Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

En réponse à Costentin Cornomorus :


>Well, how am I supposed to know! We've never met!
>;)
Well, you could have seen my photo on YUM (or on my webpage). Those would 
have made clear that I'm not a silicon being :)) .


>Well, what do yóu think we live on? Some ball of
>rock floating in space!? Ludicrous!!!!!!!
Well, my experience on this world says that it is ludicrous already anyway 
;)) . So yes! :))


>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.
If pica is defined as "the eating of non-nutritive substances" (funny, I've 
always thought it meant "12 points" ;))))) ), 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 ;))))))) .

>See
><http://www.sma.org/smj1999/febsmj99/grigsby.pdf>
>for an interesting read. Especially for its
>cultural angle.
Interesting. The woman of the report was definitely French though. I don't 
remember enough of the report to remember what circumstances made her begin 
to eat chalk...

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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