@skull_measurer

You guys think "washing they chicken" is bad wait till you go down the rabbit hole of blacks eating corn starch.

There's an entire cottage industry on Etsy dedicated to selling "dat skrong" and "chunky" in every flavor you could imagine

https://twitter.com/skull_measurer/status/1638302022679109635

libs I think u need 2 offer an explanation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5310950&forum_id=2...id#46082695)

The chirping, the ... corn starch??!?! Thanks XO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5310950&forum_id=2...id#46082950)

It's definitely just pica. Probably pica + low IQ + low impulse control for a large distinct group meaning no cultural guardrails. I.e. there's a critical mass of them doing it so it perpetuates.

Washing chicken is 100% real but the soap and bleach videos are just memes, those aren't serious. They do it with running water under the sink or in a big bowl.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5310950&forum_id=2...id#46088976)

SOUTHERN PRACTICE OF EATING DIRT SHOWS SIGNS OF WANING

It's after a rainfall, when the earth smells so rich and damp and flavorful, that Fannie Glass says she most misses having some dirt to eat.

''It just always tasted so good to me,'' says Mrs. Glass, who now eschews a practice that she acquired as a small girl from her mother. ''When it's good and dug from the right place, dirt has a fine sour taste.''

For generations, the eating of clay-rich dirt has been a curious but persistent custom in some rural areas of Mississippi and other Southern states, practiced over the years by poor whites and blacks.

But while it is not uncommon these days to find people here who eat dirt, scholars and others who have studied the practice say it is clearly on the wane. Like Mrs. Glass, many are giving up dirt because of the social stigma attached to it.

''In another generation I suspect it will disappear altogether,'' said Dr. Dennis A. Frate, a medical anthropologist from the University of Mississippi who has studied the phenomenon. ''As the influence of television and the media has drawn these isolated communities closer to the mainstream of American society, dirt eating has increasingly become a social taboo.'' Geophagy, the Culture of Earth-Eating

Dr. Frate says nearly every culture has passed through a phase of earth eating, known as geophagy. But it appears to be most prevalent these days among rural black women in the South, some of whom say they eat a handful a day, snacking from bags or jars in which they keep dirt that has been dug from a favorite clay bank, baked and, often, seasoned with vinegar and salt.

In addition, families here in Leflore County sometimes mail shoe boxes full of dirt to relatives who have moved north but still crave the flavor of dirt dug from the clay hills back home.

According to Dr. Frate and others, there is no evidence among those who have been surveyed that dirt eating is harmful to their health.

Researchers say those who eat dirt do not do so to satisfy hunger or to meet a biochemical urge to acquire certain metals or minerals that might be missing from the diet. Rather, they do so because the practice has been learned culturally. Links Are Traced to West Africa

Dr. Frate said dirt eating is one of the few customs surviving among some Southern blacks that can be directly traced to ancestral origins in West Africa. Dirt-eating is common among some tribes in Nigeria today.

According to his research, Dr. Frate said it was not uncommon for slave owners to put masks over the mouths of slaves to keep them from eating dirt. The owners thought the practice was a cause of death and illness among slaves, when they were more likely dying from malnutrition.

Instead of eating dirt, some women use packaged raw corn starch or baking soda as a substitute. Dr. Frate says these materials have a similar paste-like texture to the fine hill clays that have traditionally been eaten.

But not everyone makes that switch. ''I don't hold with either baking soda or starch,'' said Mrs. Glass. ''Starch just don't take the place of dirt.''

It is difficult to say how prevalent dirt-eating is today. But in 1975, among 56 black women questioned by Dr. Frate as part of a larger study on nutrition in rural Holmes County, 32 of them said they ate dirt. The survey also showed that the ingestion of dirt tended to be more common in pregnancy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5310950&forum_id=2...id#46116994)

this explains what i saw a few days ago

http://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5348981&mc=1&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5310950&forum_id=2...id#46398633)