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:38:33 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:24:31 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 14:37:50 +0000, Tyson
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Rice are mostly grown in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh. I
>>>>
>>>> The country with the largest production of rice is China (by far).
>>>> India is second, Indonesia third, and Bangladesh fourth. China
>>>> produces as much as the second and third, India and Indonesia, put
>>>> together.
>>>>
>>>> Pakistan is way down the list, tieing for 11th place with the USA.
>>>> Pakistan produces 10 million metric tons a year, just over 1/20 of
>>>> what China does, 197 million metric tons.
>>>
>>> I don't know why that OP is going around that Evil Foodbanter
>>> web<->news gateway site reposting articles from other web sites for no
>>> apparent reason. he/she/it has does this in a bunch of food groups.
>>> And probably non-food groups as well (but I wouldn't know ;-)
>>>
>>> ObAsianFood: Sorry to see this group dead lately. Now that I take
>>> pictures of most of my food I cook/eat I post all my Asian pictures in
>>> alt.binaries.food.
>>>
>>> -sw

>>
>> you should post the pointers at rec.food.cooking as well. (i thought you
>> were.)

>
> Sometimes I'll post links to RFC (maybe 1/4th of them). And other
> times I post the pictures to "RFC on Facebook" or to regular facebook.
> But I _always_ post to alt.binaries.food. ABF gets all my food
> pictures, the other forums only get a few.
>
> -sw


i guess i'll just have to miss some of them, then. i do look at some of
the facebook links (if i don't have to sign in to facebook).

your pal,
blake