Eating Vick Vapo-Rub! That is really disgusting.
I can't believe today is Hairball Awareness Day! That is amazing. Talk about your Twilight Zone coincidences! Only you would even think of an H.A.D., much less know about it.
You are truly amazing nutrax!
sashac #36
That reminds me of my daughter, when she was about 3 y.o.
We were on the subway and she walked back and forth, entertaining some commuters.
Then she comes back and I ask her:
-what are you chewing?
-a chewing gum...
-someone gave you?
-no, it was on the floor....
!?!?
That's very practical of your daughter - waste not, want not. And really disgusting. (I'm presuming it was pre-chewed?)
Edited by: sashac001 for prechewing
My parents tell me that, when I was really young, I used to love gribinas sandwiches (spelling?). It's chicken fat, butter and onions on white bread. I was apparently too young to remember and I still think they were lying.
Early on, I spread a slice of caraway rye bread very generously with schmaltz and grebenes. It was excessive, and I got sick to my stomach. Since then, I can only eat the stuff hidden in other foods, such as Black Radish Salad.
Or in Potato Knishes.
I recall that the first foods I concocted as a small child was a peanut butter, butter and green mint jelly sandwich. Truly revolting and inedible.
I also used to love to eat... salt! My parents had to keep it on the high shelf or otherwise I'd OD on the stuff and throw up all over the place.
I remember a childhood friend in kindergarten often licking a wall. He would find a small hole where the paint came off, and start licking it vigorously.
In "One hundred years of solitude" although it's fiction, Rebecca used to eat earth. Not quite uncommon among children, not necessarily starving.
Apparently, instinctively and unknowingly, children compensate that way the deficit of minerals in their bodies.
I believe I've mentioned this on a different thread already, but still: my cousin used to eat mosquitos. (He later became a vegan.)
W.
Anonimo - knishes are actually what the bible was talking about when it mentioned manna from heaven. In my younger days my favorite lunch was meat and potato knishes with a nice, barely pickled kosher pickle on the side, or a pickled tomato if the kosher ones looked too pickled.
walking - my daughter loves soy sauce (and plain salt). When she was younger, she would drink soy sauce instead of anything else with her meal if we would let her. Mosquitos? did he cook them first or just eat them live? Did he take the stingers off? He must be the least allergic person in the history of mankind.
Fieldgate - one has to wonder if your friend had lead poisoning.
