i have always done this. i bite pieces off and chew them too. let me tell you how it all started...
i had a book when i was little called Amelia Bedelia. she was a maid working for a very wealthy man in a big house. bearing in mind this was my favourite book of all time i read it over and over again. so, Amelia Bedelia bakes a sponge cake and puts real sponges in it (she was a little ditzy) the man ate the spongecake and when he realised it was real sponge he spat it out. now thats all i remember from the book, she did other things but for some reason i fixated on the sponge.
so, ive been eating sponges since i was little. ive never swollwed a bit and you can only chew it for so long before it goes all flat and you need a new bit. when i was pregnant it was way more intense!
cold water is the best but i dont like it when the sponge is too wet and i dont swallow the water. its all about the feeling of the sponge. i may go upstairs and bite a bit now! sometimes i get really tempted to swallow it but im sure that would make me very ill.
i love sponges! when i see them i have to touch them. now if anybody is the strange sponge eating queen, its me.
im an expert. it takes about a week to prep a new sponge. i could talk about this all day....................bring on the men in white coats