Why some people eat 'dirt' - white kaolin clay

[@muczkapl]

"Mom, the neighbour is no longer at the cactus plant, he's eating clay in our backyard now"

[@KnightRaymund]

XD

[@NorroTaku]

"is he pouring white wine on it now?"

[@jermarule34]

First the plants, now the rocks... Someone better tell the wild animals in Macon to scatter before they get cooked into one of Adam's food experiments.

[@adog3129]

hahahaha

[@danparcalab6172]

Nice

[@lasercat538]

Finally, something I can make

[@jessem7838]

Me too

[@marc3llo243]

Same

[@xempire103]

LOL

[@-0__________________________0-]

Ha, wrong again! It's a special dirt! 'bout 4 bucks per oz.

[@jaydenslaptop]

Same

[@sugarpeas45]

My mom didn’t eat clay per se, but when she was pregnant with me, she said she had lots of cravings for “agua de barro” or water that been stored in earthen clay pots.

[@jeil5676]

How oddly specific.

[@menacetosociety9076]

mineral deficiency

[@walnutsandbeastiality866]

,,A white, powdery substance. That's what it's... all about." (Fred Gordon Herbert)

[@cinemaocd1752]

I have a friend who ate charcoal bits out of the fireplace when she was pregnant.

[@achannel1818]

I use the water from those pots for house plants. Noticeably improves growth

[@dwaynewladyka577]

A husband was asking his wife why the coffee he was drinking tasted like mud. The wife said she couldn't understand what the problem was. She said it was fresh ground this morning.

[@yourmother3207]

Funny joke grandpa

[@dwaynewladyka577]

@@yourmother3207 I'm not a grandpa, but am old enough to be one.

[@jermarule34]

Hahaha very nice

[@catlover4ever104]

yes i appreciate this joke

[@jnikolas7084]

Dad joke approved...you've done your country a great service [sniff, tear wipe].

[@רוןבלומרוזן]

Can we just take a minute to appreciate how good of a film maker Adam is, the shots of nature are just beautiful and he always shoots his videos with clear clean cuts

[@DrRiq]

Ken! Tov filmmaking

[@CuteLittleHen]

@@DrRiqAchla Filmmaking*. ;)

[@CuteLittleHen]

This is why I'm here. Love this guy.

[@Jimjamesjimhunter]

Would love to see him make a full length series, like a travel/ food show and they just let him research/talk about what he finds interesting in the region he's in

[@DamnZodiak]

I think it's all pretty basic tbh, though certainly not bad for a largely self-taught filmmaker. What I actually find impressive is how economical his production is. He gets good results with comparatively little effort all while keeping his style largely on theme.

[@StoneAndersonStudio]

You didn’t mention that Pepto Bismol contains clay to this day. They use bentonite, not kaolin, but it has the same stomach settling properties. If you take the pepto bismol pills and fire them in a kiln, they will turn into hard little brown pills of ceramic, rather than burning away completely like you might expect. Great video, thanks for sharing this!

[@bekirnazligul4414]

1:24 "..and all the sediments that the river are carrying just kinda goes BLLUUAUAHGUGH" 10/10 explanation lol

[@programmerpctheory1413]

I think he used the same expression in some pizza video of his with reference to dough

[@brianh2683]

It legitimately did a good job of helping me visualize what he was talking about tbh

[@Tannhauser42]

It's a technical term.

[@jawadmirza7050]

😂

[@marc3llo243]

Hahahaha

[@MRBoatwrights]

There is a ditch bank on the place I live that has a deposit of this white clay. When I was growing up in the 80s you would see black people parked beside the road digging out some of this clay. The neighbors to our place had a peach orchard that went back over a hundred years, there was 6 or 8 share croppers houses on that place. The peach orchard was gone except for a few scraggly trees and the old shacks by the time I came along. I would ask my Grandma why they where getting the dirt, she would say son those families have been eating the clay out of that bank all my life. Once my uncle who lived near the bank started pouring his slop out in the hole. My Grandma layed into him, she owned the land she told him those families have been eating the clay out of that bank all my life and they are going to keep getting it. I live in South Carolina and you would see people pulled over with nice clothes and newer model cars with New Jersey and New York licences plates getting clay to take back home with them they where raised on the peach orchard and moved up north for better opportunity but when they came back home to visit they always took a little of this clay back with them. I have not seen anyone getting clay in probably 10 years they must all be gone now. I was always facilitated by this but could never really get information other than "they been eating that clay all there lives and the mommas and daddies eat it".

