MUD

The top three things that you can do with mud are: play in it, make mud sculptures, and eat it. The Criteria is based on which one is the most popular activity in all age groups, and they are in the order from top to bottom, depending on how each is rated.

Eating mud is not recommended at any age, and it probably doesn't taste good, but that doesn't mean that people don't do it. In fact, eating anything at all probably involves eating mud, in one form or another. When you eat vegetables grown in mud, or grown in dirt that was once mud, you are in fact, eating mud. Perhaps literally, perhaps not. If there is dirt on your vegetables, then yes, you are literally eating mud. If however, you took the sentance in the way that I meant it to be taken, then you're probably smarter than the average bear. It is, for example, the same way that if you're eating something grown under the sun, you are eating the sun. Children all across the world eat mud. Not because they prefere a finely aged mud, but rather that they eat everything.

Mud sculptures are popular in areas where there is, you guessed it, a lot of mud. Making a house out of mud is a form of mud sculpture, as well as a good way to save money. It is also a more environmentally friendly way to live, and all your neighbors in their cow dung huts will be green with envy. Many people all around the world, sit by little spinning wheels and make mud into pots, cups, or ornaments of all types. You might be saying to yourself, "wait, that's clay! Clay isn't mud..." but no. Clay by itself, is as you so intelligently deducted, clay. However, should you happen to look in a dictionary, wet clay certainly classifies as a type of mud.

Playing in mud is fun for all ages, but the activity is gravitated more to by a younger age group. kids love mud because its wet, cool, and you can throw it. It is a good source of entertainment, and very good at preventing heat stroke. Many movies have scenes where soldiers are crawling through mud, or women are sitting in "mud baths", which I would classify in the playing section.

Mud is an amazing thing that provides entertainment from playing with it, sculpting it or even eating it. Every day over one thousand trillion billion kajillion pounds of mud are used in any one of these activities. Where would we be.... without mud?