Eating--Bisqueware??!!

In the column Is it crazy to eat clay? (25-Sep-1995) , the questioner mentions eating not only greenware (unfired ceramic), but bisqueware (fired ceramic)!

Now unfired clay is no big deal. In modest amounts, it can have a medicinal effect (as an antacid, say). Too much, and you might disturb your gastrointestinal tract enough to induce diarrhea. But, unless there’s something toxic or infectious in it, okay. I can see that.

But fired clay is different. A doctor might say “possible perforations of the g-i tract.” I’m gonna say it this way: YOU’LL POKE HOLES IN YOUR GULLET, AND MAYBE YOUR GUTS! Stop already!

Thank you and good day.


No, that’s wrong–try this:
Party per bend sinister wavy bendy sinister wavy vert & or, & sable, in fess point a demi-pellet en soleil inverted & bendwise sinister issuant from the party, in sinister base a roundel bendy sinister wavy vert & or.

Um… I mean because firing clay turns it from a colloid(?) of very minute particles into a unified, rigid, solid, which will break off, if at all, in sharp pieces, which will perforate your soft insides.

See?