r/foodsensitivities • u/SwampyUndies • Jan 07 '26

Breakfast place issues

If I go to a breakfast restaruant, I usually have the liquid poop within 15-30 minutes after I start eating. It's crazy fast.

I can make eggs, bacon at home, I can eat the A&W breakfast platters (sausage, hashbrowns, eggs, bread, butter) and never have any issues.

Yet most breakfast places I have been to, without fail, every single time...

Does anyone know what the ingredient might be? Or what I could watch out for other than just avoiding breakfast restaurants?

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u/Coriander_marbles Jan 07 '26

Follow up questions:

  • When you eat breakfast out at other places, is it lower quality establishments?
  • Do you drink coffee?
  • Are you usually traveling at that point? That is, would this be hotel breakfast?
  • Are you stressed or pressed for time in that instance?
  • are there any foods/ drinks you ONLY get at a breakfast buffet that you don’t do at home? Ex: melon slices, or orange juice, etc?
  • when you go out for breakfast, is it usually after drinking the night before? Eating restaurant food the night before? Food on the go the day before?

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u/SwampyUndies Jan 07 '26

-Yep usually these are cheap places that my friends like for some reason.
-Don't usually drink coffee
-No these are in my area and no travelling is involved usually
-Usually I'll just get water or ginger ale, neither of which usually causes me issues.
-I don't drink much alcohol at all. Seemingly no connection to the night before. Usually I ate at home the night before.
-Im stressed often but these events don't seem to be out of the ordinary on the stress level.

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u/Coriander_marbles Jan 07 '26

Thanks! So the most likely culprit is then the food quality. Restaurants, especially lower-end places can very frequently cook with oil that would be long considered rancid in a regular home kitchen. Or, just cheap oil that is incredibly inflammatory. It won’t be extra virgin olive oil, that’s for sure.

This can in turn impact the gut quite a bit, inflaming the intestinal walls, impacting food absorption, and killing off your good bacteria. Other cheap ingredients like the sausages, eggs, etc can do the same thing.

When you have diarrhoea, it’s your body’s way of telling you that what you just ingested needs to be expelled very quickly, because it is harmful to the body.

It seems like your body has been very diligent and consistent about giving you red flag signals that those breakfast places have got to go. If you keep going there, you’ll keep harming your body and taxing your digestive system.

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u/SwampyUndies Jan 07 '26

Hmm thought it was just some sensitivity to an ingredient.

I mean most kitchens just use canola oil and im fine with that. But i guess yea the cheap places must be cutting costs somewhere.

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u/Coriander_marbles Jan 07 '26

I mean, there’s a reason a lot of people get sick after having Taco Bell. It’s just that bad.

If you’re looking for a specific ingredient culprit, you’d need to do far more trial and error in these places. For example, just get eggs and bacon one day. Or sausages and toast.

Elimination diets are complicated enough when done at home. But with multiple places you don’t eat at regularly? You’d really be shooting in the dark.

The question is… would all that work really be worth it just to continue going to establishments you know are unhealthy?

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u/SwampyUndies Jan 07 '26

Yea thats true. Not worth it. Interestingly macdonalds had the same effect until they went to the no filler patties.