# Eating--Bisqueware??!!

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [March 29, 2000, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-bisqueware/1062 "2000-03-29T23:18:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-bisqueware/1062/1 "2000-03-29T23:18:00Z")

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In the column [Is it crazy to eat clay? (25-Sep-1995)](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_090.html) , 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.

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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._

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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-bisqueware/1062/2 "2000-03-29T23:26:00Z")

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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?