Warning: The following contains graphic descriptions of poo.
This is in response to a question lizzy bear asked in her lj as a response to that silly little meme that's been going around:
basically she asked me how i came to discover that blue whale candy when consumed in large quantities will lead to you pooping green poop.
Well I'll tell you about the blue whales, and I'm glad you asked.
The eating of the blue whales was intentional, the result was unexpected (to me at least). But needless to say when you have almost radioactively green poo one night...you try to figure out as fast as possible why that might be and whether or not you need to go to a doctor to get this checked out.
I remembered something I had read a year or so ago (coincidentally enough, in a bathroom reader, probably whilst pooping) about breakfast cereals. Few people remember this but when Count Chocula first came out it was accompanied by another cereal called Frankenberry... now the frankenberries were a bright red in color. This led to an interesting problem...apparently when children ate the frankenberries the large amount of red food colouring would turn the children's poo red...which in turn tended to cause some alarm among parents as said red poo made it look like their child was bleeding from their..ahem...bottom....thus frankenberry was a big failure despite the fact that the food coloring really did no medical damage. Interestingly enough Count Chocula more than likely does the same thing...but since the food coloring is brown...
So anyways...When i pooped this bright green poop, I thought about this article and than said "what have i eaten in the past while that contained large amounts of food coloring?" immediately my brain responded "well there was that bag of blue whale candy that you pigged out on" and then it occured to me that blue dye plus the natural tannish colour of my poo would probably equal green. Case solved. I then shared my findings with ashley...who seemed much less interested than i had been and even slightly disturbed by the amount of detail i went into describing my shit. Eric was more interested...but really it wasn't until Lizzy Bear came along that I met someone who was so excited that they actually wanted to try it for themselves.
So there you go...the story of the blue whale candies and my kryptonite-colored poop.
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now i'm going to go pray to god that when I'm dead this entry isn't what i'm remembered for.
basically she asked me how i came to discover that blue whale candy when consumed in large quantities will lead to you pooping green poop.
Well I'll tell you about the blue whales, and I'm glad you asked.
The eating of the blue whales was intentional, the result was unexpected (to me at least). But needless to say when you have almost radioactively green poo one night...you try to figure out as fast as possible why that might be and whether or not you need to go to a doctor to get this checked out.
I remembered something I had read a year or so ago (coincidentally enough, in a bathroom reader, probably whilst pooping) about breakfast cereals. Few people remember this but when Count Chocula first came out it was accompanied by another cereal called Frankenberry... now the frankenberries were a bright red in color. This led to an interesting problem...apparently when children ate the frankenberries the large amount of red food colouring would turn the children's poo red...which in turn tended to cause some alarm among parents as said red poo made it look like their child was bleeding from their..ahem...bottom....thus frankenberry was a big failure despite the fact that the food coloring really did no medical damage. Interestingly enough Count Chocula more than likely does the same thing...but since the food coloring is brown...
So anyways...When i pooped this bright green poop, I thought about this article and than said "what have i eaten in the past while that contained large amounts of food coloring?" immediately my brain responded "well there was that bag of blue whale candy that you pigged out on" and then it occured to me that blue dye plus the natural tannish colour of my poo would probably equal green. Case solved. I then shared my findings with ashley...who seemed much less interested than i had been and even slightly disturbed by the amount of detail i went into describing my shit. Eric was more interested...but really it wasn't until Lizzy Bear came along that I met someone who was so excited that they actually wanted to try it for themselves.
So there you go...the story of the blue whale candies and my kryptonite-colored poop.
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now i'm going to go pray to god that when I'm dead this entry isn't what i'm remembered for.