Etsy Users Are Eating Dirt
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A recent post on Twitter drew attention to one of the many strange and niche products for sale on Etsy- edible dirt. Far from just a few scattered posts, the site is filled with listings, advertised by huge sellers with thousands of sales, and loyal customers who rate and review the tastiness of their dirt. While going down this rabbit hole, I learned that dirt eating is far from uncommon, and there are many online shops who sell edible dirt, clay, soil and dust- but why? Let's find out.
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"etsy users are eating dirt" notification descended from the top of my screen like a breaking news headline
vine boom
Must have been a confusing flash.
breaking news: etsy users have pica
it might as well be a breaking news headline. I get all of my news from Izzzy
Accurate
ngl wasn't expecting "Jesus Told Me Eating Dirt Is Sinful" as a reason to not sell chalk.
nah, Jesus said buying/selling the dirt with crypto is sinful lol
eating the dirt is just bad b/c the dirt itself is depressed atm
You never know what to expect from psychosis.
Easily fixable, start selling dirt NFTs, these can't get depressed
Religious Delusion be like
@@TankHardcheese saying someone is psychotic because theu believe in God is kind of disrespectfull...
all seriousness of the topic aside, describing edible dirt as having "earthy notes" has got to be the funniest thing i've read in my entire life
It’s the pica equivalent of saying wine has ‘fruity notes’
420 likes... ...i'll ruin that! :troll:
Like no shit Sherlock it's uhhh earth
geologist here: if you have a calcium/iron deficiency, don't eat dirt, go to a pharmacy and buy some supplements. Yes clay minerals CAN contain calcium or iron (although not all of them do) but you can't digest them, they'll just go through your digestive tract. Also, the most common clay minerals are harder than the calcite that makes up your teeth, if you reguarly just chew away at clay YOU WILL grind your teeth away.
Yeah, grit in food is one of the reasons archaeologists can estimate the age of skeletal remains by how worn their teeth are.
Yeah a lot of people don't realize that you can't just digest raw minerals, they usually need to be part of a compound (ie. iron in your cereal is about 25x less potent than iron in real meat)
I'd assume it would get stuck in your digestive tract too, if you eat it regularly.
Agreed 👍 I knew something wasn't right in general seeing people just eating dirt.
Yeah I was about to say the people who want to eat this probably have an iron deficiency but don’t know it they just know their craving dirt.
"Must have been an old batch because it tasted nasty"
Yes, you definitely don't want to let your dirt sit out and go bad.
I can tell you a lot of things but I couldn't expect a Catholic guilt segment about selling and eating dirt
um actually 🤓☝🏽 that's clearly Evangelical Christian Guilt /j/j
@@mayas3422 There are evangelical sects of nearly every Abrahamic religion. /lh
i just got done with that segment and i think we just found a new method of lobotomy. my frontal lobe wants out 😃
Sounded more like a seventh day Adventist
The focus on the Second Coming reads very evangelical
So, one of my friends craved dirt when she was pregnant. Turned out it’s not too uncommon because some pregnant women often are deficient in certain minerals and end up craving actual dirt as a response. My friend got diagnosed with pica and took mineral supplements to deal with it. Pregnant ladies, please do not eat dirt. Treat yourself right.
Literally this.
There's also cravings for ice or clay when you have iron deficiencies, so I'm not surprised.
@lovelandfrog5692 my childhood best friend's stepdad told us about his friend who craved basement wall 😭 shed just go down there and lick it like some Junji Ito character
Pregnant people* & Izzyzz even mentioned this fact at around the 10 minute mark
@BooksandBuns sorry to burst your bubble but all people who can get pregnant are a biological woman so yes pregnant women
worms are starting to use etsy
And they keep quoting the Bible
twin alert
*starting*
what
Worms arent even eating dirt. They eat compost and other stuff thats IN the dirt, but the dirt itself they only ever have to eat just to make holes, and its not often
It’s so refreshing to hear somebody talk respectfully about these things instead of just running their mouth and making unfunny jokes about it. Pica might not be the worse eating disorder, but it’s still an ED.
As someone who struggles with pretty bad pica thank you for being so respectful a lot of people like to poke fun at the disorder and I understand why it sounds funny on a surface level but a lot of people struggle with it and to hear someone genuinely sympathize with our disorder and not just laugh at it or make a cheap joke made me feel a bit better, thank you
I spat out my dirt when I saw the notification
"they're on to me"
This is the funniest comment I’ve ever seen
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it's giving "Salt can’t be the only delicious rock. I’m going to eat rocks to find the good ones. I bet they’re trying to keep them from us"
Woah… imagining fine dining seasoned with slate…
LMFAOOOO STOPPPP
Me and my friends once impulsively licked a cool rock while drunk. We have since discovered that the weird black line on the rock was probably uranium ore. Still not sure what to make of it.
It was not delicious. Just tasted like a rock. So I guess we can cross uranium ore off the "possibly delicious rocks" list.
@@sand__witch uranium ore? Don’t you mean “spicy shiny candy”?!
I NEED URANIUM.
I USED TO DO THIS!!! I had Pica. It was because I had very low iron levels and once I got that treated, I no longer wanted to eat clay. Not trying to randomly diagnose people on the internet but a quick check-up could help!
