Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages, soaring prices despite normal crops?

Re:Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages, soaring price... by djtango on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:07PM (#41370776)

Please don't project your own opinions of a staple that people eat sometimes 3 meals a day onto others.

I'll beat your blind taste test everyday of the week just by rolling the rice around in my mouth

EDIT fwiw you can vaguely bucket 1.4 billion people into "eat basmati" 673M+1.4B people into "eat jasmine" and 150M+50M into "eat short grain" rice which is well over a third of the planet

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Re:Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages, soaring price... by solarmist on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:11PM (#41370825)

I agree with you. I can tell them apart (Not Japanese vs. California rice, though).

I should have qualified that to randomly selected Americans/Europeans. And that they could understand each type of rice is different but wouldn't have a clue which is which.

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Re:Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages, soaring price... by djtango on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:15PM (#41370872)

I would enjoy a California be Japanese blind taste test. My mother in law has started buying Vietnamese-grown Japanese short grain - I think I can taste the difference but it could also be the cooking method

As a cash strapped student I would buy Korean short grain as it was cheaper

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Re:Why has Japan been hit with rice shortages, soaring price... by solarmist on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:18PM (#41370904)

Yeah, the cooking method (and the water it's cooked in) has a much larger effect than the origin of the rice.

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