-SD- > typed:
> Way Back Jack wrote:
>> http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs4141
>>
>> Haitian Mud Pies: Video
>> In Cite Soleil, people make and eat mud pies. It's not out of
>> hunger,
>> but because 'sometimes, you just crave dirt.'
>>
>> Kevin Sites narration:
>> In Haiti's worst slum, Cite Soleil, people actually make and eat
>> mud
>> pies. Now, the dust is collected from the central region of Haiti
>> in
>> an area called Hinche.
>>
> It's called geophagy, which is a subcategory of pica. Pica is a
> disease
> categorized by eating inappropriate objects and material. Haiti
> isn't
> the only place it is practiced - it occurs in the US among certain
> ethnic groups, it occurs in Africa, it was practiced by native
> Americans. It is an attempt to ingest needed minerals.
>
> -SD-

You do realize that you are responding (and crossposting) to our
newest crossposting-troll, don't you?

BOB