# Best foods for farting **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 11, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309 "2017-08-11T01:24:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/1 "2017-08-11T01:24:41Z")
Broccoli… Volume: Excellent Smell: Poor\* Poor means it doesn’t stink much. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/2 "2017-08-11T01:37:06Z")
White Castle ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/3 "2017-08-11T01:42:21Z")
Beans, beans the musical fruit. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/4 "2017-08-11T02:19:25Z")
This thread wouldn’t be complete without [“Fart in an Elevator.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs7xYqIAT2g) ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/5 "2017-08-11T04:24:50Z")
One early MRE entree (US Military food ration) in particular - Beans and Frankfurters. There were 12 different meals at first, and only that one had the outer package cryptic instruction printed on it: “Not For Inflight/PreFlight Use” ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/6 "2017-08-11T04:27:24Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > White Castle Thread win. Nothing else comes close to volume, frequency and smell of resultant flatulence. Actually, it smells pretty close to the same coming out as it did going in. Except worse. ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/7 "2017-08-11T04:37:39Z")
Ha! You’ve obviously never eaten MREs. Commercial freeze-dried food is no slouch in this regard, either. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/8 "2017-08-11T05:37:40Z")
> [@K364](#): > > Broccoli… > > Volume: Excellent > Smell: Poor\* > > Poor means it doesn’t stink much. Maybe for you. I loves me fresh broccoli at the salad bar, but for a couple of hours afterward, I can clear a room. A large room. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/9 "2017-08-11T12:05:39Z")
French bread with swiss cheese, dried onions, and poppy seeds (and butter). I’m not sure which single ingredient is responsible for the results, or if it’s some kind of orchestral synergy, but OMG, the results are terrifying to behold. When your own farts smell so bad that they make you laugh out loud, you know you’ve got something special. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/10 "2017-08-11T14:04:21Z")
> [@Common\_Tater](#): > > Ha! You’ve obviously never eaten MREs. > > Commercial freeze-dried food is no slouch in this regard, either. They’ve never sampled home brew either. Home-brewed beer, with active yeast in it, will produce weapons-grade gas in weaponizable volumes in just about anybody. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/11 "2017-08-11T14:11:18Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > White Castle Yeah, Krystal too! What is it about tiny hamburgers? ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/12 "2017-08-11T14:46:10Z")
A big Dairy Queen cone if you are lactose intolerant!! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/13 "2017-08-11T14:51:14Z")
> [@TheChileanBlob](#): > > Yeah, Krystal too! What is it about tiny hamburgers? For me, it’s definitely the onions. I know White Castle, in particular, uses rehydrated dried onion pieces, and those seem to wreck my digestion even more than regular onions. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/14 "2017-08-11T15:06:44Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > For me, it’s definitely the onions. I know White Castle, in particular, uses rehydrated dried onion pieces, and those seem to wreck my digestion even more than regular onions. yep, the onions, given that the odoriferous component of an air biscuit is hydrogen sulfide… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/15 "2017-08-11T16:30:19Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > A big Dairy Queen cone if you are lactose intolerant!! Yep… or in my case a couple bites of my Mom’s hot fudge sundae the other day. I thought “Oh, a couple bites won’t hurt.” Well, it didn’t hurt but I could peel paint off the walls. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/16 "2017-08-11T16:44:25Z")
50 eggs ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/17 "2017-08-11T17:51:50Z")
For me, it’s root beer, amped up threefold if I am eating peanuts while drinking the root beer. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/18 "2017-08-11T18:53:58Z")
> [@TheChileanBlob](#): > > Yeah, Krystal too! What is it about tiny hamburgers? They’re too small to poop? Being a mouth breather helps, too. I’m firing off volleys from my tail cannon at least once an hour. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/19 "2017-08-11T19:50:26Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > For me, it’s definitely the onions. I know White Castle, in particular, uses rehydrated dried onion pieces, and those seem to wreck my digestion even more than regular onions. That must be the magic ingredient in the adulterated bread I described upthread. So what the hell is it about dehydrated onions that makes them so much more devastating than fresh onions? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309/20 "2017-08-11T20:11:29Z")
I mixed alcohol and an energy drink at a party one night. Worst flatulence I ever had! Or, if we go by the OP **K364** ’s rating system… best flatulence ever. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-foods-for-farting/793309.md?page=2)