Picking your nose and eating it. Yum

brokenarms · 10-05-2013 4:08am #1

So.

It turns out that snacking between meals might be good for you.
Best not clip those nails. A longer nail is a handy, more efficient snot catcher.

How do you eat yours?

An associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Saskatchewan, Scott Napper, says there could very well be health benefits to that most icky of icky habits: picking our noses and eating it.

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/picking-your-nose-could-be-good-for-you-says-sask-scientist-1.1255167#ixzz2SrLh0LYt

http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/picking-your-nose-could-be-good-for-you-says-sask-scientist-1.1255167

kneemos · 10-05-2013 7:06am

Sounds plausible,on the other hand it's incredable there hasn't been a snot joke in the last three hours.

10-05-2013 7:10am

Sounds like nonsense to me. The fact is all of us eat most of the contents of our nose already. And our ears.

The Ears and nose all have drainage into the back of the throat and from there into the stomach.

So what benefit doing this manually could possibly bring is beyond me to guess at.

Schnitzel Muncher · 10-05-2013 7:16am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Sounds like nonsense to me. The fact is all of us eat most of the contents of our nose already. And our ears.

The Ears and nose all have drainage into the back of the throat and from there into the stomach.

So what benefit doing this manually could possibly bring is beyond me to guess at.

It's the crusty stuff thy has all the goodness. The stuff that doesn't drain.

So flicking snot balls at someone is actually doing them a favour.

shedweller · 10-05-2013 7:19am

One of my kids wont eat his vegetables but will quite happily sit there and eat snots! Go figure!

Uriel. · 10-05-2013 7:20am

I'd eat them but I'm watching my calorie and fat intake at the moment. Maybe next year

Liam McPoyle · 10-05-2013 7:21am

Mmmm,schalty.

gramar · 10-05-2013 7:25am

Snot something I'm considering doing at the moment but you never know.

Catphish · 10-05-2013 7:39am

Nasal mucous traps germs and stops them from getting into our lungs, Napper says, but it’s possible that if we eat the mucous, exposure to those germs could actually help build immunity.

I feel sick

kneemos · 10-05-2013 8:25am

shedweller wrote: »

One of my kids wont eat his vegetables but will quite happily sit there and eat snots! Go figure!

Obvious answer is to mix snot with the veg.

10-05-2013 8:31am

Saw a woman doing this last week in my local Dunnes car park.

She had a slightly different technique. She picked as normal, found one, looked at it for a brief second before consuming.

She obvious has certain types she enjoys.

Festy · 10-05-2013 8:33am

I pick but I don't eat,I flick....like a boss

brokenarms · 10-05-2013 8:38am

You could mixe it with Alpen in the morning.
Thats full of all sorts of healthy stuff.

It would be like finding a nice chewy raisin.

IM0 · 10-05-2013 8:43am

kneemos wrote: »

Obvious answer is to mix snot with the veg.

or veg with the snot

Cody Pomeray · 10-05-2013 8:45am

Years ago when I was a kid, a friend could make me wretch on demand with the most disgustiing mental image I've had in my whole life.

There was this town alcoholic and he used to cycle a bicycle and he smelled of stale piss and looked like he hadn't washed in years.

Anyway we used to play that "would you rather..." game, and my friend used to say would you rather suck another lad off, or would you rather eat a bowl of ******'s snot with a spoon

I still feel queasy thinking about it. But of course the answer always had to be eat a bowl of ******'s snot... and I don't know why the spoon makes it worse but it does.

Why did I start that story I feel queasy.

hardCopy · 10-05-2013 8:47am

IM0 wrote: »

or veg with the snot

Pick your nose with a carrot

Cantona's Collars · 10-05-2013 8:55am

I'm dying with a head cold for the last few days,my problem is getting the snot out of my body.How the hell can so much of it be produced? I clear my nose and literally minutes later it's bunged up with the stuff again.
If anybody wants to pig out,I could supply jars of the stuff.

IM0 · 10-05-2013 8:58am

hardCopy wrote: »

Pick your nose with a carrot

scallion will work alot better, or better yet a raw stick of spaghetti

IM0 · 10-05-2013 9:00am

zerks wrote: »

I'm dying with a head cold for the last few days,my problem is getting the snot out of my body.How the hell can so much of it be produced? I clear my nose and literally minutes later it's bunged up with the stuff again.
If anybody wants to pig out,I could supply jars of the stuff.

the body does that to 'flush' out the germs

just like the way it boils you with fever to kill some virus' too