Sugar free chewing gum uses a sweetener called sorbitol. In large amounts it will produce a laxative effect, which I can only assume is what happened in this case.
What's the worst food mistake you've made?
- Thread starter Jonny69
- Start date
Sugar free chewing gum uses a sweetener called sorbitol. In large amounts it will produce a laxative effect, which I can only assume is what happened in this case.
I think the majority of the gum I had wasn't sugar-free, we are talking a good thirteen years ago now.
The other products they gave us, which includes things like breath fresheners and more medical products certainly had laxative warnings on them.
Was eating some breaded scampi and spotted one which looked slightly different to the rest. A bonus chicken nugget I thought, that'll be nice. Bit into it and it immediately turned to a descicated powder and coated my entire mouth before I knew what was happening. It was a chicken nugget as it happens, though it had probably been trapped in the machine where they make them for at least 5 years and decided to fall into that particular bag of scampi. Was the most rank thing I'd ever had in my mouth by several orders of magnitide, off the scale in fact. And because it turned to powder it was in my teeth and everything. I had to rinse my mouth out multiple times whilst trying to to swallow *anything*. I'd like to see them try that as a busgh tucker trial.
I made a 'healthy' lasagne once which used cottage cheese and spinach instead of the normal bechamel sauce. That was pretty horrible. 
My parents where away and my sister and I grilled burgers, which was fine except the fat had caught light and I heard my sister shouting for me so I run down and see flames flying out of the grill. Queue us opening the kitchen doors and putting the grill pan outside until it went out. They tasted lovely and flame grilled though.
Did a barbeque one day but it rained so I moved it under the eves of the house, which was fine until I went into the spare bedroom later to find it full of smoke from the barbeque. Must've come up through a vent/window.
I once ate so much food it made me vomit... damn all you can eat buffets.
I made pumpkin pie last November and put it in the oven only to find the eggs still on the worktop. I had to get it back out and mix in the egg then return it. Ended up tasting ok still.
My parents where away and my sister and I grilled burgers, which was fine except the fat had caught light and I heard my sister shouting for me so I run down and see flames flying out of the grill. Queue us opening the kitchen doors and putting the grill pan outside until it went out. They tasted lovely and flame grilled though.
Did a barbeque one day but it rained so I moved it under the eves of the house, which was fine until I went into the spare bedroom later to find it full of smoke from the barbeque. Must've come up through a vent/window.
I once ate so much food it made me vomit... damn all you can eat buffets.
I made pumpkin pie last November and put it in the oven only to find the eggs still on the worktop. I had to get it back out and mix in the egg then return it. Ended up tasting ok still.
Back when I was at school someone noticed that a certain type of mints contained something that in large enough amounts would have a laxative effect, it even had a warning on the packet. Being about 12/13 few bright sparks thought eating lots would make them fart. And they were right it did, but that was just a warning for what was to come
![[TW]Sponge](/styles/overclockers/avatars/6.png){kind=avatar}
Soldato
Dark chocolate
Not me, but in 1st year at Uni I came home one night (about half 3am) rather drunk. The end of the hallway, was the door to our living room/kitchen which had 3 little glass windows in it. Through them, all I could see was thick thick smoke. I pushed the girl to one side, and said "I'll deal with this, go outside" and in I went.
Like a hero. I swung open the door, expecting to be a total hero which caused a lot of the smoke to rush past me and into the hallway. This tripped the smoke alarm and people began to wake up, hammered, and go outside. I went to the hob and found a pan, that had been left on the heat with nothing on it. It had totally destroyed it.
The whole block got evacuated, and the fire men turned up. They asked who lived in the flat, I approahced them. Beer in one hand, a destroyed pan in the other. They shook their heads. As this is going on, another couple of firemen is leading a very bemused flatmate out in just his pants. This was the culprit. He'd gone home, and tried to make some pasta and then went to bed forgetting about the pan. He had slept through the fire alarm, and all the firemen shouting and pushing. He had to be picked up before he came to!
He ended up getting a disciplinary from the University (it was in halls), thrown out for a week and when he came back they had installed a vibrating pad and siren under his pillow. This was for deaf/hard of hearing students. It woulda been fine, but it was tripped whenever there was a fire alarm anywhere on campus!
It was unplugged after a week, after it woke us all up numerous times. To top it all of, it was in the middle of winter, and we had to have all the windows up pretty much 24/7 for 2 weeks to get rid of the smell!
Like a hero. I swung open the door, expecting to be a total hero which caused a lot of the smoke to rush past me and into the hallway. This tripped the smoke alarm and people began to wake up, hammered, and go outside. I went to the hob and found a pan, that had been left on the heat with nothing on it. It had totally destroyed it.
The whole block got evacuated, and the fire men turned up. They asked who lived in the flat, I approahced them. Beer in one hand, a destroyed pan in the other. They shook their heads. As this is going on, another couple of firemen is leading a very bemused flatmate out in just his pants. This was the culprit. He'd gone home, and tried to make some pasta and then went to bed forgetting about the pan. He had slept through the fire alarm, and all the firemen shouting and pushing. He had to be picked up before he came to!
He ended up getting a disciplinary from the University (it was in halls), thrown out for a week and when he came back they had installed a vibrating pad and siren under his pillow. This was for deaf/hard of hearing students. It woulda been fine, but it was tripped whenever there was a fire alarm anywhere on campus!
It was unplugged after a week, after it woke us all up numerous times. To top it all of, it was in the middle of winter, and we had to have all the windows up pretty much 24/7 for 2 weeks to get rid of the smell!In the same region of this.
Skittles - Good
Peanut Butter - Good
Chocolate Spread - Good
Tortilla Wrap - Good
Microwaved food - Good
Combined - Incredible.
Soldato
Not really my mistake - my gf at uni (now wife) cooked Chicken Provençal except that she cooked it in a dish that hadn't been rinsed properly and still had Fairy washing up liquid on. Slightly foamy chicken with a distinct taste... nice.
Associate
For me it has to be trying to cook a ready meal for 2 mins but the microwave had a +1 and a +10 min button - I pressed +10 twice by mistake and went on the PC waiting for the beep, 10mins later I realised nothing had happened and went back to a rather disgusting burned mess!
![[FnG]magnolia](/styles/overclockers/avatars/9.png){kind=avatar}
Caporegime
I once made a Turkish dish with so much garlic I couldn't stomach the smell of garlic for about 6 months. I was very, very drunk. Also, the meal was a disaster and my wife and I had a huge argument in front of our guest. Good times
Soldato
Putting a ton of scotch bonnets (10+) into a curry thinking they were bell peppers.
My face was melting.
My face was melting.
Associate
Oh, I also made chilli when I had a cold - Didn't seem spicy so I kept adding more and more spice and froze some of it for another day - Was so spicy I couldn't even eat it!
Soldato
Worst food mistake i've actually ever made was ordering dominoes pizza, the next morning i spent 3 hours on the toilet in the most intense pain of my life. Then spent the next 2 days in on-off pain as my stomach settled.
Never EVER eating dominos pizza again.
Never EVER eating dominos pizza again.