Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Addendum

...to the post about the market stall, below. The cement-looking stuff for sale was clay, for pregnant women to eat. The practice is called geophagy. Certain parrots do it, too. (IJQ.)

2 Comments:

Blogger beckler said...

That's nuts! I have heard of pregnant women wanting to eat clay, but I didn't know that some of them actually did it!

9:28 PM  
Blogger Josh Nice said...

yeah esp. in the southern US. i guess there are certain kinds of clay that are more suitable than others.

3:02 PM  

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