I was about to say, seems like the pica community has found a new avenue. especially since some of those reviews specifically mention dirt/clay as a pregnancy craving
I don’t understand how you get the cravings in the first place, because how did you know what they tasted like? How did your body decide “if I eat clay it will give me iron” unless you had eaten clay previously? I don’t understand why no one else is confused about this part 😭
@@GayLuigi333have you ever seen food online that youve never tasted but think might be good? And then that makes you want to have some? It's like that but with stuff that isn't generally food. To me, the clay featured in this video just all looks like it would feel so good to bite into and chew on if that makes sense
@@GayLuigi333 thats what ive been saying about people describing a taste as "earthy".. did you eat dirt and grass and thats what matcha reminds you of now?
but then again i know bricks are salty without ever tasting one and before knowing about horses licking them for salt... maybe its by smell or colour and texture that you guess the taste
@@bugg_bones I’m talking about how people are saying it’s because of iron deficiency, not just “it looks good”
If you crawe eating clay or are curious about it, try eating potato starch mixed with some water. It's food safe and offers the same mouthfeel as clay.
CURSED KNOWLEDGE
how rich is "a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, hidden by a question mark" this is like the 4th youtuber I've seen them be a top tier patreon supporter of
I wanna know what other youtuber they are supporting
what is that? gen ques
@@yeet9703 depends on what you're asking
What's "a riddle, wrapped in an enigma, hidden by a question mark"? Well they are a person who I've seen subscribe to several other youtubers patreons as a top tier supporter
If you are asking ebat patreon is, it's a website that allows people like youtubers or artists, or coders to make more money by having you support them directly. TH-cam doesn't pay a lot unless you are insanely popular
just out of curiosity: which other TH-camrs??
@@siickhippie zack freeman is one of them but I know theirs more
i love how this is everyone’s first introduction to the dirt/chalk/clay community but mine was when i got super high once and googled “russian women eating chalk” (no i don’t remember why… but my youtube history says i watched 3 hours worth of those videos that night)
bro HOW HIGH WERE YOU😭
This is the funniest shit I read today 😂
You were in a whole other galaxy lmao
Craving to eat chalk ❌️
Craving to watch Russian woman eat chalk ✅️
TH-cam suggested this shit to me tagged as ASMR and it had a bunch of comments saying they want to try it, i guess a lot of the people buying etsy dirt started because they saw it online 😭
“why are you even trying to eat discount-ass clay” they ate I fear 💀💀💀
they ate? sure hope it wasn't the clay 💀
I personally like "You need to crave a doctor's appointment"
9:36.
Yeah. Unfortunately it’s very common. I have lignophagia. (Wood eating pica.) I get so many wood cravings. I had to switch my bed frame from wood to metal, because I was eating my bed frame. I was also chewing on my table, so I had to switch it to the metal and glass type of table. I couldn’t stop. Ever since I switched my stuff over, I feel like my cravings have gone down. I didn’t like wood from outside. I preferred wood from hardware stores. I liked that cut wood. The grain. The crunch. It was perfect. But I realized it was a problem when I brought it up to a friend.
“Haha do you ever just munch on wood?”
“Ew. No. DO YOU???? EW!!!”
Yeah. I realized it wasn’t normal. So I started fixing my problem. Been 3 years wood free. My body feels better. My mind feels better. I feel like we need more pica awareness. There’s people out there who are eating stuff they shouldn’t eat, and don’t know it’s a problem. I didn’t know it was until I joked about it to a friend. I hope whoever out there is having the same problems, is able to heal themselves one day. Hopefully soon. It’s not good for the body :(
I'm glad you're going clean! Getting over cravings is hard, but stay strong!
I have Pica and I would chew on wooden chairs and eat wood pencils. Not so much anymore, but I don't miss it
I’m so glad you’re better. My form of Pica was like extra dangerous (dermatophagia- craving you own skin) and I never felt like i could get help because it’s “creepy” like all the pain and shame I’ve felt since i was like 7. Thankfully the urges have faded in my adult years for the most part but going through that alone was really hard
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i havent watched the video fully is this a joke? lol,?
@@laindoer333
Pica is a real thing.
So this comment might not be joking.
i scribe for a hematologist and he often asks anemic patients if they crave/eat dirt or clay! the first time he asked i literally thought he was crazy and a lot of patients have thought so too lol but he’s explained that iron deficiency sometimes causes the craving!
yeah, iron deficiency causes weird cravings. also with ice. but inexplicably one time i really really wanted to eat a wooden picture frame
thank you for not playing the asmr audio :) as someone with misophonia any videos with those kinds of eating noises I need to just nope out of before I throw anything
yess I hate when im watching a video and suddenly theres loud munch noises like a jumpscare
i think my teeth physically would hurt if i heard somebody crunching on rocks
i always hate watching fast food ads of people eating food with them turning the volume way up like i dont want to watch people eating your food it just makes me not want to go there
theres literally eating noises at 9:30
i have misophonia too and wanted to throw my phone tbh
Oh, I remember this from Failboat's Pokémon Legends Arceus Nuzlocke where he had to buy merch of the Pokémon that killed one of his team. He took fall damage so he had to buy dirt because the ground killed him, and about a minute was spent of him being baffled by the dirt eaters
HOLY SHIT FAILBOAT ENJOYER ‼️‼️
The Idea is Simple: I eat dir-
Omg yeah
Lmao I almost forgot about that
this is some wild lore as a extremely casual failboat enjoyer
“I can’t sell edible clay anymore because the Bible says it’s causing depression” might be one of the few unique experiences left in this world, also don’t worry about the braces your voice/pronunciation sounded totally fine
I didn't even clock her braces until I read your comment 😀
@@bib4eto656 I didn’t notice them until they were expressly mentioned at the end lol
Goated Levi icon
@@commanderkarkat2488 thank you
I'm a Christian and that whole text makes me feel... confusion.
In haiti and some african countries (tanzania, cameroon, gabon, and more) women eat dirt while pregnant, or for medicine/rituals, and the practice has carried over to diaspora. For some it's described as addictive or like satisfying a craving. Some people will specifically seek to buy dirt from their home country. Many of these sellers are listing nigerian clay (ulo and efun) - so I think this practice explains a portion of the edible dirt market. I should mention though that eating dirt really ISN'T safe because of the risk of consuming heavy metals, or contracting parasites or diseases from human/animal waste.
