# Do Chinese make you fart? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 25, 2007, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191 "2007-12-25T06:16:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anchuldigs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anchuldigs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anchuldigs)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191/1 "2007-12-25T06:16:20Z")
I ate Chinese food tonight for the forst time in a long while and I have been farting all night. This led to a few embarassing situations ( I farted while sleeping in biz law class :o ). Does the consumtion of chinese fast food lead to flatulence? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191/2 "2007-12-25T06:38:54Z")
If you’re farting so soon after consumption – it might not have been the Chinese food at fault. What did you have for your meal before that one? And no, Chinese food hasn’t made me fart. ---
**Author:** ![Anchuldigs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anchuldigs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anchuldigs)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191/3 "2007-12-25T06:45:53Z")
I ate a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast. A granola bar for lunch and thats all folks! Oh, and a coffee bet. lunch and supper. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191/4 "2007-12-25T07:35:22Z")
Hmm. Does sound that the only likely culprit might be the Chinese food, then. Either that, or those granola bars are getting gassy these days. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191/5 "2007-12-25T07:59:05Z")
The Chinese do not make me fart, nor can they. Not even Mao could have done that. Now, foods heavy in cabbage (as eggrolls tend to be) can cause lots o’ fartin’. Did you farted 'cause of an eggroll? ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191/6 "2007-12-25T08:01:16Z")
Drat it! **Dnooman** got there before me! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191/7 "2007-12-25T13:22:08Z")
I was all set to rant about the bizarre racist premise of this thread. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191/8 "2007-12-25T14:58:13Z")
I also find flatulence related to whether I bothered to chew my food or just did the ol’ chomp-and-swallow. The nature of Chinese food encourages chomp-and-swallow dining. ---
**Author:** ![JustThinkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@JustThinkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustThinkin)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191/9 "2007-12-25T15:30:33Z")
Could be a reaction to MSG (common in Chinese food), too. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191/10 "2007-12-25T17:24:42Z")
[QUOTE=Anchuldigs] I ate a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast. A granola bar for lunch and thats all folks! Oh, and a coffee bet. lunch and supper. [/QUOTE] The dough for bagels is really high in gluten. Then there is the cream cheese. If you are a little bit lactose intolerant or have very mild gluten issues, then maybe… but I’d expect you to be pooting earlier in the day than that. ETA: I’ve pooted soon after eating a meal that didn’t agree with me. So it’s probably something in the Chinese food. Bok choi or some veggie you don’t normally eat. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191/11 "2007-12-25T23:11:33Z")
[QUOTE=Anchuldigs] I farted while sleeping in biz law class :o [/QUOTE] Were you snoring at the time? That’s the academic Daily Double. 🆒 Reminds me of when we had a weekly research conference sponsored by our university department. In order to get people to attend the often extremely dry presentations, they’d serve pizza, then turn the lights down (for slide shows). Well-fed people in a dark room in the middle of the day tend to get drowsy. Maybe we should have had Chinese food instead, on the premise that farting would keep attendees awake. But no, Chinese food has never made me especially gassy. Perhaps bean curd devotees could contribute their two cents on this issue. ---
**Author:** ![Anchuldigs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anchuldigs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anchuldigs)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191/12 "2007-12-26T00:36:43Z")
I worded the title with a “do” instead of a “does” so that y’all might reply with witty humor. I am NOT a racist! Anyways, I had the beef in garlic sauce. no cabbage there. No matter, I think it was the coffee. i had another two this morning and HOLY HELL!!! Gas like I’ve never had before. Gazprom wanted drilling rights. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191/13 "2007-12-26T02:29:39Z")
You had a Biz Law class on Christmas Eve? Did you get waterboarded by the professor too? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191/14 "2007-12-26T05:28:50Z")
[QUOTE=Anchuldigs] Anyways, I had the beef **in garlic sauce.** no cabbage there. [/QUOTE] Bolding mine. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191/15 "2007-12-26T08:25:01Z")
Me thinks the title should be **do chinese food make you fart ??** 😃 I have been to china, spent lot of time with chinese people, but I did not fart due to their presence… I did not fart when they visited me also… 😛 But Chinese food… , well debatable issue… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Anchuldigs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anchuldigs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anchuldigs)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-chinese-make-you-fart/431191/16 "2007-12-26T14:00:00Z")
> [@](#): > > You had a Biz Law class on Christmas Eve? Did you get waterboarded by the professor too? Yep. (It is a predominantly Jewish college) _Au contraire_, I gassed him.