Let them eat dirt!

Gastronomists continually present us with an amazing array of new things to eat. Occasionally disgusting, but now they may have gone too far. Restaurants are serving, and patrons are consuming edible dirt. This is a practice known as geophagy. Dirt is more or less a side dish to accompany your vegetables. Makes sense since eggs come from birds and we eat both. Vegetables come from dirt, so logically we should eat both. There was an old expression about eating dirt that may have been impetus for this new development. I hope not, because there is also an expression about eating shit. One day McDonalds may be offering "Crappy Meals", possibly including a toy dog inside. It's always nice to know where your food comes from.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2019612,00.html