I'm reminded of dwarven bread in the Discworld series. The idea is that if you're starving to the point where you could eat a rock, you can use the bread to grind the rocks into pudding.
@Background Pony Number 17 Actually that's not far off…in the comics spike does make a comment on how he likes the taste of gems over rocks when they meet a creature that exclusively eats rocks
I imagine it's probably like how ponies view grass. Yeah, you could eat it if you absolutely had to, but you probably wouldn't unless you had no other choice.
are you thinking of garfield and friends? cause thats what I think it looks like
Ha!
Damn it! Now I also think I remember it and can't remember the name.
Actually that's not far off…in the comics spike does make a comment on how he likes the taste of gems over rocks when they meet a creature that exclusively eats rocks
Which would mean Spike would be crapping rocks, but eh, details.
Yeah, something like that.
Precious gems. I should imagine rocks are somewhat akin to processed crap for dragons.