# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![obbn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d6d6ee/32.png) [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/41 "2011-12-28T08:11:50Z")
Oh come on people. It’s Taco Bell, it’s always Taco Bell. ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/42 "2011-12-28T08:53:37Z")
Milk for me. It’s surprising how many kinds of food can have the effect (almost every food, it seems). I wonder what’s the mechanism? The body detects something in the food and hits “purge”? ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/43 "2011-12-28T12:43:28Z")
Anything with lots of MSG will have me scurrying to the bathroom soon after ingesting. And then later on. Then again … and again … :eek: ---
**Author:** ![slm2955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@slm2955](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slm2955)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/44 "2011-12-28T16:43:48Z")
> [@justinc](#): > > anything with lots of msg will have me scurrying to the bathroom soon after ingesting. And then later on. Then again .. And again … :eek: lol…tmi! ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/45 "2011-12-28T19:04:50Z")
Anything involving a significant amount of fat and grease all in one shot. I’m typically good about avoiding food lie that but have a weakness for take out Indian, my worst offender. I paneer tikka Masala, kulcha and samosas day before yesterday and it shredded my stomach the next day, as usual. Delicious stuff on entry, though. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/46 "2011-12-29T01:38:21Z")
Corn and lettuce, two of the only vegetables I can stand to eat, oh irony, you cruel mistress. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/47 "2011-12-29T01:51:51Z")
Ice cream. I can drink milk, I can eat yogurt and cheese, but more than a few bites of ice cream leaves my insides in all sorts of distress. Sucks, because I love me some ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/48 "2011-12-29T03:52:32Z")
Iceberg lettuce. Red and green leaf, Romaine, and all the others, I can eat fine. One bite of iceberg lettuce and my digestive tract gets into a major snit. The soft serve ice-cream stuff like at McDonalds and Wendy’s? No way can I even attempt that. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/49 "2011-12-29T04:04:02Z")
Diet soda or sugar-free Kool-Aid/Crystal Light/etc. Not pretty. ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330/50 "2011-12-29T15:40:42Z")
> [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > Diet soda or sugar-free Kool-Aid/Crystal Light/etc. Not pretty. Oh, that reminds me–any type of “fake” sugar. I can have one swallow of a Diet Coke and my stomach cramps so badly it makes me cry. The rest isn’t pretty either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-food-sends-you-straight-to-the-bathroom/607330.md?page=2)