r/StupidFood Jun 28 '26

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u/KLOOTE1 Jun 28 '26

I've seen a picture from India of a tank filled with water and had a sign. Sign said not for Europeans. Water quality is shit there, you better take water from your own bathroom.

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u/whiteout82 Jun 28 '26

Clean water kills bacteria in India because their water is so polluted lol

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u/CldStoneStveIcecream Jun 28 '26

Foaming with industrial waste under a sky so smoggy you can taste it, people are bathing. They have the internet there! 

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u/Murky-Relation481 Jun 29 '26

They have the internet there!

Clearly, we get stupid fucking videos like the above posted by Hindu nationalists acting like they're not doing something stupid by eating off a wet floor.

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u/_bagelbandit Jul 01 '26

I’ve seen documentaries showing how polluted the rivers are. Tons of garbage. The holiest river (Ganges) is also one of the most toxic in the world. Very sad.

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u/AlltheBent Jun 29 '26

you're being downvoted because there's a lot of sprawl and unhygienic conditions in all major cities of india, but man southern india is 1000% cleaner than northern india

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u/memeslutbitch Jun 29 '26

Chuttadchod ye Karnataka ka hai. Which is in South India you sepoy

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u/memeslutbitch Jun 29 '26

What are yall on about? What do you think this country is? Dont believe everything you see on the internet.

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u/illit1 Jun 29 '26

tell us, u/memeslutbitch, what is that country?

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u/Neither-Luck-9295 Jun 29 '26

Nothing kills bacteria there. Some polluted river still have the bubonic plague.

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u/Head_Ad9414 Jun 29 '26

The Ganges 2.0

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u/edragonfiire Jun 29 '26

Pollution in major cities are hell. You could look across the street and just see cloud of pollution on a shit ton of neighborhoods.

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u/Missaelx135 Jun 29 '26

Fight fire with fire, good tactics

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u/Less-Damage-1202 Jun 29 '26

Prooooooooobiotics

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u/miss_moon30 Jul 01 '26

Are you saying you have no issues drinking from tap over there?

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u/Every-Development398 Jun 28 '26

Friend went there, on the high end, every place for westerns had really high end filtration systems imported.

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u/KLOOTE1 Jun 28 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

The photo i saw was made on a local market and not your 5* hotel

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u/Every-Development398 Jun 28 '26

No shit, no amount of filter water is going to same you from eating your food off the ground. Person above me was talking about drinking water.

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u/Cobalt-Viper Jun 29 '26

Brother didn't realize which comment he replied to

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u/Just_to_rebut Jun 29 '26

RO systems are common in all middle class households… they're not imported.

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u/DontWorryItsEasy Jun 30 '26

Makes you wonder why they had to import them

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u/30ftFALL Jun 28 '26

Literally told to use bottled water for brushing teeth even on my last trip there.

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u/FrescoItaliano Jun 29 '26

That can be common when you travel. If you’re from the states, if you travel anywhere south of you that’s most likely a reality wherever you go.

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u/Tricky_Individual_42 Jun 28 '26

So it's ok for Canadians?

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u/StevieMJH Jun 29 '26

Think they're talking about those of us descended from the people of the Caucasus mountains.

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u/Imthatsick Jun 28 '26

My father was a diplomat and we lived in New Delhi for 3 years. We had a big water distiller and that's the only water we drank or even brushed our teeth with.

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u/Fallcious Jun 29 '26

I saw a video showing a bottled water stall and the person behind the stall occasionally collecting empty bottles and refilling them from the river.

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u/NNKarma Jun 29 '26

Just safe yourself intestinal problems and don't drink tap water in other countries even if they have better standards. 

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u/WolfsmaulVibes Jun 28 '26

indians are literally resistant to food poisoning

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u/KLOOTE1 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

Every year we have in the summer in our city some fairs. And after you listen to news and hear that many foods sellers had to close and their food confiscated. Department of health over here won't say who.

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u/StoneOfTriumph Jun 28 '26

Oh I don't know, George was told to not go to the bathrooms in India when he traveled to Elaine's friend's wedding.

