As a single person living alone, I can't afford to eat gas station sushi or from sketchy food trucks. If I pass out for a while in the bathroom, that's it for me. Gotta be careful.
trying to be progressive and inclusive at the expense of your own health and wellbeing is essentially the modern liberal experience. there's a reason they're illegal. they can't pass sanitation standards
@@lisajohnson5516 If you get a tape worm infection from eating food from a food truck, and other people also get tape form from the food truck. And someone tells you that there is ass sweat in the food. it is not paranoia to not eat the food.
I'm a doctor from Thailand, one of the countries with the endemic disease. The moment I see the video name I immediately know what it is.But If you live in a first world country, it's not hard for a general physician to not think of it as a first diagnosis. The disease itself can manifest in many forms as the video said. If any of you would travel to a part of the world where cysticercosis is still a problem, I would recommend you to eat from a clean restaurant and fully cooked meat.
Imagine my surprise when I see that the country I've just visited for three weeks is on the list of Taenia endemic. Good thing that it was a mostly muslim country and pork was very hard to find. And I should be also out of risk because I only dined in non-cheap and expensive restaurants.
I like how, after feeling weird ever since he ate there, and hearing about the weird rumors and MULTIPLE other coworkers feeling weird after eating there... He decided he should go to that truck again.
I lived in South America for a while. It took years for them to figure out which strain of parasite I had. Best way to avoid getting sick is to stay afraid. Can’t let your guard down just because you’ve gotten used to the place.🤢
In 2001 I was victim of this same case while living abroad after eating undercooked pork infected with this parasite 6 months prior to the event. I experienced all symptoms described in the video. I experienced seizures which took me to the emergency room and recovered hours later; subsequently, later that night I experienced further seizures, which landed me in a coma for about nine months. This event had life-changing consequences in my life as I’ve developed multiple neurological issues that has affected me ever since, and had to learn how to live with. Thank you for bringing awareness to this, and though it is not common in the United States for this to happen, it is something that happens often and third world countries and other developing nations.
Wow, glad you recovered. I live in nth east Thailand and was just wondering why I have never heard of this here...then I remembered people just suddenly get sick and die quickly here and it's not like a hospital would do an autopsy, if you ask why the die people just say he got sick and died so maybe I have always been around it.... Suddenly I feel lucky I have lived my life vegan .
I love that you made sure multiple times to inform your viewers that this was not a "Food Truck" problem, but an *Illegal, Unregulated Food* problem, and that in many cases, food trucks are in fact MORE regulated. EDIT: BOY, am I getting a lot of weird replies here lol
@@MR-nl8xr Not a pork man myself, either. The only times are occasionally bacon on my chicken sandos and mixed in with beef in meatballs. ...I feel like a part of me is descended from Hui Chinese, if it weren't for the fact my folks eat _so much_ Goddamned pork.
I really appreciate the actors, settings, and camera work that makes this story feel more real. Chubbyemu's second channel Big Emus really widened my perspective for how much work went into these videos.
He has three channels. “Heme Review” is the third one - it’s his “serious”/academic channel, where he talks about the same topics as the ones uploaded here, but without the memes.
My kitten had a similar story of sorts. She started to develop seizures not long after I adopted her and where she also has cerebellar hypoplasia it was suspected that they were an unfortunate side effect so she began treatment of phenobarbital which eventually included gabapentin as they were still happening. She was not too thrilled about it especially since it didn't seem to really help. Then, another late night where I had to bring her in to emerge (and gently hitting a deer along the way), the vet asked what her history was prior to being adopted at which point I said she and her brothers were outdoor strays but is now strictly indoors. Once the seizures subsided not long after being directly injected with phenobarb, she grabbed a box of Profender and applied the topical solution while explaining that this is something not often seen which is why it was likely misdiagnosed and how a parasitic tapeworm infection of the brain is possible under certain circumstances. One of the two active ingredients in Profender is praziquantel. Spent about $1200 in total in emerge visits and medication to find out a $15 injection was all she needed. Worth every cent and the deer was okay.
My little cousin had the exact same thing when he was a child. Nearly died, managed to somehow survive with some vision loss. He'll be visually impaired for life, but man, the whole time he was in the hospital, the entire family was panicking. He was only around 7 or 8 years old, and nobody knew what to do or how/where he got it. By the time I heard about it myself, he had collapsed and was brought over from the countryside to the city where I live. Thank you for discussing cysticercosis! Not many people know about it until it's too late.
@@Boulders911what does America have to do with anything? Wether it’s there or not doesn’t affect anything. Tons of states are requiring licenses for food trucks and everywhere you have to be flown to a bigger city for better medical help
Yeah I don't eat meat anymore. If it's not t.solium it could be a spontaneous mutation of the PRNP gene of the cow you're eating (you'll die of vCJD in this case eventually because of PRPsc proteins) . There was a BSE case in the Netherlands not too long ago, so this is a real and persistent danger. (I don't want to know how many people diagnosed with CJD actually have vCJD because the symptoms are identical, cows are slaughtered before you even have the chance for a save diagnosis, (long incubation times) and animals can now be fed with other animals again... (at least in Europe) It's only a matter of time until the pig version PSE will effect humans as well...
I love how quick doctors are to say it's allergies. I went to urgent care cuz my eyes had swollen shut. I had to hold my eye open to drive just for the doctor at Urgent care to tell me that it was allergies. I was experiencing anaphylaxis. It just hadn't spread to my throat yet. Still to this day no idea what caused it. Don't know if it was something I ate or if it's just something I'm allergic to in the air (betting the later), but it caused a severe allergic reaction and all they did was label It as allergies and told me, "you're good to go, just take allergy meds" as if I hadnt taken multiple different types and none of them worked so thats why i went to urgent care, They never even gave me anything for my allergies so they didn't even give me anything to possibly treat what was causing it. And I told them that I can't even go to work or classes and I am in college. I couldn't see at all. Unless i physically opened my eye with my fingers and it was extremely painful. Before anybody asks it was not pink eye and it was not an eye infection because they gave me nothing and it eventually just went away as winter came. And it wasn't just my eyes that were swollen shut my nose swelled up. My cheeks had swollen up and parts of my forehead were swelling up as well. My eyes were incredibly itchy along with the rest of my skin on my face and I literally could not sleep. It was getting really hard to eat food because it was hurting to open and close my mouth. My eyes were swollen shut for several weeks. Once the swelling started to go down I developed permanent wrinkles from how poofy my face had gotten and having nothing to get the swelling to go down. I looked like a 20 year old that had done meth a couple times with how much i aged based on before and after photos. Funny part is I was going to school to become a doctor. Because of all these experiences I've had with doctors, I decided not even going to touch the medical field for career. Instead I double majored and now I'm going with environmental engineering. Less gaslighting. Another sidebar I went to an allergist about a year after because that's how long it took for my insurance to find me one and the allergist was baffled that they didn't stick me with an EpiPen at the urgent care because if I had gone home and ☠️ it would have been their negligence. I don't even know how many kinds of allergy meds I took or the sheer amount of each one I took. Eventually after dosing myself up so much with the allergy meds, the itching eventually stopped, but the swelling stayed until winter.
I hope you continues to find out what causes the swollen. Sounds horrible that the Dr just dismissed it as Allergies and yes that sounds like what usually assume without researching. They should do blood test instead. Glad it went away. Hope you don't experience it again.
Kinda late, but did you do any physical activity before that breakout of symptoms? As someone with no allergy history, suddenly at 27yo, I experienced a few bizzare cases of sudden severe allergy symptoms following physical activities. I would break out into hives, welts, swollen face, puffy eyes, severe itching all over, swollen throat. After a few ER visits and an allergist visit, I was prescribed 2 epipens and my episodes were diagnosed as exercise induced anaphylaxis. There were no common allergens I tested allergic to. I'm 32 now, and still carry the epipens, loratadine, diphenhydramine, and ranitidine. I hope you find the answers to your mystery one day. Thought I'd share my experience so you could compare and see if it may be the same thing. GL!
I remember seeing a doctor and they assumed I had a sinus infection, but 2 days later I ended up learning it was a really bad pneumonia infection. Missed a school week due to that shit
Some drs are just weirdly not into doing their jobs. I had a visible deformity that a dr insisted was nothing, then growing pains, then it was I dont exercise enough, and finally it was my fault cause I sat weird. Just accepted that I would be taking tylenol everyday of my life, couldnt run how other people did, and sometimes I couldnt go up stairs my knees would hurt so much. Changed drs cause of insurance, that dr took one look at my weird legs and sent me to a specialist where I got three major surgeries to make my legs useable. Also, on a petty note, the weird way I sat was in fact the only direction my legs could bend.
I’m sad you didn’t stick with it since we need more doctors who really truly care and work gaslight! But! I’m glad you’re doing something that’s probably better for your mental health. I had something similar ish happen and was told it was allergies. It was actually my thyroid swelling up, possibly from Hashimotos. The doctor that had said allergies seemed to really dislike cats and kept insisting I was allergic to my cats for 1 week out of the whole year lmfao
My ex husband was a pathologist. He liked to entertain me, especially at mealtimes, by recounting some of his most interesting autopsies. On one occasion, a group of friends went hunting, killed a wild pig, roasted it, but ate the meat rare, since it was getting late and they were hungry. Several of them died.
OMG my mom recounted stories of her youth when she went to her grandparents house with her cousins who hunted. They got a deer and it had so many worms in its poor liver. I'm an RN who hasn't (thankfully) come across any helminths and hope I never will. They make my skin crawl!
how this man has a full job as a doctor and makes stellar medical videos as a hobby is mind boggling. especially since these videos have really stepped up since the beginning.
He is a doctor, but a PhD one, rather than MD, as far as I understand - pharmacology and toxicology. It's a more academic role, rather than one that has contact with patients. However, not saying that to take away from your awe! I'm amazed that *anyone* with a full time job can put videos of this quality together.
I love the way moustache truck man gives him an evil look after giving him the taco like he's deliberately making people seriously ill 😂. He is in league with the tapeworms. 😈
That's because the tapeworms were fully controlling his body. The guy was actually an engineer before he got infected, but the tapeworms forced him to change careers to infect as many people as possible.
I got as sick as a dog when I went wjth a friend to lunch at Crab Louie in N. Chesterfield, VA. My esophogus and stomach were messed up for months. I passed by their location one day and discovered that they had gone out of business. I was so glad that they could not seriously harm anyone else.
Now we know why God has made His point about what we eat ..After all, He did create us! Leviticus 11:12 Anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales is to be detestable to you Lots more instructions about our diet in Leviticus 11 .
I love how every time you described the guy's bowel movements, you added a shot of a can of tunafish, because i really needed help imagining poop with "chunks of undigested tuna meat" in it. Thank you.
My daughter, who was always vegetarian, at a chicken taco off a food truck. She got a parasite which lead to ulcer active colitis and now she has to have infusions ever few months. The doctors said she needs to do these infusions for the rest of her life.
That's incredible that you can have that much happening inside your brain and still make a full recovery with just the right medicine and no surgery needed. Great work from the doctors!
@@chazzy_mitch Well it depends. Strokes can be devastating and lethal, but if only a small region of the brain is effected, sometimes the patient bounces back surprisingly well then too,especially if the patient's young. A friend of mine from highschool had one when they were in junior high (likely due to a perfect storm mix of having chronic migraine - which increases stroke risk - being out in direct sunlight in Texas in summer, guzzling several Monster energy drinks in rapid succession, and having a pre-existing heart problem) and made it through pretty much completely fine other than losing the ability to percieve certain "rotten" type smells - the rest of their sense of smell works fine, just that specific range is difficult for them to percieve now. One of my uncles also had one a few years ago, and because it was pretty mild and he got treated quickly, he was in pretty good shape and complaining about the hospital wanting to keep him for observation just a few days later because he wanted to get back to working on the hot-rod tractor he was helping my other uncle build, and he was in his in his early 70s at the time.
Was on a cruise ship to Mexican Riviera. Docked and disembarked to a vendor frying tacos in a 55 gallon drum for 10 cents a piece. These guys just ate all the tacos they could get their hands on. Later on the ship they got food poisoning and were quarantined for the rest of cruise. This was our first port so these guys spent 8 of 10 days locked in a tiny cabin fighting for facilities.
Out of luck, I found my self in a food safety course for work in a restaurant... Fortunately the course was reasonably short and it taught me a lifetime of how to handle food safely, respect temperature and food prep area and most of all... ALL THE POTENTIAL ILLNESSES!!! It's a course that should be taught in High School. It's just as important as health or science class!!!
Yeah I've had to do a few different ones over the course of my career, and you learn some really important stuff that most people don't even think about. Things like how long at room temperature things can be before bacteria start to multiply to dangerous levels, and the maximum temp your fridge and freezer should be at, in a time when everyone is trying to save money on electricity. etc. etc.
@@alienvomitsex Depends on a person's common sense. You'd be shocked at how bad some people are at drawing connections between academic theory and every day real life implications.
Most of it is common sense though, like wash your hands before you touch food, wash them after you touch anything raw don't touch your a hole, and then the food after, anything smell or look off throw it out, like it's not difficult to not mix raw with cooked food, store them separately, I think for most of it if you NEED someone to tell you not to do it that means you are quite stupid.
I've worked in a food truck for 3 years, and the sanitation standards are ridiculously high. Beyond most fast food or even local restaurant standards. Health departments love to target us and fine us tons if we have any violations.
Meanwhile pizza hut employees be touching the pizzas with their barehands to adjust it (i work there). The government only enforces the law on poor people. Not billion dollar corporations
@@petervansan1054, Dude had holes in his brain. Big ones. I didn't realize you could have giant holes in your brain and live. Much less make a full recovery.
