# I really don't know how to put this. (kinda gross) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 3, 2002, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087 "2002-06-03T04:36:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/1 "2002-06-03T04:36:09Z")
Due to some behind schedule work, my employer made this weekend mandatory. At my 9 am break, I had my usual cup of coffee and a baggie of cookies. My wife bought a bag of Mothers Red, White, and Blue animal crackers. There were about 2 dozen and about half were blue. Remember this for later. At about 2 this afternoon, I felt the rumblings down below telling me to get to the restroom pronto. I suffer from irritable bowel syndrome and when my body says go, it means it. Being only 30 minutes before quitting time, I took my time and read some of the newspaper left in the stall. At about 2:20, I pulled off some TP and wiped for the first time. As I looked to make sure the TP landed in the toilet, I was horrified by what I saw. The water was a bright shade of flourescent green and the solid material was little darker green. My first thought was what in the hell is wrong with me. The second thought was I wish I had my digital camera, it would have made a great submission to [Ratemypoo.com](http://Ratemypoo.com). At the time I has no idea what could of caused the bright green poo. I hadn’t eaten anything green. Then it hit me, the blue cookies. That is the third food that I know of that affects me like that. Red licorice and spinach do the same. This might be something to remember next time the doctor wants a stool sample. ---
**Author:** ![VDarlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e56c9b/32.png) [@VDarlin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VDarlin)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/2 "2002-06-03T04:52:18Z")
Black jelly beans, and puple Gatorade will do the same thing. ~V ---
**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/3 "2002-06-03T05:23:10Z")
Ditto on the black jelly beans (and other black licorice.) Not too unusual, I guess. And DJIANAD\*, but if you’re a Vulcan, fluorescent green poop probably indicates hemorrhoids or bleeding in the large intestine. Sticky, greenish-brown stool would indicate bleeding from further up in the alimentary canal. \*[sub]Dammit Jim, I am not a Doctor![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/4 "2002-06-03T05:33:12Z")
I get bright phosphorescent green turds from eating Froot Loops. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/5 "2002-06-03T10:45:20Z")
I’ve noticed this phenomenon when I drink Raspberry Crystal Light. It turns not only the feces, but the water, bright red. Yikes! ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/6 "2002-06-03T14:03:33Z")
Welch’s Grape soda does some weird coloration of the colon core. ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/7 "2002-06-03T14:30:32Z")
Apparently a bottle of blue foodcolouring mixed in an Amaretto Sour will do the same thing. One bottle of blue food colouring 1$ Sweet and Sour Mix 2$ Bottle of Amaretto 14$ Waking up to the sounds of a good friend screaming, “MY SHIT IS BLUE” Priceless ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/8 "2002-06-03T14:30:41Z")
I was once scared out of my mind by a similar…uh…emission until told by my brother that the purple Slurpee I had earlier in the day was the culprit. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/9 "2002-06-03T15:09:35Z")
A cousin of mine was convinced (when he was a young kid) that he was extremely ill, as his feces had turned green. Turns out it was due to the huge “Shamrock Shake” from McDonald’s that he’d consumed earlier in the day. My husband has seen similar, but red-colored, results from chicken tandoori. Though I suspect an equal amount of red and yellow food coloring would produce the same result, Uristat (an OTC medication designed to relieve the pain of - but **not treat** - a urinary tract infection) produces very bright, blaze orange colored urine. ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/10 "2002-06-03T21:41:00Z")
Once, with dinner, I had corn and Hawaiian Punch. I refer to the aftermath as The Pink Buttons Episode. Very traumatic, until I figured out what caused them. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/11 "2002-06-03T22:13:47Z")
Pepto-Bismol® makes your crap black. An excess of red wine can do the same. So can stomach bleeding, as someone else mentioned (depending on what part of your GI tract is bleeding). Whenever I eat onion soup, it comes out bright yellow (and smelling like onions). I can’t believe I’m discussing this. **WHAT IS THIS? THE STRAIGHT CRAP MESSAGE BOARD?!?** Enough with the poop posts! 😃 - s.e. ---
**Author:** ![VDarlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e56c9b/32.png) [@VDarlin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VDarlin)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/12 "2002-06-03T22:20:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scott evil \* > \*\*Pepto-Bismol® makes your crap black. \*\* Really? It never has for me, or my SO, huh. Now, Iron suppliments, on the other hand, will definitly turn your doodie black. I am severely anemic, and many a time I have come away from the toilet thinking, “Damn it, I forgot to take my Iron suppliment yesterday”. 😃 ~V ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/13 "2002-06-03T22:49:35Z")
Yes, I believe I recall reading on the Pepto Bismol package that it would make your tongue and/or feces black. I always found that funny somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2002, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/14 "2002-06-03T23:43:20Z")
First, the words “tongue” and “feces” do not belong in the same sentence, with the exception of this one. Secondly, a local chinese delivery place’s sweet and sour chicken produces a bright, nigh-arterial, red when run through my system. The first time of THAT was terrifying. ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/15 "2002-06-04T01:24:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CRorex \* > \*\*Apparently a bottle of blue foodcolouring mixed in an Amaretto Sour will do the same thing. > One bottle of blue food colouring 1$ > Sweet and Sour Mix 2$ > Bottle of Amaretto 14$ > > Waking up to the sounds of a good friend screaming, “MY SHIT IS BLUE” > Priceless \*\* :::SNORT…SNORT…BEER SHOOTING OUT NOSE…COUGH…SNORT:::: I think I just shat my pants, that is too funny. Slee ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/16 "2002-06-04T01:31:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sleestak \* > \*\* > > :::SNORT…SNORT…BEER SHOOTING OUT NOSE…COUGH…SNORT:::: > > I think I just shat my pants, that is too funny. > > Slee \*\* Was it blue? ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/17 "2002-06-04T02:53:52Z")
Blue slushies do the same thing to me. I definitely freaked the first time it happened. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/18 "2002-06-04T03:03:41Z")
For you hunters out there, the curry chicken and noodles at a local Sri Lankan restaurant will allow you to have nice, safe blaze orange bm’s. Must be the tumeric. ---
**Author:** ![VDarlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e56c9b/32.png) [@VDarlin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VDarlin)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/19 "2002-06-04T03:05:47Z")
This didn’t occur to me earlier, when I posted to this thread, but my SO had a…uh…very…uh…_interesting_ experience yesterday, that he shared with me(no, not literally, ya sickos!). He had a momentary scare yesterday morning, after taking a crap, when he got up and looked in the toilet, he saw what looked like a toilet bowl _full_ of bright red blood clots, mixed in with the “regular” stuff. After a few moments of panic, it dawned on him that what he was seeing was a result of the two pimento cheese sandwiches, and approximately 20 green olives that he had consumed as a midnight snack, only a few hours earlier. Eek! ~V ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2002, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087/20 "2002-06-08T10:41:34Z")
I wonder what effects the new [Ore-Ida Kool Blue Fries](http://www.nick.com/ads/oreida/) will have. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-really-dont-know-how-to-put-this-kinda-gross/112087.md?page=2)