# Well, if THIS doesn't make you hurl, nothing will! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2001, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154 "2001-04-24T16:16:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/1 "2001-04-24T16:16:07Z")
LONDON (AP) - A slaughterer who may have Britain’s first human case of foot-and-mouth disease in decades accidentally swallowed fluid from a decomposing carcass, the government said Tuesday. The man, whose name has not been released, was working on the slaughter of diseased animals in Cumbria, a county in northwest England that has been hit hard in Britain’s two-month-old epidemic of the livestock disease. A spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair said he understood that the man was moving a rotting cattle carcass when it burst, sending fluid into his mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/2 "2001-04-24T16:19:59Z")
We had a good old team vomit over this in the office this morning. Verdict: “It’s the grimmest thing ever” ---
**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/3 "2001-04-24T16:21:39Z")
Ye gads. I’d be on my hands and knees gargling with keronsene if that happened to me. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/4 "2001-04-24T16:25:35Z")
I can guarantee that the fluid wouldn’t have stayed in my mouth long enough to infect me…and I would probably never have beef again in my lifetime either. Keith ---
**Author:** ![kiffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d78d45/32.png) [@kiffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiffa)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/5 "2001-04-24T16:26:22Z")
Yuck! Why didn’t he wear protective equipment, ie: something to cover his mouth and nose - at least the stench would have been a bit easier to handle. ---
**Author:** ![Bubble\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Bubble\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubble_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/6 "2001-04-24T16:30:51Z")
That is just disgusting! You would think he would have been wearing some type of mask while working. ewwwwww!!! ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/7 "2001-04-24T16:31:02Z")
Where’s the puking smiley when you need one? That is just … Ewwwwww. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/8 "2001-04-24T16:32:31Z")
Well, at least he can’t complain about his wife’s cooking anymore. Rosie: “Spotted Dick and bangers’n’mash again, tonight, dearie—sorry it’s leftovers!” 'erbert: “Well, at least it’s better than a mouthful of rotted carcass fluid!” . . . 'scuse me. I gotta go lie down for a minute . . . ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/9 "2001-04-24T16:35:43Z")
Ew. Eewwwwww!!! Mega-gross! I’m glad I skipped breakfast now! But I feel all icky just thinking about it. Once more, with feeling before I go take a really hot shower. EEEWWWWWWWW!!!1 ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/10 "2001-04-24T17:11:01Z")
Gee thanks Eve. I open this up expecting some pithy remark about…oh, I don’t know…say Hollywood remaking _Gentlemen Prefer Blondes_ starring Drew Barrymore and Courtney Cox and I get this shit! Feh. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/11 "2001-04-24T17:14:04Z")
NEW from Wrigley!!! The latest taste sensation designed to cause YOUR taste buds to explode with pleasure! Yes, it’s JUICY COW Twice as flavorable as the OTHER brand! It’s like a hoof in the mouth! _groan_ ---
**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:** [April 24, 2001, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/12 "2001-04-24T17:20:17Z")
Mmmmmm, there ain’t nothin’ like a good old fashioned Root Beer and Rotting Cattle Carcass Float, I always say. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/13 "2001-04-24T17:35:53Z")
You say this happened in England? How could he tell he wasn’t just eating the regular bilge that passes for “food” over there? ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/14 "2001-04-24T17:59:01Z")
Hmmmmm…I think I’ll eschew that roast beef sandwich I was going to make for lunch.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/15 "2001-04-24T18:25:20Z")
…in an related note, however, he set the new world’s record for projectile vomiting, beating the old record held by the late John Blutarsky of Faber College. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/16 "2001-04-24T18:26:16Z")
“You say this happened in England? How could he tell he wasn’t just eating the regular bilge that passes for “food” over there?” —Well, that’s probably why he swallowed. “Carn’t be any worse than boiled blood puddin’!” ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/17 "2001-04-24T19:17:20Z")
I dlipped through a few old cookbooks I have laying around for just such an occassion and found the following: Ye Oldde Resipea fore Burstinng Cowwe ore Bossey withe the Maggots Onn 1513 Firstly, inn the sommer of the yeare tacke yea a sickley Guernsey cowwe If noe sickley Guernsey cowwe be avail, kille ye onne with a blowwe betwixt the eyes Tacke your leave of the cowwe fore att leest a fortnite Leaving yea cowwe inn the fullest sunne The humorrs of the cowwe will beginne to expand and, if ye be luckie, she shall double, nay tripple, in sizze Onct the bott flyes and the maggotts have commenced their worke, and youre cowwe be nigh on to putredness, she be readdy to eatte Approache ye the carcasse fromm upwindage and, grabbing ye the taile of the beaste, proceed to give a goode, hard, tugg If you’ve prepared her in the proper mannere, she’ll splitte upp the belley withe a sounde most pleasing to your earr Serve withe potatoes, parsnips, and a harty browne ale Wille feede 5 too 10, depending upon their hungere If I’m not mistaken, this is the national dish of Wales. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/18 "2001-04-24T19:42:03Z")
Well, I am certainly going to run for the hills next time I’m offered “Bubble and Squeak,” THAT’S fer damn sure. [Picturing Julia Child preparing “Bossey withe the Maggots Onn”] ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/19 "2001-04-24T20:04:37Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **Eve** _ > “Carn’t be any worse than boiled blood puddin’!” Touché! ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154/20 "2001-04-24T20:05:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > the man was moving a rotting cattle carcass when it burst, sending fluid into his mouth. I have to admit that I’ve seen all of these words before, but NEVER in quite that order… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-if-this-doesnt-make-you-hurl-nothing-will/63154.md?page=2)