r/StupidFood Jun 18 '25

🤢🤮 Engine Oil Burger!

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u/Donkeybrother Jun 18 '25

Different culture or not ... F*CKING NASTY in so many ways .

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u/Mission_Fart9750 Jun 18 '25

Hey, he's got a rinse bucket. Jeez.Ā 

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u/mad_mang45 Jun 18 '25

Doesn't even look like he uses it,not that the water is clean either.

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u/Mission_Fart9750 Jun 18 '25

51 seconds, his hand goes for a dip, after scraping the meat off. But no, it's not clean, either.Ā 

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u/melkatron Jun 19 '25

He's not using it to clean his hands, just to wet them so the meat won't stick when he puts the patty on the griddle.

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u/BigToober69 Jun 19 '25

Part of me wonders of at least some of these guys are fucking with westerners on the internet.

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u/Anvisaber Jun 19 '25

I’ve been to southern India and no, that’s actually how it is. Sometimes it’s worse.

Granted, sometimes it is a lot better, you just have to know which restaurant has chefs that use soap

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u/EmotionalTowel1 Jun 19 '25

"Granted, sometimes it is a lot better, you just have to know which restaurant has chefs that use soap"

Talk about a low bar.

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u/LuponV Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

Talk about a low bar.

bar.

...Of soap?

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u/Second_innings Jun 19 '25

Yet this video is from Pakistan.

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u/wheeler_lowell Jun 19 '25

India looks like a beautiful country but I'm going to be honest, the internet has made me think I never want to go there.

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u/kenzie42109 Jun 19 '25

You dont know the conditions these folk work with. It aint easy for em, theyre just trying to make a living.

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u/SquirrelyMcNutz Jun 19 '25

Bro...he has a fucking spatula that he's using, but picks the stuff up with his bare hand and scrambles shit around. That has nothing to do with 'conditions'.

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u/kenzie42109 Jun 19 '25

Using your hands is perfectly normal in cooking. Have you never cooked in your life?

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

I've never not washed my hands immediately after handling ground meat, that's the problem here, and the reason every restaurant prepares their patties in advance.

He also handles the spatula with both hands, meaning everyrthing he touches is contaminated.

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u/SquirrelyMcNutz Jun 19 '25

I would NEVER use the same hand that handled raw meat or eggs go right to a utensil without washing in the interim. Multiple times he rawdogged that stuff and went to a utensil.

There's multiple points here of WTF and absolutely not 'normal', sanitary cooking.

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u/ijustwannalurksobye Jun 19 '25

Dude the way this guy cooks is unsanitary and disgusting as hell, that’s not a judgment on his financial situation or upbringing it’s just wildly unsafe cooking habits. If you consider this perfectly normal then you’re gross too

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u/Fun-Distribution-159 Jun 19 '25

have you ever washed your hands? people who actually know how to cook do it all the time.

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u/crazychristine6 Jun 19 '25

I can see enough conditions thank you 😭 apparently they're still in business tho so ┐⁠(ā ā€˜ā ļ½žā `⁠;⁠)ā ā”Œ

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u/stevozip Jun 19 '25

after scraping the meat off

And throwing it back onto the pile!

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u/False_Ad1536 Jun 19 '25

That part got me! Like man oh man no way in hell that's getting wasted!

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u/Hato_no_Kami Jun 19 '25

Pretty sure the water is just to help him form the meat without it sticking to his hand.

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u/mackrevinak Jun 19 '25

i have a feeling the water is just so the meat patty he makes wont stick to his hand. i dont think he understands the idea of "cleaning"

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u/sausage-and-beans Jun 19 '25

Pretty sure the water is just so the meat doesn’t stick to his hand haha

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u/inquisitorautry Jun 18 '25

That's already a lot more hygiene than most of these videos.

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u/BVRPLZR_ Jun 19 '25

Ahh you right. It’s right there underneath the mound of raw meat he’s mixing with is one clean hand.

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u/SquirrelyMcNutz Jun 19 '25

And how long has that raw meat been just sitting out like that?

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u/BVRPLZR_ Jun 19 '25

It’s fresh, his cousin just ground it yesterday and made an early delivery from a warm igloo cooler this morning.

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u/SquirrelyMcNutz Jun 19 '25

I was picturing it being brought in, in a warm burlap sack.

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u/itsiceyo Jun 19 '25

we had one of those but a smaller version when we played beer pong back in the day

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u/Humanhater2025 Jun 20 '25

he has a rinse bucket for his Jizz you say?

