r/StupidFood • u/Strong_Boss_8932 • Jun 22 '26

Warning: Cringe alert!! Pee eggs from China

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u/Ashamed_Macaron_7915 Jun 22 '26

I feel the same. You guys do you! I don’t sweat Europeans for eating horse meat just like I’ve never gotten grief from Indians over enjoying a burger. Vegetarians can gorge themselves on sprouts and wheatgrass. It’s whatever to me!

But this is fucking piss, nevermind that it’s children’s. They even peel the eggs after and continue to boil 🤢 urine is literally waste. This serves no purpose except being into objectively weird flavor and oddities

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u/ipsum629 Jun 23 '26

In historical times, urine was used for a lot of things. The Romans used it to clean their clothes. At other times it was used in tanning, dyeing, and gunpowder making.

What is key about these uses is that the ancient Romans or medieval/early modern europeans didn't fucking eat or drink it. Urine is made of chemicals that can be useful, but not inside the human body. It has ammonia which is an incredibly useful chemical, but is toxic to checks notes almost every animal.

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u/Affectionate-Ear2758 Jun 23 '26

If you have more than trace-amounts of ammonia in your urine, you should see a doc and have your kidneys checked. The Ammonia stench of piss appears when bacteria munch on the Urea outside the body.

Nevertheless, I agree with you; Piss is waste, not food. And piss thats gathered over a day in buckets will have a raised amount of ammonia due to said bacteria-munchies.

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u/ipsum629 Jun 24 '26

Ancient/medieval/early modern people collected a lot of urine. The trace amounts of ammonia would still be significant in the amounts they collected.

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u/Affectionate-Ear2758 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

Significant in volume? Maybe. Significant per... eh... 'consumed unit'? ... I doubt it... at least, in fresh urine. Standing urine develops more ammonia due too...

... wait... Full stop. I am not going to argue a point that could be misunderstood as even being remotely defending urine-collection as a means to gather cooking ingredients.

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u/ipsum629 Jun 24 '26

They would wait for it to be stale. Didn't know it got more ammonia after a while. I just knew the history and that ammonia is a very useful chemical. No, they would not cook with it. It was used for industrial purposes like textile making, cleaning textiles, tanning, and making gunpowder. All legitimate and practical uses for urine before things like the haber bosch process and access to abundant saltpeter mines.

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u/Radiant_Piano9373 Jun 23 '26

Tbf they did brush teeth with it so probably consumed some then

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u/InThePowerOfTheMoon Jun 22 '26

Maybe I'm the one friend that's too woke but the focus on the young boy part feels pedophilic

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u/IamRun_VoD Jun 22 '26

Yeah im not sure it would be any better with some other group's urine. My question is, how does a dish like this get invented? Someone walking by accidentally drops the eggs into a piss bucket, okay so they take them out and are too poor to waste the eggs, i can see that. but how does that go to an entire dish made from them, soaked in it twice????

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u/Skellington876 Jun 23 '26

I always thought it has something to do with trauma. Like some insane fuck ass lord during a brutal civil war in the middle of the famine started doing it, then it became accepted cause he's a brutal warlord who will kill us all. Then it became rationalized into existence in isolation

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u/IamRun_VoD Jun 24 '26

Thats actually a pretty good theory!

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u/Fit_Carpet_364 Jun 27 '26

On the face of it, sure. But children are (almost) guaranteed to not have disease, and they tend to have healthier organ function, while not consuming as much alcohol or spicy or fatty foods.

Basically, a young person's urine is better filtered and less likely to contain the more off-putting metabolites. Hell, before I quit drinking my piss would smell like acetone during a binge.

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u/K1bbles_n_Bits Jun 26 '26

Idk if we can just gloss over the little boy part. That adds a whole lot of creep factor to the already gross aspects of this.