@@Kahless_the_Unforgettable people get shot in the head and live, there are procedures where chunks of the brain are removed to combat seizure... brains are incredibly plastic, especially when young
0:22 my family has a rule when it comes to food trucks. The sketchier the ine running it looks, the better the food is gonna be! But you should ALWAYS ask if they eat lunch at their own truck. If they say yes, and immediately recommend something, explaining how it tastes with enthusiasm, your in good hands! If they hesitate, run.
@@dlevi67 Ha! Thanks for pointing that out. I looked the actor up and one of those is his first name, the other his middle name - so it was the same actor. I still just think of him as Jon Hamm.
Your level of responsibility, to not only tell a garrowing medical story that resulted from a sketchy food truck, but on multiple occasions to reinforce that foodtrucks are actually heavily insoected so as not to impact peoples potential livelyhoods, is incredible. Many other youtubers would just bang out the story for views and not think about that at all. Seriously love your work, learn a lot from these.
As a RN n former ER\trauma 1 nurse i found this fascinating. Quick story..my kids dad grew up really poor in the mountains of puerto rico ..they had no running water for years. They would boil it from the rivers n had outhouses etc. He got cancer in 2016 had chemo n eventually went into remission. Almost 1yr to the day of completing chemo he had a seizure out of no where. They originally thought the cancer had returned n went to the brain but after tests n a brain biopsy they discovered toxoplasmosis. They said he prob gotten it as a child from the dirty water, undercooked meat or contact with feces from the outhouses etc. But bc he had a healthy immune system it was dormant n he was asymptomatic. However since the chemo had lowered his immune response it attacked. He was on antibiotics n antiparasitics n anti seizure meds for awhile n eventually made a full recovery!
I am an RN, also. It must have been so difficult to go through such a difficult time. I'm so thankful he persevered & recovered. It's disturbing that there have been well done research studies via human trials, which confirm parasites can 100% cause cancer. However, these imperative studies are not discussed or taught near as often as they shld be. Sharing his story is appreciated & I have no doubt it will help others. Thank you very much.
Cats and dogs can also get tapeworm infections. I had a cat that got them. This is also why you should always wash your hands after dealing with the cat litter box.
i was a south american kid in the 90s/00s, i hear "medium rare pork" and i get a shiver down my spine. idk if kids are still taught the same way, but i had the fear of tenias instilled in me at a very young age. it's one of the top gruesome experiences to study the parasites in school, combined with the traditional sti horror show class everyone got in school and tetanus.
Medium rare beef is possible because we have the tool But irl without them then you better overcook them , make it as thin as possible for easier cooking and to avoid overcooking
This may be one of the most horrifying Chubbyemu videos yet. The fact that the effects went on for MONTHS. Even the thought of parasites makes me cringe, and this one can cross into the brain... Amazing that the patient made a full recovery. Powerful medication
Funny. If you ever learned what eating ANY dead bodies/meat and dairy did to your brain or entire body, you'd prob suicide as you don't have the mental fortitude to change your eating habits permanently and go vegan to save your own life.
@@mesa9724it's either that or the dreaded "*A* recovery." Knowing that these stories are extrapolated from actual cases makes it pretty freaky, and sometimes he'll play it straight and tell you that such a condition left them with aftereffects for life!
I was super impressed with the food trucks who came to our small town back in the COVID days. I've never seen such clean workspaces, but their glove usage must have been through the roof, lol. Seeing how dedicated they were to cleanliness made a lot of loyal little food gremlins out of us town folk, though.
@@chicken29843 It depends. Can you rely on your employees to regularly wash their hands? If so, yes, gloves are worse. You a fast food place hiring randoms? Probably best to always require gloves.
@@chicken29843 Yup. People in the food industry who wear gloves generally wear them to not soil their hands with the food rather than the opposite and are more likely to not realize they're cross-contaminating for that reason since they don't realize their gloves are dirty whereas they would realize their hands are.
@@rangergxi But if you can't rely on your employees to 'wash their hands' then any further food preparation is a gross negligence of hygiene. There is no alternative to washing hands. If you don't trust the employees enough to wash their hands, to the point you shower them with gloves, its pretty much a given that these gloves are going to be cross contaminated anyway, as they touch and put them on. Gloves are more like an additional hygiene step, not at all an alternative to hand washing.
@@BlackChad792 Obviously you've never worked in the food industry. It's easy for somebody to go from handling raw produce to picking up bread and then back to the raw produce without thinking twice about cross contamination. A good restaurant, with trained cooks and a quality chef, will know not to do this. A fast food worker, who is still in high school getting trained by somebody who barely understands what cross contamination means? They won't know the difference.
This happened to my son's father. He ate street tacos in Mexico and had Neurocystercercosis which is the tapeworms in his brain. He almost died and has a shunt in his brain with fluid on his brain for the rest of his life.
My mom cooked me steak and it already had season in the meat and my mom cooked the meat really good but then I start to shiver and I had a stacks of blankets on me and I was still cold I had a sore throat my sister thought it was a stomach bug but i thought it was something else
As soon as I read pork and brain I knew exactly what happened. These kinds of diseases are endemic here so we learn all about parasites in school, including both types of tapeworm, and the diseases they cause. It was also in school that I learned about the ever so lovely named oral-fecal route. Anyways, I'm surprised the guy made a full recovery because my teachers assured us that tapeworms in the brain are a one way street. Maybe they just wanted to make sure we washed our hands well...
@@LourdesGzz I started washing my hands WAY BETTER when covid happend and I STILL got covid twice! March 2021 (covid penumona w/ an 8 day hospital stay) and Omicron in Jan 2022. (8 days at home, it was no worse than a cold).
The timer on the sponsored segment is 100/10 thank you if I ever have enough money to get factor I will come right back here and buy it from you for that
Dang! I once went with my boss to buy supplies for the cafe and we found a lady parked in her driveway next to her house selling tamales from her car. They were so good! Glad we’re still alive!
don´t worry if the tamal has the right consistency the first time you bite it, it has been cooked correctly and it is even safer than eating a salad given how easy it is for it to not be disinfected the right way. The real trouble comes with food you can´t tell until your stomach tries to digest it.
This is not a practice we have in Europe (afaik), but I know in some cultural segments in America, local grandmas or aunties run these household cookeries as unprofessional business. These cookeries aren’t run by cutthroat fraudsters, they’re run largely as a form of community service. These communities don’t need the approval of some bureaucrat big shot from city hall, and you don’t need the government to inspect your mommas food.
In the description they have different names so i Think theyre brothers but thats still quite a buissness! One makes you sick and one makes you healthy
Reminds me of this one exterminator I knew. He would feed rats in the public parks slices of pizza and other food stuff until they got big enough to fill a dumpster then he would take a picture of them and ask the city for money to kill them.
That's funny the taco truck owner became his doctor 😂😂😆 Oh shit. I'm in tears. Love the super Nintendo music playing in the background while talking about him getting sick. Noice
@@luizansounds “Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah.” [Al-Qur’an 5:3]
I'm an RN. In school we looked at slides of brain tissue from a woman who had gotten tape worm bladders in her brain from a dog licking her mouth. That woman and those slides immediately came to mind when this MD started describing CD's symptoms. This is a very well made video. Thank you!
And here you are in the comments section giving us your enlightened opinion. Actually maybe you could spare us your enlightened opinion for the sake of humanity.
Bodbh is a trolling poodle with hydatid worm (chinococcus granulosus). Seriously, find it disgusting people allow dogs to lick them after the animal has licked parts of its body.
As a german, videos like these make me appreciate our strict meat standards even more. Gotta get a myself a Mettbrötchen today (bread roll with raw pork and onions).
@@angel794 No luck involved. As I said, strict meat standards. I've been eating raw pork for over 30 years. But thanks, now I'm craving Mettbrötchen again.
A friend of my dad had a tapeworm in his brain. He ate pork and that is how he contracted the parasite. He got surgery but he wasn't the same person as he was before.
This is actually something an old Biology teacher of mine's uncle had. If she's still alive she'd be in her ate 70s to early 80s rn. Said uncle used to cook pork chops and stuff by just cooking it on one side in a pan for 2 minutes and then flip it over and do the other for 2. He was also a raging alcoholic (important). So one day he goes to a hospital and complains to about feeling sick and the docs immediately notice he's got jaundice. They do a blood test and question his family and go okay, he'd an alcoholic let's tone down the alcohol and then that'll improve his liver function. The uncle loses consciousness 3 days later and then dies shortly thereafter. Turns out his brain was full of worms and the constant abuse of alcohol was probably affecting the worms too and helped keep him alive
He survived taking 35 grams of caffeine, then died after injecting himself with a massive dose of antibiotics, only to both operate an illegal food truck _and_ work as a doctor. Incredible.
The fact that he ate the taco truck again my reaction was “then that guy was an idiot” it makes sense on why they have to have a license and inspection to sell food in New York City alone
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 that part is also true. I remember eating some thing that went bad and I didn’t start getting sick till about a week later.
When I was an icu nurse, we had a boy that came in with Neuro symptoms like this. They thought he had meningitis, but the ct scan showed these cysts in his brain from disseminated pork tapeworm infection just like this. They tested the whole family for tapeworms. Apparently they had eaten pork at a luau while in Hawaii a month or two prior. The kind where the pig is buried and cooked for 1-2 days. The boy was probably scratching and not washing his hands after and reinfected himself just like this man.
Brain parasites are really the stuff of nightmares, even if they 'only' end up as cysts. Sometimes it goes far worse than that. Pretty amazing that the case in this video ended up making a full recovery.
@@ebdgrI have 4 brain cysts . I was told it is better to leave them in than take them out due to possible complications. How many does your uncle have ? And how is he recovering . TY in advance
If a place is slightly sketchy but has good food, a good rule of thumb is to still avoid pork and fish. Luckily the worst I’ve ever had was generic food poisoning from an airport breakfast taco. It made for an unpleasant flight for me and everyone around me, but at least it wasn’t a tapeworm
And then people wonder why I am so darn serious about food safety and sanitation even when I was just working simple jobs. I went to culinary school, I learned the importance of safety and sanitation guidelines, and swore to uphold the Culinarian's Code. People made fun of me for reciting it on the job, but I never had a customer come in sick from our food. I'm disabled and retired now, but I still practice it and still tell people about it all the time.
I’m always so genuinely impressed by people who take this kind of pride in what they do, from small things to bit things. I really love that, and it sticks with me any time I hear of/meet a person like that. You were the cool one, and the people making fun of you were the losers.
@@LiterallyJustAnActualPotato well, thank you! I just felt like the code was something people should take seriously: you wouldn't want to subject yourself to conditions or food safety/sanitation issues that could hurt yourself or others you care for so why would you subject others to it? It was the first thing I learned in culinary school and I took it to heart. It was an oath like the ones doctors took and I swore to always protect people I cooked for. I never understood why it was something to get bullied for especially when it was an essential part of food service.
It happened in Russia. My nephew, when he was studying in typical Russian cook college, was on practise with other students during summer. They were putting meat through meat grinder. Professional meat grinders aren't the same as home grinders so you need to push meat with the special stick or hammer into grinder so it will be grinded better. One day, some stupid male student used his hand instead of hammer to push the meat. All other students, including my nephew, were taken out of kitchen immediately. Cause the view of accident was so disgusting. This male student lost his hand and was forced to leave college. Food safety isn't only about food but also about devices you use to make food.
This is just a little fun fact from working in food service, if you can avoid it, never ask for a recommendation- we're incentivised to give you what's not selling or soon going to go bad. I'm not saying it's unsafe- unlike here- but still you're better off just picking something from the menu at random than asking for a recommendation if you're looking for freshness and extra safety
So, if the kitchen is telling you guys to make these recommendations, saying we need to get rid of this stuff, so push it. Then you are complicit if you push it. So basically what you’re telling me is that servers are unethical? Really? I read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential. I worked as a bartender etc. I am well aware of the shenanigans that go on in the kitchens. It troubles me, however that a server would knowingly try to poison me.
@@hopesprings4967 You must have misread the OPs comment. They said they're told to recommend whatever is "not selling or soon going bad" Nothing unethical about that; the food is safe to eat, just not popular or there's excess!
This was a tough listen. I was driving alone and shouted “NO!” at one of the key reveals. I’m so glad CD made it through! I cannot imagine how violated he felt. Not by the “chef,” necessarily, but by the “hole” situation
Yeah, this is literally my worst nightmare. Literallly, I went to sleep with a migraine one time and had a nightmare about having brain worms and the hospital inexplicably not being able to find a neurosurgeon or send me to another hospital. That shockingly was the most out of place thing in the dream, as my actual doctor made an appearence, and there were even brain MRIs that my subconcious inaccurately labeled "X-rays". I can usually tell when I'm dreaming, but for some reason I didn't pick up on it that time, since my dreams are insanely detailed, and I was experiencing head pain when I fell asleep, it was a perfect storm...
@@Amy_the_Lizardruhh the part where you said your brain inaccurately labeled it as X-rays reminded me I had a dream last night that I had some amazing Mexican food that my mom saved for me in the fridge when I was a child, and I had finally gotten around to eating it this year in the dream. I looked at the side of the takeout box and it said from 2009. I was like wow, this food was 14 years old and it was still amazing??? And then when I woke up I realized.. how the actual hell did I get that math correct in my dream? That 2023-2009 was 14 years? I’m not too bad at math but idk it just shocked me. Dreams are so cool man. But not when I dream about having a terrible day at work. I had a dream 2 nights ago that I was working at my dollar general job and I got shot at 5 times, and that it was pouring down rain and a huge sinkhole opened up in our basement and I was scared shitless. And then when I tried to leave my car wouldn’t start and my seatbelt wouldn’t unbuckle. And then my brakes stopped working while driving and I got into 3 car accidents. This was all in one day in my dream. And one of my customers had the nerve to tell me he was stressed out, I was like HA YOURE stressed out???? Wait till you hear about my day! And then we closed at fucking 2 am for some reason and I was pissed cause we usually close at 9. And this whole dream I had was when I was on my day off in real life and asleep all day. Wild stuff man. I think it’s because I drink so much apple juice before bed when taking my meds, I heard it gives vivid dreams
Good to know. Thank you for informing. P.S. This gives me another anxiety.😬 I don’t eat pork anyway… but still a thought that I can get infected because of someone’s poor hygiene is unsettling.
