Haitian Mud Pies: Video

In Cite Soleil, people make and eat mud pies. It's not out of hunger, but because 'sometimes, you just crave dirt.'

TRANSCRIPT

Kevin Sites narration:
In Haiti's worst slum, Cite Soleil, people actually make and eat mud pies. Now, the dust is collected from the central region of Haiti in an area called Hinche.

It's mixed with water. Here, Myriene Vincent and her son Onelove work, pushing the dirt through a cheesecloth, separating it from twigs and stones and mixing it into a batter.

Kevin Sites (off camera):
"So she's screening out the dirt and stuff, right?"

Translator (off camera):
"Sorry?"

Kevin Sites (off camera):
"She's screening out the rocks and the dirt?"

Kevin Sites narration:
Now once the batter is made, it's swirled out onto plastic mats and dried in the sun.

People made dozens of these every day. They're normally eaten by pregnant women and sometimes children.

Here, Mary Pierre actually collects hers, and she's going to sell them five for a dime in the Cite Soleil market.

Now, people say it's not so much out of hunger that they eat them, but "sometimes, you just crave dirt."

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