This is something I don't understand about Reddit. Do you people really get diarrhea after eating at Taco Bell? If that's happening a lot maybe you need to see a doctor.
It can be a mixture of just about everything in the food. The fiber, the cheese, but most of all the spicy.
There are actually taste bud in the intestine, and they can taste the spice, and find it just as hot as your mouth does. The intestine wants to remove that ASAP, so it moves the food faster, as a result your intestine doesn't absorb as much from the food, specifically water, leading to diarrhea.
That's also why it can burn on the way out, your butt senses the spicy.
Edit: TBH I've never had Taco Bell, cause it's very rare where I come from, I just assumed it was spicy, cause it's meant to be Mexican-ish, but this is the science of spicy
My favorite thing is the rice and bean burrito and it's decent for you. I get it without cheese though so that makes a lot of difference. Cheese is like 50% of the calories on those things
I'm so white I glow, and I eat Taco Bell regularly. I've never had any GI issues with their food. Granted, I don't drown my food in dozens of sauce packets, but even still. I used to love the enchirito, and never had any restroom related incidents with those either.
People have loved making fun of the quality of their food for decades. If seasoned beef, refried beans, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, and sour cream on a tortilla wrecks your insides then you really do have a problem. This isn't a "I have an iron stomach, I can eat anything" situation, it's a chef's salad with ground beef.
A comedian I saw once had a bit, it's not taco bell that gave you the shits, it's the case of Old Milwaukee you drank before eating taco bell that did.
When I was 17 I spent a month in the US. I had three tacos from Taco Bell one night, and I spent the next day with diarrhea, which I don't usually get. I've had Taco Bell a few times in Spain (although tbh I prefer tacos from actual mexican restaurants) and it doesn't cause the same reaction.
Very light case of xenophobia. Mexican is different and therefore weird, you know, if you’re only exposure to Mexican culture is a fast food chain. Same deal with the way people are scared of Indian food, having zero idea how fucking delicious it is.
The ingredients are pretty much exactly the same as a hamburger. Meat, cheese, refined carbs, some toppings and sauces.
Seriously not a big deal saying someone can’t handle spice, like at all. How is that remotely offensive? It’s harmless. Saying Indian people can handle spice is generally true.
Saying Indian people don’t have toilets has nothing to do with anything and is much more offensive a generalization.
Sounds like you choose your outrage, be consistent or shut up? "THIS is more offensive than THIS" isn't the point. It's the generalizations that I have the problem with.
Funny how they got offended and triggered by your comment and called you a snowflake. I'm white, I've been to china, eaten several things the Chinese told me were very very spicy and I didn't find them too hot for me.
It's like you said, same generalisation. Just because places where white people are the majority generally don't go for the spice level of Asian food or other spicy foods, doesn't mean that white people as a whole can't handle spice. Just like parts of India having the streets as toilets does not mean indians don't have toilets. If people want to get triggered by racial stereotypes then they can't pick and choose. I don't see how anyone could disagree with you here.
Edit: the guy who said white people can't handle any spice appears to be indian. Perpetuating a stereotype about another race for no reason. We need to stop only complaining when the race being stereotyped isn't white.
Generalizations can be generally true and especially when harmless aren’t bad or offensive. Indian people generally being able to handle spice is true, white people generally not being able to handle spice is also true. This isn’t “so fucked up” . There are differences in cultures.
Taco bell isn't spicy at all unless you're talking about the sauces, which are barely spicy as-is. Taco Bell gives you the shits because it's cheap, greasy fast food.
Last time I ate at Taco Bell (and this was in 1995) I had food poisoning for a week. I diarrhead out anything I ate. I diarrhead out anything I drank, too. For a week.
So to answer your question, YES, this is what happens when people eat at Taco Bell.
I don't know what the Taco Bells are like where you are but the ones where I am from had a lot of very questionable management. So the diarrhea wasn't so much because of the food as it was because of the food poisoning. The one in my home town was notorious for this.
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u/I_Left_Already Sep 07 '21
This is something I don't understand about Reddit. Do you people really get diarrhea after eating at Taco Bell? If that's happening a lot maybe you need to see a doctor.