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?


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No chalk but i did eat Kaolin once...

I mean, Tums is flavored chalk....

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.

This was my first thought too. I must have seen that same show!

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.

Certainly haven’t eaten chalk. I can’t even remember the last time I used chalk :eek: I can still remember clapping erasers together in elementary school and being coveted in chalk dust.

Saw edible "chalk" as a street food in Johannesburg in 2011.

Wasn't a fan.

“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.

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

In children it may typically manifest as eating dirt; in adults in inordinate eating of ice.

They were just lollies, I think she liked the fact we could also use them to draw in the yard. They tasted nice, as I remember.

I didn't realise musk lollies were an Australian only phenomenon.

Doesn't this sound appetising?https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-...foods/10953712

I would say they taste like cheap Turkish delight but soapier and less rosy. They make a musk Life Savers flavour here too.

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.

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.