“‘Japs are rice eaters. Chinese are rice eaters. Koreans are rice eaters. Why not the Germans and Russians?’ asks the Fort Worth Record.

“‘Before the coming of the world war millions of Americans refused to eat rice. After the coming of the war the price of rice advanced to a fancy figure and then Americans became rice eaters,’ continues the Record.

“The advance in price may have had something to do with some Americans cultivating a taste for rice, but we rather think the fact that rice was classed as a substitute for wheat, and that a campaign of education was carried on by the government and the Southern Rice Growers’ Association just previous to the advance in price had more to do with it. At any rate, rice is still the cheapest American food in point of nutrition obtained for the money and the Americans are still eating it. And we’re going to feed the Germans and Russians on Brewers’ rice.”

(“Brewers’ rice is a processed rice product that is missing many of the nutrients contained in whole ground rice and brown rice thus reducing the quality,” according to Wikipedia.)