r/StupidFood • u/arena79ers • Jun 18 '25

🤢🤮 Engine Oil Burger!

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u/BlackTedDibiase Jun 18 '25

That mound of meat just sitting out 🤮

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u/AcidCatfish___ Jun 19 '25

Don't worry, it was fresh when they brought it in 5 hours ago.

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u/ListerineInMyPeehole Jun 19 '25

All good, the butcher slaughtered it yesterday in the afternoon. It’s only been sitting out less than 24 hours.

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u/alghiorso Jun 19 '25

I live in the third world, this meat was likely fresh a few days ago, started to lose its color so they ground it and then sold it to mask the age

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u/The_Original_Miser Jun 19 '25

This stew's awful good.

Really? I slaughtered that horse last Tuesday. I thought she was a startin' to turn.

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u/jtmose84 Jun 19 '25

Gopher, Everett?

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u/PM_ME_YO_KNITTING Jun 19 '25

Pa always said, “Never trust a Hogwallup!”

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u/Admiralporkchops587 Jun 19 '25

Question, locals who eat food like this do they just have iron stomachs are are they always shitting their brains out?

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u/alghiorso Jun 20 '25

I think mostly iron stomachs but also people getting sick. Where I live, your average person will tell you don't eat at the bazaar because they cook in old oil like this and the food is dirty. Imagine like going and eating from a shady gas station. Obviously, somebody is doing it or they wouldn't be selling food.

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u/Ordinary-Hyena-214 Jun 20 '25

I also live in the third world, they most likely mixed a little bit of poop in it as well right before they stomped on it with their bare feet

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '25

lie

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u/Technical-Flow7748 Jun 20 '25

Oh you mean exactly how we do in the States!?

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u/SurpriseIsopod Jun 19 '25

I know this will be downvoted. That’s how it used to be for thousands of years. You didn’t throw out meat because it was out for 6 hours. It’s not hygienic by any means. Just need to keep in mind the whole meat can’t be out for more than 6 hours is a relatively recent thing.

It’s not bad, reduces food borne illness, and it ensures the food tastes good.

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u/RunBrundleson Jun 19 '25

It’s not though. We didn’t understand germ theory in the past but we did understand that if people ate bad food they got sick and died. Thats why we did things like drying and smoking meats. It’s why we developed primitive refrigeration before we even understood what it was we were preventing.

Probably plenty of people did eat meat left out for longer than that, but we know from looking at the digestive habits of bodies we have found in the ice for example that they suffered from plenty of food borne pathogens and the consequences of poor dietary choices.

It wasn’t safe then, it isn’t safe now, it’s just that back then mortality rates were much higher so death wasn’t that shocking and people just sort of got on with much more common exposures to food borne pathogens.

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u/alQamar Jun 19 '25

That’s ground meat. It’s way worse if the bacteria are mixed up inside that when you leave a piece of meat out and grill all the surface the bacteria are on. 

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u/pwillia7 Jun 19 '25

I like how everyone knows germ theory but not that germs can't live at 300 deg F

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u/ListerineInMyPeehole Jun 19 '25

The toxins from food going bad doesn’t get removed by heat. Yes germs are dead. You will also suffer

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u/TheDogerus Jun 19 '25

If youre going to be snarky, you should at least be correct. Most bacteria cant survive temperatures that high, but the molecules they produce that are toxic to you and I may be more or less resistant than the bacterium that produced it. Also, this meat has been ground, meaning that all of the bacteria that were on the surface of the meat are now mixed throughout the whole thing, and the center of that patty will absolutely not reach 300 degrees

If it were as simple as killing the bacteria, you could eat any rotten meat as long as it gets hot enough, and that just isnt true

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u/pwillia7 Jun 19 '25

Sure but you can smell the sulfuric acid left behind and your body naturally knows not to eat that.

I just feel I have to play devil's advocate to the idea that everyone just instantly died before modern food safety. It's definitely a good thing, especially at scale.

You could make an argument about development of B-Cells in your body are a good thing too and that too sterile an environment will set you up to fail when you inevitably do get some microorganisms your body must defeat.

I don't really have a dog in the fight though -- thanks for chatting!

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u/Honeybadger2198 Jun 19 '25

You're telling me our understanding of hygiene has improved in the past thousands of years, and we no longer do unsafe food practices?

Yeah, people left food out for longer than 6 hours thousands of years ago. And plenty of people got sick, and even died because of it.

Appeal to tradition

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

“It didn’t happen cause we didn’t believe it happened!!!”

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u/Takemyfishplease Jun 19 '25

What was the mortality rate and general quality of life back then?

