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If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to wallow in some mud instead of self-pity.
I thought you were going to say that your pregnancy made you want to eat dirt. :eek:
Pica is the eating or craving of things that are not food. It is classified as an eating disorder but can also be the result of an existing mental disorder. The ingested or craved substance may be biological, natural or manmade. The term was drawn directly from the medieval Latin word for magpie, a bird subject to much folklore regarding its opportunistic feeding behaviors.
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5), pica as a standalone eating di...
Are you sure that isn’t an April fools joke?
Possibly. I thought this news was released today, but checking again shows that it is from April 1st.
Does the BBC have a sense of humor?
The BBC certainly has indulged in April Foolery before, but the timestamp on this article is 23:26 - if it were an April Fools’ joke, I’d have expected it to be released earlier in the day.
The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showing a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family "spaghetti tree". At the time spaghetti was relatively unknown in the UK, so many British people were unaware that it is made from wheat flour and water; a number of viewers afterwards contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own spaghetti trees. Decades later, CNN ...
Maybe that’d explain why gardening is so therapeutic.
