Rice is very small. Wouldn’t it make more sense if each grain was like 8 oz? Then you’d only have to eat a couple rice

  • hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Woah I had no idea…I always just assumed that the size of the grains decreased proportionally with the retreat of the polar rice caps at the end of the last rice age.

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      5 months ago

      Indeed, but a larger factor was the plate tectonics which over the millennia become smaller and more fragmented, resulting in smaller plates and reduced food portion sizes.