I'm sure that if you went back 100 years you'd be less surprised, but of course the rice would've been replaced with oat porridge or potatoes.

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pjc50 6 hours ago | parent [-]

The old European one would have been bread: the traditional 2lb/900g ish size loaf would have been consumed in a day. Apparently Turkey still has very high levels of bread consumption.

	▲	pjmlp 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Germany as well, it is like bread with everything, sometimes feels like back in the middle age, using bread as plates.