Asking because throughout my life (including when I was little) I’ve eaten cups full of raw pasta (the rice shaped little pasta) almost like it was a drink. I finished a 500g packet of wholewheat dry spaghetti just the other day. This is something I actually do so often I got told off by my dentist last year because it’s wearing my teeth down.
Tell that to Filipino 90’s kids
The daily mail is not a trustworthy publication
Daily Fail reporting an unsourced story from Egypt… seems unlikely.
BUT - here’s where I could see it possibly being a problem (besides your teeth).
The dry noodles are going to absorb fluid and soften which could cause a fluid imbalance or blockage.
Also, the kid supposedly ate 3 packages. If that included ramen seasoning packs, that much sodium can’t be good for you either.
So fluid imbalance + a bunch of salt? Not a good time.
A literal imbalance of the humours… congratulations 18th century medicine, you were right precisely once.
I’d imagine it’s like downing an entire 4l bottle of Pepsi Max. Seems innocuous, but you’re gonna have a bad time.
They make 4l bottles?
Now that you point it out, that was actually a typo, I meant 3l. But I’m not gonna edit it because I find it funny. :)
Wait, they make 3l?
Yes, they definitely make 3 litre bottles.
Huh. Never seen that. Learn something new every day!
Outside the US, 3L is pretty common. I’ve RARELY seen them in the US and mostly at import stores.
Challenge accepted
I think this is the right explanation, assuming the story is true. Dry noodles expand when put in hot water, and I would think that includes gastric acids in the human body. The boy started having symptoms in half an hour and died soon after. That’s too fast for something like food poisoning, and they didn’t find anything wrong with the noodles being sold. So it sounds like pressure buildup from them expanding inside him caused damage.
OP, I would be careful not to eat too much at once, and eat slowly. The boy ate three packets at once. Maybe eat some other stuff with it so the noodles can’t build up a large mass of just noodles.
I remember reading this is actually a myth and comes from the idea that birds will explode if you feed them rice. The volume stays the same because the water ends up going into the rice.
Given the only sources I see for this story are the Daily Mail and The Sun, I wouldn’t put too much stock into it quite yet.
I used to eat raw noodles all the time until one day I got the worst food poisoning of my life and then I never ate any of them cooked or raw ever again that shit’s disgusting
Just stop. Its not like you are quitting heroin. Eat healthy
How can I be healthy? I just found out eating raw pasta is almost instantly fatal and I died 25+ years ago.
Wi-fi sucks in the afterlife.
I don’t know about death but a friend of mines cousin when we were kids apparently got tapeworm from eating raw noodles.
You can die from anything if it blocks up your organs. Non-event.
