Food From The Gutter

[Robert]

I cannot locate the info offhand, but I think Aaron's illness involved his not eating food given to him by someone else, rather than not eating food unless it came from the gutter. So he ate bread from the gutter simply because that was a way of eating food that hadn't been offered to him.
I don't know the reason for it - perhaps he feared his family were out to poison him.

[Bridewell]

Hi Dave,

It may not be the most rational of threads, but there was discussion elsewhere (can't remember where) about some of the victims being found in the gutter, which prompted the thought process.

Regards, Colin.

[Cogidubnus]

Hi Colin

If my dim and distant recollections of the strange people hanging around the margins of Brighton Open Market are of any relevance...you loiter around Spitalfields and eat the cabbage offcuts, sprout stalks and rotting potatoes...

But it's an interesting question I've not seen asked before!

Dave

[Bridewell]

If a lunatic hears voices telling him to eat only food found in the gutter, what does he do when he can't find any? Does he starve to death, or does he put food in the gutter so that he can retrieve it and escape starvation? Would such a person kill in the street and remove body parts in order to eat them? I wouldn't and I'm sure you wouldn't, but is this what such a lunatic would do?

Regards, Bridewell.