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Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here, too.

And this is a podcast called Stuff You Should Know about rice.

That's right.

Can I just throw out a couple of stats real quick at the onset?

I would love that.

Because this is about rice, the food, just in case it was confusing at all.

What other kind of rice is?

I don't know.

I just wondered, I mean, for all I know, it's some weird new sex term.

Oh, that's Riche.

Okay.

Yeah, you've clearly only seen it written before.

I guess so.

All right, so rice generally is looked at as the most eaten food in the world.

I think some people might have wheat just ahead of it, but it's either one or number two.

It's grown on every continent except Antarctica.

About three and a half billion people, it's a staple. Accounting for 20% of the calories consumed all over the world is rice, which is a staggering number.

And in Asian countries, 50% of the calories.

That's amazing.

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