thedutchiedutch Posted April 3, 2014 #1 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Meet the Indian man hoping to find fame and fortune by showcasing his unusual appetite for eating bricks. Pakkirappa Hunagundi suffers from a rare eating disorder and says he is addicted to eating only bricks, gravel and mud. ‘I only like mud and bricks, nothing else,’ ‘I will eat it because it is my habit. I need it every day. I can’t stop. ‘My mother asks me not to eat it, but I won’t stop. Even if you give me fried chicken, I want mud at any cost.’ The 30-year-old has been eating bricks since the age of ten. He now eats up to one brick a day and three kilos of mud and gravel to fulfill his craving. It is believed he suffers from a condition known as Pica, the persistent eating of non-food items with no nutritional value. Link to full article : http://metro.co.uk/2014/04/02/pakkirappa-hunagundi-pica-sufferer-addicted-to-eating-bricks-4686201/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post freetoroam Posted April 3, 2014 Popular Post #2 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Does this mean he $hits bricks? 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theotherguy Posted April 3, 2014 #3 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Yes, yes, it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendy Demon Posted April 4, 2014 #4 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Isn't there a condition that compels people to eat non-food items? It simply is not normal to eat that all the time and I doubt anyone can exist on just mud and clay. Sorry but I do not accept all of it at face value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theotherguy Posted April 4, 2014 #5 Share Posted April 4, 2014 I suspect he eats more traditional food products in addition to his geophagy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolarPlexus Posted April 4, 2014 #6 Share Posted April 4, 2014 there are people who live on sunlight and air so I see why not earth too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted April 4, 2014 #7 Share Posted April 4, 2014 there are people who live on sunlight and air so I see why not earth too Are you referring to Breatharians? http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/edible-innovations/breatharian.htm Hope not, cos this is not safe, as this article will show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendy Demon Posted April 4, 2014 #8 Share Posted April 4, 2014 there are people who live on sunlight and air so I see why not earth too We are not plants, we do not derive our m\nourishment via photosynthesis. We are animals, more precisely, we are mammals and get our sustenance from food. We cannot extract the nutrients we need from eating buckets of dirt so..I think this article if rife with bovine expulsions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickian Posted April 4, 2014 #9 Share Posted April 4, 2014 I have a feeling he'll need dentures sooner than most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustTerri Posted April 4, 2014 #10 Share Posted April 4, 2014 When I was pregnant my doctor asked if I craved clay or dirt...I looked at him like he had three eyes... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Smoke aLot Posted April 4, 2014 #11 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Oh, he does same damn thing that many kids do. And he goes public with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast Posted April 4, 2014 #12 Share Posted April 4, 2014 I was never a friend of indian food. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rlyeh Posted April 4, 2014 #13 Share Posted April 4, 2014 there are people who live on sunlight and air so I see why not earth too The only real ones doing this end up dead. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendy Demon Posted April 4, 2014 #14 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Oh, he does same damn thing that many kids do. Yeah but most kids don't make daily meals out of it. After a few mud cakes they're pretty much done with it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
:PsYKoTiC:BeHAvIoR: Posted April 4, 2014 #15 Share Posted April 4, 2014 I will call him... the Human Cement Mixer! Patent pending. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiffSplitkins Posted April 4, 2014 #16 Share Posted April 4, 2014 I almost went on the same diet after eating my ex-wife's "home cooking" for the first time. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldethyl Posted April 5, 2014 #17 Share Posted April 5, 2014 Yuck. I bet he saves on the grocery bill, but the house is falling apart. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplos Posted April 5, 2014 #18 Share Posted April 5, 2014 Isn't Pica usually caused by an iron deficiency? Give the guy some vitamin pills and he'll be back to normal maybe. Not sure how he expects to make money with this... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taniwha Posted April 5, 2014 #19 Share Posted April 5, 2014 Not sure how he expects to make money with this... Busking perhaps? Surely any money he can raise will just go to feed his habit. Addiction is a vicious cycle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted April 6, 2014 #20 Share Posted April 6, 2014 Yuck. I bet he saves on the grocery bill, but the house is falling apart. Hope he doesn`t move into a wooden hut...he would starve to death. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Smoke aLot Posted April 7, 2014 #21 Share Posted April 7, 2014 Yeah but most kids don't make daily meals out of it. After a few mud cakes they're pretty much done with it. heheh true but its same habbit, kids stop doing it at some point but this guy... He is the master of dirt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted April 12, 2014 #22 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Mmmmm, eat dirt, a billion earthworms can't all be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ancient astronaut Posted April 12, 2014 #23 Share Posted April 12, 2014 CRAZY with a capital K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGirl Posted April 12, 2014 #24 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Does this mean he $hits bricks? best post on the thread right here folks! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashyne Posted April 12, 2014 #25 Share Posted April 12, 2014 I can understand why bricks and mud are so delicious. That sticky crunchiness of wet sand, like chocolate-dipped wafers, and the hard brick melting in the mouth as you chew and grind it against your teeth like eating hard-crusted bread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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