What with all the TMI threads lately about the drinking of, sleeping in, frying of, urine, semen, puke lately I felt this was fair game, and watching a scene from Fast and the Furious I formed this question in my mind… “I wonder what Petrol tastes like”
(Yes it’s the scene where the guy is force-fed petrol)
And finally (for all the introductory sh*t anyway) MAMTA = “May As Well Make This An”
So, anyone drank it? What does it taste like? What other unusual liquids have people drank? What did they taste like?
RULE: No Post-thread drinking of unusual liquids! I don’t want to find out peoples insides went ‘plib’ because they wanted to find out what battery acid tasted like for me.
It doesn’t taste very good. I have tasted it multiple times while siphoning gas when working on an engine or something. It kind of has a dull taste with a pretty strong aftertaste.
On the plus side, after tasting antifreeze, gas, brake fluid, etc. you can tell what liquid is dripping by how it tastes
I got it in my mouth once while siphoning. It tastes awful, and coats the mouth. It’s immediately obvious that this is something your body doesn’t want in it.
It’s been some time when I got siphoned gas, even longer when I ordered a shot of gas in my local bar. But as I recall it is somewhat mild as stated, but quickly spreads and coats your mouth. I’m not sure if it’s oil (gas) spreading on water (spit) or vaporization of the gas that coats it quickly but it does.
There are vapors involved, somewhat like when having a shot of ethanol, which is the closest thing I can compare it to.
Gasoline tastes like crap. You’ve never tasted anything like it, and you don’t want to. It’s the worst thing I’ve ever tasted in my life.
I’m speaking from experience: a friend and I once needed gas for the lawnmower. Not having any in the garage’s Jerry can, we siphoned gas out of the car. Bad move; we each damn near threw up on the lawn. A mouthful of gasoline is not tasty.
And, of course, we had to wait until we had cleared our mouths out fully before lighting cigarettes. Plenty of rinsing with water, and even then, we stood well away from each other before lighting up. The fire department and the paramedics were on speed dial.
Don’t drink gasoline. Don’t even taste it. Trust me, you will thank me for this advice.
I agree with the general concensus on the taste of gasoline.
Anti-freeze tastes damn good, I can tell you that much. It has a very sweet taste, and it looks just like Mountain Dew taboot! I can understand why animals love it, if I didn’t know better I might have tried a bit more. The only taste I got was a splash from a bit of radiator repair gone awry.
Battery acid is no good. I ordered some batteries for go-karts that my shop used to sell, and the acid was shipped separately with instructions on how to put it in the battery. A very safe procedure once you get the hang of it. I managed to get a bit splashed on my lip, which wound up tasting terrible. There were no serious side effects to my knowledge.
Heh. I always thought battery acid tasted OK, thought I wouldn’t drink it regularly :).
For those that haven’t had the pleasure, it tastes like nuclear lemon juice. Very strong sour taste that makes your body say “This is not good for me, please spit it out.”
Eons ago, when I was married, we had two cars–one was running (mostly) and the other was broken and sat in the driveway. The broken one had about 1/2 tank of gas, while the running car had almost none. (You see where this is going, doncha?) Well, being the financially strapped newleyweds we were (hell, we were poor. Dirt poor. Hell, Dirt Poor would have been a step up.), Hubby went out to siphone the gas from Broken Car, to Running Car.
A few minutes later, he comes running into the house, spitting and coughing, his face the color of a pomegranite. He’d gotten a mouthfull of gasoline (but none into the tank of Running Car). For about a week after that, he belched gasoline smell. (And, he was a smoker.) Although it retrospect, it would have been a Good Thing if he’d exploded when he lit that first cigarette, we didn’t have life insurance.
A few years later, HallGirl 2 was outside, playing with HallGirl 1, when she came running into the house, with that same coughing fit. Seems her sister had poured her a cuppa gasoline tea. I called the local Poison Control who told me that, in small amounts, gasoline wasn’t toxic! I took her to the ER anyway, and they kept her overnight for observation. No ill effects. 18 years later and she STILL brings it up…
Based on the color, the guy in the Fast and Furious was being force-fed used motor oil, not gasoline. I’ve never consumed gasoline, but I have ingested some used motor oil, accidentally. Worst. Taste. Ever.
I have unintentionally tasted a good-sized slug each of gasoline, brake fluid, automatic transmission fluid, and motor oil.
None of them is a lot of fun, but if you ever have to choose between, go for the oil.
And if gasoline is the worst taste you’ve ever had in your mouth… I take it you’ve never made the really bad judgmental error of drinking beer while bleeding your brake lines and while using an empty beer bottle as the bleed-out reservoir to catch the brake fluid in, huh?
I got a taste once long ago. It was like bad liquor. The odor invades the sinuses, making it seem like the taste won’t go away. I read about a carnival fire-eater who claimed he and others used gasoline because it was cheap (or free if you had a rubber hose, cars didn’t have gas cap locks in the olden days when everything cost a nickel). He claimed it was non-toxic, but he realized later that the lead was a problem. But progress has removed the lead danger. Modern regular gas has a lot of additives now. It’s often less than 90% gasoline, and I have no what the toxicity of those additives is. Everybody should find out since they’re seeping into our water supply, and we ingest a lot of them with every breath.
I am craving the gasoline so badly. In June I was diagnosed with anaemia. I used to eat the small blocks of Irish Spring soap, but now it is gasoline that I want. I have seen the Strange Addiction (TLC) where the girl drank gasoline, but I still want to drink some. I crave it so badly. I almost stole a gas can off of someone’s lawn but panicked when the homeowner came over to say hi to me. I am taking iron supplements, but I still want to drink some gasoline.
I want it so much that I Googled its taste; this was the first result to come up for me.
In small quantities gasoline is non toxic, according to someone else in this thread. So, you can drink a shot of it here and there I guess and be ok, Melissa Moo.
