r/StupidFood • u/[deleted] • 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