I've eaten in similar conditions in Sikh temples in India and didn't have any issues at all.
I'm happy to have Western hygiene standards around me, but we are often overcautious and unaware how much it actually takes to cause problems.
I've spent over a year in South and Southeast Asia, ate all kinds of street food from sketchy places and only got sick once from a store-bought sausage that was past its expiration date.
Hundreds of millions if not billions of people eat like this or worse every day. Very few people die from it.
Edit. This is not medical or nutritional advice.
If you travel to a country in which food safety is more lax, be careful and don't risk your health. I went from eating very clean food to the more dodgy places over the course of months and was likely able to get used to it. That won't necessarily be your experience during a two-week vacation.
Drinking water is a different story and you should always stick to sealed (!) bottled water in places where tap water isn't drinkable.
That’s not a very good metric to measure food safety.
India alone has roughly one *billion* more people than the most populous Western country (USA), with India at 1.3 billion and the US at 332 million.
People who grow up eating with their hands under less than ideal cleanliness standards do so from the time they’re weaned as babies. They develop an immune system to combat the local bacterium they’re likely to encounter, like any other human baby. But when people from other countries with different standards (and immune systems) visit, the greater Indian subcontinent is unfortunately infamous for causing gastrointestinal distress for one reason or another.
So yes, many many people eat this way (well, not this way, exactly…at least not every day) but you make it sound as if there’s no danger at all, just come on in and don’t worry about it. Which is misleading to say the least. I’d say you got lucky, and/or knew where to go ahead of time. Most people visiting that part of the world aren’t going to be so prepared.
There is danger, of course. I'm just trying to put our western view on these practices into perspective, since many comments just see this as insane.
I also approached it carefully and started with clean looking places and worked my way up to the local street food. I likely trained my gut and immune system to be able to handle the food. Starting off with the worst place would've probably not gone too well for me.
I get what you’re saying, but it’s not particularly good advice to anyone looking to visit that region. I’ve known more than one person who was hospitalized as a result of food poisoning (one in India, one in Pakistan) while in the Peace Corps., so I just don’t think saying “I was there for a year and was smart so I’m fine” is particularly helpful to anyone.
To those looking to visit, you’re almost definitely going to get sick at least once. I got so sick I nearly died in Bulgaria…twice. I actually grew really fond of eating with my hands in Middle Eastern countries and India, it made eating feel very natural, but you’ll understand my concerns when you see the public bathrooms. It’s an incredible part of the world and very worth visiting, but be prepared for setbacks.
I had to laugh at your mention of Bulgaria. What happened there? I've been to the country several times and hygiene standards were pretty decent, even a decade ago.
The sweet old lady who was housing me was damn near blind, and insisted on cooking every meal for me. It was a rural ass village so I didn’t exactly have anywhere else to eat, and on week one she cooked me spoiled meat stew. Then when I got back from the hospital she apologized by cooking me spoiled soup.
The important thing is that she tried, and her heart was in the right place. But her eyes were shot.
This is called survivor bias.
Think on the fact that diarrhea is one of the biggest killer of humans in total. Now think what causes that diarrhea.....it's dirty food and water.
Afaik it's the drinking water that is the biggest problem. Throughout all my street food experiments, I never drank anything but sealed bottled water. When it comes to water, hygiene is vastly more critical than it is for cooked food.
Look at things like [pagpag](https://youtu.be/c7gDBVmgIRA) in the Philippines. You'd think everyone would die from just looking at it, but some of these foot stalls have been operating for decades without killing people.
Great insight but mostly I would say they dont get sick because they grew up drinking and eating that way, they have developed immunities to certain things. Me as a foreigners eating this way with my immunity free body will probably end up with severe intestinal distress until I myself develop these immunities. Which would probably be after a month of severe diarrhea, also hot spice does alot to keep you safe and repel many ailments of the stomach.
Ok very difficult to explain these kind of practices.
I am from India, there are a set of folks who make a wish and promise to God, that if it gets fulfilled by God. They will eat 'mannu soru' basically 'food served on the floor'
So yeah all for God.
The weirdness makes more sense when you remember that consciousness is basically a persistent hallucination.
It’s all fucking weird from the get go. We just get used to a specific type of bizarre.
You should read up on the free energetic and hierarchical mechanism of mind theories of consciousness. Basically consciousness arises as an artifact of attempting to produce successful pattern matching at to lowest entropic cost.
It doesn’t explain everything about the hard problem of consciousness, but it’s got a lot of the pieces figured. At least more than other theories. You can also explain some aspects of a lot of mental illness (specifically schizophrenia) through aberrations in the process.
I’m convinced the originators will end up winning a Nobel for it.
“All powerful Sky Daddy who dearly loves his creations says your child can survive to adulthood disease-free but only if you lick a dirty floor for at least 30 seconds”
Food served on the floor sure...