[@mr.bluesky4130]

I heard that flattened dipthong at 0:02 , your southern accent is starting to grow in Mr. Ragusea

[@person9513]

wow, they grow up so fast

[@Jesse__H]

As a wise man once said (can't remember who), Geography is Destiny.

[@RyuuRider]

Haha, good catch!! For sure!

[@legochickenguy4938]

yeah you could hear it break in there

[@nyusufffff]

which word

[@rodmaknouni]

Some of the best writing I've ever seen, three years in and your scripts only seem to get better and better! Awesome vid btw :)

[@user-bx9nu8bt5e]

1. As a Chinese person, it’s so odd to hear this clay pronounced as “kay-oh-lin”. In Mandarin, it’s phonetically pronounced cow-lin. 2. These dirt cookies are unfortunately popular in Haiti and in other areas that are usually African in ethnicity and poverty-stricken. This habit can be an odd craving for some. For others, it’s a reality where they are left without choice. 3. Adam, wait till you hear about the Nordic sawdust cookies. Also, love how you take a holistic view of food and culture and how symbiotic they are. Cheers!

[@void9938]

yeah it's a common ingredient in skin care so i was really confused to hear his pronunciation. i'm also now really scared of those sawdust cookies lol.

[@absalomdraconis]

Having no Asian ancestry, I had also assumed it should be pronounced similarly to "cow-lin" (mostly I had wondered about the details of the "ao" bit). I'm vaguely curious how the overly segmented variation came to be.

[@user-bx9nu8bt5e]

@@absalomdraconis good for you! The best way I can put it is how you pronounce the “ou” in “South” as you do in cow. Though one can note that Mandarin is a tonal language, that’s as a close as you’re going to get without being pedantic. And yes! I’d love to know how the differing pronunciations came to be as well! I’ve only heard this alternative pronunciation in recent years (mostly from American channels). Especially in the western hemisphere, Kaolin clay has witnessed a rise as a base ingredient in what is deemed to be more high-end consumer goods such make up to skincare to soap products due its ability to exfoliate without being rough on the skin. Tracing its etymology and how it has changed should be obscure and interesting.

[@user-bx9nu8bt5e]

@@void9938 Haha! If you’re interested, Emmy made an informative video about these cookies.

[@99humz]

What tones it it pronounced in?

[@pasipanodya]

Great video! In Zimbabwe (where I'm from) some folks eat the red clay from termite mounds. Interesting to see it's a common practice around the world.

[@melonnelon855]

And we love it! 🥰

[@makutumafwa7496]

That might be part of their mineral binkoko( totems)...

[@tann_man]

Lmao whats with blacks and eating dirt?

[@obiomachukwuocha4918]

This might sound weird but can you do a video of how to properly/scientifically clean after cooking/eating? How to wash dishes, basically. Should you soak? should you rinse/drain your sponge with cold water? When should you use an iron sponge? Do you have to use soap if there's only cookie crumbs on the plate? Etc.

[@Falcodrin]

By iron sponge I assume you are referring to what I would call steel wool. That's quite different from my area. Where are you from?

[@spazzCAPP]

@@Falcodrin i also thought that was odd, so I googled it. Looks like an "iron sponge" is those really dense, regularly patterned steel wool made by Scotchbrite. Not quite the same as steel wool, but pretty close.

[@justinjacobson7495]

PLEASE! This man has been commenting this for several videos at this point. Many people would benefit from it, even more so than the normal food science videos.