Yh this is calabash but idk if any other types are edible ?
No, they do not simply "eat dirt," they are eating _clay._ I mean, they're often called "mud cookies," so I get the misconception, but it's not like people are just grabbing up random dirt from the garden, the aim is to collect "dirt" that is actually mostly clay, which does in fact carry nutrients. Now. Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing you that it isn't advisable, I just think being cavalier about this kind of thing is _also_ unhelpful. Anyway, in Haiti at least, it is mixed with salt and fat (like lard) and dried into cookies, and while it is strongly associated with pregnant women (who often develop pica during pregnancy), it is also eaten by people who don't have reliable access to food/nutrition. Which. Frankly, is a _lot_ of people in Haiti. I mean, my sister ate soap growing up there because of pica.
Some people also eat it in Alabama. The grocery store I used to work at sold white clay, and many gas stations do too. I tried some once, it’s better than you might expect.
@@mackenziedesire7515 Interesting! It's very similar to some communities here in Mexico, like the ones in Yucatan (as Izzzyzzz's put in the video). They make similar clay cookies or litlle balls and add salt or sugar plus animal fat.
@@mackenziedesire7515clay can have alarming levels of heavy metals like lead and others, it should be tested before eating if you eat it regularly.
I'm someone with Pica (Caused by a sensory disorder) and I really apprecate that you handled this topic respectfully. Its really hard to find people who are willing to be understanding. I've struggled with it for years and I've finally managed to work with my fiance to get it under control but I still feel so much shame around it.
Good luck to bro. I'm sorry to hear, and i really hope it works out for you. Kudos to your fiance! (And you, for doing your best.)
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Aw geez. Hearing people have comments about your wardrobe can hurt. Hope you're doing alright. :(
Yo! So I used to have Pica (Paper mainly, not dirt/clay), I never actually told anyone because I was so ashamed because I knew it was wrong but I couldn't stop. Pica is pretty scary so I'm glad you actually talked about it and not just shaming these people :)
It's definitely terrifying, because I could see myself getting addicted EXTREMELY easily. I like to idly munch on snacks while I'm working, and feel so guilty about the wasted calories... Dirt/chalk has none tho?? Fr?! I wouldn't be able to keep lifting chalk in the house ever again lol
Never going to try any, so the temptation can never be awakened 💀
I have the same problem with paper, I control my urges, but I'm ashamed just about thinking about it.
get at least the sweat paper candy type then haha
I still have Pica (the paper form) and I’m considered weird for it. I could never control my impulses and it’s a problem, yet then again, eating paper is somewhat like an addiction for me at times
i have pica and i eat anything with a texture or taste i like and im trying to get my mom to take it serious so i can get it handled
Seeing Jerma in Izzzyzzz’s videos is like seeing your teacher out in the wild
It's so sad, but also kinda funny that the only Jerma mention in the comments is this far down. I expected more people to mention it!
In a video about eating dirt, the only thing that had me double taking was jerma
my professor, Dr Jeremy TF2
Then Venn diagram of "dirt-eating etsy" and "Jerma viewers" is a perfect circle. True Jerma fans always sit down with a bowl of minerals
I think in one video she put the edit of him in the dog show and I couldn't focus at all
When I saw the title I thought it was metaphorical didn't think it would be literal
Fr, I thought it would have to do with the rampant drop-shipping issue drowning out small businesses or something, lol.
same 😭
Me too, I'm still in shock that there are this many people eating dirt. I know that there are some people with eating disorder doing this, but not these many.
It was half and half with me before I clicked I wasn't sure nothing surprises me
same!
i actually really appreciate the amount of (what seems like genuine) compassion that came with this video. :) it feels like a breath of fresh air when a youtubers goal isnt just to make fun of people.
Honestly as someone who did a bit of clay sculpting I totally get why people would want to eat it, the texture is just incredible and it smell good.
you should get a blood test, ive worked extensively with clay and it smells and feels like gritty mud, which is what it is lol. if it seems appetizing to you, it's likely you have mineral deficiencies
I mean not that I don’t take seriously getting diagnosed via TH-cam comments, but it’s mostly about the texture and like, smells are subjective ? Like, a walk in the forest smells good to me, you can think it stinks that’s not a problem.
I’ve had pica my entire life and I’m so used to it being made into a joke or shock subject that it’s really refreshing hearing someone talk about it in such a respectful way
I'm so happy you felt seen by this!! 💗I don't personally have pica but I have a relative that works in homes with dissabilities and she has seen many clients who had pica through her years of working. So warming to see such gentleness, respect, and kindness on stuff like this.
Eyy, fellow pica haver here! I 100% agree, it's always nice to hear it discussed normally and not like, well, like it usually is.
I also have Pica. More people need to know what it is and take it seriously.
Right. I hate when mfs be so immature and just run their mouths without searching anything up about it.
I’ve had pica my whole life and it’s a pretty common joke in my friend group about oh Mylo and his eating dirt that I didn’t know it even /could/ be taken seriously Lmao
Another big one on the pica and/or anemic train is ice chewing. While generally safer than eating dirt, it can really mess up your teeth! When I've been anemic, I've sometimes had a craving to chew on something hard but no idea why... Brains are weird.
Nut and unprocessed grain eating monkey brain lingera
could stuff like frozen hard candies or chocolate bars work for cravings like that?
Can't remember for sure but there are vitamins people with either condition can take to help right? Or meds? Could chewing on a stick toy while taking meds help?
