[meteorite-list] Mars eaters

From: Erik Fisler <erikfwebb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:38:32 -0700
Message-ID: <COL119-W16D448F5EA10356DA8023AA4FF0_at_phx.gbl>

Just stay away from the NWA's or you might end up eating
a camel turd!
 
[Erik]

> From: vk3ukf at hotmail.com
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:54:33 +1000
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Mars eaters
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> Hi folks, this eating and tasting has been going on for a long time, I myself ate some Mars in the late 1980s or early 1990s in front of Tom the cactus/meteorite man at Springvale in Melbourne.
>
> Previously mentioned a couple of years ago.
>
> A lot of minerals have taste, and I like to use all my available senses if possible.
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> Kevin Forbes vk3ukf at hotmail.com
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> Hi, that's funny.
> I'm not so silly after all.
> ??
> Well, maybe I am, but,
> I ate some dust and crumbs that came from a bit Zagami some years ago, that
> I obtained from Rob Haag.
> I must admit to not noticing any differnce between normal Earth rock dirt
> taste and Zagami at all.
> It didn't have any Martian flavouring in it whatsoever, and I gave it a good
> suck too.
> Yes I do eat dirt and rocks occasionally, I like to see what all of my
> senses have to offer, when I'm looking at minerals, crystals and so on. Try
> tasting a small sample of a mineral called pickeringite, I found some about
> 50 miles from here at the end of an old gold mine drive. Slate with pyrites
> were the country rock.
> Just in case you can't find any, it's like allum. From memory, I think it's
> an hydrous iron sulphate.
>
> OOOoooooo........ <<<< My mouth when tasting pickeringite.
> Cheers, Kevin, VK3UKF.
>
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>
> So, is there now a name for folks that taste minerals.
> As you can see, I often suck rocks if I think there may be some indicator apart from rockish.
>
> If the sample contains salts, it will have flavour.
>
> I don't suck every rock I find or get, can't imagine giving cinnabar or saleeite or good lick.
>
> I missed the start of this thread, of to find it.
>
> Kevin.
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