[@TheArbieo]

This sounds perfect for this channel so +1

[@sumojack99]

we want the video mr. ragusea

[@NickSquaredTV]

Stay tuned for Thursday's video- Brownies with the perfect Kaolin skin

[@ronnickels5193]

And next week, lasagna with Kaolin instead of ricotta cheese

[@syafsanai]

0:12 "A Dad ate 25 Packs of White Dirt for breakfast. This is what happened to his GI tract." "AR is a ** year old man, presenting to the emergency room..." Meanwhile on another channel: "I DRY AGED steaks in WHITE DIRT and this happened!"

[@ps1hagrid424]

Now this is funny.

[@sagarkathuria8194]

hahahahahahaha

[@rottis5042]

dirt-emia

[@xp_studios7804]

I think he's 38

[@_BigSoap_]

@@rottis5042 dirt meaning dirt and emia meaning presence in blood

[@haydennorris2913]

Adam had to go take his camera out to some place in the woods where he found a clay deposit then set up his camera and film himself picking out a piece of dirt and eating it

[@Nik.No.K]

No he was eating pieces of the clay he bought online...

[@adog3129]

@@Nik.No.K it's a shot towards the end

[@jimmeh213]

All just to educate us. What did you do today?

[@vmd4350]

From the rural south- my grandmother used to eat clay. I never saw her do it but she would tell me stories of how she would drive around digging and looking for the right stuff.

[@Wizard4k]

Imagine daring ur friend to eat dirt and they reply “Sorry I just had breakfast”

[@AxxLAfriku]

I like people with long brain. I have long amount of disl*kes btw. Why? Maybe people with short brain disl*ke because jealous of my long amount of subscr*bers. Please have long brain, dear wi

[@vivianliu752]

@@AxxLAfriku r/ihadastroke

[@vivianliu752]

@@decarmo I'm 99% sure he just spams the auto fill button every single time he writes a comment literally anywhere

[@eikosimino5579]

@@AxxLAfriku go away

[@DrRiq]

Man imagine being in one of Adam's classes while he used to teach. Would have been such a blast. I bet his old students miss him!

[@andreafelix1256]

I wasn’t his student, but I do go to a college in Macon. I must say that we are greatly appreciative for the few professors like him in a region full of intense ignorance.

[@SharockoRAZR]

@@andreafelix1256 Ignorant about what?

[@HeyhitmeBAM]

@@andreafelix1256 ?

[@NOOBCRASTINATOR69]

​@@SharockoRAZRI'm guessing about how schools and colleges are basically factories now, there are few amazing teachers left that don't see students as a product to be finished but as people with feelings and mind of their own... i had this teacher in 8th, she was the ONLY teacher i ever met who was like this, I'll remember her, she sas so impartial and she was our second mum ( 52 students )..but after that teachers just talk sh*t about us, its so sad! I once heard one of my teachers saying 'If one child is good in a batch, you can't really do anything, just let the time go by and hope u get better students next year and I cried..i went there with so many expectations and they just rejected us and got a different batch for JUST 8 students out of 45... we were all depressed for months, some students stopped coming, we're now a batch of 40 students... it's just spine chilling to see some amphibians be more affectionate than our teachers

[@zaemic7661]

title: "why some people eat dirt" me on my second bowl of soil: only some people?

[@Yourlocalbush]

I e a t. l I t e r a l. r o o t s. s o m e t I m e s

[@james13sylar]

@@Yourlocalbush I mean, roots are at least plants, we eat lots of those. The only mineral we ate regularly is salt, and it is usually just a pinch.

[@juliusnepos6013]

@@james13sylar yeah

[@lappolappo3]

what

[@tandinh1222]

@@Yourlocalbush potato

[@daiinginside9845]

that was the fastest, smoothest, and most surprising ad transition yet.

[@JohnBodoni]

Incredible, wasn't it? The video's gonna end soon so you know it's coming any moment now, but damn me if he doesn't clobber us from a different direction each time. Complete mastery of the medium.

