Would you eat rotted meat just to get high?
Lifestyle
Yes, we’ve consumed an adult beverage. We’ve smoked a joint. We’ve even sniffed glue as a kid. However, it appears some folks have become so bored with traditional methods that they’ve now taken to eating rotted meat to achieve a euphoric high.
According to one Reddit member, eating meat that has been decomposed to the point of fermentation provides a feeling of “euphoria, unity, and family.” Others claim it’s the way our ancestors and some indigenous tribes provided themselves with a natural diet full of healthy bacteria and probiotics.
Not at all. This is how it looked btw pic.twitter.com/pCBGMCTKvf
— HowHighCanThisGo 💮 (@DKexer) April 12, 2021
Still, with tons of probiotic formulas available in stores today, is rotted meat really the answer to good health??
According to those who swear by this odd delicacy, the process of getting the meat to just the right state of decomposition is a tedious task. Consumers say they can’t simply leave meat out to rot but must create a controlled fermentation. However, once the rotted meat hits their gut and takes their digestive system to near botulism, it’s supposedly one of the great “highs” in the world. They also claim it’s no worse than eating cured pork or aged cheese.
“If you’re leaving this out for anything from days to months to years, who knows what kinds of [bacteria] are going to grow, and some of those bacterias might have chemical properties that are going to give you a high, or hallucination, or a feeling of euphoria,” said Naras Lapsys, a Singapore-based consultant dietitian.
However, a New Yorker magazine article warned that eating rotted meat will produce the results most everyone would expect: it will leave the consumer “explosively incontinent.”
Added Stanford Health dietician Leah Groppo: “The meat people caught [thousands of years ago during the caveman era] was different from the meat that’s being bought at a grocery store. Porous meat, like ground beef, carries an extra-high risk.”
Still, certain brave souls are undeterred. They’ll turn down a glass of wine for a sense of euphoria in favor of a steak that’s been sitting on the kitchen counter since 2018 any day of the week.
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Okay I have “consumed an adult beverage.” And yes, I’ve even “smoked a joint’….Once. And it gave me such a terrible migraine that I never went near the stuff again…lol.
But I have never, Ever, “sniffed glue.”
And this “let’s get high on rotted meat” madness is just one more example of why We (Black people) should know better than to follow crazy-azz white people off a cliff!