Win luxury food hampers with Uncle Ben's (From Enfield Independent)

Win luxury food hampers with Uncle Ben's

6:02am Sunday 24th June 2007

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To celebrate the wonder and versatility of one of our favourite foods, Uncle Ben's has declared June 21 as National Rice Day.

We've teamed up with Uncle Ben's to offer three lucky winners the chance to win a luxury food hamper.

Did You Know...

• Londoners brought almost 33million kg of rice last year
• There are over 100,000 different varieties of rice
• Two-thirds of the world eats rice
• Rice farming is the largest single use of land for producing food
• Rice is grown on every continent except Antarctica
• The average family eats over almost 18kg of rice each year, the equivalent of 288 boil in the bag pouches
• Rice is so important in Chinese culture that the traditionally greeting is 'Have you had your rice today' instead of 'How are you?'
• In Thailand when a family is called to a meal the phrase is "Eat Rice"
• Rice farming is 10,000 years old
• Louis Armstrong signed his autograph "Red beans and Ricely yours..."

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