This medical case reminds me that eating any food outside the home that you did not personally source and prepare yourself, example a restaurant , food truck or even a friend's house is somewhat equivalent to taking an airline flight. You have essentially ceded your continued health and safety to the actions of other people and just have to hope and trust that they adhere to best practices for health and safety.
Absolutely agree. I gave up eating out a few years back for this exact reason. People think I’m crazy when I explain to them why I don’t eat at restaurants anymore. I’ve never in my life gotten sick from food that I’ve prepared myself at home. Not once.
You also can get a variety of parasites AND intestinal disorders that will haunt us for a lifetime. Particularly, AVOID lettuce in restaurants and grilled chicken.
I'd just like to say that I appreciate the little snippets you've included about how most mobile food units are under very strict scrutiny from local health departments and also that the vast majority of MFU's operate safely. I've run a couple of MFU's in my time in the restaurant industry and it is my experience a fact that public health authorities are very aware of the potential for foodborne illness in mobile food units and they take it seriously. As a person who has dealt closely with serious foodborne illness (myself and 2 other family members have had e.coli infections,) I can safely say that I feel very comfortable eating at any food truck or cart in my city because I know they are being monitored and have good relationships with the local public health departments, even moreso than most restaurants. Thank you for putting out quality, informative and entertaining content that isn't alarmist and recognizes the nuance in each of our own wild and unpredictable existences!
When I was in school I did work experience at the local county council and shadowed someone who was inspecting a burger van. In the UK there is a standardised sign you have to display that shows the rating those inspectors have given you, so it's easy for customers to tell how dodgy a mobile van is. The stereotype of the worst vans having weirdly good food is still alive and well, however.
If you eat anyone’s pulled pork, I have news for you. That’s largely where people get this from in developed countries, and those who like pulled pork (routinely it’s not cooked at a high enough heat for long enough to kill parasite eggs due to how pulled pork is made), this is where they actually get it. Not from food trucks.
@@danix454 It's been a long while but I do recall some friends talking about pulled pork and how great it was at some place in washington. Thanks for the heads up.
I can't put in words how happy I get when I hear they had a full recovery. Thanks for such good and informative videos, as a medicine student, these are gold.
glad to hear too. I smashed tons of tacos al pastor/gringas in mexico from questionable taco stands when i used to live there. I got sick a ton, but mostly stomach/vomiting issues. two years of irresistible tourture, I stopped getting sick all together for the remaining years. aint gonna stop me!
@@SoyAntonioGaming undercooked pork is dangerous. Just like undercooked chicken or beef. Cooked pork is totally safe to eat, even though Leviticus forbids eating it.
@@SoyAntonioGaming How about you watch the video? It was stated multiple times that it is not just because of pork, but the irresponsible circumstances that lead to unhygienic pork being sold. If you don’t want to eat pork, don’t, but let other people do what they want
I recall seeing a cook that had a cooking establishment and had prepared a huge pot of meat for tacos etc …. Left it to cool and when she went to put it away it was bubbling on its own. Like it was cooking but not. She immediately identified the meat was spoiled and had to throw 100s of dollars of food away. But thankfully she did rather than serve it.
It’s counterintuitive, but the bacteria that causes food to spoil is not going to infect you because it evolved to live in rotting food, not in a warm living body with stomach acid and enzymes. BUT… those bacteria can produce toxins as a byproduct and those toxins can make you sick! Of course in this case the problem wasn’t bacteria or a virus, but a parasite.
@@courtneylee643 rimworld Look IT Up. Nö Jokes beside pigs and Humans are geneticly very Close and its Not scientificly prooven i guess but human meat tastes Like pig.
And we're very prone To the same diseases/parasites. And No pig would ignore a fresh corpse when ITS hungry Like we die vier versa and yeah rimworld prooves this again.
This one really got me squeamish. Idk if it was the undercooked pork idea, the fact he ate poo particles AND tape worm eggs, the brain cysts, the horrific tape worm mouth an hooks but this was all freaky
I was eating when I decided to watch this ... big mistake .. luckily it wasn't pork though so I just about managed to finish it after pausing for a bit lmao.
In my experience, I get feverish when I have allergy attacks, so that's not too far fetched for me 😅 but maybe it's just a me thing, Idk I'm no doctor, just someone who suffers every spring 😂
@@feathers8233yea no this can happen for sure especially on REALLY bad days but idk that I would say it's a common thing for anyone without moderate to severe allergies.
I think we all must admit truckman's cooking skills. His food was so delicious that he managed to attract clients in spite of severe anti sanitaria in his truck))
I have a degree in parasitology and as soon as I read the title I knew exactly where this is going. However, I'd like to say that the source of the cysts didn't have to be the ass-scratching cook... I find it much more probable that it was an auto-infection from the patient's own feces. This is how most cases of cysticercosis happen - that's why it is always dangerous to catch T. solium, even though the taeniosis (having the adult worm in your gut) itself has mild symptoms. One doesn't have to be some disgusting pig (no pun intended) to get their hands, and subsequently food, contaminated by their own feces. We come to contact with it every day after all.
My father , as a child, saw a man die from eating under-cooked pork. For the remainder of his life, he only ate meat so well-done you could shatter glass with it. And he hated eating out in restaurants because he didn't trust that the kitchens were sanitary enough.
Wow that’s so sad, he lost out on really good food and the fun of being adventurous with food because of a generally irrational fear he got from a traumatic experience. He should have gotten therapy
@@maddieb.4282 LOL, therapy wasn't as common back then as it is now. I'm talking the 1930's. He didn't miss out on great food, though. All the women in the family were excellent cooks. It was just meat he insisted on extra-well.
If you are working with preparing pork, you can SEE the eggs in the muscle. My family has, for generations, made their own sausage (most similar to smoked chorizo). We don't do the butchering and such ourselves any more, but when my dad was a kid they did. They would buy a pig, and do the whole butchering, and they've told me about how they would spend a whole day going through all of the meat looking for the cysts and cutting them out when my dad was a kid. They didn't know what they were, exactly, but they made sure to cut them all out. I would assume that if we did this again we probably wouldn't have to do this, but this would have been back in the 60s/70s when standards and regulations weren't quite as rigorous.
You can see it, if the burden is high. If it's a lighter infection or early on in the infection of the animal, the fewer cysts could be missed. But then, that's also why we were taught to cook pork well.
@@spvillano well. Some were taught to Cook pork well, others taught to avoid pork all together. I was the one taught to Cook it Thoroughly, enjoy the Bacon growing up etc. However. To the Muslims out there, I totally understand WHY the prophet Muhammed taught against eating it. It truly is. A Filthy damned animal. Hell even Christ himself cast the demons into the swine.
When the guy went to the doctor, I was like "Of course he didn't take him seriously, he's the food truck guy!" In all seriousness though, the actors were great as always. Also brave of a food truck owner to let you film a video about someone getting seriously ill from a food truck. I assume Angie's Burgers is in the States, but I still wish them well. Also, I thought this was going to be a case of incidental migration, where the parasite ends up somewhere it isn't supposed to be in (like an intestinal parasite in the brain) but it's something that's not normally seen. I didn't realize it could be WORSE. The fact that we figured out that it was from different life stages tells me this happens way too often for comfort. I used to not be good about washing my hands and still forget to wash my hands before eating, but that may change now that this info will live rent free in my brain. Rather that than encysted parasites any day.
Cysticercosis ( so named from the round cysts that enclose the larvae) basically is an "unintentional migration" The worm intends to grow as an adult stage in the gut of a human who poops out the egg which gets ingested by a pig, which then grows the larva stage in its muscles which are ingested by a human, to grow into an adult in his/her gut. Intended cycle, propagates more worms. Having the larva ingested by a human results in a dead-end rather than that cycle, unless that human is served up undercooked by a non-usda-regulated cannibal.
I’m so proud of you for getting better at washing your hands! Here’s some extra motivation: You should also wash your hands before you use the bathroom and after. Think about how you wipe yourself or make contact down there. Then, think about all the stuff you touch and other people touch. Did they touch the ground than a counter? Congratulations! Touching that counter is like touching the floor! Did they wash their own hands after using the bathroom? Are you touching something after they touched it with their peepee poopy paws? Do you have an allergy? Congratulations! You might touch something then eat before washing your hands. Imagine it like having hot sauce on your hands before you eat or use the bathroom. Make sure you always wash your hands before and after. You have no idea what other people touch. Or what they don’t clean up after themselves.
I'm 74yo and recall from the 50s and 60s regularly being told by grownups to never eat pork that wasn't fully cooked. It wasn't to have a any redbor pink coloration to it. We were always "harassed " by parents, grandparents and aunts & uncles about sanitation in the kitchen setting. Clean hands, clean dish towels, clean dishes and cooking utensils, etc. Sharing food was frowned upon. Antibiotics were rather new. MRIs/CT scans were not invented yet. All these rules were to keep us healthy , plain and simple.
Same here my mom got it in my head so bad that I would wash my hands until they where raw. I would wash my hands after every little thing and I still do to this day. I'm kinda happy she did that because I've been through a virus pandemic and just viewing how little my coworkers wash their hands and overall keep up on their hygiene is appalling to me. lol
Today we have a three for Thursday special: 1) pinky dipped Pico de Gallo 2) ass scratched carne ass-ada 3) fecal matter fish tacos with tapeworm tilapia
I worked at a super market and one day we found several buckets near our garbage compactor that we started locking up because people would dive in. The buckets had a cows head and the others had other body parts. We found out from the police that apparently some people were killing livestock at night and taking body parts. Possibly selling or using the meat. As for the dumpster divers we found that a Chinese restaurant owner was taking the meat we through out. The cameras ended up catching him and they had their place shut down.
Yep. I cooked pasta in the morning and there was leftover on the table. We went out the whole day, in the evening my toddler almost ate the pasta but I sprinted and took away the pasta and prevented my toddler from eating it.
I really appreciate your emphasis that food trucks aren't unsafe or bad by default. There are still a lot of people who consider them gross or unsanitary based on nothing.
A small enclosed container, lacking running water where food is made is usually not going to be very clean. It's not impossible, but it is much more difficult to maintain the same level of hygiene in what amounts to a boxcar with a window than an establishment with bathrooms and running water. Then throw in the "illegal food truck" part and you have a serious problem. It's harder (though far from impossible) to penalise a food truck because of dangerous food. "It was on the corner at when I ate there" is much harder to narrow down than "It is at ".
@@daviddavidson2357??? Food trucks need some kind of functioning water system to be FDA approved. It might be a tank that needs refilling but im not sure why that would make a difference, it still has "running water" that is probably coming from the same municipal water source everyone else is using in the location. Its also not much more enclosed than some kitchens in small resturaunts at least in the city im in, and the windows are always open. I understand your point about how its easier to run an illegal food operation out of a truck, but I dont understand the other two
My grandmother on my dad's side of the family died from complications of this. They owned and slaughtered their own pigs. I'm assuming she had been suffering with it for years. She passed away in 1995. I remember seeing her at the hospital one of the last times I went to visit her in Mexico as a child. I looked at her and somehow knew she was in her last months of life. I remember her still somehow smiling at me as she saw me walk into the room... I don't think I remember mourning her death and just imagining how much she suffered until now, typing this message with tears rolling down my face. I was 8 years old when she passed. I've had a deep fear since I was a child about pig meat. I still will rarely eat it now a days. Except bacon. That's really the only pig meat I will consume. I have finally informed myself more about this condition today. Thank you Chubbyemu for informing us of the potential dangers and symptoms of these incidents.
I just can't get past the fact that this guy had already eaten food he bought from that truck & ended up at ER shortly after, but he never understood the connection, so he went back AGAIN months later and got into even worse trouble than he was in the first time. I'm glad for him of course, but he's kind of overly lucky surviving it with a full recovery.
Not only that, but he heard his co-workers talking about how some of them got sick from the food, one saw him touch himself between his legs and then TOUCHED THE FOOD AGAIN, and he STILL went back!!!! I'm happy he survived, but good lord, was he really just like, "YOLO pork is delicious"? I mean, it's good, but even I hadn't have made the connection previously, after hearing people I work with say they got sick, I would've noped out of there immediately.
in my hospital they make a check-list where and what you ate and in some cases infrom health department and police in order to track other people before its too late
My high school science teacher once told me about this tapeworm. I don't remember the conversation that prompted it, since I don't think it was relevant to any of the classes she taught (it was a small school, she covered pretty much all science classes) but I only remember thinking how gross its method of propagation was. While I've never dealt with this myself, I do have an experience eating contaminated meat from an unhygienic place. I once bought suya (grilled meats) from a place that I had gone to several times before, but the smell coming from this place on this particular day was notably awful. I chose to ignore it, and probably made a mental note to find a different suya spot afterwards, but it would've been smarter of me to have not eaten there. Later I came down with typhoid, and I also had malaria at the same time to boot. I had the WORST nightmares of my life, I don't think people understand the meaning of the term "fever dream" until you've had one. I remember being so worn down and exhausted that all I could do was lay on the floor. For the record, at some point that suya spot vanished into thin air.
A friend of mine had neurocysticercosis about 20 years ago. The first and only real symptom was a seizure. Maybe took 6 months after eating roadside pork tacos in Mexico. The only thing that pointed the U.S. doctors in the right direction was because his father read something that rang a bell.