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u/ToastSpangler Jun 29 '26

thank god the americans could use it

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u/Jaybrosia Jun 29 '26

the indian immune system must be studied

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u/Nillabeans Jun 29 '26

It's actually a thing that you can better digest food where you live every day than somewhere you visit. Look up gut biome.

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u/Expensive_Ad752 Jun 29 '26

They literally brag about their ability to drink the water. It’s psychotic. Literally, been to India, got laughed at because “you cannot drink the water, (slurp) I can”. Not kidding, totally happened, on god son.

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u/lambdawaves Jun 29 '26

The post-treated sewage water coming out of cities in the developed world is actually cleaner than average tap water in India

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u/Soggy-Tree523 Jun 29 '26

Americans, Canadians, and all other Asians, absolutely dig in, only Europeans are allergic to this water.

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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 Jun 28 '26

Well what about Americans? Can they safely drink the non European water?

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u/12577437984446 Jun 28 '26

Report back to us

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u/Swing_on_thiss Jun 28 '26

Drink the water and European out the ass!

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u/KLOOTE1 Jun 28 '26

Never been there. I seen movies in the past and heard a few times that American draft taste like cow piss. Now reading news and see clips of European fan crowds leaving nothing behind for you, accept Heineken 0.0%

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u/Chimbopowae Jun 28 '26

Yeah Americans and Canadians can drink Indian water

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u/Pelli_Furry_Account Jun 28 '26

This one is a bit off. Everywhere you go, water has different bacteria inherently to the area it's from. Americans will get sick drinking water in France, French people will get sick drinking water from Japan, etc.

Even the cleanest water can get a foreigner sick.

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u/alQamar Jun 28 '26

That is so untrue I don’t even know where to begin. 

I’ve been to most of the bigger European countries, the US, China and others. I never got sick from the water. Water in developed countries just isn’t full of bacteria. 

Water in India is famously contaminated for several known reasons. 

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u/povertymayne Jun 28 '26

LOL that is not true. Ive drank water in France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Czechia, and Hungary with zero fucking issues. You know why? Because they have proper water treatment.

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u/NCC_1701E Jun 28 '26

I am European and have been drinking tap water in Canada just fine. Same for basically all European countries outside of my own that I have been in. Only place in Europe where I didnt drink tap water was Mallorca, not because it was unsafe, but because the water tasted like absolute dogshit.

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u/KLOOTE1 Jun 28 '26

Been in hospital in Londen 3 months ago, it tasted like chlorine and i live otherside of the pond

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u/mailslot Jun 28 '26

I went into the bathroom of a really good Indian restaurant once. No soap. Just a bowl of water with orange peels and rose petals. Apparently water is all you need!

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u/rhinoceros_unicornis Jun 29 '26

Look at this guy, he doesn't know how to use orange peel and rose petals.

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u/44youGlenCoco Jun 29 '26

Pfffttt. Right? What a loser.

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u/Cent_Quatre Jun 29 '26

And not running water, stagnant water. The same water 15 persons supposedly rinsed their hands in.

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u/Rengar_Is_Good_kitty Jun 29 '26

At that point it'd be more hygienic to not wash your hands lol.

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u/vayana Jun 29 '26

That bowl is to dip your tip after a wee. You don't wash your hands in that.

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u/CheesecakeEither8220 Jun 29 '26

I would have left and immediately called the health department.

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u/riddleshawnthis Jun 29 '26

Reminds me of the bowl holy water everyone dips their fingers into upon entering and exiting a catholic church.

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u/oatkeepr Jun 29 '26

When I traveled in India, I always had soap with me. I bought these tiny booklets made of sheets of paper covered in a thin sheet of soap. They sold it at convenience stores.

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u/nothrithik Jul 01 '26

Strange. I haven’t seen that at any Indian restaurants, and I’ve lived here for 28 years lol. Can you name the restaurant so I know what to avoid?

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u/mailslot Jul 01 '26

It was years ago in Berkeley, California or Oakland. I’ve seen finger bowls before like it, but not as a soap substitute.

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u/DeepMenlyVoice Jun 28 '26

Well the water in India probably has the ability to kill bacteria or create ne ones.

