# What food sends you straight to the bathroom? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 25, 2011, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330 "2011-12-25T01:27:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/21 "2011-12-25T20:37:26Z")
> [@Trom](#): > > What’s the shortest amount of time it can take for food to pass through the digestive system? Can eating something accelerate the digestive process of food that’s already been in your system for a day? Yes. For sure. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/22 "2011-12-25T20:55:18Z")
Not beer, not coffee but ice tea seems to have its own little freeway through my body and goes through me in about 3 minutes tops. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/23 "2011-12-25T23:33:53Z")
Spicey foods activate the wormhole. Those semifast food sit down restaurants that have a very heavy hand with pepper on the fries? You are off my list! Strangely enough, weirdly brixed diet Pepsi can have rocket thrust issues too… ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/24 "2011-12-25T23:42:32Z")
Too much fat of any kind – animal or whatever. I’ve spoiled myself probably by eating a diet unusually high in fiber for anyone, let alone first worlders, and as a mostly-vegetarian (but not by choice, per se), I eat quite a bit of fat as well, so it takes something like frozen pepperoni pizza or the like to really set me off. Become more pronounced as I’m entering middle age (35) and older people I’ve talked to have claimed it will only get worse. No, I don’t usually talk about this IRL but occasionally it comes up over a few beers. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2011, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/25 "2011-12-26T09:01:04Z")
Nothing flushes my colon out quicker than a meal from McDonalds. ---
**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 26, 2011, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/26 "2011-12-26T11:19:59Z")
I was going to answer “nothing,” but then remembered a few long-ago experiences with fried clams. I liked them more than they liked me. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/27 "2011-12-26T16:45:56Z")
Go-Lytely martinis. mmm ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/28 "2011-12-26T16:57:14Z")
Anything improperly fried- that is, grease not being the right temperature and soaking into the food, or if the grease is not properly drained off. Properly fried food is crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. No problem. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/29 "2011-12-26T19:17:53Z")
East Side Mario’s, East Side Mario’s Hey bada-boom, bada-bing. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/30 "2011-12-27T09:13:23Z")
Beans. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/31 "2011-12-27T09:50:19Z")
Instant Breakfast ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/32 "2011-12-27T10:18:37Z")
Sight of oatmeal or biscuits n gravy used to, if I have a hangover… I’d say, “Why?”. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/33 "2011-12-27T11:29:15Z")
Stuff with high sugar content, especially when eaten on an empty stomach. Sugar alcohols, especially sorbitol, but maltitol does it, too. High fat content can do it sometimes, but not nearly as often as sugar does. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/34 "2011-12-27T11:34:04Z")
Caffeine and fast food. Eurgh. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/35 "2011-12-27T14:00:45Z")
Chocolate, sweet dairy products, soda pop. Those fancy creamy Starbucks concoctions don’t even seem to slow down after swallowing, but rather maintain their tiny momentum. I suspect the mechanism can include the large colon exuding body moisture back into its contents, because otherwise it should be impossible for something in the stomach to turn what was digested hours ago into, well, what it turns it into. ---
**Author:** ![slm2955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@slm2955](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slm2955)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/36 "2011-12-27T16:19:07Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Beans. Oh yea, that too:). ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/37 "2011-12-27T18:04:11Z")
Milk, because I’m Asian and most of us are lactose intolerant. I can drink exactly 1 cup of milk a day. Any more and I risk a bathroom raid ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/38 "2011-12-28T00:42:42Z")
Slim Fast, especially the canned stuff, does it to me. It tastes nasty to me anyhow, so it’s not a big deal. ---
**Author:** ![missinformation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@missinformation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missinformation)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/39 "2011-12-28T04:44:21Z")
Cooked green peppers, pepperoni, any diet cola… Have to be careful with spicy foods too, perforated my bowel in a car accident 20 years ago (sorry if tmi) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/40 "2011-12-28T05:47:01Z")
Coffee’ll help me going in the morning (as will a cigarette), but, other than that, I can’t think of anything. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330.md?page=3)