Dirty-mouthed gran chows soil daily (Healthy blue-hair eats dirt daily)

IOL ^ | 10.13.03

[mhking]

Hong Kong - A 78-year-old woman in northern China has eaten an estimated 10 tons of soil over the past 70 years, a news report said on Monday.

Hao Fenglan, from Zhangwu county, Liaoning province, developed a taste for mud and dirt at the age of eight and says she feels physical discomfort if she does not eat a meal of dirt at least once every day.

The diet has done her little apparent harm and she is in good health, according to the South China Morning Post. - Sapa-DP

[mhking]

Just damn.

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[billorites]

There's a long tradition of eating dirt in a number of societies including that of the Sea Islands off Georgia.

Even stranger, it seems to be a largely female thing.

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[petuniasevan]

And here she is...

Gotcha! Betel nut-stained teeth, actually.

[Roscoe Karns]

I wonder what she washes it down with?

[prairiebreeze]

I've heard of this before. Seem to recall a connection to combating mineral deficiencies.

??

Prairie

[mhking]

There's a long tradition of eating dirt in a number of societies including that of the Sea Islands off Georgia.

"I love quarterbacks eating dirt..."

[mhking]

I wonder what she washes it down with?

Coors Light?

[ErnBatavia]

Coors Light?

Nope...them are "Ten High" teefs if'n ah ever seen 'em.

[Constitution Day]

The wife of the man who was my granddad's farm foreman ate clay.
I grew up playing with her kids here on the farm and there was a certain area by the river where she would get it.

[Orangedog]

Someone needs to listen to Paul Harvey and remember to take her Citrical and Metamucil and give up the dirt.

Ah, Hell. Who am I fooling...dirt would have been a delicacy compared to my ex-wife's cooking. Ethiopians ate better than I did when I was married to her.

[Brett66]

Saves on grocery bills I guess........

[JoJo Gunn]

I remember reading of it several years ago, can't remember the source. And as someone noted, it was mostly women doing it.

[4mycountry]

[visualops]

My brother tried to trick me into eating a mud sandwich once. He managed to get me to take a bite. I never fell for that 'chocolate sandwich' thing again!

[dighton]

Geophagy, a/k/a pica.

[stylin19a]

Eatin dirt one meal a day ? Big deal. Because of the famine, the people of North KCorea have been eating dirt for over ten years (let's not talk about why the food exported to NKorea never make it to the people)

[TopQuark]

she feels physical discomfort if she does not eat a meal of dirt at least once every day.

I understand that. What about mental discomfort?