Uncle Ben's National Rice Day - June 21st 2007.

Closing: 20/07/2007

Did you know that there are over 100,000 different varieties of rice?

To celebrate the wonder and versatility of one of our favourite foods, Uncle Ben's has declared June 21st as National Rice Day and will take to the streets of London to educate, inspire and feed Londoners!

To get your free lunch and enjoy a London journey by rickshaw, meet the Uncle Ben's team at Market Place, just off Great Portland Street anytime between 12pm – 4pm on June 21st.

If you can’t make it to the area, then we’ve teamed up with Uncle Ben's to offer 3 lucky winners the chance to win a luxury food hamper.

Did You Know...
* Londoners brought almost 33million kg of rice last year
* Two-thirds of the world eats rice
* Rice farming is the largest single use of land for producing food
* Rice is grown on every continent except Antarctica
* The average family eats over almost 18kg of rice each year, the equivalent of 288 boil in the bag pouches
* Rice is so important in Chinese culture that the traditionally greeting is ‘Have you had your rice today’ instead of ‘How are you?’
* In Thailand when a family is called to a meal the phrase is "Eat Rice"
* Rice farming is 10,000 years old
* Louis Armstrong signed his autograph "Red beans and Ricely yours...

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