[@williamtakacs7466]

When my kid was about 2, I would occasionally find him in the garden "sampling" the soil. It always made me laugh thinking to myself "Son, you got a weird sense of taste." Glad to know it's not entirely unheard of behaviour. I just chalked it up to curiosity (see what I did there).

[@raystinger6261]

I gotta say, Adam is a really good journalist. That script and its delivery was impeccable.

[@laughterismymedicine-]

I eat kaolin… everything you said is true! I tend not to tell anyone mostly cuz it seems weird/gross/strange. As a child I craved chalk, the smell was intoxicating. When I learned about and tried Kaolin this past year, I was amazed at the flavor (first rain smell) and texture like cream. Yet, I do appreciate the reminder of potential health issues, and should probably quit eating it.

[@n8dawg640]

Just graduated with a B.S. in geology. I can’t agree more; go rocks!

[@averagejoey2000]

Culinary Geology

[@hussainattai4638]

Bullshit in Geology lol

[@IndicaEnjoyer420]

@@hussainattai4638 thats what i thought lmao

[@arpitdas4263]

Jesus Christ Marie,they're minerals!

[@somenerd..]

Someone can get the 69th like

[@galier2]

My wife who is from Gabon eats regularly her kaolin. You can buy it here in France easily in Asia/Africa shops. My wife prefers the pink kaolin to the white one. I tried it once or twice but don't get the appeal. It tastes like it sounds and reminds the school days when one sometime tasted the chalk from the fingers.

[@mirk9789]

This was so goddamn interesting. Never in my life did I think people actually ate clay. I was blown away when you showed the amazon review for it- like it was such a common, normal practice. Great stuff

[@xikitsune._]

Adam would be such a good teacher. His voice and the way that he explains whatever topic he's talking about makes me want to learn so much. He's so entertaining by just talking and I love that so much.

[@KyleP133]

He was a professor before youtube. I agree with you!

[@xikitsune._]

@@KyleP133 yeah :)

[@dishingout3636]

Adam, your Monday videos are always awesome. This one was a stand out. Combining food, geology, anthropology and geography is truly remarkable. I learned a ton and was entertained.

[@glaucosimoes9450]

Adam makes one of the most informative and interesting videos on the internet, while still keeping it close to food and health.

[@kristenpup1769]

thanks for making this video! I keep getting ads for eating dirt to "lose weight" which is quite annoying, so thanks for explaining why people even eat dirt in the first place! It's very useful information :)

[@sproga_265]

The drone footage was an excellent addition! Made the geography stuff much easier to follow

[@dageshi]

In Thailand one of the popular and readily available antacid tablets has Kaolin in it. I remember one day I suddenly desperately needed to eat some, one of those times when suddenly you just know "I gotta eat this now". I did and suddenly felt better. Dunno what mineral I needed but those antacid tablets had it.

[@absalomdraconis]

May have been similar to food poisoning instead. Both clays and charcoal have very fine-grained structures, which lets them bind to comparatively large amounts of stuff. This is both why they used to be used as treatments for poisoning, and why they're used for filtration today. Clay is also supposedly useful for stabilizing acidity.

[@fluidthought42]

@@absalomdraconis It's certainly strange, after even pepto-bismo is basically a solution of clay who's mechanism of action for relieving the stomach isn't really understood well. But we know it works, so we use it

[@starlakelsey2782]

My mother owned a dry cleaners in the 1960s. I can still recall her mentioning some of her workers brought in clay to eat. As an aside...she had problems keeping starch. The workers would also eat that while working. She saw them take it out and put in their mouth so I have no reason to doubt that.

[@Falcodrin]

There was a lady on my strange addiction that would eat cornstarch

[@EmptyCheetosBag]

Monday’s and Thursday’s at 2:00PM is the best time of the week.

[@UBdoritos]

i agree

[@kashmir1225]

well in my place its 2am. still the best time of the week

[@isabellacarlo]

1:00pm central time!

