A Restaurant in Japan Is Serving a $110 Tasting Menu Featuring Dirt
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Rachel Nuwer / February 12, 2013
For the bargain price of $110 per person, Ne Quittez Pas, a French restaurant in the Gotanda district, whips up a tasting menu featuring dirt as the crème de la crème of haute ingredients, Time reports. There’s salad with dirt dressing, dirt risotto with sauteed sea bass, and even dirt ice cream with dirt gratin.
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True dirt connoisseurs, however, may call foul. Geophagy—the technical term for eating dirt—occurred throughout history and around the world, with no need for high-quality, artisanal soil. Dirt-eaters do prefer a certain kind of clay, usually from a family or village plot, which is often baked and nibbled on with a pinch of salt.
The first reference dates back more than 2000 years to Hippocrates, but archaeological evidence suggest the practice is thousands of years older, still.
South of Castroville, CA There is a mining operation that digs up sand. Local environmentalists are so worried about them using all the sand on the beach that they buy the bagged sand and bring it back to the beach.I suspect they fail to grasp capitalism.
Heh, heh. Read the ingredients on certain anti-diarrheal medicines sold over the counter and you will see “kaolin.” Kaolin is type of white clay. So, if you take that, you eating a small amount of dirt.
Tough!
Fruit of the Loam.
Sounds pretty geophagy to me.
“I’m a Soil Man
That’s what I am . . .”
At least the French aristocracy, before they lost their heads, said let them eat cake.
And so — another one bites the dust.
Alas, poor dork!
“Is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt?”
— Hamlet
Doesn’t eating dirt destroy the Earth?
South of Castroville, CA There is a mining operation that digs up sand. Local environmentalists are so worried about them using all the sand on the beach that they buy the bagged sand and bring it back to the beach.I suspect they fail to grasp capitalism.
Could you repeat that in French or Esperanto, because that makes no sense in English? I take this is not a beach with an erosion problem, is it?
“Silly Politician, Dirt is for kids!”
“The Breakfast of Politicians!”
“Give it to Beto, he’ll eat anything!”
He should take a nap in it.
In Russia, earth swallows you!
Heh, heh. Read the ingredients on certain anti-diarrheal medicines sold over the counter and you will see “kaolin.” Kaolin is type of white clay. So, if you take that, you eating a small amount of dirt.
I hear the kids are all mixing it with water. “Mud” is the new fashion.
Kaolin AND Dihydrogen Monoxide? Dangerous combination…