I’ve mentioned this several times in these Fun on Friday columns, but the whole phenomenon of eating gold fascinates me.
Because, really, it’s kind of weird.
I eat shrimp because I love the taste of shrimp. I eat broccoli because at some point in the distant past. my mother convinced me it was good for me. I eat donuts because – well – donuts!
But why eat gold?
It has no taste. It has no nutritional value. And there is so much I can do with gold when it isn’t sitting in my gut or flushing through the sewer system.
Basically, people eat gold so they can tell other people they ate gold. I guess it’s some kind of status thing. But I have to be honest; if you walk up to me and say, ‘Hey Mike, I ate some gold,’ I’m going to give you a weird look and probably tell you, ‘Well, that was dumb.’
I can be rude like that.
But apparently, my attitude toward gold eating isn’t universal. Enough people want to eat gold to maintain a market for gold food. I don’t get it – but hey – go capitalism!
This post was published at Schiffgold on DECEMBER 29, 2017.