What weird things

[torakris]

I loved baby food, which might not be unusual but I was 12 years old and would buy it with my paper route money.....

I especially loved the Gerber's cereal , I ate it straight from the box (not mixing it with a liquid) as I loved the way it melted on my tongue.

I also liked a lot of the jarred fruits...

and just last month I was teaching my daughters just how wonderful clover tastes....

[ellencho]

I'm an ex-crayon eater too. This might sound odd, but ever since I was little I always thought that I could almost taste colors, which is why I tried eating crayons. I usually tried eating the colors I thought looked tastiest, which were usually blue, like JennotJenn did.

[beccaboo]

Paste (the minty kind); sand; ants; under-ripe, raw quinces; whole raw jalapenos; newspaper; raw rice; all kinds of things. I was a good eater!

[Alex]

I learned this from my mother: freshly ground raw hamburger meat made from top round, straight from the package, with garlic salt. My father had to leave the room.

[KarenS]

Paste, play dough, cat food, snail bait (this one only once, as I was rushed to the hospital to have my stomach pumped). I loved liverwurst until my sister told me that it was made from liver...

[Bombdog]

I only know this from family lore.

My mother used to love to tell the story of returning to the back yard to find me with 2 LARGE grasshopper legs protruding from my mouth, when I was a young'un.

I'd love to tell you how much I enjoyed them, but that would start to sound like an episode from Cook's Tour.

[Schneier]

My mother would cook scrambled egges with peas. She called it "green pea combination."

Bruce

[TJHarris]

There were two good ones that I ate regularly: Raw frozen french fries and PB&J with taco sauce.

[kitchenetc]

For several years, I packed a "mayonaisse sandwich " for my lunch at school. Just mayo and white bread (Sunbeam no doubt).

[dumplin]

My half-sister would eat a miracle whip, peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

My DH would eat peanut butter or margerine on his pizza. The cafeteria pizza was pretty nasty, but I'm not sure pb or margerine was the answer.

I was a pretty normal child. I remember putting a smushed frog in my mouth because my mom was watching me from the window...I thought it would be funny for her to think I was eating it. She still doesn't believe that I wasn't trying to eat it. It was flat and dried out...not at all appealing.

I got my stomach pumped out for smelling flea dip...mom thought I drank it. I was really small though, so I couldn't tell her what had really happened.

[cbarre02]

I always would chew the erasers off of pencils... till one day my grandfather told me that if i kept doing it my "ass would explode like a dog who ate razorblades". How is that mental picture for an eight year old.

[essvee]

Dead flies and dust bunnies. I have a very intense pre-verbal memory of really enjoying the flavor of a dead fly. I also liked to chew on the cedar muntuns and mullions of the windows in my bedroom.

I was a strange child, me.

[Mabelline]

Whoa, esvee...you're in the running for the roses.

[HKDave]

Meat. Any meat. One of the first things I cooked, at about age 8 or 9, was a whole beef heart. I ate raw burger whenever I could get it.

This was weird only because my family's house was - wait for it - vegan.

Or maybe that's why my meat jones wasn't so weird.

[tommy]

"and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."

"you ate *sand*?!?'

"we ate sand."

i used to eat Captain Crunch. *shudder*

and who here didn't at least try play-dough once.

Edited May 16, 2004 by tommy (log)

[Pickles]

Play Dough is very salty. I mean...I've been told it was salty?

[tommy]

Play Dough is very salty. I mean...I've been told it was salty?

Slime also had a bit of a salty flavor. or was that just a chemical flavor.

[Mabelline]

If they didn't want us to eat it, why'd they make it smell 'eatable'?

[NeroW]

Dude, I ate tons of Playdoh.

[FistFullaRoux]

I swear it looked like a Milk Dud. And that's all I'm going to say about it.

[ellencho]

I worked in a lab with a woman who ate fruitflies during her genetics class. She felt badly that they'd grow these flies up and just kill them after the fly's sex and phenotype were identified, so she ate them, to give them a purpose. She said they tasted like dirt.

[Mabelline]

ellencho, is this lady in charge of any large important lab projects now? I hope it's with veggies!!!

[Susan G]

Paste, Play-Doh, frozen french fries, raw rhubarb - yup, add me to those lists. Also wild leeks (the crunch of the dirt was an added bonus). the white tips of grass stems, and waaayyy too much Saratoga Springs fountain water - the nastiest, most sulpherous springs I could find as a twelve year old.............maybe I was craving calcium? Also loaves of bread - no toasting, no spread - eaten entirely at a sitting.

[Pickles]

I worked in a lab with a woman who ate fruitflies during her genetics class. She felt badly that they'd grow these flies up and just kill them after the fly's sex and phenotype were identified, so she ate them, to give them a purpose. She said they tasted like dirt.

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall to see that! Oh.... .....wait....

[ellencho]

ellencho, is this lady in charge of any large important lab projects now? I hope it's with veggies!!!

Eep! Last I remembered, she works with one of the big bad viruses - ebola or SARS, or something worse. I can't recall. Yikes!