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Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Monday, October 13, 2003, 16:10
>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. _________________________________________________________________ Help protect your PC. Get a FREE computer virus scan online from McAfee. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963