{"id":5323,"date":"2011-05-02T19:40:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T03:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/?p=5323"},"modified":"2011-05-02T19:40:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T03:40:50","slug":"food-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/?p=5323","title":{"rendered":"Food fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one caught my eye over at Daily Kos: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2011\/05\/01\/971974\/-What-Is-the-Most-Bizarre-Thing-Youve-Eaten\" target=\"_blank\">What is the most bizarre thing you&#8217;ve eaten?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I suspect that anyone who had <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pica_%28disorder%29\" target=\"_blank\">pica<\/a> as a child (as I did) can beat the entries to webranding&#8217;s diary. My favorite non-food edibles as a child: wood (my bed frame, mainly), chalk (including some sort of concrete-like deposit in our back yard), and the tar off a telephone pole.<\/p>\n<p>So what else do the folks at Daily Kos have to offer? Some interesting ones: warthog sausage (ain&#8217;t that just a toothy pig?), fresh termites (and a variety of other arthropods), chocolate-covered worms, baby rat kebabs, live baby rats, kangaroo, and puffin. Odder still are some of the things people THINK are unusual: eel, sea urchin, octopus (all standard sushi fare), a variety of snakes, gators, jellyfish. Two things I tend to crave from time to time are jellyfish salad and ankimo (monk fish liver). <\/p>\n<p>But I think my old pica habits have &#8217;em all beat.<\/p>\n<p>How about you &#8212; any odd offerings?<\/p>\n<p>D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one caught my eye over at Daily Kos: What is the most bizarre thing you&#8217;ve eaten? I suspect that anyone who had pica as a child (as I did) can beat the entries to webranding&#8217;s diary. My favorite non-food edibles as a child: wood (my bed frame, mainly), chalk (including some sort of concrete-like&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/?p=5323\">Continue Reading Food fight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5324,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions\/5324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}