The American South Is Still Eating White Dirt - VICE
2015年6月5日 · Geophagy, the technical term for deliberately eating earth, soil, or clay, sounds like a terrible idea. Yet in many parts of the world, this is not considered strange or rare, but a culinary past...
The Old And Mysterious Practice Of Eating Dirt, Revealed
2014年4月2日 · There's an old saying in the South: "A child's gotta eat their share of dirt." Mamie Lee Hillman's family took this literally, but they weren't after just any old dirt.
SOUTHERN PRACTICE OF EATING DIRT SHOWS SIGNS OF …
1984年2月13日 · 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...
The Down and Dirty, from The Bitter Southerner
Dirt eating in the South is a function of geography and culture. First, the geography: More than 200 million years ago, when the Pangaean supercontinent broke apart, it gave what is now southeastern North America a brand new coastline. From that fall line southward lies ground rich in minerals that date all the way back to the Cenozoic era.
Clay Craving and Dirt Dining: Eating Earth May Be Good for Us
2011年6月6日 · Clay ripe for eating from Zanzibar. Credit Sera Young. In the deep south of the U.S., the smell of a fresh dirt road on a humid summer day is enough to trigger some locals’ mouth to watering...
Geophagia, Eating Dirt - Mississippi Encyclopedia
Soil or clay eating later became a cultural tradition among southern, rural African American women and children. Geophagia is most often seen in pregnant and postpartum women.
CLAY EATING PROVES WIDESPREAD BUT REASON IS UNCERTAIN
1986年7月22日 · One anthropologist makes a strong case that, by neutralizing the toxic chemicals in wild tubers in the Andes of South America, dietary clays permitted the consumption and later domestication of...
A Craving for Clay : Some Can’t Kick a Dirty Eating Habit
1988年11月13日 · He said dirt-eating has been reported throughout the South, though he knows of no recent studies. For unknown reasons, Frate said, few men eat dirt in America, whereas men and women eat...
Geophagy - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
2023年3月8日 · Geophagy, or geophagia, is the practice of consuming dirt or clay. In the United States, the practice is associated with the South, where clay is still sold for consumption in some rural areas. Humans regularly ingest dirt in trace amounts in everyday life, but most Western societies declare a threshold at which deliberate consumption is ...
Clay Eating - New Georgia Encyclopedia
2004年2月3日 · The ingestion of kaolin, also known as “white dirt,” “chalk,” or “white clay,” is a type of pica (eating of nonfood substances). Found in the central Piedmont section of Georgia, vast deposits of kaolin are mined around Sandersville, in the area between Macon and Augusta .
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