TMI warning: What does shit taste like?

Factual Questions
1

This question entered my mind after getting a lovely and charming spam e-mail that promised me that Slutty Young Japanese Shit Eaters Want Your Cock!!! I would think that they would want something else from me, but maybe I’m wrong.

Anyhoo, that got me curious as to what shit tastes like. I have no desire or intention of finding out firsthand, and unfortunately Divine passed away about 10 years ago, so I can’t ask him. (Divine ate dog shit in the climax of John Waters trash/cult classic film Pink Flamingos.)

When I’m talking about shit, I mean human shit, not dog or cat. I’ve seen dogs eating poo, both their own and other dogs, and none of them threw up, but their sense of taste/smell is way different then ours.

Does it depend on what a person eats? Is the taste worse then the smell, vice versa or the same?

Enlighten me, my fellow Dopers.

2

Mmmmmmmmm…shit.

Tastes like chicken!

3

Considering they massive amounts of bacteria and such in human fecal matter, I’m pretty sure it is lethal…unless you cook it properly.

4

In a recent thread, mangeorge fried up his spooje in a pan, in the interest of furthering our understanding of the subject, but I bet even he will draw the line at this one.

Even so, I’m curious. I suspect our negative perception of the smell of shit is an evolutionary adaptation (those who avoid their waste are more likely to survive to breed than those who enjoy it and wallow in it), and I’d imagine the taste factor is similar, but that’s just speculation.

5

The taste depends on what you ate the day before.

6

Google “toilet slavery” and let us know what you find.

WARNING: Do not perform this search at work!

7

When I was a really little kid, I remember putting a piece of my poop in my mouth because I thought it was a chocolate chip. I spit it out right away, but I did get a taste of it. Surprisingly not that horrible. A little tangy?

I don’t remember why the poop was out to begin with though. Shit happens I guess. :smiley:

8

Corn.

9

I’ve seen the previously mentioned dogs eat human feces as well (don’t ask). It must not be that much different from the canine variety.

10

I read a really, really disgusting coprophilia email of dubious provenance that was doing the rounds in 1996. It said poo tasted like “a ripe blue cheese”. You puke the first few times (apparently) and then you start to appreciate it.

Where’s the barf smiley?

11

"I’m pretty sure it is lethal…unless you cook it properly. "

Oh, don’t hold back, how do you cook it properly?

Probably tastes like billirubin.

12

I remember reading somewhere that when people asked Divine what the dogshit he ate tasted like, he replied, “What do you think it tasted like?”

13

Well, in a large bowl, gently but thoroughly combine the shit with the chopped ribs, the Berbere sauce and the grilled onion…

14

Apparently sour, depending on the freshness :dubious:
Hey, it was some bizzare wildlife show on public TV, ok?

15

I heard it tastes like shit.

16

here’s a good digression–

If roses smelled like fecal matter, and fecal matter smelled like roses, would the roses still smell good because they are beautiful, and the shit still smell bad because we are kinda instinctively programmed that shit is bad thing? (poop is generally a non-talked about [taboo] thing in western cultures, and plus, it’s a bodily excrement so really, I mean, shit’s nasty)

17

Consider as well that those bacterias ALREADY live in your digestive tract, (w/ your own shit anyway). Whatever harm the bacteria can do to your system, they have already done.

18

I cant’t speak from personal experience, this is just a logical guess.

In the first place, all or most of the sugars would have been digested on the first pass, leaving the rest with a bitter taste.

In the second place dead blood cells are disposed of through fecal matter.

Thirdly, the remaining fecal matter consists largely of undigested roughage, which intestinal bacteria has acted upon

Fourthly, it would contain various digestive juices, such as bile.

Therefore, I should imagine, shit would taste like a combination of vinegar, blood, rotten vegetables and vomit.

But that’s just speculation.

19

Trust me (don’t ask) I have smelled enough shit up close and personal in my time on this earth and I can tell you one thing with 100% certainty: shit smells REALLY BAD. I mean disgusting. There is no question about this.

20

Most things taste more or less like they smell. Shit is aromatic enough that I feel I have a fairly clear idea of what it might taste like. Clear enough not to want to try it.