I compost and a common practice is to throw a handful of your native soil into your pile when you start it, to inoculate it with local soil bacteria. Bacteria do most of the work in an active compost pile.

I wonder if people were getting some kind of gut flora benefit from this.

Cream of Wheat, not cream of meat.

I'd say it does a pretty good job. I hardly ever jack off while eating Cheerios in the morning.

There's always a reason, but it doesn't need to be entirely rational. Kellogg was a nut, but that's a different topic, no?

Then why are they called Apple Jacks?!

That's why I rub out a fat one first and THEN eat the cereal.

Yeah pour it in the trousers!

Pretty much all customs are culturally transmitted - that’s kind of the definition. But they’re not necessarily totally arbitrary either - there is often some other information that can be added beyond “they have learned to do it.”

You can buy edible dirt which is known to be safe.

Wait, what?