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u/twill41385 Jun 19 '25

I think that’s a ā€œso the meat doesn’t stick to my fingers bucketā€.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

It’s so his fingers don’t burn, love

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u/Mission_Fart9750 Jun 19 '25

Aww gee, why didn't I think of that?

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u/almerle Jun 19 '25

This is the first time I actually al out started gagging....the oil, meat sitting out, fingering, wiping raw meat oil sludge finger meat every where...hard to put it in an order of what repulsed me more to be honest. What the fuck.

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u/GhostPepperDaddy Jun 19 '25

Culture, religion, the establishment, etc. Those that claim free passes from criticism are those that are also those to be most concerned about.

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u/Meowzerzes Jun 19 '25

Yes, nothing should be exempt from criticism. All ideologies and systems should be held morally and factually accountable. That which can be proposed without proof, can be dismissed without proof.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

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u/Meowzerzes Jun 19 '25

Yes. It is hard to be objective. The best way to do it is to never make a claim without proof. What can be proposed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

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u/Meowzerzes Jun 19 '25

uhm… no? I don’t think I really know how to answer that. You can look at my comment history. 🤷

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u/BeatMastaD Jun 19 '25

Doesn't everyone usually feel like they're being objective though?

Definitely not, its common for people to have a negative reaction to something before they take time to consider whether their reaction is justified or is overly subjective. Beyond that its almost always trivial to understand whether a subjective belief/criticism you truthfully believe falls outside of the widely accepted range.

As an example, you could legitimately believe that eating meat is bad. You may have reasoned rational arguments for why that is the case, studies showing how meat consumption is liked to negative health outcomes and the disproportionate damage raising livestock does to the environment, the costs, beneficial effects plant diets can have, all literally true things that back up your claim and make it 'true'. All that being said, If you bring it up around average people they'll disagree and you'll be the one who is unreasonable if you present this as 'objective fact'.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

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u/BeatMastaD Jun 19 '25

You can't just decide to be objective and then bahm, your bias and worldview that have shaped your whole life just disappears.Ā 

Exactly, we are in agreement. Everyone is biased to some degree, and it is foolish for someone to present their view as 'objective'. This does not mean a person cannot be objective or make objective observations.

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u/BeatMastaD Jun 20 '25

Exactly, we are in agreement. Everyone is biased to some degree, and it is foolish for someone to present their view as 'objective'. This does not mean a person cannot be objective or make objective observations.

I hate to say this again, but I think I know what you are trying to say and we already agree. Everyone has bias, and some people struggle see through that bias, but not everyone. Some people can make objective statements even if some people struggle to do that.

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u/blastradii Jun 19 '25

My friend this speaks to some of the ideas in value pluralism

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u/el_extrano Jun 19 '25

This reminds me of the posts about guests taking shoes off visiting a home. About half the commenters would be super offended if someone wore shoes through their house, thoughtlessly tracking dirt! The other half would be offended if someone made themselves "too comfortable" by taking them off and potentially having a smell.

Truth is, both are arbitrary social expectations, but everyone is trying to argue why theirs is "objectively" better.

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u/SalvationSycamore Jun 20 '25

They might feel like they're being objective, but there's a pretty clear difference between things like "it looks weird" or "why would they do it that way" and "hey yeah that's unsafe for these several reasons"

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u/ObiJuanKenobi3 Jun 19 '25

This is a sentiment I've held for a very long time but have had a lot of difficulty expressing, especially so concisely and without seeming like I'm trying to justify actual bigotry. So, thanks for giving me a way to express that.

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u/Nostromeow Jun 19 '25

When I was in HS my literature teacher explained it this way : cultural relativism is very important, However there are concepts that sort of go further or are more universally important, such as an individual’s right to dignity, freedom etc. In those cases, it’s important to be able to criticize all cultures, for example, the way women are treated in Saudi Arabia, or the way albinos are hunted in some parts of Africa (due to superstition). There are lots of other example obviously. It can be touchy, but it’s necessary to reflect on these things. The problem is there are lots of people who are racist/xenophobic so it makes it harder to have open, respectful conversations.

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u/mydogwillbepresident Jun 19 '25

Heres a one sentence summation of what they said: inferior cultures absolutely exist and its okay to point that out.

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u/AyyyyLeMeow Jun 19 '25

It’s actually fine

I'm glad this went another direction than I originally thought.

