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Article: Rice, corn, and noodles.(Never on a Sunday)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- January 22, 2006
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Byline: Rene F Espina
OVER the years, the staple food of Filipinos has, to some extent, changed. I remember that before World War II, and immediately thereafter, Cebuanos and their Cebuano-speaking neighbors in the Visayas and Mindanao depended on milled corn for their main course. This was the result not merely of habit, but because the laborers felt that by eating corn, as against rice, they could work longer hours because corn was harder to digest. Under present conditions, we have seen the shift of the Filipino diet not only from corn to rice, but even from rice to bread, and recently to noodles. Noodles because the consumers claim that it is what they can ...