Oh! So THAT’S what that was! (Not my ensuing penis, my lava lamp toilet bowl.) Some friends and I drove down to Charleston for the day probably two years ago, got lunch at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co (overrated, BTW), and drove home. When we got home, I experienced the OOP phenomenon - not painful, or any other stomach-distress sort of thing, only orange and oily and alarming. Obviously, since I remember it years later. I thought at the time that it had been my mahi mahi, which was blackened and had kind of an oily spicy liquidy thing going on, but now I remember laughing at our friend who was driving for only having Light (or whatever) Pringles in the car, which we all ate. Gotta ask the other people in the car if they recall any penis ensuing at the time.
Am I alone in finding the idea of Olestra obscene? Not just in a literal oily-toilet-water way, but in a “Ha! I’m a rich western consumer and I can afford to have what I eat go STRAIGHT THROUGH ME and into the sewer! In one end, out the other! I don’t NEED your stupid calories!” kind of way too.
It’s kind of sticking two fingers up at the world’s starving masses, isn’t it? While billions go hungry, our corporations use their resources to develop a fat substitute so that fat bastards in the First World can pig down more food and shit it straight out of their oil-dripping bungholes. Nice.
Do you also find diet soft drinks obcene?
No, although I don’t drink them very often. Or regular fizzy drinks, to be honest. I do find it a bit odd paying for something that’s not giving me any nutritive value… the lack of energy-giving properties has become a virtue, which seems a bit backward to me.
There’s a difference between a fizzy drink and a big greasy bag of chips, though.
hey, I never claimed to be rational 
It’s a little obscene, but better in a chip than as a prescription medicine (that helps make fat hard to absorb).
I can’t frigging believe I completely missed PENIS ENSUES until I was cruising ATMB.
I guess I was just so excited about the prospect of telling you all about my experience shitting oil that I just glazed right over that.
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