Man eats dubious street food—ends up blowing apart his GI tract - Ars Technica
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That's what we get for having farms downstream from livestock. Now that we have fewer EPA regulations you'd best start scrubbing your veggies real well before eating (if you're American).
One should do this anyway. But god speed America.
God is not going to help anyone, better people wake up instead of waiting for it.
Unhealthy salad? Ha! Pull the other one!
Seriously though, the amount of greens that I've seen recalled due to e. coli is crazy.
weightloss salad, secret incgredient, e.coli toxins.
i had norovirus once, that was extremely unpleasant.
Arse technica
sorry if I missed it what did they do lol?
Nothing, just me making a bad pun. Arse as in butt.
Guilty ass charged
New fear unlocked
Oh fuck, that can actually happen? 😨
explosive diarrhea can happen, also things like Intussusception when your intestines folds onto each other, like sleeve of a sweather(it can happen if you alot of parasites or a tumor). or your intestines gets so blocked you will be vomiting your own waste.
There seems to be a word missing there and I usually don't criticize for that kind of mistake, but in this case it seems REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT.
Consume
Lick
the death metal bands have been trying to warn us for so long, just no one can understand what they're saying
Beth makes the best stories.
OMG, that opening paragraph! 🤣
It is a thing of beauty!
wild ass condition. i wasnt aware there was an opposite to explosive diarrhea thats objectively worse
another similar thing can happen, where your intestines gettin blocked, and you vomit out your own poop.
Yikes that’s brutal. I got a gnarly worm from street meat in Beijing once and made me more cautious
I mean, this is probably my eventual fate. I have the mantra of “I’ll try anything twice”. It’s led me to some questionable, but so far outrageously fun, adventures in local cuisine.