[@arnefehm4926]

It's 8pm here

[@notverysur3rightnow145]

What’s that British time

[@48Boxer]

I grew up in Aiken not too far from you. Most of the time people think I say I'm "From Macon" not "From Aiken". Anyway, swimming in kaolin mines was a good time. Water was surreal looking

[@Ghost_Fenrir]

Can’t wait for a recipe for this, I'll leave my rocks marinating overnight just in case.

[@MrNeosantana]

I can imagine him dissolving a small chunk in water and using it to bake bread

[@Ghost_Fenrir]

@@MrNeosantana *white wine

[@piteoswaldo]

@@Ghost_Fenrir Dirt impregnated white wine.

[@KyleP133]

Season your cutting board, not your rocks.

[@mememachine2586]

Damn, Adam for real releasing a video a day. Not to mention they are all top quality.

[@kb24072001]

not really a video a day, there's a video every monday and thursday with sometimes a sponsored video on weekends, that's his schedule.

[@chickennugger6029]

we do this a lot in ghana, when taking it home it looks a lot like ungrounded cocaine before we break it out and start chowing down

[@EnigmaticLucas]

Makes me wonder if it spread to the US via slaves from western Africa

[@kuimwangi1022]

We do the same in East Africa!

[@julianbassk]

in haiti they do the same

[@ingwerschorle_]

reject wagyu, return to dirt

[@deemo8578]

Nature takes the easiest route - this is a perfect video explaining how we are still part of nature and not above it.

[@mblind]

Kaolin is also what makes glossy magazine paper, glossy. You know, in the before times, back when 'magazines' made of 'glossy paper' were a huge part of what people read on a weekly/monthly basis. (the clay content is also why a stack of magazines forgotten in a leaky basement will become a solid mass of ick after exposure to water)

[@Scott-tq7ko]

One point should have been made: not only was kaolin one of the prime ingredients in Kaopectate, but (as a component of porcelain) it was also used to make toilet bowls--a wonderful bit of symmetry while it lasted.

[@willdwyer6782]

These days the active ingredients in Kaopectate are essentially the same as Pepto-Bismol. They changed the recipe in 1989. A generic version of the original formula is still sold in bulk for treating diarrhea in cattle, which is caused by rotavirus, coronavirus, or cryptosporidium infections.

[@TheFloatingSheep]

My grandma used to put that kind of clay but reddish-brown, in a big jar of water and we'd drink the water on the bottom of which this clay would sit. I'm Romanian btw.

[@murrayr1495]

you never seem to run out of ideas for videos and im glad

[@Axeloy]

I’m a huge nerd for these geography/food videos, I’d love to see more!

[@ShadowOfTheZone]

The flooded clay mines make excellent freshwater diving parks for those that don't live close to the ocean and do not enjoy the dark green waters of lakes!

[@torterrabite]

When kids (commonly) eat dirt, clay, ice or other non edible things, it could be due to an iron (sometimes zinc) deficiency, it’s called pica!

[@singerofsongs468]

EDIT: I typed this up right after watching the intro to this video. Smh, great minds, huh? Kaolin clay is also the type of clay needed to make porcelain! It’s widely available throughout the world, but it took Europe literally centuries to figure out how those beautiful porcelain sets explorers brought back from Asia were so delicate yet strong. Love, your friendly neighborhood materials science major.

[@absalomdraconis]

Porcelain requires very high temperatures to produce, much higher than stoneware, much less earthenware. Further, if I recall correctly, it specifically liquifies, and thus requires molds that can sufficiently survive that same heat. So, it was difficult for much the same reason as glass, which itself was nowhere near as widely produced as it is today.

[@remy7663]

I used to think my country's (Indonesia) food was very unique, especially when compared to the only other styles of food I knew: Japanese, Chinese, European and American. That's only until I discover foods from places with similar GEOGRAPHY, like South American, African and some South Indian. We pretty much use the same spices that result to similar palattes, just different methods of prep. Some foods even share the same name!