@@_kaleidogetting the nutrients that are lacking like iron or vitamin d is the only way
@@Treppy_Gecky yeah, I have anemia too and have also these type of cravings, I use ferrous sulfate
i took a nutritional anthropology class last semester in college and we talked quite a bit about geophagia, one of the things my professor brought up is that clay can line your stomach/intestines. so if you’re foraging for food and eating things that are rough on your digestive system, craving clay isn't all that wild. i doubt most etsy buyers are living a hunter-gatherer lifestyle though lol
It's more that the clay helps neutralize naturally-occurring toxins in many plants. Some animal species eat clay in the wild for the same reason.
no, but stomach and gastroinstestinal disorders are gettin worse and worse in the general population, so this is a solid theory
@@EphemeralTao ah okay! thank you for clarifying!!
5:37 Imagine selling some rocks you found outside, only to get a negative review for not making them "edible"....
1:54 IZZY UR ENBY??? I NEVER KNEW THIS WHAAAA
I'm pretty sure the saying of "a child's gotta eat their share of dirt" is either referencing eating vegetables (that grow in dirt) or just the fact that home grown foods will contain some dirt as a show of freshness.
I'm almost positive it didn't mean to shove your hand in the ground and eat the soil straight up.
I always thought of it as one of those like, making your kid tougher type of sayings? Like yeah you're gonna go play outside and probably land on your face a few times and get dirt in your mouth, but you aren't gonna get seriously injured and will eventually learn to stop falling on your face lol
And also young kids just like to put things like dirt in their mouths
I mean, it's more that kids just. Eat dirt. Babies and toddlers investigate things via putting them in their mouths, and that includes dirt clumps etc. It's mostly just a "yea, they do that" kind of phrase, to reassure parents that they don't need to freak out about it. (Unlike my aunt, who would then go rinse the kids' mouths out and baby wipe the bejesus out of the rest of their body.)
No. Please wash your vegetables.
It does literally reference that toddlers will just stick their hand in dirt and try to stick it in their mouths, and telling parents not to get too stressed about it.
Ultra hygiene is bad for us.
There is this theory in immunology that exposure to germs in childhood cause a person to have less problems with allergies in later life. Sort of like telling your body "chill, not everything from outside is a threat". I think that is what this phrase might be getting at. Of course, doesn't mean that you should eat dirt lol, it just means that you don't have to sanitize everything your kids come into contact with (I study M. Sc. Immunology)
Speaking of that tlc show I remember they did an episode on a woman who couldn’t stop eating her husbands ashes. She carried his urn around and would just dip her fingers in and eat it whenever she was nervous or just had a craving and by the end she was asked what was she gonna do when it was all gone and she admitted she would probably end her life…thankfully at the end it said she was getting mental help and his family took the urn to save what’s left and help her but it was really sad and really exploitative
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That's incredibly sad
i too am haunted by that episode. i really hope she got the help she needed.
I looked it up, seems she checked into inpatient care without the urn! Hope she is feeling better.
@@NH-ju6bs thank god
In horses and other animals eating excessive dirt (whether accidental or intentional) will cause some pretty damn serious intestinal compaction, I don't even want to imagine what these people would be suffering through as an effect of their dirt eating
That's what baffled me about this!! Even if you could be sure you're eating clay that's lead/rock/glass-free, AND even if you can get some mineral benefits from it, it's CLAY. It's sticky and clumps together and you can't digest it. How is it not gumming them up inside???
I'm sure a few bites along with whatever other (normal) food a person eats in a day means things will, um, pass properly, but surely the volume of clay and chalk people are eating in these videos can't possibly be good.
@@vanathemaabout the clay, our digestive systems are really good at sorting indigestible things out. It’s why gum doesn’t stay trapped in your stomach for seven years, it just slides right through. You gotta remember that humans weren’t originally built for eating processed or even cooked food. When you’re eating plants straight from the ground you are going to get some inedible stuff in there, so our stomachs evolved to be pretty damn good. Plus our stomach acid is insane, most things you’d assume were indigestible will be dissolved over time. Crazy stuff.
It’s often a symptom of Anemia to be eating dirt and chalk.
@@mrziiz6893 the small doses of soil we’d get from eating unwashed plant material is not quite the same as eating huge uniform chunks of clay 🤨
@@pourcelaine That’s not my point at all, and I’m not even disagreeing with you, just adding some scientific context
7:47 not to be a buzzkill or anything but i think that seller was experiencing psychosis. The really specific bible scriptures and thought that they ONLY realized that selling clay was harmful years later doesnt add up
I also agree... The person rants heavily about something that doesn't even add up by religious standards.
Reminds me of Terry Davis, though way less intense than him
what i immediately thought
Yeah, my first thought was that this looks like somebody suffering from scrupulosity. They made a business that catered to (possible) pica, and ended it due to guilt brought on by religious delusions. I don’t know enough about them to infer anything specifically, but it seems like they’re going through it. I just hope they’re okay and have the support they need wherever they are.
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you're so right
This is the first time I see pica being covered on YT that’s not TLC making it some sort of weird spectacle. As someone who has had geophagia in the past to the point that I sought out powdered calcium to eat, thanks for talking about it with compassion!
As a soil scientist (as in, I have a Master's degree in the subject), I cannot possibly stress this enough:
DO.
NOT.
EAT.
SOIL.
OR.
DIRT.
Eating soil (which is characterized by having organisms living and working in it) is dangerous due to the bacteria within. Do you want tetanus? Coz that's how you get tetanus.
Eating dirt (characterized by not having organisms living/working within) has literally no nutritional value and is not something we're meant to digest.
I need the dentists to get in here and discuss.
what about clay? Eating clay is actually universal for tribal groups and apparently has some health benefits.
