U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of further increasing tariffs on imports from Japan, envisioning a level as high as 30 percent or 35 percent in his latest salvo against Washington's key ally amid stalled bilateral trade negotiations. "I'm not sure we're going to make a deal.…
Wait, yall dont have to freeze your rice to kill pests?
??? I’ve never heard of that. Is that something that you need to do?
We just wash and put it in the cooker. We even have pre-washed rice. There’s a lot to complain about here in Japan, but rice isn’t one of them. At least, it wasn’t. It’s more than doubled in price in a year or so :(
If you use it quickly no, but rice and flour in the united states should be assumed potentially contaminated with pest eggs. They won’t be a serious problem but they are gross and so any long term raw grain storage here should include a freeze period just to kill it. Tbh I’d just assumed thst was a byproduct of it being natural agricultural products, sorta like you gotta check your dry beans for pebbles that the mechanical sorter may have missed
Ah ok! I bet it’s also because Americans tend to buy bigger bulks, so it stays in your pantry longer once the seal is broken. So the chances of those little critters hatching/entering is higher.
I know Japanese rice isn’t immune, because they sell resealable containers and natural repellents specifically for this reason. But personally, I’ve never had a problem in my resealable container and certainly never had bugs crawling out of a freshly opened bag until the import. This was before the whole 51st State thing so there’s no way I’ll ever give that rice a second try, unfortunately.
We also generally eat a lot less rice. I’d say I probably eat a ton of the stuff for a white American (Asian, Caribbean, and Latin descended folks are a lot more likely to eat a lot of rice as Americans tend to pass down certain aspects of cultures from wherever we immigrated from), but that means I eat it most weeks.
And yeah, that makes sense. Boycotting us is the right call, for yourselves, the world, and honestly us too. Financial pain and hunger are nothing compared to the consequences if the current regime is able to take whatever they want without consequence.