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by quuxplusone 210 days ago
Ah. I don't think of cooked rice as a common wedding-dinner dish, but I guess it must be common in parts of the world that eat a lot of rice in general (and who don't have the same default association between "rice" and "weddings" that we do in the West).

What I heard: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fanciful_drawing_by_...

What they meant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirin_polo