Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 13, 2003, 16:10 |
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>There's something fishy going on here. The fact that the article Padraic
>gave said that most pica was found in non-Western cultures should have been
>a clue. It seems that pica means more exactly "the eating of substances we
>Westerners don't find acceptable" :))) .
Interesting change in applicatiion of the word. Four decades ago, it was
also applied non-racially/non-cultuirally to those citizens of the USA who,
due to vitamin and/or nutritional defeciencies or anemia, had cravings for
and consumed non-food items such as clay or laundry starch.
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