I need nutritionists to chime in because iirc some people eat dirt cause of a mineral deficiency or pica.
@AL-lh2ht I'd need to do further research on this (I'm based in the USA), but at least where I live, any potential benefits are far outweighed by the numerous negative health effects.
@@AL-lh2ht not really, clay is consumed in tribes because it is easy to access and expands when exposed to liquid, like stomach fluid, so it feels more filling and reduces hunger pangs. It can contain some nutrients in it depending on the area you got it from but overall contains no minerals or value so eating it long term just replaces nutritious food and leads to internal problems. Better than dirt but still not great
How do i describe the bone chilling horror i felt in the depths of my soul seeing the words "etsy users eating dirt" on my screen😂😂
I did this back in kindergarten and NOW people are catching on to the gloriousness of dirt?
Im still waiting for the general media to catch onto eating mold
I know people will be commenting on the video, but the sponsor actually looks super amazing and I plan to share it with several of my masc friends. I know there is a large sense of shame from needing to shop in the boys section already, I would love to see it succeed
The pipeline from "statistically not that many people can have PICA, right?" at the start of the video to
"Is it bad I wanna have just a little nibble -- JUST TO SEE IF THEY'RE ONTO SOMETHING" within 5 mins
right, like the wet clay actually looks mad delicious
The wet clay looks delicious. I need to try it so badly
Bro that shit look scrumptious
Fr like, I don’t _necessarily_ want to eat the dirt, but I can’t help wondering what these people are getting out of it
like that one pop chips description worked a lil *too* well...
Hehehe, this whole thing reminds me of the "He was forced to eat cement" seal.
At age 6 😢
his name is niko ! he's a baikal seal, he's so cute :-)
nice pfp
@@aseluxna3677 Thanks, you too!
@@heelturn2he WAS so cute. before the incident.
I mean there are also ‘fart’ jars being sold on Etsy for thousands so this isn’t rlly surprising🤷
I mean that's just s3x work.
W H A T
yum 😋
I mean... I understand people spending big on their kink, I don't understand dirt eating
Literally biohazardous material that has to be shipped in like medical samples... regulations which I'm sure Etsy sellers are following to the T
I appreciate you being respectful and non-sensational about this - shame only makes conditions like pica more intense, understanding can go a long way to help people
Something about “must have been an old batch” talking about rocks and dirt KILLED ME
I mean, when I was in grade 1 back in the 90’s me and like 3 classmates made a vow to eat all of Mrs Edward’s chalk so she couldn’t teach math anymore. It lasted like, 1 day until we realized she could just go get more chalk, none of us were that committed. I can still remember the crunch and snap though, peak childhood memories. Modern kids would have to try and eat a smart board
one kid took a bite of a dry erase marker in my english class
@@chappellroanmemesWhat a legend 💪
As someone that was anemic for a while seeing people eating dirt made me scream, baby you have pica!!! Get a blood test 😭😭😭
what if im extremely afraid of needles 😭
@@twotruckslyricslet the nurses know they’ll usually try and make you more comfortable and get another nurse to help distract you by talking to you. I always look away too cause I’ll faint if I see it 🥴 it’s really hard to overcome it but it’s for the best in the long run 🥲
SAME. For me it was ice. Every single day I would get multiple cups of that crunchy ice like from Sonic and when I got to college, my Nursing professor was like "Um, you're severely anemic." And I was.
@@panjamysy it was ice for me toooo, i used to get crushed ice and a little cup of diced peaches then eventually just ice
@@panjamysy how would being anemic make you crave ice? /gen
I ate dirt as a child, it’s NASTYYY what are these people DOING. Mulch is a better texture by far
As someone who used to have these type of cravings(I've never acted on them) it's mostly low nutrition(mostly iron) I had it because I'm anemic, I hope all these people start to take some supplements
@@spencerreidd Pica is for life sadly.
@@Topdoggie7 not sure, as someone with anemia who has pica(I'm still getting over it) it goes away if you go on supplements and your iron gets back to normal you'll stop craving it
bro no chalk is far superior to mulch . lol xD I had pica as a kid and loved chalk, toilet paper and cardboard. but im 31 now and dont consume non edible things these days. i am audhd and have ARFID tho
i love MULCH !! 💖💞✨️💝
Didn't notice any difference with your voice! You're doing great.
i had a childhood friend who one time interrupted a play date to go outside and she didnt come back. i asked her mom where she went, and i rounded the corner in her backyard to find her biting into huge pieces of sidewalk chalk. seeing this i wonder if shes a buyer
I learned in an anthropology class that potatoes originally came from a place in South America and they were incredibly poisonous to eat before they were domesticated. However the people there figured out that they could eat one type of potato if it was cooked then eaten with a watered down clay slurry. The clay would bind to the toxins in the potato and not be absorbed in the digestive track
But that said, yeah no thank you. I seriously doubt that those Esty sellers are properly decontaminating and purifying their dirt, that cannot be healthy in the long run
If I want to eat something with a chalk-like texture I'll just eat some meringue cookies
Solanin is the main toxin in potatoes, as well as other solanaceae plants, such as tomato.
@@Fridelain huh, neat
The more you know 🌠
That lead to a fun part of the history of potato chips. For a while there was a kind of potato that was perfect for frying and getting the best crunch, but it also was way more toxic. It never made it to market, but it was used as the base for what is used today.
i ate dirt with a spoon until i was 9 years old. only stopped because i found out how dangerous it could be. would absolutely still be eating dirt if i hadnt learned about bubonic plague living in the soil in the us. so i get it
When I was a kid I read an article about a woman who ate cardboard and tires as like...cheese on toast bc she had severe pica and had to have surgery to remove them after they became obstructions, so seeing the title immediately made me think of that.
