# What would you eat, if you could eat \*anything\*? And by anything, I mean inedible/inorganic

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 11, 2009, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-eat-if-you-could-eat-anything-and-by-anything-i-mean-inedible-inorganic/520844 "2009-12-11T07:30:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-eat-if-you-could-eat-anything-and-by-anything-i-mean-inedible-inorganic/520844/61 "2009-12-15T00:06:43Z")

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> [@KennerTheGreat](#):
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> I guess dog food is actually edible, isn’t it? Some of it smells pretty good.

Dry dog and cat food is not that bad. I once ate an entire sample bag of dry cat food we got in the mail. It wouldn’t win any food awards and was pretty bland but it didn’t cause any problems either. I have never tried canned pet food though. I ate fish food when I was little because I thought it would let me live underwater. That didn’t work worth a damn but it didn’t taste bad either. I like to munch on dried cattle feed corn to this day though. Fresh hay isn’t too bad to suck on either but green pine needles are better.

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-eat-if-you-could-eat-anything-and-by-anything-i-mean-inedible-inorganic/520844/62 "2009-12-15T00:10:21Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> Pearls.  
> I’d let 'em melt in my mouth, like breath mints.

Ooh, good one. I’ve always thought pearls were so yummy. Sometimes I catch myself wanting to swallow my own earrings. I don’t know why.

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