writebetterc parent
I'm sure that if you went back 100 years you'd be less surprised, but of course the rice would've been replaced with oat porridge or potatoes.
The old European one would have been bread: the traditional 2lb/900g ish size loaf would have been consumed in a day. Apparently Turkey still has very high levels of bread consumption.
Germany as well, it is like bread with everything, sometimes feels like back in the middle age, using bread as plates.
Maybe they were on to something we've lost: bread is delicious.