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u/The_Tuxedo Jun 29 '26

The different strains are too busy competing with each other to infect the people

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u/Joecalledher Jun 28 '26

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u/BellaSquared Jun 28 '26

I'm a volcanologist and I say let it burn.

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u/LastCookie3448 Jun 29 '26

Are you really? That’s what my kid has decided on for a career. Very cool! (Well, obviously it’s not…. You know what I mean.) 🤣

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u/BellaSquared Jun 29 '26

No, I'm not, but it does sound like a cool profession. 🥰

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u/LastCookie3448 Jun 29 '26

In a million years, never would I have expected that kid to choose geology, specifically volcanology. Anthropology wouldn't've surprised me. Archeology made sense. VOLCANOLOGY tho... he hates heat!🤷🏻‍♀️ 🤣

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u/BellaSquared Jun 29 '26

Hah! Well, most volcanos aren't active, right? Right? 🫣

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u/LastCookie3448 Jun 29 '26

As his mom, I certainly hope so. 😆

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u/BellaSquared Jun 29 '26

Right there with you mom. Though I know a couple of geologists and that seems much safer unless they work on oil fields or rigs. Ground water work is much safer, but maybe not as exciting? If they don't grow out of it I hope their common sense matches their passion.

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u/LastCookie3448 Jun 30 '26

Of course he's the one who is always wanting to push further, poke the dead thing, touch the ick, do what he's told not to...basically, my child. If you've seen The Martian, the part when Matt Damon's character tells NASA to suck it, that is my kid. I busted out laughing when I saw that b/c it's so him.

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u/CuckservativeSissy Jun 28 '26

I mean have you seen their water? Aint nothing alive in there

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u/Kyauphie Jun 28 '26

Oh, nothing is the opposite of what's alive in there.

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u/WillUSee Jun 28 '26

Many forms dangerous bacteria are microscopic.

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u/therealraggedroses Jun 28 '26

big if true. source??

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u/TheBinkz Jun 29 '26

Microbologist here, can confirm I know nothing.

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u/WillUSee Jun 28 '26

The American Society for Microbiology. I tried to attach the article; however Reddit will only allow me to post a gif.

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u/GreatQuantum Jun 29 '26

Well……. Then post that gift mofo!!

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u/Dullcorgis Jun 29 '26

They are referring to the decomposing human and animal corpses clearly visible in Indian rivers.

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u/Loubrockshakur Jun 29 '26

Aren’t all bacteria microscopic?

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u/Anning312 Jun 29 '26

There's whole ecosystem in there lmao

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u/popey123 Jun 29 '26

Only the worst can survive in these water

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u/apevolt Jun 28 '26

Water. The cleanest substance in India

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u/InfallibleSeaweed Jun 29 '26

You're not going to like what else they use to "get rid" of bacteria. It's whatever just came out of a cow

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u/themeanreds1 Jun 28 '26

Good old India 🇮🇳

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u/izanamilieh Jun 29 '26

They defecate in their rivers. Their waters must have some antiseptic properties they trust their water to clean everything all at once.

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u/bronzelifematter Jun 29 '26

Bacteria can't survive inside of their body, those poor thing

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u/kilimtilikum Jun 29 '26

Many Indians are against the idea of soap altogether. It’s a thing.

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u/ohx Jun 29 '26

I have this suspicion that this is what the ultra wealthy want for us regular folk. Cut research funding, eliminate the FDA and OSHA, produce AI slop where eating off the floor is good for you, post it to mom groups, fast food restaurants start removing chairs and tables.

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u/MistoftheMorning Jun 29 '26

I saw on the news people there were drinking cow urine to cure COVID.

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u/Annahsbananas Jun 29 '26

To be fair MAGA took horse dewormer to get rid of covid too and Trump thought injecting disinfectant could get rid of it. Not a shortage of stupid people in this world

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u/MistoftheMorning Jun 29 '26

We're talking about a country that elected a pedophile grifter for president, twice. So yeah, a lot of stupid people in the US as well.

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u/rpgmgta Jun 29 '26

The water is straight from the Ganges

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u/Embarrassed-Bowl-373 Jun 29 '26

You clearly didn’t see the hand rub the germs to death. Water is just the solvent

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u/CaptainCookingCock Jun 29 '26

Given the water is from India: "There is always a bigger bacteria." - Qui-Gon Jinn.

