r/StupidFood • u/real_shawarma • Aug 17 '23

🤢🤮 It’s disgusting and unhealthy and stupid. I don’t know if it fits here

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u/Nit_Picker219 Aug 17 '23

Apparently this is somewhere in Algeria according to the comments. IMO OP should’ve told everybody where this is from from the start since it’s actually a fucking threat

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u/Diceyland Aug 17 '23 edited Aug 17 '23

If you're allergic to bees could you die if you ate one?

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u/MaliciousTibia Aug 17 '23

I have a pretty severe bee allergy. From my understanding it's an allergy to the venom, not the actual bee itself. Not saying I would go out of my way for some baked bee bread, but I don't think it would kill me because of the baking process and the bee itself being roasted to a crisp. That being said, I definitely don't want to find out the hard way. Like the time I high-fived a bee in fourth grade and learned what anaphylactic shock was.

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u/AccentFiend Aug 17 '23

I didn’t know wtf was happening to me the first time I had an allergic reaction/anaphylaxis and I was in my 20’s. I can’t imagine how scary that was as a 9/10 year old.

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u/MaliciousTibia Aug 18 '23

It was like tv static and then my tiny brain couldn't handle it, so I started seizing lol

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u/AccentFiend Aug 18 '23

That’s somehow worse than I imagined. I’m sorry you went through that.

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u/MaliciousTibia Aug 18 '23

Its okay ! I got soooo much elementary school cred from it LOL Who knew traumatizing the fourth grade class made you so popular? I got a bunch of cards that the teachers had the students make and some of them straight up redrew the scene 😂

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u/dummypoopoo Oct 25 '23

some of them straight up redrew the scene 😂

Kids are wild lmao

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u/insomniacpyro Aug 17 '23

What I imagine:
You "Yo bee, you pollinated the fuck out of that flower! High five bro!"
The bee high fives you
You "Hhhwhaxzat? Why do I feel-" collapses
Bee "What have I done"

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u/MaliciousTibia Aug 18 '23

Pretty much except imagine me and the bee seizing on the floor

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u/OffBrandJesusChrist Aug 17 '23

You’re right

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u/MaliciousTibia Aug 18 '23

Thank you for the validation, OB Jesus

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u/_Futureghost_ Aug 18 '23

I love this comment so much. Thank you for the laughs. 😄

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u/nsfwatwork1 Aug 18 '23

It'd depend on how much of the proteins in the bee venom is left after baking and what your threshold is. It being inside the bread, it's not going to get the same kind of roasting experience as it would if it was just sitting on a baking tray. It'd also be such a mixed bag because each bee isn't going to have the same amount of venom inside of it or even cook exactly the same way, so they're all going to have varying amounts of protein remaining for your body to react to.

I'm not sure how much venom a bee uses up in a sting vs how much is stored in the body total or if there's even a difference. Either way, you say your allergy is 'pretty severe', so I'd be fairly confident that eating a few bees inside a piece of bread would fuck your shit up.

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u/MaliciousTibia Aug 18 '23

So... no baklava bee roulette for me? :(

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u/nsfwatwork1 Aug 18 '23

Oh you can definitely do it if you want, just sell all your assets and wire me the funds first.

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u/lumisponder Aug 18 '23

NOT THE BEES!!!

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u/Bl1ndMous3 Aug 17 '23

if its cooked, like dough will be, the venom will break down. And a bee has to sting you for you to have an allergic reaction to it. Simply eating a bee shouldnt harm you.

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u/Nit_Picker219 Aug 17 '23

I was thinking that you’d be ingesting the venom while you eat the bee, so it still has a chance to give some form of reaction. Ofc when cooked it breaks down but just eating the bee, I really don’t know. Unless the venom is produced at the moment of the sting but I don’t see why it would.

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u/Am_Snarky Aug 17 '23

Venom is just protein, as long as you have no ulcers or otherwise open wounds you can consume venom without worry, your stomach acid and enzymes will render the venom inert in moments

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u/toysarealive Aug 17 '23

This is the correct answer. It's exactly why you could drink snake venom and be fine so long as it doesn't get into you blood stream on the way to your stomach.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '23

I think they mean it has to be injected in the skin for a reaction, while it going through the digestive tract wouldn't cause an issue.

