“Why doesn’t he have any teeth”, he asked her.
“I don’t know” she replied, too much white.
White flour, white sugar, white rice.”
“Did you know that when the Spanish missionaries landed in the Philippines, the locals were eating red rice?”
“No I didn’t know that, but that sounds right.”
“The missionaries thought they would save the poor natives from eating this red rice and introduced polished white rice”.
“Saints, real saints.”
“Why don’t they go back to eating the local red rice?”
“Because they prefer white. The red rice is left for the poor.”
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