Edible Chalk
May 16, 2023 | 9:53 am
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Edible Chalk
I was actually looking for swiffer pads, when Amazon threw this product in my face. Now sure I remember the kids in kindergarten eating paste, but I don’t remember any grabbing the teachers chalk at snack time or licking the blackboard erasers. I thought it was a joke, but no, the reviews seem genuine.
do you eat chalk?
do you eat chalk?
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May 16, 2023 | 9:56 am
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No chalk but i did eat Kaolin once...
May 16, 2023 | 9:27 pm
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I believe this must be marketed toward people who have a craving for chalk due to deficiencies caused by eating disorders. Saw a thing on TV about it some years ago. Pica syndrome. Clearly someone else saw it too and made edible chalk.
May 17, 2023 | 1:55 pm
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This was my first thought too. I must have seen that same show!
May 17, 2023 | 10:58 pm
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My year one teacher, in 1988, had an end of year Christmas tradition of everyone making Christmas stockings which would hang in the class until the last day of the year at which point she would fill them with edible chalk. It tasted like musk sticks from memory.
May 18, 2023 | 12:50 am
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Certainly haven’t eaten chalk. I can’t even remember the last time I used chalk 
I can still remember clapping erasers together in elementary school and being coveted in chalk dust.
I can still remember clapping erasers together in elementary school and being coveted in chalk dust.
May 18, 2023 | 6:58 am
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Sidewalk Chalk is popular with my grandchildren. It comes in a variety of pastel colors. I have never caught them putting it in their mouths.
May 20, 2023 | 2:15 pm
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But maybe better than a musk stick?
musk
noun
a strong-smelling reddish-brown substance which is secreted by the male musk deer for scent-marking
May 20, 2023 | 7:01 pm
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So it's been around since 1988 huh? I have to say, that's a very odd tradition though.
But maybe better than a musk stick?
musk
noun
a strong-smelling reddish-brown substance which is secreted by the male musk deer for scent-marking
But maybe better than a musk stick?
musk
noun
a strong-smelling reddish-brown substance which is secreted by the male musk deer for scent-marking
I didn't realise musk lollies were an Australian only phenomenon.
Doesn't this sound appetising?
Yet musk sticks manage to disgust tourists as much as they delight Australians.
There are plenty of complaints online, from their strange shape to their chalky texture, but the powerful perfume scent seems to be the most off-putting thing about musk sticks.
Their taste has been variously compared to a nice-smelling shop, grandmother's make-up and even "the smell of old ladies at the bus stop". Surprisingly, only one of those comments comes from a wholly negative review.
There are plenty of complaints online, from their strange shape to their chalky texture, but the powerful perfume scent seems to be the most off-putting thing about musk sticks.
Their taste has been variously compared to a nice-smelling shop, grandmother's make-up and even "the smell of old ladies at the bus stop". Surprisingly, only one of those comments comes from a wholly negative review.
I would say they taste like cheap Turkish delight but soapier and less rosy. They make a musk Life Savers flavour here too.
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May 21, 2023 | 11:22 pm
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Only Pica urges I’ve ever had involved charcoal, which I did occasionally nibble at.
Not when I was pregnant, but later, during the time of an undiagnosed fibroid and the related anaemia.
Around the same time that charcoal (and the spent tips of phosphorescent matches) seemed so very delicious I was also drawn to the smell of rubber (think of the smell of a warm water “bottle” for a bed). I found that smell intoxicating.
I’d seen a different documentary years ago about pica urges around the world, including vendors at a market in West Africa selling pellets of different river clays who made a living from the phenomenon, so thankfully, understood why I was craving minerals this way.
Not when I was pregnant, but later, during the time of an undiagnosed fibroid and the related anaemia.
Around the same time that charcoal (and the spent tips of phosphorescent matches) seemed so very delicious I was also drawn to the smell of rubber (think of the smell of a warm water “bottle” for a bed). I found that smell intoxicating.
I’d seen a different documentary years ago about pica urges around the world, including vendors at a market in West Africa selling pellets of different river clays who made a living from the phenomenon, so thankfully, understood why I was craving minerals this way.
May 22, 2023 | 3:32 am
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When I was pregnant with my daughter I craved chalk, I told my Dr and he immediately prescribed calcium pills. I was starting to have calcium deficiency.