Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

Quoting Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>:
>
> > >On the other hand, you may be right in calling
> > >them "crazy" - pica, the eating of non-nutritive
> > >substances is in the DSM-iv.
> >
> > If pica is defined as "the eating of non-nutritive substances"
>
> If you care enough, I have to borrow the DSM-IV tomorrow anyway :) (Well,
> don't have to, but it might help with a paper I'm writing).
>
> > (funny, I've always thought it meant "12 points" ;))))) ),
>
> That's what I thought to :)
>
> > then I can tell that most people in the developed countries indulge in
> > it! Just have a look at the ingredients of most things you find in
> > supermarkets ;)))))))
>
> Heh :) But I reckon there's probably always something at least remotely
> nutritive :) (Take a look at the nutritional info on a bottle of water,
> though: everything except the sodium is 0. Why you'd buy bottled water
> (here at least---the tap water is often of a better quality, and gives
> you free fluoride to boot!), I don't know, though...)
I never remember the exact meaning of "nutrition" - does it include anything in
food that you need, or just the stuff containing energy?

At any rate, at least at home (=in Sweden) it's easy enough to find foodstuffs
that supposedly contain essentially no energy. I sometimes wonder why
apparently no-one ever starves to death because of eating too much of such
stuff ...

When it comes to tap water, I normally agree, but here the tap water tastes a
bit ... odd. Not so that you don't drink it, but bottled water usually tastes
better than this. I console myself that the stuff in the tap water ought to be
healthy - Aachen is afterall one of those places where people went to drink the
supposedly healthy (sulphurous) spring water ...

                                                       Andreas