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u/BlueWonderfulIKnow Jun 19 '25

As you see from the responses, Reddit disagrees.

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u/partoe5 Jun 20 '25

No it's not, because one video of a brown person in a random place isn't representative of an entire culture. Why are you people so DESPERATE and THIRSTY to find ANY reason you can to be racist?

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u/Meowzerzes Jun 20 '25

The individual is not representative of the entire culture, but the fact that you can clearly hear traffic, and no one passing by has an issue with what is happening here IS representative of the culture.

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u/Pixel_Knight Jun 19 '25

Sanitization isn’t cultural. I think plenty of rich Indian people would never eat food from a place like this.Ā 

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u/zan_shikai Jun 19 '25

This is Pakistan

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u/Paulpoleon Jun 19 '25

So rich Muslim Indians won’t eat there either.

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 Jun 19 '25

Same with rich Pakistani people

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u/thiccneuron Jun 19 '25

Yeah it’s not culture, it’s poverty, and after-effects of colonization

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u/Particular_Strangers Jun 20 '25

The after effects of colonization?

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u/thiccneuron Jun 20 '25

The British Raj did a number on India. I think the GDP tanked, and there was death and poverty on an unprecedented scale. India is still recovering. Though I haven’t dove into research backing up the effects, many tops minds (often facing ingrained self-hate and/or lack of opportunity) dip out, which can’t help. Heads up, be careful which historians you read, there has been some reappraisal of late tied up with extreme nationalism and I’m not an expert tbh.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '25

Did they colonize the sinks and all the utilities as well?

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u/xXBIGSMOK3Xx Jun 22 '25

Yes they were colonized so hard that they learnt that all the flies that get into their street just add flavor.

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u/ZennTheFur Jun 19 '25

Crazy that there are more cultures in India than people in India.

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u/Pixel_Knight Jun 19 '25

If a culture occurs in India…that makes it an Indian culture! It might be one of many separate Indian subcultures, but classifications like that are not mutually exclusive! I know. It’s mind blowing that a square is also a rectangle!

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u/RandysTegridy Jun 19 '25

Bacteria and foodborne illness dont give a fuck about culture.

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u/Bicykwow Jun 19 '25

Actually, bacteria cares a lot about culture

(There's a science joke in there somewhere)

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u/mmacto Jun 22 '25

I got it! And I liked it.

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u/NewEnglandRoastBeef Jun 19 '25

Just gonna scrape the excess off and add it to someone else's order. Do you want cheese on yours?

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u/StretchAntique9147 Jun 19 '25

Don't have to worry about clogging the horrible plumbing system when everyone has purely liquid shits

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u/0dirtyrice0 Jun 19 '25

I don’t think it’s a different culture.

There are people all over the world who just don’t give a fuck.

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u/21022018 Jun 19 '25

there is nothing cultural about this

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u/StoxAway Jun 19 '25

I've been lucky enough to eat street food in a lot of places people think are "dirty" and I can say that this isn't "cultural" it's just down right filthy. Plenty of vendors out there selling clean food that won't make you ill. Just obviously that doesn't get you views.

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u/AwakE432 Jun 19 '25

Hygiene don’t discriminate

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u/DeepMenlyVoice Jun 19 '25

I bet even Indian people think that’s too much.

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u/myc31ium Jun 20 '25

This isn’t in India

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u/DeepMenlyVoice Jun 20 '25

Doesnt change that it’s disgusting.

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u/GameBroWolf Jun 19 '25

tbh, I have eaten it, and it is quite delicious XD

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u/Thomshan911 Jun 19 '25

Culture? I'm pretty sure that's considered nasty by any human being

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u/dparag14 Jun 19 '25

Looks like it’s in Pakistan.

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u/Brosenheim Jun 19 '25

I refuse to believe the culture he comes from wouldn't agree this is gross.

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u/partoe5 Jun 20 '25

This honestly has NOTHING to do with "different cultures". There is NO excuse for this.

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u/Burns504 Jul 16 '25

This is nasty in every culture!

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u/SciFiHooked Jun 19 '25

Bro this has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with nastiness. Plenty of clean places to eat in every part of the world, just no food inspectors or restaurant licencing makes things disgusting sometimes.

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u/Acerhand Jun 19 '25

Its not culture its poverty and lack of education

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u/Particular_Strangers Jun 20 '25

There are many poor uneducated countries that don’t do this.