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Bread

You can definitely tell Mali Zub's got some Balkan DNA by the way he eats bread. Loves it, can't get enough! Which is how you can tell he's got Serbian blood coursing though his veins, for the Serbs eat bread like it's going out of style: bread with breakfast, bread with lunch, bread with bread. Whatever the occasion, it's not a meal if it's not served with bread.

Bread is to the Serbs like rice to the ____ (fill in the blank).

Japanese. Which just happens to make up the other half of Mali Zub's ethnic heritage, as evidenced by his copious eating of rice. Zubs loooooves rice (although maybe possibly he might just love bread a little bit better).

Just as long as he's got a starch in front of him, I guess. Which makes me wonder: is there an ethnic group out there that doesn't have some form of starch as a dietary mainstay? My Mexican friend eats tortillas like they're going out of style, and the stereotype of the Irish potato... well, you know that one. But what about others?

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