Don't know if this was posted in past, but didn't want VNNers to miss out on a good laugh:

Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt
Rising Food Costs Force Haiti's Poor to Resort to Eating Dirt
By JONATHAN M. KATZ Associated Press Writer
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti January 29, 2008 (AP)

It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau.

......cookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal.

"When my mother does not cook anything (you know, when mommy be smokin' crack an sheeit), I have to eat them three times a day," Charlene said.

..... Dirt to make 100 cookies now costs $5,...."

(More at link)

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=4212012

Yum-yum! Hey, how's about a little Jenkem sniffing for dessert? Hooo-doggies! Good times are here again!