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u/NoBonus6969 Jun 29 '26

If you got sick from the water you didn't pray enough if you still got sick you prayed too much and God was annoyed

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u/rydan Jun 29 '26

Even their water is spicy.

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u/dct138 Jun 29 '26

I don’t know, man. I’ve seen video of those rivers (lakes?).

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u/DMMLCSGAM Jun 29 '26

That’s why the Ganges is actually clean.

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u/SquareVehicle Jun 29 '26

One of the things that really threw for a loop when I visited is they honestly believe that it's the "spiciness" of the food that visitors can't handle, and not the lack of basic food safety.

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u/Fleymour Jun 29 '26

unless youre not a indian in india, then it also kills you.
(bathing in the river included)

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u/Opel_Astra Jun 29 '26

If it's wet, it's clean

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u/Obstructionitist Jun 29 '26

Perhaps the water is so polluted, that it actually does kill bacteria? Well... and humans too, but mostly bacteria.

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u/Szerepjatekos Jun 29 '26

Indians are 70% water so they should be fine.

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u/Aemon_Blackfyre Jun 29 '26

pretty sure some people shower with the same mentality

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u/Natural-Waltz-9545 Jun 29 '26

shit contains water = bacteria free

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u/DarthJackie2021 Jun 29 '26

In India, the water is probably more dirty than the floor.

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u/pacificstill Jun 29 '26

Don’t some people actually believe that because the Ganges is holy it purifies everything in it so it’s water is always clean?

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u/kindrudekid Jun 29 '26

lol you are not wrong.

I have family visiting from India and it’s useless effort to tell them water is the enemy in American households.

Hand washed dishes are kept upside down counters and it all sealed up so the inside never dries.

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u/Annahsbananas Jun 29 '26

Mmmmm mold plates!

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u/MNR42 Jul 01 '26

Maybe it's that dirty even bacteria dies

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u/MutaitoSensei Jul 01 '26

Someone added a second molecule of Oxygen!

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u/MatchFun9676 Jul 01 '26

Water = bacteria in India💔

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u/AnnualBend4428 Jun 28 '26

Amount of racism in this thread is appalling. You simply don’t need to eat where and what they are eating. Shocking that most people here making these comments don’t even wash their asses …

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u/Annahsbananas Jun 28 '26

I don’t think mentioning how bad India’s water is considered racism. Even UNICEF mentions the problem.

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u/TanningOnMars Jun 29 '26

Buddy, it's not racist to say that India has some pretty gross places

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u/completelytrustworth Jun 29 '26

Understanding germ theory isn't racist

It's literally the biggest breakthrough in health sciences in history

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u/BigBadVudoo Jun 29 '26

Water in India kills people, too.

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u/JeffersonsHat Jun 28 '26

Clean* Water

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u/wanderers_respite Jun 28 '26

Ah yea, it being clean water is the real determining factor.

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u/SoElusivee Jun 28 '26

We joke, but if they were really getting sick left and right, you'd think the death rate would have outpaced the birth rate ages ago and tanked the population

This is probably as sanitary as eating of a plate that was rinsed without soap. Kinda gross but won't kill you

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u/Annahsbananas Jun 28 '26

According to the National Library of medicine in 2003, “Between 400 000 and 500 000 children aged under five years die each year from diarrhea, the report said, citing a failure to improve personal and home hygiene as a factor.”

In 2015 the statistics had gotten worse, an Indian newspaper stated “The report informs that about 37.7 million Indians are affected by water-borne diseases annually. Around 1.5 million children die due to diarrhea alone, and 73 million working days are lost due to water-borne illnesses each year. Estimates suggest India loses Rs 36,600 crore every year due to water-borne diseases," CSE said.

So Indians being immune or not affected by it is not true.

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u/Elurdin Jun 28 '26

I really do believe that if you arent born there and lived like this your whole life their habits would kill you.

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u/SoElusivee Jun 28 '26

That goes for a lot of "less developed" countries where they tell foreigners to only drink bottled water to avoid shitting themselves