Most Westerners live a life that is far too sterile for their own good.

To build up resistance, one must have exposure.

And always remember. The date on packaging says " Best before " it does not say " Bad after "

Exactly,

There's some truth to the old adage,

what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger,

The closer you live to real nature, the more resistant you will be. An English housewife wouldn't have a clue what to do if someone gave her a live chicken. She has only ever seen the one that is shrink wrapped around a styrene tray.

yes all children should grow up expossed to everyting in enviroment for some years i lived in rough conditions of oz opalfield

children born and grew up there crawling around the dirt floors of tin shed pubs in dog shit eating cig butts

they were never sick or to dr like other kids in the towns cheers

Mine came and stayed with me in London for a while.. She kept a roast chicken in my bedroom unrefrigerated for 4 days and kept nibbling at it. I wouldn't touch it the next day..

Wrong in so many ways! 4 days?

Farangs stink.. Even back home an over weight guy drinking booze in 35+ degree heat is gunna stink.. Take a shower guys.

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When I decided to stay in Thailand I decided I had to eat like a Thai or spend the rest of my life saying "I can't eat this" and having a poor choice at restaurants.

So I started eating that "nam prik" and drinking the water in the street restaurants. I mostly had lunch all by myself because my gf was working in that time so I just headed to a random restaurant, pick a menu in Thai language, choose a random one and eat whatever I was presented in the dish.

Needless to say, it took me a long while until something solid came out of my ass but I was never really sick and strangely I never had stomach burns (I had sometimes in Europe). It took me around 1 month till I could finish a meal without tears in my eyes due to the heavy load of spice. Now, after 3 years I have to tell them "kin phet dai" every time I eat because if not, they will put less chili in my food because they assume farangs can't eat that spicy food.

Also, I have eaten all the stuff they usually eat like bugs of many kinds, that rotten crab "poo parrah", red ant eggs and well, all the usual things. Never had a stomach problem since then. In the beginning, when we took food home and it wasn't in the fridge, I dumped if not eaten in a couple of hours. Now I eat food sitting on the table for 1 day, no problem.

I think it is just a matter of getting used.

Food safety is at virtually paranoid levels in the west and rightly so. If you get salmonella in KFC, someone might go to jail and KFC pays bazillion.

Well, I think we can see the difference with Thailand. Just proves that food can be consumed a long way past what most westerners have been taught that it is Unconsumable.