Born in the southern US. Great grandparents were dairy farmers in AL. Doesn’t get much more rural southern.
Asked my family about this. My granddad had heard that people existed who did this when he was a child (~1940’s-50’s?) but never saw it nor heard of it since. Nobody else had heard of it at all.
I’m sure it must’ve happened, but I don’t think it was as ubiquitous as the wording here makes it seem.
(Also learned of a family member who ate dirt as a young child, but this was despite the wishes of everyone around him 😂)
Born in the southern US. Great grandparents were dairy farmers in AL. Doesn’t get much more rural southern.
Asked my family about this. My granddad had heard that people existed who did this when he was a child (~1940’s-50’s?) but never saw it nor heard of it since. Nobody else had heard of it at all.
I’m sure it must’ve happened, but I don’t think it was as ubiquitous as the wording here makes it seem.
(Also learned of a family member who ate dirt as a young child, but this was despite the wishes of everyone around him 😂)