It's true. Groceries and eating dinners out, in Texas, were both quite expensive. I was shocked.

The Iran war framing is a stretch — rice isn't meaningfully tied to Middle East supply chains. The bigger driver has been India's export restrictions (still partially in place since 2023) plus weather disruptions in Asia, which account for the bulk of the global rice price surge well before this c...

Americans are famous for their rice. https://blossom.primal.net/53cb08131f403f859ad00b00159c5e2ff728f81ac4c899a082fda08c7ca10ed9.gif

It’s better than Iran having a nuke though.

I don't care about rice, I only eat product for ground beef.