Can confirm it's a pica thing.
This is why everything doesn't need to be a THING. Like instead of saying 'hm I find myself wanting to eat dirt, maybe I should see a doctor,' it becomes, 'I have a weird quirk so I should go find others who will tell me not to listen to the haters and encourage me to keep doing this.'
Everything becomes 'I have a condition so that's why I do this and anyone trying to discourage me is a hater' instead of 'I should do what I can to keep myself safe from the side effects of this condition and try to manage it.'
rlly appreciate how respectful about pica u are, i'm so used to ppl being weird about it!!!
same mfs that made fun of me for eating dirt as a kid i was just ahead of the trend
Eating dirt as a baby actually makes you healthier.
Don't laugh, when I was low in iron I was badly craving dirt and clay, and I totally bought some off Etsy. Eating it felt amazing. But what I should have done, which I did eventually, was get my iron levels tested and then begin taking iron supplements (you should only take them with advice from a physician). When my iron was back to normal levels I stopped craving dirt and clay.
I’m glad you’re going better now, i honestly just feel bad for the people in this video and I’m sorry you went through that
Remember when the writers of Never-ending Story made a joke about the Rock Biter eating gourmet rocks. Yeah...
This comment confused me so much for a solid minute until I realized that you meant the (likely multiple) writers of the movie script(s) instead of referring to the book's author Michael Ende in plural.
Gorons are like this too
@@Broeckchen We're so impressed that you know the author's name.
@@RootVegetabIe ;n; H-he's my favorite... let me have this...
Yes! I recently rewatched TNES in a local movie theater - specifically he found some limestones to be a rare vintage. 🍷
My snack of choice is colorful aquarium gravel
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I can’t really find any articles on this but when I was grieving a loved one, I felt an intense desire to eat the dirt he was buried in. It was a strong desire to have a part of him with me again.
As far as I've heard of, it's not too uncommon for people to want to eat something related to their loved one as a coping mechanism for loss and grief. Eating is one of the cornerstones of human companionship, so it makes sense as to why those urges might occur in those facing loss.
When my childhood cat was getting ready to pass on earlier this year, I pinched off a little piece of her wet food and ate it since I wanted to 'share' in her last meal with her, since her eating my food was a big part of her personality. I found that it helped ease the pain of grief in that moment and it's a fond memory to me now. I hope your grief has subsided since then. My heart goes out to you.
You just unlocked a memory I have of watching something on TV about someone who was eating a loved ones cremated ashes as part of a grieving process. I don't remember if if was a My Strange Addiction thing, or a Dr. Phil thing... Something from the late 00's or early 10's...
i saw the title and immediately giggled and said "w h a t"
same 😭 definitely the last thing I expected to see when I picked up my phone lmfao
I read the w h a t in a robot voice
I had a friend in 7th grade who, during lunch break when we were let outside, would go to the far end of the soccer field and dig up and eat (what she deemed) the good dirt.
The good dirt 😂😂
I mean, I grew up on these chocolates that look like aquarium rocks, and now I have the voice in my head that's playing "real or cake" with rocks, but I don't EAT them to find out.
Also, love your hair and makeup.
transgender me excited about the sponsor: 😀
transgender me after seeing the prices: 😢
Not the rainbow dash jar earings. I am weeping.
I feel like there’s a big difference between *edible dirt/clay/chalk* and *dirt/clay/chalk sold to eat*
If it’s actual edible products (whether that’s chocolate rocks, crushed chocolate, or somehow actual clays that are genuinely edible and safe to eat) then that’s totally fine and actually probably pretty good for people with PICA to get that satisfaction in a safe way
If it’s just straight dirt and clay and chalk that’s fully inedible then that’s genuinely concerning for everyone’s health
yeah there's a dutch candy literally called 'school chalk' that's actually just licorice. feel like that could cause some confusion in people who don't speak dutch lol
People with pica still should seek help bc their bodies are craving to compensate a deficiency tho
i'm curious about this safe to eat clay
@@lepetitmonster8737 You are correct to suggest they should seek help, however to avoid spreading misinformation I would like to clarify that it is not necessarily the case that pica is caused by some kind of mineral deficiency. It is sometimes associated with certain deficiencies, but it is believed to stem from a variety of different sources, including assorted mental health disorders, childhood trauma, even some medications. It's a condition that is still not fully understood at this time, and it cannot easily be boiled down to one specific cause.
@@lepetitmonster8737 i only have pica bc im autistic. but rarely do i actually cave into cravings. usually its plastic but i only chew on it
People do be profiting off of sufferers of pica, huh...
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Pica is for life so might as well make it a bit safer.
Those shoes look so great
@@Topdoggie7not always
@@wariowarecomix Source?
@@Topdoggie7Pica is not usually for life. Pica is actually instinctual. It's usually caused by nutrient deficiencies. It's the same reason a lot of parrots eat clay. Your body is always driving you to eat things with nutrients it needs... If you aren't getting everything you need, your body will seek non-food solutions for the deficiency... Fix your diet, and pica tends to go away on it's own unless it's triggered by some underlying issue with the system itself.
It sucks when mental illnesses get a platform to grow and develop. It’s a prime example of one reason why the internet is so dangerous.
I’m not trying to attack these people. I kinda get it. I had Trichotillomania and I enjoyed it and didn’t really want to stop, but it was unhealthy and I don’t feel like I’m missing much without it.
If I had a group of people who felt the same way and enjoyed the same things about hair pulling, I would’ve never stopped. And that’s a bad thing.
