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| Grandma |
1. Why do we eat rice during
Christmas?
2. Must we eat rice at
Christmas?
I think the answers to these questions are a no brainer.
Question
1 is akin to asking a woman – why do you
cook with knorr cubes? And the answer is simply because my mother taught me
to! We eat rice at Christmas because our parents taught us to.
Back
in the ‘70s and ‘80s, people looked forward to eating rice at Christmas. I have
fond memories of Christmas in the ‘80s and early ‘90s at my Grandma’s. Every
year some not-so-privileged children would dress up and pay her a visit on
Christmas day hoping to eat some rice. She would give them a huge tray with heap
rice and goat meat scattered all over it with about 15 spoons jutting out of
the heap of rice.
We
grew up eating rice at Christmas and our Christmas gifts would be incomplete if
we didn’t receive a bag of rice and vegetable oil from our employers. It is
tradition.
As
for the follow-up question, my answer is a big YES!
American’s
eat Turkey at Thanksgiving, the British eat Turkey at Christmas and Nigerians
eat rice at Christmas. If you never thought of it that way, begin to do so. We should
keep eating rice and pass on the tradition to our children and next
generations. Don’t replace rice with Pounded Yam or Salads!
Do
eat rice come Christmas 2013, gain some calories and you can go on salads or a
protein diet afterwards!
Happy
2013 to you all!
