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18 Apr 2008 06:23 pm
Eating Mud
Tyler Cowen highlights the following paragraphs from the NYT's coverage of the international food crisis:
In Haiti, where three-quarters of the population earns less than $2 a day and one in five children is chronically malnourished, the one business booming amid all the gloom is the selling of patties made of mud, oil and sugar, typically consumed only by the most destitute.
“It’s salty and it has butter and you don’t know you’re eating dirt,” said Olwich Louis Jeune, 24, who has taken to eating them more often in recent months. “It makes your stomach quiet down.”
Useful perspective as we obsess about polls in Pennsylvania.
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