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28 July 2006
Licking pus spots is pretty gross . . . →[More:] however, if you add an 's', it's a totally different story.
Will I be socially outcast if I admit I've eaten (my own) scabs before?
Why did you eat them? I mean, they're basically just dried blood and...uh...some oozy stuff that dries to form a natural bandaid over your skin to protect it while it heals.
I've heard of kids eating their own scabs (and boogers) but have never done so myself. I think it's pretty gross, but really, it's just bodily goo and can't hurt you.
The idea of scab candy, however is really and truly disgusting.
Reminds me of the book "Feed" when lesions caused by the futuristic disintigrating environment become all the rage to cultivate and adorn.
Why can't kids stick to the candy of my youth? Pixie sticks and candy cigarettes.
I think there's some kind of primeval instinct to eat or at least examine one's own by-products. I would guess that 99.9% of people look into their handkerchief to examine the contents when they've blown their nose.
and I confess, I have in my time eaten a scab or a piece of skin, but only my own
I vividly remember a dream I had when I was about 9 years old. In it, I picked off a scab on my knee and ate a small piece of it. It tasted very sweet, like cake, and it turned out that it was the key to eternal youth, and I could live as a child as long as I could make the quarter-sized scab last.
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