The Collected Poems of Maud Pie

by Titanium Dragon

Halite

Halite is sometimes called
The only edible rock.
But it isn't a rock
It is a mineral
Even though
It is called
Rock
Salt.
It is
Salt
though.

Comments

[iowaforever]

I love these things. They rock

[yamgoth]

Wait, so does that mean Maud likes salt? Or not? Ooo so ambiguous.

[Nyerguds]

Actually, there's also that rock she discovered that formed the base ingredient of Pinkie's rock candy...

[GJT_Productions]

"And they call ME pedantic..."

[Trick Question]

Wait. Doesn't this imply that Pinkie Pie's rock candy is colored, sugared hunks of salt?

...well, I suppose they are ponies.

[Titanium Dragon]

5412154
Salt is the most delicious mineral.

Though admittedly eating a big chunk of it would be pretty gross.

[Pascoite]

I wish I had a sense of whether she wrote this to be tongue in cheek. She's going to refute the common mix-up of rock versus mineral, but not about minerals being edible? She'd know differently. Thousands of minerals are edible (sylvite and ice immediately come to mind). They wouldn't all taste good, but they're not dangerous to ingest. And if she's going to be technical, halite is a salt.

[Misty Horse]

5412154

Trickie!

You may have just given me a new obsession... Gonna keep my eyes out for other poems Now....

[VanillaShine357]

If you are one of the 8 people to dislike this you have to heart. Embrace the rock kind

[pterrorgrine]

5518100

Thousands of minerals are edible (sylvite and ice immediately come to mind).

In high school a girl in my class was mercilessly made fun of for asking, in a science class then covering geology, "Is ice a rock?" I suspect she got a raw deal -- but then, I also suspect she wasn't demonstrating any marvelous mineralogical insight.

[Possibly me]

I remember eating “rock” salt off the ground. It’s not half bad.