“A blank, unmarked truck parked in a back alleyway. But he saw the mustached man, and knew that this obviously is the perfect setting to enjoy the tastiest food.” As would we all think the same.
I remember my grandmother being really militant about never eating undercooked pork because of the fear of trichinosis. You get infected by the larvae Trichinella that spreads through your digestive system and can be transported to the muscles and sometimes to the lungs and brain. Wild game can also be infected with trichinella. I’d love to see a video on how Trichinosis is different than Taenia Solium. I’m so thankful for our good government food regulation agencies. Lots of people died from bad meat, dairy, and contaminated foods (often deliberately to stretch ingredients) before governments decided to form these agencies. Absolute History has a great TH-cam channel on Victorian foods and how they made people sick.
Story time. My mother lived in a not very well off community during her infancy. She ate all sorts of meat when small, they weren't an everyday occurrence and many times my grandma used to create animals in her house to later use in a stew or something. This isn't quite about that, my mother had an "uncle", I don't know if we actually shared blood, that kept pigs in his basement. My grandma used to get pork from there and my mom attests that things weren't hygienic. So, one day, while checking the results of a battery of tests meant to check if her brain was ok -she has a severe case of migraines since young-, it was noticed that she had various calcified spots in her brain, the doctor had quite the scare -she told me- but later figured that these were just remnants of something that could've been worse. During my mother's infancy, the government had various campaigns of giving "vermicide" medication to folk living in impoverished areas. My mother had a close shave with the same parasite in the video and just went on to have a normal life because of this decision of the state. I fear she wouldn't have had a good childhood if that problem were to develop, as medical care was hard to access and my mother always had some of the symptoms described because of the migraines. Thankfully none of that happened and I stand here telling this story to you.
@@celeca7 raised them. English isn't my first language and this vernacular is not something I use often. She used to raise ducks, chickens, rabbits, mostly small animals.
Stuff like this needs to be shown in schools. Too many people have no idea what their life would be like without "onerous" regulations that keep them safe in so many ways. That map says it all. Say no to tapeworms, kids.
I know! It's almost like they think that when word would inevitably get out that people eating at a certain place were getting sick, everyone would stop eating there and they'd go out of business! Stupid capitalists. Thank goodness for the Almighty Government, may it grow ever larger!
We started reading the restaurant inspections in our area and now eat out less often. Being a nice or expensive place is not a an indicator of safety. Food trucks rarely fail their inspections. Great video.
As someone who has worked in a fancy restaurant, I can confirm this. While still regulated and safe, they are nowhere near as hygienic as say, a mcDonald's or other fastfood chain. I'm planning on starting my own food truck-like concept for cocktails, and after watching this imma make damn sure my safety measures are extra strict
Reading the inspections don't matter squat. All they care about is Turning and burning where they give you the food as fast as possible to get more people in when you leave. If the restaurant is open and you're reading the Inspection, it won't matter. Your best off going to a high scale restaurant where they not only clean but Murphy oil the wood, the chefs have clean aprons and the servers are well kept with fresh white gloves. That is the type of quality we all deserve but will never recieve. Being a cook, a waiter/waitress, a manager a host a bartender is just too much pressure to worry about thoroughly following the rules .
I had contracted Babesiosis. After seeing over 23 doctors & specialists, my husband, a dentist finally figured it out. It is extremely rare for doctors to figure out parasitic infections & most patients die.
The US health care industry has as its premise to scam the patient, not help the patient. If they can put you in critical care and steal from insurance and you, then doctors will. Don't forget that medical and dental professionals have millions of debt due to their education, hence why they lack empathy and neglect the suffering of their patients.
That's because they have to stay in medical school, longer ! Most soon to be doctors, do not finish med. school . This is why people in America get parasites and the doctors don't test for them, they don't know to . They need to make it manitory , to take up tropical diseases in med. school, because parasites exist here in America , too , and they don't just exist in tropical countries !
An ER nurse called my office and asked if we knew of relatives for a lady who worked with us. Our coworker had developed brain parasites as a result of eating undercooked pork. She was dying. Apparently in her country of origin it wasn’t unusual to eat rare pork products. No one knew how to help because she was a new employee. I’ve never forgotten how her children were orphaned and there were no relatives to take them.
taco good 🌮
Yum
sometimes
Truck goodur
Yes
Not pork though
As a single person living alone, I can't afford to eat gas station sushi or from sketchy food trucks. If I pass out for a while in the bathroom, that's it for me. Gotta be careful.
trying to be progressive and inclusive at the expense of your own health and wellbeing is essentially the modern liberal experience. there's a reason they're illegal. they can't pass sanitation standards
AMERICA
The irony is that these people survive to pass on their genes, because cooperation trumps paranoia 😁
@@lisajohnson5516what do you mean
@@lisajohnson5516 If you get a tape worm infection from eating food from a food truck, and other people also get tape form from the food truck.
And someone tells you that there is ass sweat in the food.
it is not paranoia to not eat the food.
I'm a doctor from Thailand, one of the countries with the endemic disease. The moment I see the video name I immediately know what it is.But If you live in a first world country, it's not hard for a general physician to not think of it as a first diagnosis. The disease itself can manifest in many forms as the video said. If any of you would travel to a part of the world where cysticercosis is still a problem, I would recommend you to eat from a clean restaurant and fully cooked meat.
I never knew this could be a thing to think about. I'll remember this information for the future, brrrr
Thank you for the info! 😊🎉
Excellent advice. Thank you, doctor.
Guess I'll try to cook my own food if I can
Imagine my surprise when I see that the country I've just visited for three weeks is on the list of Taenia endemic.
Good thing that it was a mostly muslim country and pork was very hard to find. And I should be also out of risk because I only dined in non-cheap and expensive restaurants.
I like how, after feeling weird ever since he ate there, and hearing about the weird rumors and MULTIPLE other coworkers feeling weird after eating there...
He decided he should go to that truck again.
Never underestimate the impact of a good 🌮
those tacos must have been sooo good
I mean... good fúd is hard to come by...
Worms made him go back to pick up their relatives
This man has no survival instincts
Getting and having a parasite inside you is definitely one of the most terrifying medical problems i can think of 😨😨
Getting 2 is even worse
I lived in South America for a while. It took years for them to figure out which strain of parasite I had. Best way to avoid getting sick is to stay afraid. Can’t let your guard down just because you’ve gotten used to the place.🤢
Unless they make you smarter like Fry
Radiation poisoning. Wendigoon has an excellent video on such a case, titled something like "The most painful death ever". It's not an exaggeration.
I'm an expert at dealing with parasites in my body 😔(pinworms how I hate)
In 2001 I was victim of this same case while living abroad after eating undercooked pork infected with this parasite 6 months prior to the event. I experienced all symptoms described in the video. I experienced seizures which took me to the emergency room and recovered hours later; subsequently, later that night I experienced further seizures, which landed me in a coma for about nine months.
This event had life-changing consequences in my life as I’ve developed multiple neurological issues that has affected me ever since, and had to learn how to live with.
Thank you for bringing awareness to this, and though it is not common in the United States for this to happen, it is something that happens often and third world countries and other developing nations.
Thank you, sure hope your redesigned life is going smoothly and well for you...!
Amen 🙏
Allah says don't eat pork for a reason
@@Hunredbandzmy brother in Christ, cattle also spread similar diseases, if not more.
Wow, glad you recovered. I live in nth east Thailand and was just wondering why I have never heard of this here...then I remembered people just suddenly get sick and die quickly here and it's not like a hospital would do an autopsy, if you ask why the die people just say he got sick and died so maybe I have always been around it....
Suddenly I feel lucky I have lived my life vegan .
I love that you made sure multiple times to inform your viewers that this was not a "Food Truck" problem, but an *Illegal, Unregulated Food* problem, and that in many cases, food trucks are in fact MORE regulated.
EDIT: BOY, am I getting a lot of weird replies here lol
You really love it?
@@morfeubranco 💚
I still don't eat from them.
I don't eat from most fast food places in general.
I also don't eat pork; haven't for more than 15 years.
@@MR-nl8xr *ahem* cool story bro
@@MR-nl8xr Not a pork man myself, either. The only times are occasionally bacon on my chicken sandos and mixed in with beef in meatballs.
...I feel like a part of me is descended from Hui Chinese, if it weren't for the fact my folks eat _so much_ Goddamned pork.
I really appreciate the actors, settings, and camera work that makes this story feel more real. Chubbyemu's second channel Big Emus really widened my perspective for how much work went into these videos.
I didn’t know Chubby had a second channel !
He has three channels. “Heme Review” is the third one - it’s his “serious”/academic channel, where he talks about the same topics as the ones uploaded here, but without the memes.
@@misstinahamilton5714 he has two other channels
@@darkfarfetch3664 Tell me you're a clown without telling me you're a clown
Awesome effort and talent
My kitten had a similar story of sorts. She started to develop seizures not long after I adopted her and where she also has cerebellar hypoplasia it was suspected that they were an unfortunate side effect so she began treatment of phenobarbital which eventually included gabapentin as they were still happening. She was not too thrilled about it especially since it didn't seem to really help.
Then, another late night where I had to bring her in to emerge (and gently hitting a deer along the way), the vet asked what her history was prior to being adopted at which point I said she and her brothers were outdoor strays but is now strictly indoors. Once the seizures subsided not long after being directly injected with phenobarb, she grabbed a box of Profender and applied the topical solution while explaining that this is something not often seen which is why it was likely misdiagnosed and how a parasitic tapeworm infection of the brain is possible under certain circumstances. One of the two active ingredients in Profender is praziquantel.
Spent about $1200 in total in emerge visits and medication to find out a $15 injection was all she needed.
Worth every cent and the deer was okay.
I had a cat that also had tapeworms. The vet gave us some medicine that made the tapeworms detach from her colon. She excreted about three tapeworms.
Eating pork tacos from an illegal foodtduck is tight. Making a full recovery from brain shut down is super easy, barely an inconvenience… he thought.
So you got a movie for me?
Yes sir I do!
I would love a ryan george and chubbyemu crossover
Wow!!! Wow! Wow. wow...
@@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319 so what happens in this thing
Yeahyeahyeah!
My little cousin had the exact same thing when he was a child. Nearly died, managed to somehow survive with some vision loss. He'll be visually impaired for life, but man, the whole time he was in the hospital, the entire family was panicking. He was only around 7 or 8 years old, and nobody knew what to do or how/where he got it. By the time I heard about it myself, he had collapsed and was brought over from the countryside to the city where I live. Thank you for discussing cysticercosis! Not many people know about it until it's too late.
What a horrible experience for you all. Glad he made a recovery and is still here with us!
America?
@@Boulders911what does America have to do with anything? Wether it’s there or not doesn’t affect anything. Tons of states are requiring licenses for food trucks and everywhere you have to be flown to a bigger city for better medical help
@@Steve.._. wow you really took a basic question personally.
@@Steve.._.i think they asked that bc there’s so many restrictions in america that it should be highly unlikely
This kind of story makes me grateful for food safety regulations. I feel like that's something we take for granted nowadays
But youll eat mcdonalds anyday of the week😂
@@jean-pierresteenbergbro that shit nasty either way
nah, those turban heads and ninjas are nasty tho
Yeah I don't eat meat anymore. If it's not t.solium it could be a spontaneous mutation of the PRNP gene of the cow you're eating (you'll die of vCJD in this case eventually because of PRPsc proteins) . There was a BSE case in the Netherlands not too long ago, so this is a real and persistent danger. (I don't want to know how many people diagnosed with CJD actually have vCJD because the symptoms are identical, cows are slaughtered before you even have the chance for a save diagnosis, (long incubation times) and animals can now be fed with other animals again... (at least in Europe) It's only a matter of time until the pig version PSE will effect humans as well...
@@jean-pierresteenbergpork is the worst meat out there though. Beef tastes better, chicken is more sustainable and leaner, and fish is healthier.
I love how quick doctors are to say it's allergies. I went to urgent care cuz my eyes had swollen shut. I had to hold my eye open to drive just for the doctor at Urgent care to tell me that it was allergies. I was experiencing anaphylaxis. It just hadn't spread to my throat yet. Still to this day no idea what caused it. Don't know if it was something I ate or if it's just something I'm allergic to in the air (betting the later), but it caused a severe allergic reaction and all they did was label It as allergies and told me, "you're good to go, just take allergy meds" as if I hadnt taken multiple different types and none of them worked so thats why i went to urgent care, They never even gave me anything for my allergies so they didn't even give me anything to possibly treat what was causing it. And I told them that I can't even go to work or classes and I am in college. I couldn't see at all. Unless i physically opened my eye with my fingers and it was extremely painful.
Before anybody asks it was not pink eye and it was not an eye infection because they gave me nothing and it eventually just went away as winter came. And it wasn't just my eyes that were swollen shut my nose swelled up. My cheeks had swollen up and parts of my forehead were swelling up as well. My eyes were incredibly itchy along with the rest of my skin on my face and I literally could not sleep. It was getting really hard to eat food because it was hurting to open and close my mouth. My eyes were swollen shut for several weeks. Once the swelling started to go down I developed permanent wrinkles from how poofy my face had gotten and having nothing to get the swelling to go down. I looked like a 20 year old that had done meth a couple times with how much i aged based on before and after photos.
Funny part is I was going to school to become a doctor. Because of all these experiences I've had with doctors, I decided not even going to touch the medical field for career. Instead I double majored and now I'm going with environmental engineering. Less gaslighting.
Another sidebar I went to an allergist about a year after because that's how long it took for my insurance to find me one and the allergist was baffled that they didn't stick me with an EpiPen at the urgent care because if I had gone home and ☠️ it would have been their negligence. I don't even know how many kinds of allergy meds I took or the sheer amount of each one I took. Eventually after dosing myself up so much with the allergy meds, the itching eventually stopped, but the swelling stayed until winter.
