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Pasta vs Rice

Which staple carb rules the table?

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Who's winning: Pasta or Rice?

So far, Pasta has 32% and Rice has 68% of 5,406 votes cast — Rice is currently ahead.

Pasta comes in hundreds of shapes and carries the full weight of Italian comfort-food tradition on every fork. Rice feeds more people on the planet than any other staple food and anchors entire cuisines across every continent.

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Tale of the tape

🍝 Pasta

Shapes worldwide
350+
Average cook time
~10 min

🍚 Rice

Global staple rank
#1 by population
Known varieties
40,000+

Pasta

#20 / 22

1428 ELO

Rice

#5 / 22

1572 ELO

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