Haiti mud cookie

[JBC77]

Read an interesting story yesterday. One of the main food staples in Haiti is a cookie like wafer made from water, sand/dirt and flour. Imagine that. Eating dirt in the form of a cookie.

On another note. Why is it the U.S is vilified the world over yet we are the first ones to always hand out out tax money in the form of relief dollars when an international disaster occurs. Haiti will cost us 100 million this go around, like we can afford that. Just hand our money out. Maybe they should invest in some rebar and more sound construction materials after 12 hurricanes in the past five years....ya think?

Be nice if China, Saudi Arabia or some other schmuck country stepped up for once and bailed out the 3rd world once and a while when sh1t hits the fan....

[mmike032]

I see a show awhile back about some village in Africa where they ate mud.

[HotStreak]

I see a show awhile back about some village in Africa where they ate mud.

North Koreans have been known to eat tree bark, yet they are capable of building a nuclear missle.

[Willie Bee]

You guys ever stopped to study the minerals and even vitamins in dirt and bark? If you have a relative or friend who was alive and old enough to remember back to WWII and the rationing, ask them what their moms did with the skins/peels from things like potatoes, carrots, etc, the stuff most US households scrape off and throw away.

[HotStreak]

You guys ever stopped to study the minerals and even vitamins in dirt and bark? If you have a relative or friend who was alive and old enough to remember back to WWII and the rationing, ask them what their moms did with the skins/peels from things like potatoes, carrots, etc, the stuff most US households scrape off and throw away.

Cockroaches are a viable source of protein, but I do not eat them; although, I'm sure I have had my fill without my knowing. Thirsty sailors were known to drink their own piss out of desperation. People will go to extraordinary lengths in tough times. There may come a time in my life where I would cherish a mud cookie or a freshly shaved strip of tree bark.

For now, I see a great deal of sadness in the fact that North Korea can be a top 10 military power( a fruitless pursuit, as they are wedged on a continent with China, Russia, India, and Pakistan), yet their starving populace is eating tree bark.

Then again, phuk them.

[G's pks]

stop... you guys are making me hungry!

[pavyracer]

All the rebar and concrete in the world will not help them if they don't have engineers to design the buildings and contractors who know how to read drawings and build the buildings according to the specifications. And if a 7.0 earthquake hits downtown Charleston, SC half of the old city will be leveled.

[DwightShrute]

Read an interesting story yesterday. One of the main food staples in Haiti is a cookie like wafer made from water, sand/dirt and flour. Imagine that. Eating dirt in the form of a cookie.

On another note. Why is it the U.S is vilified the world over yet we are the first ones to always hand out out tax money in the form of relief dollars when an international disaster occurs. Haiti will cost us 100 million this go around, like we can afford that. Just hand our money out. Maybe they should invest in some rebar and more sound construction materials after 12 hurricanes in the past five years....ya think?

Be nice if China, Saudi Arabia or some other schmuck country stepped up for once and bailed out the 3rd world once and a while when sh1t hits the fan....

Ya it amazes me also.