I hope you continues to find out what causes the swollen. Sounds horrible that the Dr just dismissed it as Allergies and yes that sounds like what usually assume without researching. They should do blood test instead. Glad it went away. Hope you don't experience it again.
Kinda late, but did you do any physical activity before that breakout of symptoms?
As someone with no allergy history, suddenly at 27yo, I experienced a few bizzare cases of sudden severe allergy symptoms following physical activities.
I would break out into hives, welts, swollen face, puffy eyes, severe itching all over, swollen throat.
After a few ER visits and an allergist visit, I was prescribed 2 epipens and my episodes were diagnosed as exercise induced anaphylaxis. There were no common allergens I tested allergic to.
I'm 32 now, and still carry the epipens, loratadine, diphenhydramine, and ranitidine.
I hope you find the answers to your mystery one day. Thought I'd share my experience so you could compare and see if it may be the same thing. GL!
I remember seeing a doctor and they assumed I had a sinus infection, but 2 days later I ended up learning it was a really bad pneumonia infection. Missed a school week due to that shit
Some drs are just weirdly not into doing their jobs. I had a visible deformity that a dr insisted was nothing, then growing pains, then it was I dont exercise enough, and finally it was my fault cause I sat weird. Just accepted that I would be taking tylenol everyday of my life, couldnt run how other people did, and sometimes I couldnt go up stairs my knees would hurt so much. Changed drs cause of insurance, that dr took one look at my weird legs and sent me to a specialist where I got three major surgeries to make my legs useable. Also, on a petty note, the weird way I sat was in fact the only direction my legs could bend.
I’m sad you didn’t stick with it since we need more doctors who really truly care and work gaslight! But! I’m glad you’re doing something that’s probably better for your mental health. I had something similar ish happen and was told it was allergies. It was actually my thyroid swelling up, possibly from Hashimotos. The doctor that had said allergies seemed to really dislike cats and kept insisting I was allergic to my cats for 1 week out of the whole year lmfao
My ex husband was a pathologist. He liked to entertain me, especially at mealtimes, by recounting some of his most interesting autopsies. On one occasion, a group of friends went hunting, killed a wild pig, roasted it, but ate the meat rare, since it was getting late and they were hungry. Several of them died.
OMG my mom recounted stories of her youth when she went to her grandparents house with her cousins who hunted. They got a deer and it had so many worms in its poor liver.
I'm an RN who hasn't (thankfully) come across any helminths and hope I never will. They make my skin crawl!
They call it pork but it could be dog meat. You never know. 😵😩😖
@@catatetherat5138 those hunters had personally shot the pig earlier in the day. It was not a dog.
@@Elizabeth-lb2jf I still won't eat at a food truck never. 😖
Insane!
how this man has a full job as a doctor and makes stellar medical videos as a hobby is mind boggling. especially since these videos have really stepped up since the beginning.
I think we know where his passion lies. And I love every learning minute he's willing to make.
I remember thinking he just uses stock footage, it turns out he hires actors and directs the filming himself
@@f3rny_66yeah same, I wondered how he found the incredibly specific stockfootage, and him hiring actors made a lot more sense when I found out
He is a doctor, but a PhD one, rather than MD, as far as I understand - pharmacology and toxicology. It's a more academic role, rather than one that has contact with patients. However, not saying that to take away from your awe! I'm amazed that *anyone* with a full time job can put videos of this quality together.
@@Rebsterhaha
I love the way moustache truck man gives him an evil look after giving him the taco like he's deliberately making people seriously ill 😂. He is in league with the tapeworms. 😈
Just feeling a little devious 😈
That sounds ridiculous, until you recall that several types of parasites can indeed control the brains and behavior of their hosts.
lol it’s true
That's because the tapeworms were fully controlling his body. The guy was actually an engineer before he got infected, but the tapeworms forced him to change careers to infect as many people as possible.
@@Shawn_Babcock we do a little trolling
I got as sick as a dog when I went wjth a friend to lunch at Crab Louie in N. Chesterfield, VA. My esophogus and stomach were messed up for months. I passed by their location one day and discovered that they had gone out of business. I was so glad that they could not seriously harm anyone else.
Man, I was getting worried with all the brain cysts. Good to know he made a full recovery.
He was very fortunate. Tonic clonic seizures alone have the potential to cause serious brain damage or death.
@@LadyLahdeedah I know. I was expecting "a recovery" at best.
I prefer watching the ones that have a full recovery. The body is an amazing thing
he didnt, he has brain cysts
Same!!!
I appreciate the steps you take to ensure your videos aren't simply fear-mongering, but rather informing us of specific risks.
Yes he's a master in balancing the fears and facts
Now we know why God has made His point about what we eat ..After all, He did create us!
Leviticus 11:12
Anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales is to be detestable to you
Lots more instructions about our diet in Leviticus 11 .
Thanks i'll read more then
Lol; never, ever eat from a roach coach or gas station!
@@donnasmall6032Did you know God wants us to eat it! It’s in proverbs bruh 1:2
I love how every time you described the guy's bowel movements, you added a shot of a can of tunafish, because i really needed help imagining poop with "chunks of undigested tuna meat" in it. Thank you.
SERIOUSLY EVERYTIME HE MENTIONED IT AND SHOWED THE PICTURE OF THE TUNA I GOT SO FUCKIN SICK 😭😭😭
Guess what I'm not eating for a while. 😂
you made me lol 😂 😂😂 so hard
😂😂
right I wanna throw up 😂
No more Tuna for me lol
My daughter, who was always vegetarian, at a chicken taco off a food truck. She got a parasite which lead to ulcer active colitis and now she has to have infusions ever few months. The doctors said she needs to do these infusions for the rest of her life.
She should have made sure it was well cooked coming off a vegetarian diet.
That's incredible that you can have that much happening inside your brain and still make a full recovery with just the right medicine and no surgery needed. Great work from the doctors!
Brains can be surprisingly flexible and durable
Ikr the medical nowadays is truly spectacular
Brain is surprisingly adaptable, morphologically.
@@chazzy_mitch Well it depends. Strokes can be devastating and lethal, but if only a small region of the brain is effected, sometimes the patient bounces back surprisingly well then too,especially if the patient's young.
A friend of mine from highschool had one when they were in junior high (likely due to a perfect storm mix of having chronic migraine - which increases stroke risk - being out in direct sunlight in Texas in summer, guzzling several Monster energy drinks in rapid succession, and having a pre-existing heart problem) and made it through pretty much completely fine other than losing the ability to percieve certain "rotten" type smells - the rest of their sense of smell works fine, just that specific range is difficult for them to percieve now.
One of my uncles also had one a few years ago, and because it was pretty mild and he got treated quickly, he was in pretty good shape and complaining about the hospital wanting to keep him for observation just a few days later because he wanted to get back to working on the hot-rod tractor he was helping my other uncle build, and he was in his in his early 70s at the time.
Sometimes the brain is quite resistant, other times...*trips* *bonk* *dies*
Not only is Moustache Guy running an illegal food truck, he's also running an unlicensed medical practice!
Nevermind wrong person
@@Yetta_Same Actor, Different Character.
"I'm playing both sides so that I always come out on top."
so long as i can save a buck i'll go see him!
@@contenteaternaw, the actors are just twins.
The guy playing the food truck operator deserves a raise
Yes, I particularly liked the grubby hat and apron, nice touch!😂
Let's skip the food ads plz
It was racist
@@Actually_Woke_6277 well a white taco man?? oh hell nah 😂😂😂
He also played the doctor
Was on a cruise ship to Mexican Riviera. Docked and disembarked to a vendor frying tacos in a 55 gallon drum for 10 cents a piece. These guys just ate all the tacos they could get their hands on. Later on the ship they got food poisoning and were quarantined for the rest of cruise. This was our first port so these guys spent 8 of 10 days locked in a tiny cabin fighting for facilities.
Out of luck, I found my self in a food safety course for work in a restaurant... Fortunately the course was reasonably short and it taught me a lifetime of how to handle food safely, respect temperature and food prep area and most of all... ALL THE POTENTIAL ILLNESSES!!!
It's a course that should be taught in High School. It's just as important as health or science class!!!
Yeah I've had to do a few different ones over the course of my career, and you learn some really important stuff that most people don't even think about. Things like how long at room temperature things can be before bacteria start to multiply to dangerous levels, and the maximum temp your fridge and freezer should be at, in a time when everyone is trying to save money on electricity. etc. etc.
If you study enough biology, specifically microbiology and biochemistry, you're indirectly studying food safety
@@alienvomitsex yep, you lean a ton of micro biology in the more indepth food safty courses!
@@alienvomitsex Depends on a person's common sense. You'd be shocked at how bad some people are at drawing connections between academic theory and every day real life implications.
Most of it is common sense though, like wash your hands before you touch food, wash them after you touch anything raw don't touch your a hole, and then the food after, anything smell or look off throw it out, like it's not difficult to not mix raw with cooked food, store them separately, I think for most of it if you NEED someone to tell you not to do it that means you are quite stupid.
I've worked in a food truck for 3 years, and the sanitation standards are ridiculously high. Beyond most fast food or even local restaurant standards. Health departments love to target us and fine us tons if we have any violations.
Meanwhile pizza hut employees be touching the pizzas with their barehands to adjust it (i work there).
The government only enforces the law on poor people. Not billion dollar corporations
This town had an anomaly.
honestly we're blessed they do though or this would be common
Not if the food truck is run by illegals. They're free to do whatever they like.
@@genericamerican7574 probably was a canon event.
"It appeared that he made a full recovery"
Yes!!! That's great! I absolutely expected to hear "upon autopsy". So glad he's okay!
I mean it's not _that_ deadly...
@@petervansan1054, Dude had holes in his brain. Big ones. I didn't realize you could have giant holes in your brain and live. Much less make a full recovery.
Bro its not a real story
@@SZLESMON.CHEEKY.SPHEREThey are real stories, he just de-identifies them for identity protection/privacy. It says so in the description :)
@@Kahless_the_Unforgettable people get shot in the head and live, there are procedures where chunks of the brain are removed to combat seizure... brains are incredibly plastic, especially when young
0:22 my family has a rule when it comes to food trucks. The sketchier the ine running it looks, the better the food is gonna be! But you should ALWAYS ask if they eat lunch at their own truck. If they say yes, and immediately recommend something, explaining how it tastes with enthusiasm, your in good hands! If they hesitate, run.
Good advice m8
Making the Physician also the food truck owner was a stroke of economic and comedic genius
I was looking for this comment 🤣
Awesome catch!
(Unlike catching them tapeworms)
Based on the video description, I think they are brothers...
@@dlevi67 Ha! Thanks for pointing that out. I looked the actor up and one of those is his first name, the other his middle name - so it was the same actor. I still just think of him as Jon Hamm.
And the life cycle of the worm continues.
Your level of responsibility, to not only tell a garrowing medical story that resulted from a sketchy food truck, but on multiple occasions to reinforce that foodtrucks are actually heavily insoected so as not to impact peoples potential livelyhoods, is incredible.
Many other youtubers would just bang out the story for views and not think about that at all.
Seriously love your work, learn a lot from these.
Are you drunk. I can't understand what you are saying.
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@@landynzimmerman4181 what? do you even know what that means
@@bodbn They’re saying that they’re happy that Chubby didn’t blame food trucks and instead put the blame on the meat producers & unregulated services.
Yeah, there are a lot of local food trucks that help out by catering events at our animal shelter. They’re all very trustworthy and have great stuff.
As a RN n former ER\trauma 1 nurse i found this fascinating. Quick story..my kids dad grew up really poor in the mountains of puerto rico ..they had no running water for years. They would boil it from the rivers n had outhouses etc. He got cancer in 2016 had chemo n eventually went into remission. Almost 1yr to the day of completing chemo he had a seizure out of no where. They originally thought the cancer had returned n went to the brain but after tests n a brain biopsy they discovered toxoplasmosis. They said he prob gotten it as a child from the dirty water, undercooked meat or contact with feces from the outhouses etc. But bc he had a healthy immune system it was dormant n he was asymptomatic. However since the chemo had lowered his immune response it attacked. He was on antibiotics n antiparasitics n anti seizure meds for awhile n eventually made a full recovery!
Amazing! God bless!
God bless both of you, wow!
I am an RN, also. It must have been so difficult to go through such a difficult time. I'm so thankful he persevered & recovered. It's disturbing that there have been well done research studies via human trials, which confirm parasites can 100% cause cancer. However, these imperative studies are not discussed or taught near as often as they shld be. Sharing his story is appreciated & I have no doubt it will help others. Thank you very much.
I was worried but glad to hear he made a recovery
Wow what story. I'm so glad he survived.
Cats and dogs can also get tapeworm infections. I had a cat that got them. This is also why you should always wash your hands after dealing with the cat litter box.
i was a south american kid in the 90s/00s, i hear "medium rare pork" and i get a shiver down my spine. idk if kids are still taught the same way, but i had the fear of tenias instilled in me at a very young age. it's one of the top gruesome experiences to study the parasites in school, combined with the traditional sti horror show class everyone got in school and tetanus.
Im guessing those sti horror stuff is for them to be homophobic, yes? Bevause thats just bogus
Medium rare beef is possible because we have the tool
But irl without them then you better overcook them , make it as thin as possible for easier cooking and to avoid overcooking
I think most Americans are overly cautious with most food below the border.
Some are too paranoid to drink the water. And that's at nice resorts.
@@ninjamaster3453 My Mom and I weren't paranoid enough. Drank the water AND had unrefrigerated custard filled donuts. Not doing THAT again. 🤮
Its definetly common knowledge that you dont eat undercooked pork.