We're sliding back into the victorian era. Just as the children yearn for the mines the girlypops yearn for flour adultered with chalk
I'm glad you took an objective and non judgemental viewpoint on this video! it was an interesting deep dive without the horrible way tlc exploits people with Pica
i remember two years ago before i’d been diagnosed with an iron deficiency, i actually had such bad cravings for things like cement, dirt and just random metal!! i literally just kept a spoon in my mouth for a while once. now i’ve been on supplements since, and i haven’t had any particular desire to eat stuff like that
also unrelated to the video but i felt like i wasn’t getting enough oxygen, which at the time felt like a separate thing possibly related to me having the flu really badly & pulling a muscle in my ribs from coughing too much. but when we covered red blood cells & haemoglobin and how it transports oxygen and stuff in biology, it made a lot more sense lol
iron deficiency gaaaang !! i used to get really lightheaded if i stood up too fast & occasionally had "fainting spells" where i would need to lay down and breathe REAL deep or else i felt like i'd pass out. it generally didn't get in the way of my life until i got a job stocking shelves, at which point it became very difficult to squat down to the low shelves and then stand up. i thought maybe it was POTS, but my dad mentioned that it could be an iron deficiency, and shortly after starting iron supplements, it went away.
now i'm thinking maybe i could use more iron than i'm getting, because the clay looks really damn appetizing to me lmaooo
Oh man, I know my iron level is slipping when beef liver tastes SOOO GOOD. When I'm on point, it's eh. lol
@@plushdragonteddy 😊🙏😊 wassup fellow weakbloods loool
I got bad nosebleeds randomly, just sitting in class, until like 5th grade when a teacher was finally like, I know you're used to it, but I need to talk to your parents, cuz that shit is NOT normal (neither is the fainting when you get out of your chair)
But how did you get cravings for cement and dirt? Like how did you know what they tasted like to get a craving for them in the first place?
@@GayLuigi333 i think it’s just that your body knows it needs some kind of metal in it even if your conscious brain doesn’t know. it’s like how if you don’t get enough fiber in your diet, you might find yourself craving a salad, even if you don’t like salad. it’s not that you know it’ll be tasty, but that your body just desperately needs nutrients and is craving anything that will get those nutrients into you.
I was gonna make a witty joke about earthworms but I ate the paper wrapping around drinking straws as a kid.
...I also tried eating a glowstick once. I thought it was candy and assumed that EVENTUALLY it would taste good.
😂I can see the logic tbh, glowsticks remind me of those little tubes of sherbet. Not that they tasted great either😒
i ate a glow stick too i genuinely thought it was a candy 😭
Are you guys okay?? I have pica and eat lots of weird shit but glow sticks are hella toxic
"eventually"????? 😭😭
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I am from the southern united states, and I would just like to clarify that most of us do not eat dirt. That is most likely a practice VERY specific to that area of Georgia.
My biggest concern about edible dirt being bought and sold on etsy is definitely the lack of regulation. Even if we accept the idea that eating _certain types_ of dirt in _small, infrequent doses_ is not harmful (which I don't know is the case, disclaimer not a doctor, yadayada), we still have to consider that the companies acquiring, processing, and selling these minerals are not subject to _any_ of the many laws and regulations that companies producing _actual_ food are required to adhere too.
With these rocks and dirt, there is likely no legal requirement (disclaimer also not a lawyer, blabla etc.) for the sellers to disclose where it came from and how it has been processed, nor to enforce that any machinery and/or chemicals used to process it are food-safe, or even that the workers handling the dirt have washed their damn hands! Food safety regulations are very strict and constantly evolving in the modern age, but none of that applies to sellers of dirt and stones, because they're technically "not for human consumption". Even if they eventually end up sold as "edible" on etsy, unless those sellers are going out and digging up this dirt themselves from their own personal quarries, they're likely sourcing their products from other companies that quarry, process, and sell minerals in bulk. Companies that normally sell these minerals for more industrial uses, and probably never had to consider the possibility of someone sticking their products in their mouth.
Eating dirt as a cultural practice is a fascinating subject, and one that I'm glad was touched upon in this video. We must keep in mind however, that those historically participating in these practices came from cultures where it had been done for a long long time, and had accumulated a lot of cultural knowledge about the consumption of these minerals that would be passed down through the generations. In other words: people from cultures that regularly ate dirt knew what they were fucking doing, and how + where to get "the good stuff" that wouldn't make you horribly sick if you ate it (probably, notadoctor). It's also worth considering the fact that such practices almost certainly originated in the per-industrial age, when our planet as a whole was a lot less polluted from man made junk and chemical waste. It's potentially a lot harder to find dirt and rocks these days that haven't been tainted in some way, rendering them no longer "safe" to eat.
All this to say, uh... 1. Probably don't eat dirt, 2. If you're going to eat dirt, don't eat any that you don't know for a FACT is clean and processed from the start with the intention of being for human consumption, 3. If people are going to be eating dirt, we probably need to get some laws in place governing traditionally non-edible substances being sold for consumption, in order to regulate how these materials are processed and which ones are allowed to be marketed as such, 4. Probably don't eat dirt, imo.
I love how in depth you went into this, genuinely. My first thought as someone who works in healthcare is that this is a phenomenon of people with various mineral deficiencies or other malnutrition issues that are craving dirt in their bodies attempt to replete the issue- like how other wild mammals will lick rocks to get salt and zinc and such like you said! Proper nutrition is hard to get the world around these days, after all. The cultural angle was fascinating and I'm delighted to learn about it. I wonder if those traditions came about as a way of heading off those kinds of deficiencies, the same way cooking rice with "lucky fish" was a way to get iron supplementation into diets in some chinese cultures. In any case my main concern with all this is that this clay and dirt people eat I worry might be contaminated with pesticides or other toxic chemicals or have parasites in them. It's encouraging to know that many sellers seem to bake them ahead of time, which would sanitize it to an extent, but not all of them take such care I'm sure. That part scares me.
i used to know this dog that was obsessed with rocks. she was always crunching on one, the sound was horrendous and her teeth were wearing away. i had even seen her swallow the rocks but the owners didn't seem to care and seemed to encourage it by treating the rocks like toys
pibbles and boxers LOVE cinder blocks, its insane
Rock eating is big in dogs.