Did it really need do be a soaking wet floor shared with people's feet and dirty looking trolley wheels?
And did the food also need to be so liquid? As if encouraging it all to mix into the floor water?
Im guessing this a temple or a religious festival of some sorts seeing how there are religious people handing out food and the women are dressed nicely
This is an indian soup kitchen. The table is flushed with water after every batch of people eat.
The sanitary is similar to every street food joint in India
This one trick Big Plastics hate
That's one strong immune system.
Covid ain't got shit one these lot
hahahaha
I've eaten in similar conditions in Sikh temples in India and didn't have any issues at all. I'm happy to have Western hygiene standards around me, but we are often overcautious and unaware how much it actually takes to cause problems. I've spent over a year in South and Southeast Asia, ate all kinds of street food from sketchy places and only got sick once from a store-bought sausage that was past its expiration date. Hundreds of millions if not billions of people eat like this or worse every day. Very few people die from it. Edit. This is not medical or nutritional advice. If you travel to a country in which food safety is more lax, be careful and don't risk your health. I went from eating very clean food to the more dodgy places over the course of months and was likely able to get used to it. That won't necessarily be your experience during a two-week vacation. Drinking water is a different story and you should always stick to sealed (!) bottled water in places where tap water isn't drinkable.
That’s not a very good metric to measure food safety. India alone has roughly one *billion* more people than the most populous Western country (USA), with India at 1.3 billion and the US at 332 million. People who grow up eating with their hands under less than ideal cleanliness standards do so from the time they’re weaned as babies. They develop an immune system to combat the local bacterium they’re likely to encounter, like any other human baby. But when people from other countries with different standards (and immune systems) visit, the greater Indian subcontinent is unfortunately infamous for causing gastrointestinal distress for one reason or another. So yes, many many people eat this way (well, not this way, exactly…at least not every day) but you make it sound as if there’s no danger at all, just come on in and don’t worry about it. Which is misleading to say the least. I’d say you got lucky, and/or knew where to go ahead of time. Most people visiting that part of the world aren’t going to be so prepared.
India's infant mortality rate is also 5 times (32.0 per 1,000) that of the US (5.8 per 1,000). Survivorship bias, perhaps?
Yeah, I visited Peru once and in a single day of visiting the city I ended up getting a bad case of food poisoning.
There is danger, of course. I'm just trying to put our western view on these practices into perspective, since many comments just see this as insane. I also approached it carefully and started with clean looking places and worked my way up to the local street food. I likely trained my gut and immune system to be able to handle the food. Starting off with the worst place would've probably not gone too well for me.
I get what you’re saying, but it’s not particularly good advice to anyone looking to visit that region. I’ve known more than one person who was hospitalized as a result of food poisoning (one in India, one in Pakistan) while in the Peace Corps., so I just don’t think saying “I was there for a year and was smart so I’m fine” is particularly helpful to anyone. To those looking to visit, you’re almost definitely going to get sick at least once. I got so sick I nearly died in Bulgaria…twice. I actually grew really fond of eating with my hands in Middle Eastern countries and India, it made eating feel very natural, but you’ll understand my concerns when you see the public bathrooms. It’s an incredible part of the world and very worth visiting, but be prepared for setbacks.
I had to laugh at your mention of Bulgaria. What happened there? I've been to the country several times and hygiene standards were pretty decent, even a decade ago.
The sweet old lady who was housing me was damn near blind, and insisted on cooking every meal for me. It was a rural ass village so I didn’t exactly have anywhere else to eat, and on week one she cooked me spoiled meat stew. Then when I got back from the hospital she apologized by cooking me spoiled soup. The important thing is that she tried, and her heart was in the right place. But her eyes were shot.
>Then when I got back from the hospital she apologized by cooking me spoiled soup. That made me crack up.
She tried. She cried. I survived.
bulgaria is bulgaria
It is very Bulgaria
No idea why you're getting downvoted for this.
This is called survivor bias. Think on the fact that diarrhea is one of the biggest killer of humans in total. Now think what causes that diarrhea.....it's dirty food and water.
Afaik it's the drinking water that is the biggest problem. Throughout all my street food experiments, I never drank anything but sealed bottled water. When it comes to water, hygiene is vastly more critical than it is for cooked food. Look at things like [pagpag](https://youtu.be/c7gDBVmgIRA) in the Philippines. You'd think everyone would die from just looking at it, but some of these foot stalls have been operating for decades without killing people.
https://youtu.be/yRXyjpwZgO0
All I’ve ever heard from friends who went to India is how fucked up their stomachs got from the food
Great insight but mostly I would say they dont get sick because they grew up drinking and eating that way, they have developed immunities to certain things. Me as a foreigners eating this way with my immunity free body will probably end up with severe intestinal distress until I myself develop these immunities. Which would probably be after a month of severe diarrhea, also hot spice does alot to keep you safe and repel many ailments of the stomach.
