# Would you eat a burger made from poop? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759 "2011-06-16T23:45:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/21 "2011-06-17T03:41:12Z")
can’t have it without musturd ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/22 "2011-06-17T03:51:00Z")
So, as I said in the other thread which I mistakenly made, I guess vegetarians can all go eat shit now, eh? ---
**Author:** ![ReticulatingSplines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@ReticulatingSplines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReticulatingSplines)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/23 "2011-06-17T04:04:01Z")
Don’t we drink refined water that was once full of poop? I think we do here in Northern VA, and anyone in Orange County, CA. It seems pretty much the same thing, though I have to admit I wouldn’t be thrilled about eating it. ---
**Author:** ![Severian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Severian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Severian)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/24 "2011-06-17T04:20:59Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > _All food_ begins with organic material that has passed through digestive tracts. > > That’s a long way from eating shit. So’s this, scientifically. Not nearly long enough psychologically for most people, but it’s a far cry from sticking a fork in a floater. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2011, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/25 "2011-06-17T05:53:32Z")
I’ve eaten haggis (I forced myself to swallow one bite). A shitburger can’t be much different. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/26 "2011-06-17T06:14:27Z")
This thread brought up the mental image of Divine eating the dog poo in Pink Flamingos. Every time I see that I lose a little bit of my soul, lol. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/27 "2011-06-17T07:06:38Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > There’s only one possible name this should be marketed under. > > Soylent Brown. No, a better name is Ass-Burgers™ ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/28 "2011-06-17T09:55:10Z")
My question would be how available to the body is that protein? If it has passed through the system once, was it not useable by the body then? Seems to me to be the epitome of “low quality protein”. And no, unless it were the LAST food on earth I would not eat it. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/29 "2011-06-17T10:23:38Z")
I drank kopi luwak last week and didn’t freak out, so I’d give it a try. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/30 "2011-06-17T14:37:07Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > Real life channels a prank… this is way too similar to the “hamburger recycling program” that The Yes Men championed in a fake presentation to highlight the dismissive way that first world nations treat third world nations. If you’ve not seen the first Yes Men documentary, the presentation shown in the film is [on YouTube](http://youtu.be/_RRDLzxFXjY). I just went to look that up myself. Ah well, here’s a link to the Yes Men’s website and what they have to say about [this particular prank.](http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/plattsburgh) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/31 "2011-06-17T14:48:46Z")
**Would you eat a burger made from poop?** What do you think? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/32 "2011-06-17T15:04:48Z")
You know, I’ve often said I’d eat insects, if I didn’t have to look at the shape. NFW will I eat poop, though. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/33 "2011-06-17T15:13:41Z")
Bobby: I’d like an omelet, plain, and a poop burger on wheat, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee. Waitress: A #2, poop burger. Hold the butter, the lettuce, the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else? Bobby: Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the poop, bring me the wheat bread, give me a check for the poop burger, and you haven’t broken any rules. Waitress: You want me to hold the poop, huh? Bobby: I want you to hold it between your buns. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/34 "2011-06-17T15:21:51Z")
From [this article](http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/20110615/tc_digitaltrends/japanesescientistscreatesmeatoutoffeces): > [@](#): > > Tokyo Sewage approached the scientist because of an overabundance of sewage mud. They asked him to explore the possible uses of the sewage and Ikeda found that the mud contained a great deal of protein because of all the bacteria. > > The researchers then extracted those proteins, combined them with a reaction enhancer and put it in an exploder which created the artificial steak. Shit burgers was the best thing he could come up with? I read somewhere (I think here) that a company is making paper from elephant dung. Couldn’t he have come up with something similarly, I dunno, not disgusting? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/35 "2011-06-17T15:28:50Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > [Would You Eat a Burger Made from Poop?](http://gizmodo.com/5812276/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop) You want [something to drink](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=612779) with that? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/36 "2011-06-17T15:52:16Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > No, a better name is Ass-Burgers™ Just plain? I’d want someone to cut the cheese on my Ass-Burger. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/37 "2011-06-17T16:05:09Z")
I could swear I remember an episode of either _That’s Incredible_ or _Real People_ in the 80s, where some guy was doing this with cow manure. For whatever reason, it didn’t seem _as_ gross using cow poop as it does using human poop. Anyhow, yeah, I’d give it a bite and probably spit it out. ---
**Author:** ![gurujulp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/38 "2011-06-17T17:39:10Z")
I put sure, why not, but I would rather have voted- this is the best way to remove carbon emissions, etc save the world, whatever, so sure, as long as it tasted as good as a fake burger does now… Probably be better… ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/39 "2011-06-17T17:50:33Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I could swear I remember an episode of either _That’s Incredible_ or _Real People_ in the 80s, where some guy was doing this with cow manure. For whatever reason, it didn’t seem _as_ gross using cow poop as it does using human poop. It removes the cannibalism factor? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759/40 "2011-06-17T17:51:13Z")
I don’t know but that was the funniest thing I’ve seen in quite some time. I’ll be chuckling for the next week at least. Thanks! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-eat-a-burger-made-from-poop/585759.md?page=3)