Thai eating habits

[tropo]

1 hour ago, superal said:

Out of curiosity how did you know you had the tapeworm inside your body for 6 months ?  were you undergoing a course of treatment for it and what were the symptoms ? 

 

I knew because it can take up to 3 months before the gravid proglottids (the little segments that make up a tapeworm) start to separate and crawl out of your anus. I saw these in my underwear. I was a bit slow on the uptake and it wasn't until I noticed them wiggling around in my stool that I realised I had a case of Taenia Saginata (beef tapeworm). I went to the doctor to obtain the appropriate treatment. I had disturbed bowel movements for months prior to diagnosis. Symptoms can be a lot worse too.  It only takes a few days to kill it.

 

If you want to eat rare Thai beef, freeze it first as that kills the Cysticerci. These days I mainly eat Australian and NZ beef. I don't eat pork, but pork tapeworms are far more dangerous.

[Craig krup]

Every Brit will happily tear chapattis, nans and the like, leaving the bit they didn't take, which will be eaten by someone else. A dry, abrasive bread is exactly the kind of thing that removes everything from your hands. What do we know from recent research? The solution to many really serious gut problems is a fecal transplant - Google it. I'd worry less. You can get "things" from being infected, and much, much worse things from not being infected.  

[Craig krup]

On 3/31/2018 at 3:49 PM, Shiver said:

Doesn't bother me with sharing habits, though I will use a 'transport spoon' between the food and myself just out of courtesy.

 

Last week for example I was sat eating peanuts in a dish with some thai friends and used a spoon to put them in my hand.  They noticed and copied.  Really wasn't necessary, but they took it upon themselves to do so.

 

 

Yes! The definition of a gentleman. Someone is sitting at a table and out of ignorance drinks from a finger-bowl. What will a gentleman do? He will, of course, instantly drink from his own finger-bowl in order to spare the other person any embarrassment.