Our Japanese class found it funny that in common terminology "food" isn't very distinguished from specifically "rice" until it...
Our Japanese class found it funny that in common terminology “food” isn’t very distinguished from specifically “rice” until it was pointed out to us that in English “meal” is “loose roughly ground grain”
humans be like staple crop
Obviously “cornmeal” comes this way, but also “oatmeal”. Wheat meal dishes are usually known as “porridge” or “gruel”