"Craig Bergren" > wrote in message
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> Rice originates from somewhere near Thailand. It was first grown in the
> United States on large plantations in the Carolinas (Carolina Golden).
> The North American slave trade was based on acquisition of labor to
> cultivate rice, Africans having natural immunity to malaria that white
> endentured servants from Europe lacked.

I'm wondering where you got the info. Isn't malaria still more than a little
problematic in sub-Saharan Africa? And I was under the impression that
cotton supplied more of the demand for slave labor than anything else. But
I'm far from an expert on either point, so my impressions could be way off.

> Corn is a new world grain, a post-columbian import to Asia and Europe.
> Thus Miller is more American because it uses American ingredients.

Bah. If it's grown or produced in America, it's America. We don't call pasta
Chinese, because they came up with the noodle long before the Italians. We
don't say that hamburgers aren't very American because cattle aren't native
to the Western Hempisphere. We don't say that Hershey's is really more
Mexican than anything, since that's where Europeans discovered chocolate, or
that Starbucks is more Colombian than American.

-Steve