[@revimfadli4666]

On the other hand, think of how Indonesians & Mexicans weird each other out with their respective uses of avocado lol. Doubly hilarious when Indonesians get puzzled by guacamole, but not rujak Like bruh you dip fruits in sambal, and you think avocado chili is weird?

[@remy7663]

@@revimfadli4666 True, we use the same ingredients because the same things grow in the same *geology* . Even the way we use our hands to eat (using it like a spoon) is so similar 😂😂😂. The only unique thing with Indonesian food is the seafood, because there isn't really other tropical countries with as much tropical sea exposure as Indonesia.

[@absalomdraconis]

@@remy7663 : There are fairly few countries with comparable sea coverage at all.

[@remy7663]

@@absalomdraconis like? the only other i know is philipines which is our neighbour. i'd love to know their tropical seafood recipes. everytime i look up seafood recipes online they always use fish which are uncommon here in the tropics.

[@valvenator]

@@remy7663 According to Google Indonesia consists of more than seventeen thousand islands (?!!) Makes me wonder how many miles of costal land all that adds up to. Edit: just looked it up, 50,000 costal miles. In comparison the US has 95, 471. BTW, I'm a bit curious, why is fish uncommon in the tropics?

[@grimcrafterra2691]

This has gotta be one of the best videos you've ever made!

[@ChupiesWorld]

The crossover between my geology degree and my passion for cooking that I didn't expect yet didn't know I needed

[@thehangmansdaughter1120]

I'm a soap maker and I use kaolin and other clays in soap and body products. It softens and settles upset or dry kin, especially in young children and the elderly.

[@heysemberthkingdom-brunel5041]

In Upper Palatinate there is a kaolin mining operation (the region was an early center of western porcellain-making) they also produce a lot of spoils, largely in the form of quartzite - so they have heaped it up into a mountain known as "Monte Kaolino" where you can even go skiing...

[@tractordaddy4223]

I like how we question why some people eat 'dirt', but we all except the fact that we consume salt. They're both minerals.

[@shibasarekewl7704]

We eat iron as well

[@losername4402]

sounds like someone is a dirt eater

[@HuevoBendito]

To be fair, salt is water soluble and its constituent elements are required in our diet. We don't need clay to survive.

[@tractordaddy4223]

@@HuevoBendito True

[@RickybobbyWoW]

Sorry but dirt (i.e. soil) is absolutely not a mineral. It may contain them, but dirt in the traditional sense is not a mineral. This clay mixture can be nicknamed dirt (which isn't accurate) is probably a mineral though.

[@Thejigholeman]

this brings a whole new meaning to the term "rock candy"

[@heartminer5487]

Kaolin = Khao-Lingh = 高岭. Kaolin is used to make the best ceramic.

[@krankarvolund7771]

It's cool to give the etymology, but not veryone speak chinese, if you don't translate, what is the purpose? ^^' Kao Lingh means "High hills" and it was just the name of a kaolin mine in China XD

[@buildingaction5670]

Another upload! You're really treating us this week Adam!

[@nysportsfan31]

Me: just chilling in class. My phone: People eat dirt

[@dylndaviln3091]

Hey kid... wanna eat D I R T

[@wolfgang4488]

White people did not just simply "abduct" Black people from Africa. never is it that simple. Large European powers were not involved in the slave trade. Slavery was outlawed in Europe, frowned both ethically andys religiously. It only take place between independent businesses men, and African kings. Who sold other tribes, of black people that they conquered. Its an important distinction to make. And yes I believe slavery is wrong.

[@absalomdraconis]

The powers that had lots of slave traders (I am thinking particularly of the English) _also_ spent a long time not particularly enforcing those laws against the slave traders. The average European power didn't engage in the grinding of grain, but neither did they _condemn_ it, they just regulated it because it could be involved in tax evasion.

[@iFedericoFellini]

But it’s much easier making the claim white people abducted black people because it’s a powerful rhetoric of those uneducated and left-leaning. Who cares about history when you can virtue-signal your way through such an important video!

