Chia Pets
The first wave of sales involving the chia seed came in the early 1990s via the Chia Pet, clay figures of popular icons filled with seeds. As the figures are watered, the chia pet starts to grow grass resembling the figure's clothing and hair. About 500,000 pets a year are sold today, intended as a house plant.
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“We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.”
—Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)