Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 12, 2003, 3:50 |
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--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote:
> En réponse à Costentin Cornomorus :
>
>
> > > You're right, peanut butter tastes more
> like
> > > chalk (and I should know, I've
> > > tasted both ;))) ). In any case, it still
> > > doesn't validate it as edible ;)) .
> >
> >Does if ye're a troll! ;))
>
> But I ain't! ;)))
Well, how am I supposed to know! We've never met!
;)
> I'm a mere human being, not
> even a wizard (and anyway, we
> don't live on Discworld do we? ;))) ).
Well, what do yóu think we live on? Some ball of
rock floating in space!? Ludicrous!!!!!!!
> Although when I think of it, I remember this
> report over a woman who
> constantly had this urge to eat chalk. She said
> it was because her calcium
> level was too low. I think she was just insane
> ;))) .
Well, being a little less silly, mineral
deficiencies and diseases can make people do
weird things (geophagia in this case).
On the other hand, you may be right in calling
them "crazy" - pica, the eating of non-nutritive
substances is in the DSM-iv.
See
<http://www.sma.org/smj1999/febsmj99/grigsby.pdf>
for an interesting read. Especially for its
cultural angle.
Padraic.
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