So is everybody else. There’s nothing special about engineers.
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Would you buy food from an immature and childish supplier who thinks that kind of thing is funny? Safe food is one of the greatest achievements of civilisation - ask anyone who has immigrated to the West from India or China - and food branding is normally very careful to emphasise this.
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Our dog is very sensitive to diet, and remains extremely healthy on a low allergen dry food. He’s perfectly happy with it, and the fact is that it works out little more expensive than the ordinary stuff.
If dog food manufacturers can produce a gluten and allergen free dog food at $5 a kilo - which is equivalent to about 3kg of ordinary wet food weight - it amazes me we can’t do the same for people. But looking around, it is clear that it’s literally true that some people would die rather than eat healthily.
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To echo @TobinL:
Controllable diarrhoea: I’ve got to go to the toilet right now or I’ll mess my pants.
Uncontrollable diarrhoea: I just messed my pants.
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My go-to “don’t starve” food is always dried lentils (mostly red, since the are done almost instantly) complemented with apples for fruit. Dirt cheap, tastes fine, but, as others have mentioned, the monotony is soul-crushing after a while. Speaking of diarrhoea though, I once tried to go a couple of days with only sauerkraut… I love the stuff, but boy, that was a bad idea.
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Just like mom used to make!
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In my 46.5 years on earth I have not yet been felled by a food-borne illness. This is not “par for the course” - when Chipotle had issues (that affected far fewer than 0.1% of their customers) they completely shut down.
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Slightly OT, but a former colleague had to take the surrender of a German U-boat during WW2. The captain, presumably a fanatical Nazi, did not want to surrender but the crew shot him. My colleague said that he had never seen people so anxious to get off a boat. When he went in to investigate, he was hit with a smell of diesel and sauerkraut that made him physically sick. He didn’t know how they stood it as long as they did (especially while being depth-charged.)
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Either you have been very fortunate or you have managed to avoid India, China, Mexico and parts of Africa, outside the Western tourist areas.
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Yeah, I have not been there. I spent a few years in Budapest, Hungary - and each time I returned after visiting home I’d have the runs for a couple of days, but nothing like the Emergency Room visits reported in the OP above.
Since the assertions above are that such incidents are “common”, I am suspicious of anybody that thinks that hospitalization from eating is a common occurence.
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The nutritionist fallacy is one of my favorites.
##There is no diet that is optimal for all human beings, and any diet that is optimal for the largest single subgroup will be harmful to another subgroup.
This is the observed reality (allergies and genetic metabolic differences clearly exist) but the soylent people are trying to falsify it. A worthy effort although they clearly don’t realize that’s what they are doing…
My daughter could only take soy formula; her mother wasn’t able to nurse, and cows’ milk based formulas caused her to vomit continuously for hours, in turn causing dangerous dehydration. However, my son could only take human or cow milk - soy formula made him become a pint-size high-pressure cannon…
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Not to get further off topic but those are a good choice. When I could get them they had fewer consequences than the beans. But I was in a largely Hispanic and Caribean neighborhood. Lentils that were available to me were frequently stale enough to inedible.
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I just noticed it takes a special person to go from, “I don’t like spending time on food” to "I’m going to run a food replacement company full time.
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Oh, g-d, soy-formula poops are the worst.
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That’s funny, you don’t look Jewish!
People who aren’t familiar with borscht-belt comedy can relax, it’s a joke.
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I have a Jewish friend (I have more? I’ve got binders full of 'em!) with whom I talked about traditions and whatnot, and the reasoning behind not writing out G-d’s name in full. I can’t recall all of the details, but I’ve been doing it ever since.
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At least noone got scurvy 
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Yes - lemon juice wasn’t really an option for the Kriegsmarine in WW2, unlike the RN.
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The idea of adding every possible needed trace mineral isn’t inherently bad - but some of them are needed in such trace quantities, like chromium, that I would be nervous of putting them in as a general food additive, simply because of the risk of incorrect dosing. When you’re adding something like chromium at (presumably) the order of parts per billion (acute toxicity is only 2ppm) making a mistake or a failed dosing system would be rather easy. It’s much easier and safer to put supplements into pills because you only need to test the concentration of one or two ingredients in the mix; sampling chromium levels in a complex environment is not that easy. I know, I’ve had to set up a system.
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OH! It’s not Michael Jackson, but someone posted this a while ago (anyone remember who made it?)
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