[Hotmetal]

I will be 50 years old in Sept. my mom and Dad told me that when I was an infant I would sit under a shade tree in a sweet potato field and would eat dirt all day. When we moved to town the year I started school a black lady cleaned our house and baby sat my younger brother and me. She would cook some kind of dirt in a boiler on top of the stove, only dirt nothing else. The dirt looked like flower a white powder. The lady said it came from around the roots of trees and she would eat it a tablespoon at a time.

[Pinetop]

I had one of those herbs and roots kind of grandmothers in Kentucky who used to advise that a pound of dirt a year was good for you.