Lead and antimony are both sweet
Uranium is … spicy.
I know antimoney is sweet. That’s why I’m broke.
And orpiment (arsenic sulfide) tastes like garlic!
That’s the sulphur. I bet Na2S tastes like MSG on asteroids.
I’d bet that the high solubility would make it taste closer to burning plastic, with how much sulfur is in it and actively dissolving on your tongue.
Ok boomer
You do know you can watch movies older than yourself, right?
Woosh
Okay fetus and this wasn’t a boomer movie.
This was a millennial film. Boomers were parents when this film aired… Hell, so was a good portion of Gen X.
Yummy
Asbestos can be used by kids as chewing gum:
Wittenoom’s roads were paved with asbestos tailings from the nearby mines and workers went home covered in a layer of deadly dust.
Children played in the lethal mineral, and some even stuffed it in their mouths as a substitute for chewing gum.
I mean, ice is technically a mineral so, that’s at least two tasty rocks
I’m not a geologist so my explanation might not be 100% correct, but a mineral is a bunch of molecules set up in a crystalline pattern, so ice is a mineral form of water. Or, water is the lava of ice, ice being technically a rock.
That part tracks, nice!
Is it tasty, though?
You could freeze juice
Like lava but gets hard at 0°C instead of 1000+.
Hell yeah, brother, fight the system! Don’t let Big Geology tell you want to do! Eat those rocks!
Orpiment looks citrus-flavored, but when you lick it, it’s actually garlic-flavoured! These secrets have been hidden from us! Add crushed orpiment to your dishes instead of garlic!
Bro never smoked crack.
Been there done that. In ancient China, there was a psychoactive drug made out of five kinds of minerals.
MSG seems to be the even better rock
Try cinnabar
He gonna be disappointed until he tries crack rock
Reminder that Jan Zalasiewicz received an Ig Nobel price in 2023 “for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks.”
They’re minerals, Marie!
Full circle and back to the Paleolithic!