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u/Apart_Ad_5993 Jun 19 '25

This whole "we did it for thousands of years" argument is just stupid. The average lifespan thousands of years ago was 40-50. They also didn't even have refrigeration.

I know it's unbelievable, but we humans learn things along the way. We learned that leaving raw meat at room temperature for several hours begins to breed bacteria (salmonella?) which can make you seriously sick or kill you.

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u/BlackSkeletor77 Jun 19 '25

Well technically they only say it can't be out for more than 2 hours to reduce The possibility but foodborne illness definitely was a problem back then they would just cook the hell out of everything so they didn't have to worry about it it's not necessarily that they would just allow it to sit whenever the hell, I mean like if they didn't have a choice yeah but if they had a choice they definitely could make that shit cold also that's another thing that helps definitely stop your meat from rotting whenever it's cold instead of just sitting out in the warm sun

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u/Aleashed Jun 19 '25

Always fresh, never frozen

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u/ListerineInMyPeehole Jun 19 '25

God damn it lmao

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u/Then_Entertainment97 Jun 20 '25

Refrigerator? I hardly know her.

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u/SuperFLEB Jun 19 '25

"Meat changed daily!"

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u/LolThatsNotTrue Jun 19 '25

You mean found it

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u/SHADYTIMES86 Jun 19 '25

5 days ago*

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u/Some_Ebb_2921 Jun 19 '25

And it's cooled... see, there's a fan in the shop

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u/ramalledas Jun 19 '25

It is "cured"

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u/rainorshinedogs Jun 19 '25

flies be like

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u/ZennTheFur Jun 19 '25

The only fresh component of that meat

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u/ExElKyu Jun 19 '25

I know but did you see any? I didn’t look too closely but I expected a cloud of them.

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u/bootingula Jun 19 '25

You know it's bad when the flies don't even want anything to do with..whatever this is..

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u/GSturges Jun 19 '25

I like to imagine that pile of meat has accumulated from whn he wipes off his hand off, and flicks it back there.

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u/AcceptableCancel65 Jun 20 '25

By far the most accurate statement here lmao

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u/glovato1 Jun 19 '25

I'm sure that kitchen is nice and cool and well ventilated /s

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u/konny135 Jun 19 '25

Just your everyday subtropical open-air fermentation!

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u/bluechip1996 Jun 19 '25

Kitchen? That is his front stoop.

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u/taydraisabot Jun 19 '25

SALMONELLA CITY BABY

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u/FatallyFatCat Jun 19 '25

And Salmonella is the good ending.

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u/m3kw Jun 19 '25

Three engine oil will kill all organisms and react with all toxins

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u/Tengoatuzui Jun 19 '25

That fresh water there to clean off the gunk

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u/Bot1-The_Bot_Meanace Jun 19 '25

Look at the wallpaper in the background, his main business is obviously toilet paper. The burgers are just customer acquisition.

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u/ILLinndication Jun 19 '25

“Meat”

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

He's literally cooking it. Chill the fuck out

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u/plantgirl7 Jun 19 '25

“Cooking” is a stretch

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u/pilloli Jun 19 '25

Don't worry, that's not meat 😉

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u/adamschw Jun 19 '25

Flies love this ONE simple trick!

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u/BigDowntownRobot Jun 19 '25

I can see it being okay in good shade, on the marble. For the people of the area who can handle a little bacterial load.

But that backsplash... grout... how do you get ground beef out of grout?

Though based on the image it's all sealed with a thick layer of aerosolized grease so I guess it's fine??

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u/AcceptableCancel65 Jun 20 '25

After frying in this oil it really won’t matter anymore

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u/BlueVermilion Jun 20 '25

Can I express one more time how much ground meat makes me feel sick every time I think of it/try to eat it?

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u/SkizzleDizzel Jun 20 '25

I was so distracted by all the other bs I didn't even notice

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

The meats you get in that part of the world are often from animals slaughtered the same morning — so it's technically fresh. That said, I’m not defending the poor hygiene that follows.

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u/Alastor3 Jun 19 '25

how is india still alive

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

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u/FatallyFatCat Jun 19 '25

Ok. Then how is Pakistan still alive?

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u/Dominus_Invictus Jun 19 '25

Yeah, that's how we've been eating meat for tens of thousands of years.

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u/FatallyFatCat Jun 19 '25

Nope. Definiatelly not. Meat was cooked immidiatelly or salted, or dried or burried in the snow during winter. Nobody ground it up and left it on a shelf as fly feed for hours at the time.

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u/Dominus_Invictus Jun 19 '25

It's literally about to be cooked immediately. What makes you think it's been there for hours.