At the market in the La Saline slum, two cups of rice now sell for 60 cents, up 10 cents from December and 50 percent from a year ago. Beans, condensed milk and fruit have gone up at a similar rate, and even the price of the edible clay has risen over the past year by almost $1.50. Dirt to make 100 cookies now costs $5, the cookie makers say.
Here is more information. Here is one review:
A reporter sampling a [mud] cookie found that it had a smooth consistency and
sucked all the moisture out of the mouth as soon as it touched the
tongue. For hours, an unpleasant taste of dirt lingered.
Thanks to William Griffiths for the pointer.
And people whine about how tough life is here in America …
OK, sorry to be clueless, but:
Is this “dirt” regular soil from the ground or some special ingredient called “dirt”? Who eats dirt cookies? Even worse, who has to buy dirt? Can’t you just get soil from the ground for free?
I was about to say I wondered how much worse things could be if this hadn’t been stopped, and then I noticed it was the Dominican Republic instead of Haiti.
Sounds like a good way to get fiber in one’s diet.
The practice, well known to geographers and anthropologists, is called geophagy. See Hunter, John M. “Geophagy in Africa and in the United States: A Culture-Nutrition Hypothesis.” Geographical Review April 1973: 170-195. Wikipedia also has an entry.
Man I got sick from the dirt-flavored Jelly Belly, I can only imagine being hungry enough to eat the real thing.
At our medical clinic at Tovar, a survey indicated it was not uncommon for people not to have eaten for two days and more common for only on meal a day. What is the worst hunger you have ever experienced? Now if you can imagine doing that every day, you have a typical life in Haiti. No jobs, 85% unemployment. Some of the most beautiful spirits found in any people, anywhere.
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Facts: I am from Haiti and I lived there for 16 years
Facts: The notion about people are eating clay as food is kind of misleading.
My mom and auntie are middle class people who had well enough money for a good life but they still eat clay when they are pregnant. Usually they craved this thing around that period but they don’t eat as food to appease their hunger.
This has been on the news a lot recently. It looks like they’re doing this in the Dominican Republic also.
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Dominica = Dominican Republic NOT! It is a separate island in the lesser antilles a long way from the Dominican Republic which is the eastern 2/3rds of Hispanola, one of the greater antilles.
I will never be able to give a days pay but I have found ways to raise money for charities and although a large lump sum is great so are the little amounts – in fact a lot of little donations can add up to much more than just a few big ones. I use coupons when I shop but then set aside the value of the redeemed coupons into my charity jar. I (and the kids) also give up extras such as a coffee or a chocolate bar and we put that money in the jar. It is amazing how quickly a little can add up. We gave the whole jar to the Salvation Army at Christmas so only have $11 in the new year’s jar but that is going to Haiti.
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