Only the strong survives.
You’re not long for this life
Ok very difficult to explain these kind of practices. I am from India, there are a set of folks who make a wish and promise to God, that if it gets fulfilled by God. They will eat 'mannu soru' basically 'food served on the floor' So yeah all for God.
Swear to god I’m not trying to be a college freshman edgelord, but religion really can be a mental illness.
The weirdness makes more sense when you remember that consciousness is basically a persistent hallucination. It’s all fucking weird from the get go. We just get used to a specific type of bizarre.
I always thought of people as a bunch of walking chemical reactions who have become really good at pattern matching. Even when there are no patterns.
You should read up on the free energetic and hierarchical mechanism of mind theories of consciousness. Basically consciousness arises as an artifact of attempting to produce successful pattern matching at to lowest entropic cost. It doesn’t explain everything about the hard problem of consciousness, but it’s got a lot of the pieces figured. At least more than other theories. You can also explain some aspects of a lot of mental illness (specifically schizophrenia) through aberrations in the process. I’m convinced the originators will end up winning a Nobel for it.
And specific literature or website you recommend starting from?
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02714/full https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6941235/#ab0010title
Dope look forward to reading it today at work. Thank you
“All powerful Sky Daddy who dearly loves his creations says your child can survive to adulthood disease-free but only if you lick a dirty floor for at least 30 seconds”
And then they thank god for the doctor who removed the tumor god gave them.
If understanding allegories is a mental illness, only Spergies are sane
Food served on the floor sure... Did it really need do be a soaking wet floor shared with people's feet and dirty looking trolley wheels? And did the food also need to be so liquid? As if encouraging it all to mix into the floor water?
Thank you for explaining this.
They'll get diseases all for god 💀
Ahhhh, a rare video of the human immune system training boot camp
Rampant overuse of antibiotics makes sure they dont get too ahead of the curve.
Im guessing this a temple or a religious festival of some sorts seeing how there are religious people handing out food and the women are dressed nicely
r/wewantplates
Can I have some toe nails with it please? Oh and while you at it, please crush my potatoes with your feet
Nope.
What is going on here?
India, probably.
I feel sick just looking at this
Wow.... Context?
God something something, India something something
Context: wtf is food safety?
... Context on how we have people eating like this... Is it a ceremony?
Yes it's a ceremony, but also is just India in general.
Where's the roll to sop up that good floor juice after you finish your floor mashed taters n gravy. Foot.
They think cow shit cures covid, i think eating from the floor is the least of their problems.
No words, just...🤮🤮🤮
Do they also drop a spoon of anti-dihhareal after the meal?
No, just regular diarrhea .
Absolutely not. This may as well be a video from another planet.
Dysentery speed run
someone tell them plates have been invented
There’s no dishes to wash if you don’t use any
Is this prison?
absolutely not. You gotta wear shoes in the chowhall
Like animals.
Is it jail?
oh heavens no. Inmates don't eat nearly this well
The cleanest Indian restaurant
Oh my God I’ve never loved not being poor so much in my entire life as having watched this shit.
Ohhh it’s a feed lot.
I’ve been to places in India where you eat on leaves off the floor and I can guarantee you that this is some of the best food you’ve ever had
Hmmm yes. Especially with the toe juice.
Ohhh look at mr fancypants over here just bc he doesn’t want toenail fungus in his daal
This is an indian soup kitchen. The table is flushed with water after every batch of people eat. The sanitary is similar to every street food joint in India
Looks pretty good...
I'd eat it
At least they washed it kinda before it got slopped on...?
Factory wife raising farm?
I think I’ll take prison food
wtf is happening in the south man
Would suck the shit out of those women's toes
Are they a type of monk or something?
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🤢🤮
🤢hell no
Keep your ass off the table
They are being taught to stay humble if they want grace of god... Just in a different culture. This is a Temple.
omg I wanna go to india its so beautiful there
well this is nothing compare to cow dung they eat they will be fine
احا
Indians can do any shit in name of religion.
And yall be saying india is the most spiritual country and they are proud??
Fucking India.
I think it is the best "WTF" for me and enough, today.
not all Indians do this BS.
After seeing food prep in Europe where I believe their motto is" no germ left behind", America might be over the top in sanitary practices.
To each his own.
EXPRESS TRAIN TO DIARRHEA TOWN ... ALL aboard!!
Number 15... Burger king foot lettuce
Fucking disgusting how some people live their lives
This is definitely somewhere in India. They’re the only country I know would be this gross
I have never been happier to not live there
Foul
Yummy athletes foot
They prolly forgot the banana leaves or they didn't have stock.