This may be one of the most horrifying Chubbyemu videos yet. The fact that the effects went on for MONTHS. Even the thought of parasites makes me cringe, and this one can cross into the brain... Amazing that the patient made a full recovery. Powerful medication
Funny. If you ever learned what eating ANY dead bodies/meat and dairy did to your brain or entire body, you'd prob suicide as you don't have the mental fortitude to change your eating habits permanently and go vegan to save your own life.
Patients almost always make a full recovery in his videos. I think many of them actually die but he wants to keep PG.
I was thinking the same thing.. During this whole video my brain was meming "The virgin true crime watcher vs The chad Chubbyemu watcher"
@@mesa9724it's either that or the dreaded "*A* recovery." Knowing that these stories are extrapolated from actual cases makes it pretty freaky, and sometimes he'll play it straight and tell you that such a condition left them with aftereffects for life!
@mesa9724 no, he'll say when they die. "At autopsy, doctors found..."
I was super impressed with the food trucks who came to our small town back in the COVID days. I've never seen such clean workspaces, but their glove usage must have been through the roof, lol.
Seeing how dedicated they were to cleanliness made a lot of loyal little food gremlins out of us town folk, though.
I'm pretty sure gloves in food are worse than continually washing your hands, though I suppose for a food truck that's not so viable
@@chicken29843 It depends. Can you rely on your employees to regularly wash their hands? If so, yes, gloves are worse. You a fast food place hiring randoms? Probably best to always require gloves.
@@chicken29843 Yup. People in the food industry who wear gloves generally wear them to not soil their hands with the food rather than the opposite and are more likely to not realize they're cross-contaminating for that reason since they don't realize their gloves are dirty whereas they would realize their hands are.
@@rangergxi But if you can't rely on your employees to 'wash their hands' then any further food preparation is a gross negligence of hygiene. There is no alternative to washing hands. If you don't trust the employees enough to wash their hands, to the point you shower them with gloves, its pretty much a given that these gloves are going to be cross contaminated anyway, as they touch and put them on.
Gloves are more like an additional hygiene step, not at all an alternative to hand washing.
@@BlackChad792 Obviously you've never worked in the food industry. It's easy for somebody to go from handling raw produce to picking up bread and then back to the raw produce without thinking twice about cross contamination. A good restaurant, with trained cooks and a quality chef, will know not to do this. A fast food worker, who is still in high school getting trained by somebody who barely understands what cross contamination means? They won't know the difference.
This happened to my son's father. He ate street tacos in Mexico and had Neurocystercercosis which is the tapeworms in his brain. He almost died and has a shunt in his brain with fluid on his brain for the rest of his life.
Im sorry this happened you thats scary😥
You just convinced my promise to myself to never visit Mexico 😱🤯🤢
My mom cooked me steak and it already had season in the meat and my mom cooked the meat really good but then I start to shiver and I had a stacks of blankets on me and I was still cold I had a sore throat my sister thought it was a stomach bug but i thought it was something else
Son's father?
México is perfectly fine Marguerite, just don't eat street food or pre-cut fruit, and only drink bottled water.
Kudos to the mustache man for completing his M.D and becoming a doctor in just a few months
“Who could have done this?”
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Aha he was a doctor last video. So the other way around XD
@@MegaHandoyo he lost his license became an unregulated chef but redeemed himself and rediscovered a passion for medicine 😂
Also why his diagnosis that it wasn't food poisoning was hella sus.
The pain of this experience is nothing compared to the pain of knowing this man is willingly walking around with those floating sideburns.
Hahahahahahaha 😂😂😂😂😂
Exactly!
Lmao, floating sideburns... never heard that expression, but it seems to perfectly nail it 😂
LOL
he was asking for it
As soon as I read pork and brain I knew exactly what happened. These kinds of diseases are endemic here so we learn all about parasites in school, including both types of tapeworm, and the diseases they cause. It was also in school that I learned about the ever so lovely named oral-fecal route. Anyways, I'm surprised the guy made a full recovery because my teachers assured us that tapeworms in the brain are a one way street. Maybe they just wanted to make sure we washed our hands well...
Yes, that happy ending did not sound consistent with earlier parts of the video talking about the brain cysts.
Nobody washes their hands well, not even after all we learned with covid
@@LourdesGzz I started washing my hands WAY BETTER when covid happend and I STILL got covid twice! March 2021 (covid penumona w/ an 8 day hospital stay) and Omicron in Jan 2022. (8 days at home, it was no worse than a cold).
That's why I never eat pork
@@LourdesGzz for certain. I watched people when in public restrooms. I would actually thank people who washed properly.
The timer on the sponsored segment is 100/10 thank you if I ever have enough money to get factor I will come right back here and buy it from you for that
Dang! I once went with my boss to buy supplies for the cafe and we found a lady parked in her driveway next to her house selling tamales from her car. They were so good! Glad we’re still alive!
Those are cooked double so the risk would be very low. I wouldn't trust raw oysters even from a restaurant though.
don´t worry if the tamal has the right consistency the first time you bite it, it has been cooked correctly and it is even safer than eating a salad given how easy it is for it to not be disinfected the right way. The real trouble comes with food you can´t tell until your stomach tries to digest it.
Someone selling out of/next to their house is so much less sketchy than a truck in a partially hidden location
Those are the BEST tamales!
This is not a practice we have in Europe (afaik), but I know in some cultural segments in America, local grandmas or aunties run these household cookeries as unprofessional business.
These cookeries aren’t run by cutthroat fraudsters, they’re run largely as a form of community service. These communities don’t need the approval of some bureaucrat big shot from city hall, and you don’t need the government to inspect your mommas food.
When your sketchy food truck vendor is also your doctor, you know you're bang in trouble.
In the description they have different names so i Think theyre brothers but thats still quite a buissness! One makes you sick and one makes you healthy
Reminds me of this one exterminator I knew. He would feed rats in the public parks slices of pizza and other food stuff until they got big enough to fill a dumpster then he would take a picture of them and ask the city for money to kill them.
No matter how serious the situation, I always end up smiling when he says "presenting to the emergency room"
With the inevitable finger
same here hahah
"... where we are now."
i ALWAYS do the ☝️ with my finger when he says it or else it feels wrong
always gotta say "Where we are now" right along with him. It's why we watch...lol
That's funny the taco truck owner became his doctor 😂😂😆 Oh shit. I'm in tears. Love the super Nintendo music playing in the background while talking about him getting sick. Noice
My Dad won’t eat pork unless it is literally burnt to a crisp! Now I know why, Thank You Emu!
My mom literally served medium rare porkchops 🤢 thankfully I immediately put it back on the grill😂
I never eat pork in restaurants exactly because of tapeworms
Where do they get this stock photos
@@luizansounds “Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah.”
[Al-Qur’an 5:3]
@@karimtemri1664newsflash: not everyone follows the same religion as you
I'm an RN. In school we looked at slides of brain tissue from a woman who had gotten tape worm bladders in her brain from a dog licking her mouth. That woman and those slides immediately came to mind when this MD started describing CD's symptoms. This is a very well made video. Thank you!
And here you are in the comments section giving us your enlightened opinion. Actually maybe you could spare us your enlightened opinion for the sake of humanity.
@bodbn And here _you_ are in the comment section giving _your_ enlightened opinion because...who asked?
Hold up. What happened? Why is the dude mad about the RN?
@@bodbnwhat?
Bodbh is a trolling poodle with hydatid worm (chinococcus granulosus).
Seriously, find it disgusting people allow dogs to lick them after the animal has licked parts of its body.
cant blame the taco truck guy for doctoring on the side, food trucks are a tough business that takes lots of time and effort
im glad i wasnt the only one who noticed haha
He create business for himself!
As a german, videos like these make me appreciate our strict meat standards even more. Gotta get a myself a Mettbrötchen today (bread roll with raw pork and onions).
💀
Já, schöne Glück damit.
@@angel794 No luck involved. As I said, strict meat standards. I've been eating raw pork for over 30 years. But thanks, now I'm craving Mettbrötchen again.
@@redact3d8472interesting, have you ever ate raw chicken or raw beef?
Nah German food standards are pretty weak 😂 you should research where a lot of food comes from
A friend of my dad had a tapeworm in his brain. He ate pork and that is how he contracted the parasite. He got surgery but he wasn't the same person as he was before.
You mean like he couldn't recognize his past memories?
Fuck no pork for me
Personality change?
This happened to me pork chops and I had blood in stool so did my dad I got parasites and my dad had colon cancer.
This is actually something an old Biology teacher of mine's uncle had. If she's still alive she'd be in her ate 70s to early 80s rn. Said uncle used to cook pork chops and stuff by just cooking it on one side in a pan for 2 minutes and then flip it over and do the other for 2. He was also a raging alcoholic (important). So one day he goes to a hospital and complains to about feeling sick and the docs immediately notice he's got jaundice. They do a blood test and question his family and go okay, he'd an alcoholic let's tone down the alcohol and then that'll improve his liver function. The uncle loses consciousness 3 days later and then dies shortly thereafter. Turns out his brain was full of worms and the constant abuse of alcohol was probably affecting the worms too and helped keep him alive
Damn those medium rare pork chops... Not worth it! I'll drink to that.
I laughed so hard when I saw Food Truck Guy was also the doctor, well played
Perfect business model😂
Play both sides so you always win
He survived taking 35 grams of caffeine, then died after injecting himself with a massive dose of antibiotics, only to both operate an illegal food truck _and_ work as a doctor. Incredible.
Based on the cast list in the description, I think those guys were played by brothers? They sure looked enough alike!
"Listen as your doctor I'm gonna be straight with you, you're probably deficient in a rare nutrient only present in pork"
What an exquisite detail, that the food truck man and the doctor are the same person.
The fact that he ate the taco truck again my reaction was “then that guy was an idiot” it makes sense on why they have to have a license and inspection to sell food in New York City alone
Being sick isn't proof, tho. Can be right away or WEEKS later you get sick with different kinds of food issues.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 that part is also true. I remember eating some thing that went bad and I didn’t start getting sick till about a week later.
i mean... he got told that it was "just an allergy" soo uh...
He was fine after the first serving of tacos and had no clue they were causing the issue
When I was an icu nurse, we had a boy that came in with Neuro symptoms like this. They thought he had meningitis, but the ct scan showed these cysts in his brain from disseminated pork tapeworm infection just like this. They tested the whole family for tapeworms. Apparently they had eaten pork at a luau while in Hawaii a month or two prior. The kind where the pig is buried and cooked for 1-2 days. The boy was probably scratching and not washing his hands after and reinfected himself just like this man.
Ivermectin every 6 months
@@ianbardon8581but, but CNN said thats just for horses
@@jeffk464 lol, CNN are ignorant of the facts, do some research
@@jeffk464my son was prescribed that pre-Covid times, for a worm in his foot. Without insurance, it was $500!
I’m going to a Luau in Hawaii soon and I see this comment. Great.
Brain parasites are really the stuff of nightmares, even if they 'only' end up as cysts. Sometimes it goes far worse than that.
Pretty amazing that the case in this video ended up making a full recovery.
according to my team mates in CSGO i have no brain. so there is 0 risk, which im thankful for
My uncle is going for his 3rd brain cyst removal this year.
@@ebdgrI have 4 brain cysts . I was told it is better to leave them in than take them out due to possible complications. How many does your uncle have ? And how is he recovering . TY in advance
@@Dream7773 what’s causing you to have that many brain cysts?
@@Dream7773bro what are the symptoms
If a place is slightly sketchy but has good food, a good rule of thumb is to still avoid pork and fish. Luckily the worst I’ve ever had was generic food poisoning from an airport breakfast taco. It made for an unpleasant flight for me and everyone around me, but at least it wasn’t a tapeworm
And then people wonder why I am so darn serious about food safety and sanitation even when I was just working simple jobs. I went to culinary school, I learned the importance of safety and sanitation guidelines, and swore to uphold the Culinarian's Code. People made fun of me for reciting it on the job, but I never had a customer come in sick from our food. I'm disabled and retired now, but I still practice it and still tell people about it all the time.
I’m always so genuinely impressed by people who take this kind of pride in what they do, from small things to bit things. I really love that, and it sticks with me any time I hear of/meet a person like that. You were the cool one, and the people making fun of you were the losers.
@@LiterallyJustAnActualPotato well, thank you! I just felt like the code was something people should take seriously: you wouldn't want to subject yourself to conditions or food safety/sanitation issues that could hurt yourself or others you care for so why would you subject others to it? It was the first thing I learned in culinary school and I took it to heart. It was an oath like the ones doctors took and I swore to always protect people I cooked for. I never understood why it was something to get bullied for especially when it was an essential part of food service.
It happened in Russia.
My nephew, when he was studying in typical Russian cook college, was on practise with other students during summer. They were putting meat through meat grinder. Professional meat grinders aren't the same as home grinders so you need to push meat with the special stick or hammer into grinder so it will be grinded better.
One day, some stupid male student used his hand instead of hammer to push the meat. All other students, including my nephew, were taken out of kitchen immediately. Cause the view of accident was so disgusting. This male student lost his hand and was forced to leave college.
Food safety isn't only about food but also about devices you use to make food.
Ahh shuddup you karen
May you be eternally rewarded.
This is just a little fun fact from working in food service, if you can avoid it, never ask for a recommendation- we're incentivised to give you what's not selling or soon going to go bad. I'm not saying it's unsafe- unlike here- but still you're better off just picking something from the menu at random than asking for a recommendation if you're looking for freshness and extra safety
I always ask about the recommendation in order to avoid ordering it. Kidding but it may be a good idea.
