# I just finished puking up my guts **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 9, 2000, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-puking-up-my-guts/40430 "2000-11-09T09:47:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-puking-up-my-guts/40430/1 "2000-11-09T09:47:36Z")
With the subject of puke on my mind, I put this question to everyone: What color is your puke? We’ve all obviously heard of “puke green” before, but my puke has never been green. It’s typically red (although tonight’s was a little on the brownish side). ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-puking-up-my-guts/40430/2 "2000-11-09T14:48:32Z")
I guess it depends on the last thing you’ve eaten. The only time I’ve seen green puke was the time I threw up after eating pickles with a baloney sandwich. (For the record, that’s not what made me sick 😃 .) I suppose bile would cause puke to turn green though. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-puking-up-my-guts/40430/3 "2000-11-09T15:41:50Z")
My coolest puke ever was when I was in high school. I came home from a party, three sheets to the wind, and decided to have two salami and mayo sandwiches on Italian bread. I’m talking the bright red Oscar Meyer hard salami. Dig this stiuation, I woof down the sandwiches when all of a sudden the urge to dance overwhelms me. There I am in the basement, stereo cranked, hopping around like a nervous chihuahua with its tail on fire, when up comes my technicolor midnight snack. It looked like a Jackson Pollack painting. I just had to admire it. ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2000, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-puking-up-my-guts/40430/4 "2000-11-09T18:19:07Z")
and started at 11PM losing her Thai dinner into a garbage pail beside the bed. She vomitted every hour for the next 24. The room was a pungent aroma of wonderful food and icky stomach acid. At first, it was pinkish (Pad Thai), but as the contents of her stomach approached a vacuum, the colour was a light pasty green, that of bile. Only about Monday was she able to eat anything of any substance. I don’t know why, but whenever I’ve seen the remnants of vomit, there seem to be nuts floating around in it… ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-puking-up-my-guts/40430/5 "2000-11-10T01:36:58Z")
One time I got way drunk and the puke was neon orange. Had to throw away the comforter, though. And the sheets. And the pillow. And wash the wall. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Ad\_Noctum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@Ad\_Noctum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ad_Noctum)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-puking-up-my-guts/40430/6 "2000-11-10T01:56:07Z")
when I was a wee young 'un (so… 9 years ago) I had some purple medicine (the cough expectorant stuff, I think) and I threw up purple… it was… well… different… and I had a turkey sandwich beforehand, so I had turkey and pickle and bread-bits lodged in my sinuses for a week… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-puking-up-my-guts/40430/7 "2000-11-10T02:20:40Z")
Golden brown mostly. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-puking-up-my-guts/40430/8 "2000-11-10T08:51:49Z")
One night when I was but a wee laddie, we had spaghetti for dinner. I had some grape juice to go with it. Not long after, I got that feeling in my mouth, and I knew I was about to lose it. I ran to the bathroom, but just _couldn’t_ quite make it to the toilet. I puked purple spaghetti all over the white linoleum. My nastiest experience was when I puked up Campbell’s Vegetable Soup in the middle of the night. Dull orange with chunks, only partially digested. I still can’t touch the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-puking-up-my-guts/40430/9 "2000-11-10T09:16:42Z")
It always seems reddish or orange, but it also seems to depend on what’s eaten beforehand. My ex and I had a nice evening at home one night–candlelight and red wine–and, well, to show my appreciation, I _swallowed_. Next thing I know, I’m puking bright Pepto-Bismol pink stuff. Sure put a damper on the evening. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-puking-up-my-guts/40430/10 "2000-11-10T18:09:31Z")
When I was a kid and had the flu. I was throwing up a lot, and coincidentally drinking Sunkist. Orange puke, that tasted not too different coming back out than when it went in. I haven’t drunk Sunkist to this day. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2000, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-finished-puking-up-my-guts/40430/11 "2000-11-10T18:12:54Z")
I too have a “thing” against orange drink- in my case it was that icky bright orange carbonated stuff Orange Crush. I was on my uncle’s boat & got seasick. Too gross. Green seems to be a bile thing, usually only on an empty stomach (or after Mexican food with lots of guacamole).