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While some adults get the occasional pang for a childhood snack – juice boxes, fruit roll-ups, ants-on-a-log – few want to revisit their first ever source of nourishment: placenta. But there are a select few who do. The San Francisco Food Adventure club, founded in June 2009 by Beth Pickens, had, until March, gathered friends and friends-of-friends to participate in relatively tame "food adventures" like harvesting mussels, making croissants from the Tartine cookbook, and foraging for stinging nettles. In February, Pickens secured a placenta from a mother who had just delivered her baby, then sent out an e-mail to the club's followers on Facebook: "I got our new placenta. FAC #12 coming soon!"