Yeah dogs kinda be like that sometimes
my stepdad had a dog that would eat rocks 💀 she was lovin that crunch i guess
A friend of mine had a dog that did that kind of thing too, he loved licking muddy rocks and eating chunks of dirt.
I like how the video sorta started playful and fun but got serious and stuff. I didnt know what Pica was and I really liked learning about it, cool video!
I didn't expect to be craving dirt/clay/chalk today after hearing some really well done Etsy descriptions and reviews💀
10/10 You can always count on Izzyzz to cover something new that you’ve never seen before when your internet feeds start to feel repetitive and mundane 😳
when I saw the title of this video, I thought it meant, like, _metaphorically_ eating dirt, but then i clicked and uh...
yeah, they're *literally* eating dirt.
That’s what we gotta eat in this economy
They rly price gouging dirt 😭
as a georgian i’ve seen dirt like this for sale but i didn’t realize what for and my mind is blown. i ate red clay as a kid when i played outside but i was a kid. i’m anemic and haven’t ever craved them but i do love herbs and such that have an earthy taste and i like chewing my iron pills so i kind of get it? no judgement to anyone who eats dirt, people like what they like and as long as it’s not hurting anyone or yourself do what you like 💗 (as long as you do in moderation and safely for yourself)
I l,ike how full of compassion you are but the unfortuante reality is they ARE hurting themselves, and the environment, by continuing to do this
Fun fact: there was a guy who, for his last meal request cuz he was on death row, he ordered dirt. He wanted to eat dirt as his last meal.
the hair streaks totally remind me of Draculaura
The _This House Has People In It_ fandom are getting _Sculptor's Clayground_ flashbacks from reading this video's title. That horror ARG was where I first learnt that eating clay was a known addiction in Africa and other parts of the world. Had no idea that Etsy was connected to it.
Also, amazing Jerma callback at 9:32.
i came scrolling down the comments thinking "if i don't find a single THHPII reference i riot" :'^)
All these people thinking Etsy users are weird when they're just trying to fight Lynks disease
same lmao the clay pizza
it's not an 'addiction' in africa, it's just a practice. let's avoid pathologizing other ppl's cultures!
@@dirtheart yes its what they say in the video for some person its an adiction and in some country a tradition
Chalk eating is really big here in Russia. There are even whole channels about chalk eating…
Russia's biggest delicacies being vodka and chalk is phenomenally on-brand.
@@TankHardcheese some channels won’t even wash it down with vodka and that bugs me, you know!
6:28 Translation for that long text:
She got sick at some point (or one of her customers did), so she decided to stop before things got worse.
my mom used toe at dirt when i was younger, around 2013. I remember going downstairs to use the family PC to hop on animal jam and there was a giant sack of "diatomaceous earth" in my place on the chair. She did that every single day, shed use it as a face mask, drink it, and eat it.
9:01 I was just thinking “I refuse to believe this unless I see a video of someone actually eating dirt” and then, like Izzy was reading my mind, I see video evidence of people eating dirt.
These people saw the Gorons from The Legend of Zelda enjoying rocks and thought to themselves "they must be onto something here".
But seriously, this is simultaneously surprising and not.
Interesting fact: Pica isnt exclusive to humans, it can affect cats too. Mine isn't diagnosed but for years she has been chewing on and eating bits of plastic, i have to sprint to get it out of her mouth. Only recently did i learn that cats can have pica.
Unfortunately my cats have it too. It maybe wouldn't be too much of an issue if one wasn't a batshit tricolor girl. She is completely off the rails and will eat anything. I have everything in my room locked away for both cats' sakes, and for the sake of my things not being ruined, the only things that they can access are things they cannot break into pieces or swallow whole.
Kiwi, said tricolor, still found a way to stretch her legs enough into a box to grab a bag of whiskers (I save any whiskers I find to have a reminder of my cats, for the eventual day they are no longer with me) and eat it. I am talking a tiny bag, sure, but it was still around the size of her head. She grabbed it with her grubby lil paws and ate it while I slept. I woke up to her (thankfully) vomiting it. It took her 3 tries to get it out. I was horrified. I now keep their whiskers in a hard plastic cylinder further hidden and have no soft plastics anywhere around my room. There is nothing that is safe from my cats' PICA.
I myself have PICA, but being a human I am aware I simply must resist the temptations of trying to eat rocks, glass and whatever else. The cats though, they don't have such foresight, so I got to wash a bunch of whiskers and dry them after my soul left my body when I saw what Kiwi did.
my cat has it and its caused so many scares! her favorite that she cant resist is any kind of foam like yoga mats or pool noodles so its all banned from my house
my cat has the same, she loves loves eating plastic wrap :(
My cat likes plastic, cardboard, hair bands and my wife's wedding ring. Houdini is not to be trusted with specific items anymore.
Im so glad someone is talking about this. I was first introduced to the concept of edible dirt several years ago when i was looking for a sterile and safe source of eating chalk. My mother would not allow me to purchase any.
thank you for being so kind about pica. literally since i was a child, i’ve eaten pencils (lead and all) as well as paper. eating toilet paper specifically has become a self soothing tool for me (to the point that, where im upset, ill seek out a bathroom and eat toilet paper) and it’s so embarrassing to live with.
pica is so real as you said, and it’s not uncommon at all. it’s just something that people struggle with.