I ate a kind of pita bread-thing with Swedish meatballs, cucumbers, beets, purple cabbage, amazing sauce and rice inside.
It was fabulous!
I've never heard of such a combination, but it's so outlandish, it's genius!
It came from a Swedish/American restaurant. I think that Pita bread, in one form or another, is a standard from almost all early peoples' diet (before they had a life that could include ways to leaven and allow bread to rise. being on the run from viscious predators would prevent allowing bread to rise, I think). Being of supposed Swedish fare, I assume it would be obvious that they would only be able to eat of hardy vegetables, such as cabbage or beets, during winter. I suspect that the rice is a modern bastardization of such things as boiled barley or steamed wheat grains to eat.
I do not really want to over-analize, however. It was wonderful and it is sitting well in my system, right now.