Have senior citizens ever had any unusual food cravings?
handyman is a Rat asked:
I’ve heard of people eating chalk. When I was a young girl, I ate flour right out of the bag. My mom would find bowls full of flour in my room with a flour-encrusted spoon. Sounds icky, right? Have you had any unusual cravings?
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I’ve heard of people eating chalk. When I was a young girl, I ate flour right out of the bag. My mom would find bowls full of flour in my room with a flour-encrusted spoon. Sounds icky, right? Have you had any unusual cravings?
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August 2nd, 2011 at 7:19 pm
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I have had an unusual craving for brains ever since I got bit by a zombie.
August 5th, 2011 at 3:58 am
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I used to eat the seeds in apples. I thought they tasted like chocolate covered cherries. This was before I knew they had cyanide in them!
August 6th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
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Nothing that strange but sometimes I craveCat Food like sardines right out of the can or Pickled Herring or Tuna Fish with pickles.I have to eat it until I’m satisfied,then I won’t want again for awhile.
Just as an afterthought-remember the dorky kid in grade school that would eat the paste out of jar!!! NASTY!!
August 7th, 2011 at 8:39 am
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I ate ice as a teenager, had to be crunching on something and I found out later it was because I was anemic, and took Geritol at the age of 14, the craving for ice stopped.
August 10th, 2011 at 9:37 am
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it was corn meal for me ,also raw spaghetti.
August 13th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
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When I was a young lad (preteen) I used to take about a quarter cup of evaporated milk and mix in a lot of sugar until it turned into a goo and eat that. The very thought of it now turns my stomach.
August 15th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
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Mine was bowls of dry oatmeal’s, just love it..and I use to eat the eraser off pencils..lol
August 19th, 2011 at 12:00 am
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Now, I don’t want to gross anybody out or nothing, but…
When I was a young girl–probably about 6 or 7, the road crews came around to pour new tar for our streets one spring. This was thick black goopy stuff that had very little gravel in it. In the hot temperatures of the summer, this tar got so soft that if you stepped on it, you would leave your footprints behind. So one day I was playing with it with a small stick–just putting the stick in the soft tar and twirling it around. But I noticed that when I lifted up a bit of it, it smelled like licorice! Well, I have always LOVED black licorice! So I took a taste of the tar to see if it would taste like licorice too…and to my mind it DID!
I ate about 4 dips of the stick of this tar before my brother caught me doing it and called me names and that was the last of that!
(It was still not as bad as my sister! SHE would eat worms or grasshoppers or anything disgusting like that when my older brothers told her too–just because they told her to! I told her that was disgusting and she just laughed at me.)
August 21st, 2011 at 6:01 am
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When i was younger i used too eat dog biscuits, these days i stick too cheese and strawberry jam sandwiches and putting mayonnaise on fish and chips.
August 22nd, 2011 at 8:44 am
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My only odd cravings are Indian Naan Bread baked in a Clay Tandori Oven. It’s my new drug of choice.
August 24th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
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Years ago, I used to crave for licorice roots.
Over the years, they became less and less available, and I managed to lose the addiction… then:
Last week I was passing a shop, and saw some on sale… my craving, currently satisfied, is going to start all over again.
Eh eh eh.
August 25th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
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I liked to eat baking soda and chewed on paper like it was chewing gum.
August 27th, 2011 at 9:59 pm
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I still eat raw potatoes (not if they have any green on them).
I recall a craving for coal which I satisfied for years before giving it up.
I can understand Rita’s craving for tarmacadam as I used to follow the Tar Wagon but only for the smell which I found Irresistable.
I also loved the smell of new leather in a shoe shop.
August 28th, 2011 at 10:02 am
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i used to eat crisco. now grease is out. i was on chemo and wanted to have green turtle soup again but couldn’t find it even at the asian store. i also eat bone marrow and oxtails. i like beef tongue. all meat. what’s unusual about it?
August 29th, 2011 at 2:18 pm
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I remember when I was young - when many of my relatives had coal buckets - the little toddlers were always trying to chew on the coal.
My Granny always said their body was lacking something that was in coal.
I also remember some small children eating dirt.
Now when I think about it - as I’m writing this.
Were those little ones hungry?
What was the adults thinking of?
Did the little kiddles - really know they needed coal and thought - I think I’ll chew on a piece of coal and curb my craving? LOL
DeeJay. Probably chewed on coal - I wonder?
August 30th, 2011 at 6:44 am
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Hi hm, not since I was pregnant.
I would have been the one following Rita behind the tar wagon or licking a freshly painted wooden fence, yum. or stuck my nose right into a log burning fire….. oh bliss.
I still like the smell of pine logs on a fire but I don’t climb the walls anymore to get to one.
Yours sounds like a craving for carbohydrates which can often happen if you are used to a diet like mine which incorporates pastries and potato products.