I had a childhood friend that was showing off that he could eat rocks...he ended up breaking a few teeth when we kids dared him to prove it.
Months later, he said dog poop tasted good. We dared him to eat dog poop...he walked away from that bet.
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I may have licked some pink quartz.
Interesting, seems its a thing.
"For the uninitiated, pica (pronounced PY-kah) is an appetite for non-food items. This tendency is relatively common in children and adults with autism or other developmental disabilities. They may try to eat all sorts of things. The items I most commonly hear about are paper, soap, pebbles, thread and bits of clothing."
More here:
https://www.autismspeaks.org/expert-opinion/pica-autism-connection-help-perspective
And this..
" Pica was first used as a term for a perverted craving for substances unfit to be used as food by Ambrose Paré (1509-1590). Pica is the medieval Latin name for the bird called the magpie, who, it is claimed, has a penchant for eating almost anything. ... Furthermore the French form of pica is pie."
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