You know, not like some weird vampire fetish or anything, but like, you have a scab, and you pick it and it starts bleeding and you don’t have any tissue handy so you say, “screw it” and just lick the blood off?
Jever do that?
Tastes sorta funky. Not bad. Sorta sour-salty, iron-ey, kinda.
You know, almost any time someone asks one of these kinds of questions, I find myself asking, “Doesn’t everyone do that?” Maybe I’ve just found my niche here at the Dope.
Yup. And blood doesn’t taste iron-y, it tastes coppery. Doesn’t everyone know that? Of course, it depends on where the cut is. I tend to suck on my papercuts. (Okay, now I sound weird.)
Well, I can’t say I’m crazy about the taste, but yeah, pretty much as an automatic reaction. I tell my kids too, when they get a minor cut, to just suck on it. It seems to stop any bleeding pretty quick.
No no no. I’m not that easily creeped out. First, I can’t remember the last time I had a cut in my mouth. I generally make a habit of not putting objects that could cut me in my mouth. Second, snot doesn’t bother me, I never notice it unless I need to blow my nose. It’s just the idea of intentionally ingesting blood that skeeves me out.
Yep, in fact, if I cut my finger or something, it just sort of automatically goes right into my mouth. I heard somewhere once (no cite, so it’s good this isn’t GD) that there are some special amino acids or something in saliva that helps stop bleeding quickly.