So, if the kitchen is telling you guys to make these recommendations, saying we need to get rid of this stuff, so push it. Then you are complicit if you push it. So basically what you’re telling me is that servers are unethical? Really? I read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential. I worked as a bartender etc. I am well aware of the shenanigans that go on in the kitchens. It troubles me, however that a server would knowingly try to poison me.
@@hopesprings4967 You must have misread the OPs comment. They said they're told to recommend whatever is "not selling or soon going bad" Nothing unethical about that; the food is safe to eat, just not popular or there's excess!
This was a tough listen. I was driving alone and shouted “NO!” at one of the key reveals. I’m so glad CD made it through! I cannot imagine how violated he felt. Not by the “chef,” necessarily, but by the “hole” situation
Even in BurgerKing and other restaurants people have gotten very sick. BK corporate just ignores you
Yeah, this is literally my worst nightmare. Literallly, I went to sleep with a migraine one time and had a nightmare about having brain worms and the hospital inexplicably not being able to find a neurosurgeon or send me to another hospital. That shockingly was the most out of place thing in the dream, as my actual doctor made an appearence, and there were even brain MRIs that my subconcious inaccurately labeled "X-rays". I can usually tell when I'm dreaming, but for some reason I didn't pick up on it that time, since my dreams are insanely detailed, and I was experiencing head pain when I fell asleep, it was a perfect storm...
@@Amy_the_Lizardruhh the part where you said your brain inaccurately labeled it as X-rays reminded me I had a dream last night that I had some amazing Mexican food that my mom saved for me in the fridge when I was a child, and I had finally gotten around to eating it this year in the dream. I looked at the side of the takeout box and it said from 2009. I was like wow, this food was 14 years old and it was still amazing??? And then when I woke up I realized.. how the actual hell did I get that math correct in my dream? That 2023-2009 was 14 years? I’m not too bad at math but idk it just shocked me. Dreams are so cool man. But not when I dream about having a terrible day at work. I had a dream 2 nights ago that I was working at my dollar general job and I got shot at 5 times, and that it was pouring down rain and a huge sinkhole opened up in our basement and I was scared shitless. And then when I tried to leave my car wouldn’t start and my seatbelt wouldn’t unbuckle. And then my brakes stopped working while driving and I got into 3 car accidents. This was all in one day in my dream. And one of my customers had the nerve to tell me he was stressed out, I was like HA YOURE stressed out???? Wait till you hear about my day! And then we closed at fucking 2 am for some reason and I was pissed cause we usually close at 9. And this whole dream I had was when I was on my day off in real life and asleep all day. Wild stuff man. I think it’s because I drink so much apple juice before bed when taking my meds, I heard it gives vivid dreams
Why are you driving and watching videos on TH-cam?
@@daviddavidson2357 From the phrasing, I think they were just listening to it like a podcast
Good to know. Thank you for informing.
P.S. This gives me another anxiety.😬 I don’t eat pork anyway… but still a thought that I can get infected because of someone’s poor hygiene is unsettling.
This medical case reminds me that eating any food outside the home that you did not personally source and prepare yourself, example a restaurant , food truck or even a friend's house is somewhat equivalent to taking an airline flight. You have essentially ceded your continued health and safety to the actions of other people and just have to hope and trust that they adhere to best practices for health and safety.
Im gluten free and the reason I give as to why I avoid potlucks
Absolutely agree. I gave up eating out a few years back for this exact reason. People think I’m crazy when I explain to them why I don’t eat at restaurants anymore. I’ve never in my life gotten sick from food that I’ve prepared myself at home. Not once.
You also can get a variety of parasites AND intestinal disorders that will haunt us for a lifetime. Particularly, AVOID lettuce in restaurants and grilled chicken.
yeah…there are certain people whos food I will NEVER eat. people who dont wash their hands touch their face have dirty hands etc no ty.
Yet most of the time we survive and come out richer from the experience
I'd just like to say that I appreciate the little snippets you've included about how most mobile food units are under very strict scrutiny from local health departments and also that the vast majority of MFU's operate safely. I've run a couple of MFU's in my time in the restaurant industry and it is my experience a fact that public health authorities are very aware of the potential for foodborne illness in mobile food units and they take it seriously. As a person who has dealt closely with serious foodborne illness (myself and 2 other family members have had e.coli infections,) I can safely say that I feel very comfortable eating at any food truck or cart in my city because I know they are being monitored and have good relationships with the local public health departments, even moreso than most restaurants. Thank you for putting out quality, informative and entertaining content that isn't alarmist and recognizes the nuance in each of our own wild and unpredictable existences!
Its a spooky story but the two trucks I've tried made good food. Hopefully no one becomes overly cautious about a clean truck being secretly sinister
When I was in school I did work experience at the local county council and shadowed someone who was inspecting a burger van. In the UK there is a standardised sign you have to display that shows the rating those inspectors have given you, so it's easy for customers to tell how dodgy a mobile van is.
The stereotype of the worst vans having weirdly good food is still alive and well, however.
If you eat anyone’s pulled pork, I have news for you. That’s largely where people get this from in developed countries, and those who like pulled pork (routinely it’s not cooked at a high enough heat for long enough to kill parasite eggs due to how pulled pork is made), this is where they actually get it. Not from food trucks.
@@danix454 It's been a long while but I do recall some friends talking about pulled pork and how great it was at some place in washington.
Thanks for the heads up.
@@davidburnett5049 enjoy, if you plan on going! 🥰
I can't put in words how happy I get when I hear they had a full recovery. Thanks for such good and informative videos, as a medicine student, these are gold.
glad to hear too. I smashed tons of tacos al pastor/gringas in mexico from questionable taco stands when i used to live there. I got sick a ton, but mostly stomach/vomiting issues. two years of irresistible tourture, I stopped getting sick all together for the remaining years. aint gonna stop me!
is he had read the Quran he would not have to suffer. Pork is haram for a reeson
@@SoyAntonioGaming undercooked pork is dangerous. Just like undercooked chicken or beef. Cooked pork is totally safe to eat, even though Leviticus forbids eating it.
@@SoyAntonioGaming How about you watch the video? It was stated multiple times that it is not just because of pork, but the irresponsible circumstances that lead to unhygienic pork being sold. If you don’t want to eat pork, don’t, but let other people do what they want
@@leelduttis4086 it is forbidden
really like how you broke down the medical terms so we could better understand! subscribed, you are a great narrator!
I recall seeing a cook that had a cooking establishment and had prepared a huge pot of meat for tacos etc …. Left it to cool and when she went to put it away it was bubbling on its own. Like it was cooking but not. She immediately identified the meat was spoiled and had to throw 100s of dollars of food away. But thankfully she did rather than serve it.
Generic meat story is Generic
When it comes to pork dishes, ALWAYS be heating it. Leave it on room temp for a while and it's guaranteed to spoil, even more during summer.
So many managers and owners willing to serve disgusting product to save a few pennies
It’s counterintuitive, but the bacteria that causes food to spoil is not going to infect you because it evolved to live in rotting food, not in a warm living body with stomach acid and enzymes. BUT… those bacteria can produce toxins as a byproduct and those toxins can make you sick! Of course in this case the problem wasn’t bacteria or a virus, but a parasite.
@@thomasneal9291what do you expect dipshit, “and then the meat came alive and ate the owner”?
The pork tapeworm is such a fascinating parasite. Mostly because it can use humans both as a definitive and intermediate host at the same time.
There ist a scientific reason we call Humans Long pigs.
Watched Dr House episode on this.
Can you explain that please?
@@courtneylee643 rimworld Look IT Up. Nö Jokes beside pigs and Humans are geneticly very Close and its Not scientificly prooven i guess but human meat tastes Like pig.
And we're very prone To the same diseases/parasites. And No pig would ignore a fresh corpse when ITS hungry Like we die vier versa and yeah rimworld prooves this again.
I really appreciate how he ends all his videos with, "Take care of yourself and be well..." That is some good energy right there.
4:29 the story: extremely intense and a terrifying situation
The music: 😄😄😁😁😁🤪🤪🤩🤩🤩🤩😂😂😂🥹🫶🫶❤️😡
This one really got me squeamish. Idk if it was the undercooked pork idea, the fact he ate poo particles AND tape worm eggs, the brain cysts, the horrific tape worm mouth an hooks but this was all freaky
I was eating when I decided to watch this ... big mistake .. luckily it wasn't pork though so I just about managed to finish it after pausing for a bit lmao.
"Oh, you have a fever? Probably allergies."
Bro.
Revoke his medical license fr.
He just wanted to move to next patient and charge the insurance❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ fuck 30% of doctors out there
This is very common but if you think u have parasites they call u crazy
In my experience, I get feverish when I have allergy attacks, so that's not too far fetched for me 😅 but maybe it's just a me thing, Idk I'm no doctor, just someone who suffers every spring 😂
@@feathers8233yea no this can happen for sure especially on REALLY bad days but idk that I would say it's a common thing for anyone without moderate to severe allergies.
Sadly some doctors are like this.
I think we all must admit truckman's cooking skills. His food was so delicious that he managed to attract clients in spite of severe anti sanitaria in his truck))
He's just giving raw meat, which humans crave. Don't allow your human to eat raw meat even if it begs and pleads.
Gas station sushi be like
Bro's got some extra flavouring 😈
@@Aliandrin nah, blue steak tastes good.
@@Aliandrin I never really understood the craving for the undercooked meat. Why would anyone eat something that is slightly raw wtf
Just going on record to say that the main actor acts sick better than most Hollywood actors do. Props to you actor.
I was fully convinced
I have a degree in parasitology and as soon as I read the title I knew exactly where this is going. However, I'd like to say that the source of the cysts didn't have to be the ass-scratching cook... I find it much more probable that it was an auto-infection from the patient's own feces. This is how most cases of cysticercosis happen - that's why it is always dangerous to catch T. solium, even though the taeniosis (having the adult worm in your gut) itself has mild symptoms. One doesn't have to be some disgusting pig (no pun intended) to get their hands, and subsequently food, contaminated by their own feces. We come to contact with it every day after all.
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One word...."bidet".... Why North Americans are so against them is beyond me.
Thank you Miss learned more from your comment than from the video.
let`s be honest , THAT VIDEO WAS REACHING, TRYING FTO SELL THAT GOD AWEFUL BOX OF SPRAYED GMO FOOD
no but who comes in direct contact with their feces daily
My father , as a child, saw a man die from eating under-cooked pork. For the remainder of his life, he only ate meat so well-done you could shatter glass with it. And he hated eating out in restaurants because he didn't trust that the kitchens were sanitary enough.
Wow that’s so sad, he lost out on really good food and the fun of being adventurous with food because of a generally irrational fear he got from a traumatic experience. He should have gotten therapy
@@maddieb.4282 LOL, therapy wasn't as common back then as it is now. I'm talking the 1930's. He didn't miss out on great food, though. All the women in the family were excellent cooks. It was just meat he insisted on extra-well.
Lol that is why jew and muslim doesn’t est pork man
@@ariffurqan9862 And why Kosher Jews don't eat shellfish.
If you are working with preparing pork, you can SEE the eggs in the muscle. My family has, for generations, made their own sausage (most similar to smoked chorizo). We don't do the butchering and such ourselves any more, but when my dad was a kid they did. They would buy a pig, and do the whole butchering, and they've told me about how they would spend a whole day going through all of the meat looking for the cysts and cutting them out when my dad was a kid. They didn't know what they were, exactly, but they made sure to cut them all out. I would assume that if we did this again we probably wouldn't have to do this, but this would have been back in the 60s/70s when standards and regulations weren't quite as rigorous.
Trichnosis presents as cysts in the muscle, so I'm guessing that's what it was. In humans, it goes to the brain.
You can see it, if the burden is high. If it's a lighter infection or early on in the infection of the animal, the fewer cysts could be missed.
But then, that's also why we were taught to cook pork well.
@@andreaberryman5354i mean...we did watch the video lol
@@spvillano well. Some were taught to Cook pork well, others taught to avoid pork all together. I was the one taught to Cook it Thoroughly, enjoy the Bacon growing up etc. However. To the Muslims out there, I totally understand WHY the prophet Muhammed taught against eating it. It truly is. A Filthy damned animal. Hell even Christ himself cast the demons into the swine.
@@greggyfontane1487they're only filthy when raised a certain way. In the wild, they're much more likely to be clean.
Obsessed with the patient actor's facial hair including those little patches near his ears
When the guy went to the doctor, I was like "Of course he didn't take him seriously, he's the food truck guy!" In all seriousness though, the actors were great as always. Also brave of a food truck owner to let you film a video about someone getting seriously ill from a food truck. I assume Angie's Burgers is in the States, but I still wish them well.
Also, I thought this was going to be a case of incidental migration, where the parasite ends up somewhere it isn't supposed to be in (like an intestinal parasite in the brain) but it's something that's not normally seen. I didn't realize it could be WORSE. The fact that we figured out that it was from different life stages tells me this happens way too often for comfort. I used to not be good about washing my hands and still forget to wash my hands before eating, but that may change now that this info will live rent free in my brain. Rather that than encysted parasites any day.
Cysticercosis ( so named from the round cysts that enclose the larvae) basically is an "unintentional migration"
The worm intends to grow as an adult stage in the gut of a human who poops out the egg which gets ingested by a pig, which then grows the larva stage in its muscles which are ingested by a human, to grow into an adult in his/her gut. Intended cycle, propagates more worms.
Having the larva ingested by a human results in a dead-end rather than that cycle, unless that human is served up undercooked by a non-usda-regulated cannibal.
I’m so proud of you for getting better at washing your hands!