[@ToaNyroc]

beautiful video. love the intersectionality.

[@jonathansiagian2729]

Fun fact: if someone puts "Fun fact" in front of a comment, people will read the whole comment.

[@nunaoooo]

In Haiti, they eat clay biscuits, literally made with just clay and salt, and dried in the sun. They eat because of the poverty conditions where they have no food available. I’m not sure it’s beneficial for anyone’s health though.

[@antoniososa2798]

I have faith that there will come a day when Adam finally does a video making pozole

[@sweaterheather1260]

AHHH I love pozole 💓💓🤤

[@yuddpudd]

I’ve been waiting for a video making pozole too, especially since the pork mole video

[@ThomDeWit]

After seeing this video it won’t shock me if he makes Podzol instead

[@RohanPersaud815]

Yea

[@Mnemozin]

Now we need Adam to make cooking recipe with kaolin clay.

[@onikwa]

If anyone is wondering the type of social science that Adam is demonstrating in this video with the "geography is destiny" thing is called "historical materialism"

[@lliasnaoumin5414]

An Adam Ragusea - Doug Demuro collab would break the meme internet

[@kayburcky7146]

To me (a german who literally lives 15min away from the next local Kaolin Mine) this is completely incredible... To me this is literally the same stuff (or just another color of it) which Is used for Pottery.... And in it's un-.... pottered form it is like really dirty (pun intended), nobody would eat that stuff voluntarily over here....

[@austindersch]

This is a beautiful example of how both the natural and social sciences are intertwined, something that I feel most people learn far too late in life!

[@hwwof]

Boooo! That ad transition was so smooth it caught me off guard. Well played. Great video!

[@TheBiomedZed]

I normally heavily prefer Adam's food/cooking/recipe videos and often forgo his more research orientated ones, not becuase they are bad but it's just not what I'm interested in. But for some reason I clicked on this one and it really grabbed me. This was really great and interesting to watch, please never stop doing what you're doing.

[@Boroda4Gaming]

instructions unclear, Geography is a choice

[@trikers471]

It wasn't always so. He even explains how in the video

[@oisinbergin5292]

@@trikers471 no

[@hotrodmercury3941]

My grandmother used to tell me when she lived in Georgia and was growing up there. That she would smell the rain and the clay would smell so delicious when it rained, she would sit there and eat it.

[@a_little_disquised1101]

I love to eat this stuff, my mom would always scold me when I ate this but recently she felt like eating it for some reason and she now understands why I eat it but she keeps telling me it’s bad for my health . But I just can’t stop

[@absalomdraconis]

Cut back on the amounts. It binds to just about anything, including necessary minerals, so it gradually "purifies" you to ill health. If you take mineral & vitamin supplements regularly for a few days after then it _shouldn't_ be an issue, but doing it in meaningful amounts on a regular basis is asking for trouble.

[@brianh2683]

I knew the ad break had to be coming at the end and it still got me

[@eyebrowsGreg]

"Why I season my ROCKS, NOT my food"

[@geffern]

Love how you delve into your own suburban American culture as though you're living amidst an ancient Mayan civilization. Teaches us all a little of respecting your surroundings. I grew up in rural Ohio, moved to New York City for 5 years, but have been back for about a year, and have found a new respect for the people of my little town more than ever, in large part from videos like yours.

[@PurajitMalalur]

your shoots and edits are insane now. congratulations, dude

[@emrazum]

People don't talk about geology enough, great video

[@davidcarbone3385]

Awesome vid! I read the really poor folks in Haiti eat clay pancakes baked in the sun near or on the shore. The clay has minerals, etc but also bacteria so it's a double edged sword for them.

[@fruitylerlups530]

A lot of them cook it iirc. Still not good to eat but haiti is poor af

[@sanogoadamagyram8166]

I am from Ivory Coast (west Africa) and one of my aunt use to have a lot of Kaolin for her skincare one day when I was around 7 years old one of my older cousin dared me to eat it and I did. After that I thought I could eat all type of dirt (spoiler alert I was wrong)!!

