It isn’t all that surprising that noodles left in a warm place for a few days would become dangerous to eat, regardless of whether they were deliberately inoculated with fecal matter - pathogenic bacteria are everywhere but they only become dangerous when they are given food, moisture, warmth and time - then they reproduce at a phenomenal rate and produce lots of nasty toxins.
Cite? :dubious:
There are people who enjoy eating fecies from a recreational point of view, apparently. There are also other uses for fecal consumption, albeit not neccesarily uses you or I would think of or be tempted to try.
A few years back there was a South-American serial killer who, after being sentenced to death, started dining on his droppings to help his insanity plea. Not too bad an idea but unfortunately he died horribly from some nerve disease he got as a result of his excremental exercises. Unfortunately I can’t find a cite for it and even worse, my A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is suffering from a bout of stolenness. What kind of sick animal would do a thing like that? Steal my book, that is?
Albert Fish is an obvious example of a man who ate his feces but in all fairness, what didn’t that friendly old guy do?
During my search for said south-american serial killer I stumbled upon the case of the charming Roberto Arguelles . Seems like nice guy…
So… knock yourself out, no skin off my humble back, but consider the company that puts you in.
Obviously, there are worse things in the world than serial killers.
Got-damn book thieves! –shakes fist–
Remeber that old Indian Prime Minister who drank his own urine? He claimed it sharpened his mind and kept him young…anybody for a pee-pee martini?
It isn’t safe for dogs to eat poop, either. They just don’t know that.
Puppies are the most susceptible to hookworms, roundworms, tapeworms and various fun viruses and bacteria because so many of them are transmitted by the fecal-oral route, and puppies seem to like eating it more than adult dogs. Their own poop can be full of this junk, plus the poop of horses and large animals are full of coccideae. Cat poop has all its own special roundworms and protozoa.
Because dog are different in their ability to eat some things humans can’t or shouldn’t.
It was difficutl to break my small Shih Tzu from even attempting it.
“Beware of the Cog”
But um, what would be the purpose of this delicacy? Would they feed it to enemies or something?
Maybe the women on the porn site aren’t eating real poop, but something made to look like it. Unless, of course, they’re getting it…uh, straight from the tap?
I’ve heard that dogs like to eat cat poop-supposedly because cat poop has some kind of enzyme or whatever that they like. I don’t know…and quite frankly, I don’t WANT to know. shudder
What about kimchi, then? A Korean delicacy, which I learned to enjoy when in Korea. It is available in our stores, too.
… followed by:
We have to give cites for guesses, now?
Kimchi contains neither poop, nor noodles.
It’s basically pickled cabbage (although it can be made with other vegetables), flavored with chili pepper and garlic. It, like other types of pickles, including sauerkraut, was invented before refrigeration.
Salt and vinegar retard the growth of bacteria in pickles.
I remember reading an article many years ago[sorry, no cite available] about a hospital staff doctor. He had a patient that was on massive amounts of antibiotics;consequently, her intestinal flora were really screwed up. He prescribed a milk shake, into which he placed a small amount of feces[thinking the small amount of flora he’d be introducing would grow and re-colonize her bowels] He was found out, and subsequently dismissed, for doing something so foolhardy. Guess it seemed[to him at least] like a logical thing to do at the time. Wonder if he had ever tried his “special drink” on anyone else? I’m really hoping this was just an urban legend.
When travelling in foreign areas the individual frequently comes down with a case of the trots until he gets accustomed to the local strain(s) of the usually benign ecoli omnipresent.
“Beware of the Cog”
In one of the early John Waters movies - I think it’s Pink Flamingos - they show someone eating dog poop right after a dog produces it and it doesn’t appear to be faked.
When Mangetout, the man who eats everything, says don’t eat poop, then don’t eat poop.
Rabbits and guinea pigs eat their faeces (caecal pellets) as part of the normal process of digestion.
While it makes sense that this behaviour in humans may transmit infectious agents from person to person, is it really the case that a healthy person’s excrement is dangerous to eat?
I don’t buy the theory about dogs “not knowing any better”. If eating faeces killed dogs even some of the time, or reduced their reproductive fitness, without a correpsonding benefit, it would have been selected out.
Gorillas routinely eat their own poop. It doesn’t seem to harm them: considering they are low-numbered, extremely slowly reproducing beings, any potentially very harmful activity patterns would’ve wiped them out some time ago?
It is a fungus.
Obviously, eating someone else’s poop could pose a substantial risk of acquiring certain infectious diseases, but to what degree would the risks of poop-eating be lowered or eliminated if you only eat your own poop?
I know what you all say is true, but I don’t entirely get it. How are the toxins from the bacteria not getting into the blood stream through the colon? Why is it so different if they get into the stomach? Also, why can’t they migrate into the stomach, taking the reverse path, slowly?
I am a nurse and occasionly, but only for very special occasions, have made "shit cake"s for very special occasions for other nurses. The recipe goes like this:
Bake a cake in an old fashioned metal bedpan, frost it, and then form realistic looking poop with chocolate candy bars and chocolate covered raisons and so on. Smear chocolate frosting on toilet paper and place it around the poop. You’d be surprised how realistic it looks. People feel really creeped out to eat it.
So this is why I think the poop in porn is pseudo-poop. I’ll bet it’s really yummy chocolate.