Here’s some extra motivation:
You should also wash your hands before you use the bathroom and after. Think about how you wipe yourself or make contact down there. Then, think about all the stuff you touch and other people touch. Did they touch the ground than a counter? Congratulations! Touching that counter is like touching the floor! Did they wash their own hands after using the bathroom? Are you touching something after they touched it with their peepee poopy paws? Do you have an allergy? Congratulations! You might touch something then eat before washing your hands. Imagine it like having hot sauce on your hands before you eat or use the bathroom. Make sure you always wash your hands before and after. You have no idea what other people touch. Or what they don’t clean up after themselves.
@@jvillanueva7707 Alas, cannibals go unregulated
What makes you think he's the owner and not an actor?
Let's do what God says to do, and not eat pork.
I'm 74yo and recall from the 50s and 60s regularly being told by grownups to never eat pork that wasn't fully cooked. It wasn't to have a any redbor pink coloration to it. We were always "harassed " by parents, grandparents and aunts & uncles about sanitation in the kitchen setting. Clean hands, clean dish towels, clean dishes and cooking utensils, etc. Sharing food was frowned upon. Antibiotics were rather new. MRIs/CT scans were not invented yet. All these rules were to keep us healthy , plain and simple.
This can also explain why Muslims are banned from eating pork. After all, it seems that the risk of eating pork is not low.
Same here my mom got it in my head so bad that I would wash my hands until they where raw. I would wash my hands after every little thing and I still do to this day. I'm kinda happy she did that because I've been through a virus pandemic and just viewing how little my coworkers wash their hands and overall keep up on their hygiene is appalling to me. lol
Yep! My grandmother told me the exact same thing when I was a girl. Hence, every time I cooked bacon, I fried it nearly black!
Safety regulations are written in blood. Disregard them at your own peril.
@@carolhewett3756yup total lack of respect these days
Even when my favourite actor you use isn’t the victim, he’s out here giving taco evils. Brings such fun energy 😂 brilliant as always.
His character has gone through so much
@@alenunyaTruly lived long enough to become the villain.
Today we have a three for Thursday special:
1) pinky dipped Pico de Gallo
2) ass scratched carne ass-ada
3) fecal matter fish tacos with tapeworm tilapia
I worked at a super market and one day we found several buckets near our garbage compactor that we started locking up because people would dive in. The buckets had a cows head and the others had other body parts. We found out from the police that apparently some people were killing livestock at night and taking body parts. Possibly selling or using the meat. As for the dumpster divers we found that a Chinese restaurant owner was taking the meat we through out. The cameras ended up catching him and they had their place shut down.
Man those Chinese restaurants are disgusting I always feel sketchy about going, I just stick to Panda Express.
Poor cows. Ugh. 😞😖
@@Loveroflife5.0.dont look up gutter oil bro
@@gumshake689 I already have ! I am fully aware another reason to steer clear 🤣
@@gumshake689gutter oil?! 😮
I need to know but I don't want to know.
Seeing the guy who passed away from eating the 5 day old pasta gave me so much nostalgic trauma, this man truly has scarred me in a good way
Yup. Like Dave Chappelle said, life is flimsy!
It's scary that it can linger around for a long time until it strikes full force.
That one terrified me.
Never gonna forget that one. I thought this one would be similar but thank God they took care of it so efficiently!
Yep. I cooked pasta in the morning and there was leftover on the table. We went out the whole day, in the evening my toddler almost ate the pasta but I sprinted and took away the pasta and prevented my toddler from eating it.
I really appreciate your emphasis that food trucks aren't unsafe or bad by default. There are still a lot of people who consider them gross or unsanitary based on nothing.
A small enclosed container, lacking running water where food is made is usually not going to be very clean.
It's not impossible, but it is much more difficult to maintain the same level of hygiene in what amounts to a boxcar with a window than an establishment with bathrooms and running water.
Then throw in the "illegal food truck" part and you have a serious problem. It's harder (though far from impossible) to penalise a food truck because of dangerous food. "It was on the corner at when I ate there" is much harder to narrow down than "It is at ".
@@daviddavidson2357??? Food trucks need some kind of functioning water system to be FDA approved. It might be a tank that needs refilling but im not sure why that would make a difference, it still has "running water" that is probably coming from the same municipal water source everyone else is using in the location. Its also not much more enclosed than some kitchens in small resturaunts at least in the city im in, and the windows are always open.
I understand your point about how its easier to run an illegal food operation out of a truck, but I dont understand the other two
I’m literally only 0:53 into the video and I already feel bad for the guy, all he wanted was a yummy taco. ☹️
As a physician, I ✨massively✨ appreciate you making it abundantly clear on-screen what is spon-con!
My grandmother on my dad's side of the family died from complications of this. They owned and slaughtered their own pigs. I'm assuming she had been suffering with it for years. She passed away in 1995. I remember seeing her at the hospital one of the last times I went to visit her in Mexico as a child. I looked at her and somehow knew she was in her last months of life. I remember her still somehow smiling at me as she saw me walk into the room...
I don't think I remember mourning her death and just imagining how much she suffered until now, typing this message with tears rolling down my face. I was 8 years old when she passed.
I've had a deep fear since I was a child about pig meat. I still will rarely eat it now a days. Except bacon. That's really the only pig meat I will consume.
I have finally informed myself more about this condition today. Thank you Chubbyemu for informing us of the potential dangers and symptoms of these incidents.
Ew
It’s usually safe. Ive eaten pork all my life…no need to be afraid.
I don’t eat pork……
I’m sorry for your loss. She seems like she still was able to enjoy seeing her family even at the end of her life.
@user-mv1hv5ce3b Thank you, yes I'm grateful I was able to see her and that my visit brightened her day, even for just a moment.
I just can't get past the fact that this guy had already eaten food he bought from that truck & ended up at ER shortly after, but he never understood the connection, so he went back AGAIN months later and got into even worse trouble than he was in the first time. I'm glad for him of course, but he's kind of overly lucky surviving it with a full recovery.
The tacos were just that good.
Not only that, but he heard his co-workers talking about how some of them got sick from the food, one saw him touch himself between his legs and then TOUCHED THE FOOD AGAIN, and he STILL went back!!!! I'm happy he survived, but good lord, was he really just like, "YOLO pork is delicious"? I mean, it's good, but even I hadn't have made the connection previously, after hearing people I work with say they got sick, I would've noped out of there immediately.
@@michellejirak9945 Hahaha yes, probably half raw pork meat and the special ingredients of the moustache guy did the trick
Seriously. I got food poisoning back in January. I know exactly where I got it from, and I'm sure as hell not giving them a second chance.
in my hospital they make a check-list where and what you ate and in some cases infrom health department and police in order to track other people before its too late
My high school science teacher once told me about this tapeworm. I don't remember the conversation that prompted it, since I don't think it was relevant to any of the classes she taught (it was a small school, she covered pretty much all science classes) but I only remember thinking how gross its method of propagation was.
While I've never dealt with this myself, I do have an experience eating contaminated meat from an unhygienic place. I once bought suya (grilled meats) from a place that I had gone to several times before, but the smell coming from this place on this particular day was notably awful. I chose to ignore it, and probably made a mental note to find a different suya spot afterwards, but it would've been smarter of me to have not eaten there. Later I came down with typhoid, and I also had malaria at the same time to boot. I had the WORST nightmares of my life, I don't think people understand the meaning of the term "fever dream" until you've had one. I remember being so worn down and exhausted that all I could do was lay on the floor.
For the record, at some point that suya spot vanished into thin air.
Yikes! Glad you’re ok now.
Fever dreams make me super stressed out when I wake up and I also sweat abit too when I wake up
A friend of mine had neurocysticercosis about 20 years ago. The first and only real symptom was a seizure. Maybe took 6 months after eating roadside pork tacos in Mexico. The only thing that pointed the U.S. doctors in the right direction was because his father read something that rang a bell.
Shoulda rang the taco bell
@@infinidominion Nah, they suck, he said the tacos at this place were so good he was going back, but he would make sure to take his medicine.
Reason number 1000000 to not go to Mexico
@@KanyeTheGayFish69Please don’t, they already have enough American pedophiles invading their country
@@northwall lmao he never learns
That actor did an amazing job both as the food truck man and the dismissive doctor! He should get a youtube equivalent Oscar.
a Yoscar
Yeah especiaally scrathing his ass and not washing his hands and eating of customers tacos yuk no more mexican taco food trucks
He's gotta be Jon Hamm's brother lol
@@thepluraloftigeryouscur
“A blank, unmarked truck parked in a back alleyway. But he saw the mustached man, and knew that this obviously is the perfect setting to enjoy the tastiest food.”
As would we all think the same.
As a Muslim. I always wondered why Islam ☪️ forbids us from eating pork 1500 years ago. Now I get it 😊
why wonder? isn't the reason already written in the quran?
@@badpastersyeah
Mohammed was a PDF file
@@fakenamerson1693 proof?
@@mooshy2072uh Google? It's not that hard to find a PDF file of him :/
I remember my grandmother being really militant about never eating undercooked pork because of the fear of trichinosis. You get infected by the larvae Trichinella that spreads through your digestive system and can be transported to the muscles and sometimes to the lungs and brain. Wild game can also be infected with trichinella.
I’d love to see a video on how Trichinosis is different than Taenia Solium.
I’m so thankful for our good government food regulation agencies. Lots of people died from bad meat, dairy, and contaminated foods (often deliberately to stretch ingredients) before governments decided to form these agencies. Absolute History has a great TH-cam channel on Victorian foods and how they made people sick.
Story time. My mother lived in a not very well off community during her infancy. She ate all sorts of meat when small, they weren't an everyday occurrence and many times my grandma used to create animals in her house to later use in a stew or something.
This isn't quite about that, my mother had an "uncle", I don't know if we actually shared blood, that kept pigs in his basement. My grandma used to get pork from there and my mom attests that things weren't hygienic.
So, one day, while checking the results of a battery of tests meant to check if her brain was ok -she has a severe case of migraines since young-, it was noticed that she had various calcified spots in her brain, the doctor had quite the scare -she told me- but later figured that these were just remnants of something that could've been worse.
During my mother's infancy, the government had various campaigns of giving "vermicide" medication to folk living in impoverished areas. My mother had a close shave with the same parasite in the video and just went on to have a normal life because of this decision of the state. I fear she wouldn't have had a good childhood if that problem were to develop, as medical care was hard to access and my mother always had some of the symptoms described because of the migraines. Thankfully none of that happened and I stand here telling this story to you.
How did your grandma “create animals in her house?” Do you mean she raised animals in the house? I don’t understand
@@celeca7 grandma was up to some frankenstein business 😳
@@celeca7 raised them. English isn't my first language and this vernacular is not something I use often. She used to raise ducks, chickens, rabbits, mostly small animals.
@@afeathereddinosaur I figured that was the case. Just wanted to make sure. Thank you for the story, it was interesting.
@@celeca7maybe it's the animal crackers? 😂
Stuff like this needs to be shown in schools. Too many people have no idea what their life would be like without "onerous" regulations that keep them safe in so many ways.
That map says it all. Say no to tapeworms, kids.
I know! It's almost like they think that when word would inevitably get out that people eating at a certain place were getting sick, everyone would stop eating there and they'd go out of business! Stupid capitalists. Thank goodness for the Almighty Government, may it grow ever larger!
Yes, scare the children
@@NanaNaima1not scare, but educate
@@NanaNaima1 you'd rather have them unaware? why would you want to risk their lives when it's so easy to educate them
They have regulations there too. I guess they aren't the right ones?
I don’t think I’ll ever eat pork from a restaurant ever again
Keep it halal
We started reading the restaurant inspections in our area and now eat out less often. Being a nice or expensive place is not a an indicator of safety. Food trucks rarely fail their inspections. Great video.
Inspectors say that if there bathrooms are grossed the most likely the kitchens are.
Oh, I didn’t know that sort of thing was publicly available! I should start doing that too
As someone who has worked in a fancy restaurant, I can confirm this. While still regulated and safe, they are nowhere near as hygienic as say, a mcDonald's or other fastfood chain. I'm planning on starting my own food truck-like concept for cocktails, and after watching this imma make damn sure my safety measures are extra strict
Reading the inspections don't matter squat. All they care about is Turning and burning where they give you the food as fast as possible to get more people in when you leave.
If the restaurant is open and you're reading the Inspection, it won't matter. Your best off going to a high scale restaurant where they not only clean but Murphy oil the wood, the chefs have clean aprons and the servers are well kept with fresh white gloves.
That is the type of quality we all deserve but will never recieve. Being a cook, a waiter/waitress, a manager a host a bartender is just too much pressure to worry about thoroughly following the rules .
my daughter delivers food
I had contracted Babesiosis. After seeing over 23 doctors & specialists, my husband, a dentist finally figured it out. It is extremely rare for doctors to figure out parasitic infections & most patients die.
Usually Babesia is a co-infection of a tick bite.
In the US they never think parasites could be the problem
The US health care industry has as its premise to scam the patient, not help the patient. If they can put you in critical care and steal from insurance and you, then doctors will. Don't forget that medical and dental professionals have millions of debt due to their education, hence why they lack empathy and neglect the suffering of their patients.
That's because they have to stay in medical school, longer ! Most soon to be doctors, do not finish med. school . This is why people in America get parasites and the doctors don't test for them, they don't know to . They need to make it manitory , to take up tropical diseases in med. school, because parasites exist here in America , too , and they don't just exist in tropical countries !
An ER nurse called my office and asked if we knew of relatives for a lady who worked with us. Our coworker had developed brain parasites as a result of eating undercooked pork. She was dying. Apparently in her country of origin it wasn’t unusual to eat rare pork products. No one knew how to help because she was a new employee. I’ve never forgotten how her children were orphaned and there were no relatives to take them.
How horrible , poor woman and omg the children
One of the many reasons I opt out of eating dead animals!
@@CharGC123 Absolutely! Friend not food ❤️
Unbelievably sad situation :( I can only hope that they got the better end of foster care stick :(
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