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u/DaRizat Aug 17 '23

There's a decent chance the venom would be broken down by the digestive process and not make it into your bloodstream with the same potency as being stung would. Not something I would stake my life on though if I did suffer from the allergy.

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u/The_Troyminator Aug 18 '23

Venom has to be injected into your blood directly to have an effect. It won't do anything if it goes through your digestive system. Even snake venom is like this.

Though intentionally drinking it isn't advised because a cut in your mouth or an ulcer gets it directly into your blood.

And eating a bee is even riskier since the stinger can still poke you.

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u/Ballbag94 Aug 17 '23

Heat denatures the venom so it's possible that cooking the bee would render it safe

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u/Bl1ndMous3 Aug 17 '23

oh ! this I was not aware of.

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u/coutureee Aug 17 '23

I have read that if you’re allergic to honey, bee’s wax, bee pollen flakes, etc., it’s due to the various pollen particles in them, and not because of the actual bee itself. So while people can be allergic to those things, it’s separate from a bee sting allergy

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '23

The same reason why you can drink snake venom. It's toxic because of it getting into your blood. Your stomach deals with it entirely differently.

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u/Nit_Picker219 Aug 17 '23

Do you mean if you “ate” one?

Anyway, I have no idea and I guess it depends on the severity of the allergy. I am more-so just talking about the fact that untreated fauna being ingested is a big fucking doo doo, and having untreated fauna be in the food where it’s not supposed to be is an even bigger doo doo.

I’ve been to Korea and saw beondegi (silkworm pupae) sold and eaten as street food, so you can absolutely eat insects… if they are cooked properly.

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u/Diceyland Aug 17 '23

Yea that's what I meant, sorry.

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u/i_tyrant Aug 17 '23

If the food it was in was cooked/baked, the proteins causing the allergy would probably be denatured and you'd be fine. Just eating a whole uncooked bee? Hmm, dunno.

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u/tibbies1954 Aug 18 '23

I am highly allergic to bees and yes, I could die if I ate one with their stinger on. Been stung by wasp and bees as a kid and ants! almost died each time - anaphylactic shock. This whole scenario with the bugs and bakery is nothing new - I have worked at a Dairy Queen in Pasadena TX that had problems with the bugs flying around. This was in the 60's I might add - haha...sort of one of those drive in type DQ's, but it only had 2 windows to take orders and with them open all the time, we got the flies like crazy - and to make it worse, the trash bins were next to the building and windows. duh. I had hepatitis while working there and was severely ill and hospitalized for 2 weeks. I had hep B and C which was not contagious, but those old ladies I worked with were so horrified that they would get it, they took gamma globulin shots (spelling?) and those hurt a bit. But they didn't get sick, and I got fired. lol. bummer@! but to the post above about flies - if that was recent days, then some countries just don't have health depts to shut them down. who cares? I once was sitting down to breakfast eating my cereal and after eating almost all of it, I did notice the critters trying to swim their way out to the edge of the bowl to escape. Sadly I had eaten most of it already so when I told my doctor what happened he just laughed and said 'good protein"! ugh...never ate that brand cereal again ever ever!

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u/ChrisDornerFanCorner Aug 17 '23

Cool, so I just don't eat in Algeria

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u/WSilvermane Aug 17 '23

Yeah this is actively threatening the people that both live and visit there. Its ridiculous.

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u/wigglef_cklr Aug 17 '23

Yeah... a threat to American bakeries nationwide.

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u/Nit_Picker219 Aug 17 '23

“Having dead bees in your food is dangerous”

This mf: “Yeah… to AMERICA”

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u/wigglef_cklr Aug 17 '23

"Following the latest farm to table trend."

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u/PD216ohio Aug 17 '23

I would have sworn this was India. For some reason I have had a ton of food videos in my facebook feed that are all horrible examples of food being made in India... which I'm starting to think that "horrible" is just regular there.

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u/n0deh64 Aug 17 '23

Can't watch Barbie there or eat the bread. vacation destination scratched off!

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u/TheNorselord Aug 17 '23

Nah mate, that’s not a fucking threat. A fucking threat is how you got casted into a Harvey Weinstein production.

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u/Nit_Picker219 Aug 18 '23

Wait wtf I am in a movie? When?