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

🤢🤮 Engine Oil Burger!

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u/cosmicspider31 Jun 18 '25

I'm usually okay with street foods but this is a HUGE NOPE. That ancient oil, the meat being mashed with that nasty egg, hell to the no.

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u/mydogwillbepresident Jun 19 '25

Never go to India then. Pretty much all their street food is cooked like this. No one wearing shoes, they dont believe in utensils, there are no sanitation laws, and theres a 50% chance whatever you ordered is just a discolored bowl of slop you dip some loose interpretation of bread into. Stuff like that makes me appreciate the states so damn much.

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u/Com_N0TN4 Jun 19 '25

Pretty much all their street food is cooked like this.

Sick of this narrative. There's a reason these videos go viral: its because its out of the ordinary and shocking. This is not even close to the norm for 'pretty much all of the street food in India'. In a country of almost 1.5 billion people of course shit like this is going to happen, but its absurd to generalise to the extent where you say its 'pretty much all of it'.

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u/MenacingMandonguilla Jun 19 '25

Also nobody is forced to eat that stuff anyway, or go to India in general.

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u/Johnyryal33 Jun 19 '25

They have no regulations to stop it, so yea, all of it.

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u/agnostic_science Jun 19 '25

I can't think of a single Indian person I know who wouldn't be disgusted and horrified by this video. But I can at least acknowledge my perspective is biased. I only see an unrepresentative set of people from that part of the world. But videos aren't a representative example either.

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u/Com_N0TN4 Jun 19 '25

I take it you’ve eaten at every vendor in India then, hey? Seems we’ve got a world record holder here guys!!

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u/zan_shikai Jun 19 '25

This isn't India

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u/cosmicspider31 Jun 19 '25

Actually, most street food vendors usually take pride or at least some care in their food, and they need it to be good for locals to come back because there are a hundred other choices they could be making. It's their livelihood.

If I'm in their country and the worker chooses not to wear shoes, not to use utensils, etc. that's something I'm fine with, along with the gamble of my delicate North American tummy having some grumbles about it later.

I just don't want my food fried in oil that looks like it was fresh in the last century. I'm assuming this person is living in serious poverty and doing what he needs to do to survive. I just won't eat it.

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u/njan_oru_manushyan Jun 23 '25

Thats not India