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.

According to Rasima, the ampo cook of Tuban, there is no real recipe to making this bizarre snack. All she does is 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. Rasima then takes the earthy snacks to the village market, where she earns about $2, to supplement her family’s income.

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.

As for the taste of ampo, “it’s nothing special, it feels cold in my stomach” says one of the Tuban locals, who has been eating ampo, ever since she was a child.



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Original Posted By just_tomat►Kota Tuban tanah kelahiran gw gan.. dan ane dibesarin sampe lulus SMA disana.. sampe bisa ke Jakarta skrg

Kalo ampo sih, ane pernah denger2 gitu. Tapi baru kali ini tahu dan dijadiin berita.. Setahu ane di daerah2 terpencil gitu, soalnya Tuban kan daerah pegunungan kapur dan dibatasi sama pantai utara (laut Jawa).. Jadi tanahnya pencampuran gitu,, antara tanah dengan kadar kalsium tinggi, dan kadar garam yg tinggi pula..

Nice trit dah bro.. Itung2 mengangkat nama kota dimana ane dibesarin

thanks buat mimin, momod dan kaskuser semua

sori kalo thread ini . ane jadi . ya mohon di maklumi aja, niatnya hanya untuk share buat agan-agan semua
kalo nggak suka sama thread ini, ane jangan di ya gan lebih baik kasih ane kalo agan puas dengan thread ane
oh iya satu lagi, jangan lupa di kalo agan suka sama thread ane. thanks