[@timvvs]

No one: The pre-roll ad: Im about to drink some mud

[@littlecrookedhouse]

Thanks for bringing back a memory. I ate kaolin as a child, even though my diet was more than adequate. Not eaten in large amounts, or often. But I still remember the distinctive taste and mouthfeel. For some reason, I'd like a little baggie of white clay to nibble on.

[@justinmayhew6848]

This is one of my favourite channels on youtube. Just by doing videos on what he is interested in, Adam makes every video thought provoking and interesting. Keep up the great work

[@tobiashansen3546]

"Why I season my porcelain, not my dinner"

[@shannondore]

😆🤣

[@valvenator]

Now that has to be the best "Why I season my..." lines ever. It's actually funny :)

[@guntorosaputra9082]

In some regions in Indonesia, people make snacks out of clay. They made them into sticks and bake them. Never tried one tho.

[@fifzeppelin]

I've never wanted to eat dirt more in my entire life after watching this.

[@whitedirtlady5079]

Are you interested in buying some white dirt? I sell it.

[@dragojuice8716]

Admittedly saying: "Manifest Destiny" is a lot cooler than saying: "Get Land."

[@HayTatsuko]

"Scrappy-ass pine trees" and "rolling hills" sounds exactly like my old stomping grounds in west-central Alabama, with squadrons of Turkey Vultures ( _Cathartes aura_ ) cruising around on thermals for scenic flair. 4:28 I've never heard of the fall line before, but Choctaw and Sumter Counties in Alabama are definitely part of this "Black Belt" graphic -- the two westernmost shown in Alabama. Lived in the pair for 22 years, about half my life.

[@mellowwild]

The Choctaw are black indigenous. Most of the people in the "Black Belt" are. Many were sent to West Africa or were driven out by the Trail of Tears. My tribe, the Cusabo, stayed. History is not told truthfully, I'm afraid.

[@HayTatsuko]

@@mellowwild It definitely was not taught truthfully in the almost exclusively -white private schools I attended in the 1970s and 80s.

[@thedrunkenpilot]

In central Mexico we eat "piedra de San Juan" St. John's stone. That and "pinole" are fun dry dry things to eat as a kid. Cause its kooky to eat. PS my mother use to scratch bricks and eat the dust when she was pregnant with me. It is indeed a mineral deficiency that prompts a pregnant woman to eat it.

[@muhilan8540]

3 minutes in this is already a fascinating video

[@dancesinblood]

Another thing to mention when it comes to the Piedmont and Coastal Plain regions here: gnats. Several species of gnats reproduce in the sandy soil, thus the "Gnat Line" is another geological phenomenon

[@ericsimmons9897]

Hey Adam I was wondering if you could make a video comparing grain fed vs grass fed cows. How that affects the environment, health of consumer and much more.

[@MeatyM]

Definitely one of your best videos, good job Adam.

[@arealhuman3677]

That’s interesting, here in bandar Abbas we have a really special paste or sauce that has fish bones and dirt in it, it’s blood red and it’s rich with iron. In the Hormuz island, there is a huge part of the land that is completely filled with this red dirt

[@SipheDlamini]

Here in South Africa pregnant women in many tribes (like the Zulu) crave this and we call it MCAKO. many claim not to know why they crave it. We also apply it on the face to protect against the hard sun.

[@sanjeethmahendrakar]

Tekking101: Geography is Everything Adam Ragusea: Geography is Destiny Me: I'm starting to see a pattern here...

[@mohammadrifqisatriamas7311]

back in Indonesia, some of ours eat dirt, though is not that white substance, it's called ampo, it's kinda brown to black in color Ampo is made with special clay which is shaped in such a way and then dried and baked. i never eat that though so I don't know what it taste like

[@Aetheried]

Came for the dirt, stayed for the profound message