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[–] [email protected] 129 points 9 months ago (5 children)

If Mexican food gives you the shits, you need to eat more fiber so your digestive system doesn't immediately panic on contact with beans.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My guess is it’s the cholula, or Taco Bell, or ordering deep fried chimichangas, or other Tex-Mex, most freshly made authentic mexican food is simple ingredients that should definitely not cause someone to have the shits

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Japan has Taco Bell so that’s definitely an option if you want to really make use of those toilets.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

yeah, but their taco bell kind of sucks major ass because they don't have access to the same ingredients, or something along those lines, I can't quite remember.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It wouldn’t surprise me. Japan does rice and beef very well. But tomatoes and lettuce are far less common in Asia. I’m actually traveling to Japan early next year at some point. Will try Taco Bell and report back

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Some people are sensitive to an enzyme in beans as well, I'm blanking on what it's called atm. But I'm a vegetarian that eats beans like 3-5 times a week and my poops are legendary the day after eating them. Lentils too, to a lesser degree

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I lack that enzyme genetically. I am allergic to alcohol, and so when my stomach can't digest beans corn, or even eggs, they sit in my intestines, start to ferment, and I am in a world of hurt.

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[–] southsamurai 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Man, it ain't the beans, it's the peppers and/or spices.

Seriously, I'm not fucking with you. Beans are great insoluble fiber, and they reduce the effect of the other ingredients to some degree. This is a widely used way for IBS sufferers to reduce the impact of the effect. Extra beans, as long as you aren't sensitive to the beans themselves (which is a thing), or added dairy (again, if that isn't a trigger for you), and doubling up the tortillas all help to some degree.

If the dish is also fatty, that's going to end in your end not ending well. Since what a lot of people think of as "Mexican" tends to be like what you get at Chipotle or Taco Bell, the fattiness is assumed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I eat hella hot sauce and peppers and… yeah. They’ll do that to you. My mouth is fine with any amount of spice but when it contacts any other part of my body (or I inhale a tiny bit!) I realize holy shit, this stuff is caustic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

It's usually the reaction to spices not the fiber of beans.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Mexican food never gives me the shits, is this just a meme promoted by people who never get enough fiber?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yea Im pretty sure all the people who talk about mexican food and tacobell giving them shits just have shit diets. Ive never had these problems either.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Even Taco Bell doesn't usually give me the shits, unless I drink soda from one of those nasty ass dispensers fast food joints regularly neglect cleaning.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

There were some social media posts about taco bell management telling workers to still serve the food that was marked as expired, so the shits might be compromised food ingredients.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

As a long-time IBS sufferer, I'm always happy to see memes about getting the shits, because it makes me feel less alone.

Since everything seems to fuck my stomach up, I eat mexican food all the time. If I'm going to spend my evening on the toilet, I may as well enjoy myself!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I hope that picture is some kind of toilet showroom and not a public toilet.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is actually the Trial of the Toilets.

You have to use them all in sequence without your legs going numb or leaving to eat food.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Normally I would assume this is 100% sarcasm/a joke. But we are talking about Japan so I am only 90% sure it is a sarcasm/a joke.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If it was real, the walls would be glass and there would be spectators.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Its from a Japanese gameshow where you poop competitively. Sometimes they have celebrities charity episode.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago

While the lack of mexican food in large parts of japan is indeed tragic, the fact that you can go to any countryside izakaya (pub/restaurant) and get bottomless beers and whiskey sodas for 2 hours for like 20 bucks means that the fancy toilets are getting explosive diarrhea on a regular basis.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

No mexican food in japan??? OP, it's like saying theres no japanese food in Mexico... Have you ever traveled lmao?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

A friend lived in Tokyo, his #1 complaint was lack of Mexican food.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (6 children)

A quick Google search of "Mexican Restaurants in Tokyo" brought up over 30 results in Tokyo. Hell, the other day I was watching the original Iron Chef from the 90s, and they brought in a Japanese Mexican Chef as a challenger.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

There's over 30 Mexican restaurant results for my city at 1% the population of Tokyo. Sounds like it's pretty lacking to me

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

Tokyo is fucking huge, dude

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

I might have expressed myself wrong, it's not that there aren't Mexican food places at all, it's that they're much more rare than in the west (and the US specifically), and usually not great.

Plus, 30+ restaurants in a city as gigantic as Tokyo is not much at all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

There's over 30 mexican restaurants in my town of less than 30,000 people.

Tokyo is LITERALLY the biggest city in the entire world. 30ish restaurants is absolutely a needle in a haystack.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Had some great Mexican food in Tokyo!

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

OP, I hate to break it to you but...

tacobell.jp/locations

There appear to actually be Taco Bells in Japan. So let's just say Ferrari, meet Nurburgring.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I'm not sure what's worse, suggesting Mexican food makes people go to the bathroom or suggesting Taco Bell is Mexican food.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

All food makes you go to the bathroom. Mexican food done nothing wrong

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I can see how I insinuated that taco bell is Mexican food, but I don't actually think taco bell is Mexican food. Far from it. But it's been memed for like 15+ years that taco bell gives you life-altering shits.

I seriously remember seeing this in high school as early as '07, but I'm sure it was probably going around before then.

I live in the OKC metro and if you're looking for real Mexican food here, you're pretty spoiled for choice. I won't suggest we have the drop on Mexican food, but you can find some really great places here without having to look hard. Taco Bell is great because the food actually tastes pretty good and there are like four within a five minute drive of my house.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

definitely suggesting that taco bell is Mexican food is the worst one

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’ve had chicken sashimi in Japan. Who needs Mexican food?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"I'll have the chicken"

"and how would you like that cooked?"

"aight I'm-a head out"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Salmonella, angry from slight heat.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

Some of the best Mexican food I've had was in Okinawa.

Where I really miss Mexican food is Spain.

[–] Imgonnatrythis 17 points 9 months ago (4 children)

This is where the US steps in. I regularly eat about a weeks worth of carbs and cheese and then hit up my favorite Indian and Mexican joints and proceed to apologize to my Japanese toilet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

The melting pot we all needed

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Shit.just.works !

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Notice as the person bows to their third opponent as it bows back.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

What's the point of owning a Ferrari?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Don't worry, Denny's is very popular in Japan.

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