In Tuban, a village in the East Java province of Indonesia, earth is used to make 'ampo', a creamy snack believed to have medicinal properties. People in Tuban look for clean, gravel-free soil, in the village's rice paddies, pound it into a solid block, using a stick, and scrape rolls out of it,with a bamboo dagger.
The rolls of soils are then baked and smoked for an hour. Tuban is the only earth-eating village on the planet. There are people, around the world, who enjoy eating sand, or kaolin, but not baked soil. Villagers believe ampo is a natural pain-killer, and that it makes babies' skin softer, if eaten by their pregnant mothers.
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