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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 49770, member: 44&quot;]Not the betel nuts they were chewing in Thailand. I have seen some of his pics showing the red mouths. That link Cheryl gave talks about tye red spittle</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;... The nut is cut into segments dabbed with lime (which is ground and burnt sea-shell), mixed with some water or oil and wrapped in a leaf to form a quid, the chewing of which produces blood-red spittle.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;My sister-in-law, a Catholic missionary nun working with the Ifugao and Bontoc thought that tuberculosis must be rampant among the natives because they spat &quot;blood&quot; everywhere. Indeed early European travellers who encountered chewers in the islands thought the same thing. But rather than blood, the red spittle was due to the betel they constantly chewed.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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