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When I was an alcoholic I diagnosed myself with lactose intolerance. I’d have the Gatling Shits and wonder ‘Hmm was it the 14 tallboy cans of beer last night or the half liter of milk I had for lunch? Must have been the milk.’
So your lactose intolerant huh? That sucks. I used to wonder what food was causing my rectum to bleed so much, but I’ve diagnosed that it wasn’t something to worry about until my 40s.
I didnt get lactose intolerance until I was in my 30s. So weird that my body just decided “Nah, Im good with dairy products” all on it’s own.
Really wish I would have discovered that earlier in life, before I developed my crippling cocoa pebbles addiction.
Guess you only got a little trial period of lactase persistence, as a treat, but it ran out too soon.
Didn’t even get a reminder to renew my subscription, dirty bastards.
Same, buddy. It was the milk for sure.
It was ice cream for me
It’s fun to watch people self-diagnose food allergies.
There was a cheapo Japanese restaurant downtown. Plastic everything. Went there for lunch a while back. Worst Bento box ever.
Six months later. Hmm, Bento box sounds good. Go to this Japanese restaurant. Halfway through the awful meal, remember I’d been there! Swore never to go back. Again.
This cycle repeated SIX times.
What broke it was the whole building burning to the ground because of a grease fire.
Point is… hmm… Bento for lunch sounds good.
It’s one of them.
Flawed assumption. It could be both. You’ll need to eat there at least two more times to find out, assuming each trial yields 100% certainty.
Edit: I thought it should be obvious that we’re taking them absolutely at their word that they’ve properly isolated these two variables because this experiment exists inside a joke and never happened. The whole point of the joke is that the methodology is god awful and completely unrealistic, so questioning that they’ve truly isolated the variables is pointless.
Edit 2: Wait, I totally misread the experiment setup. @TheYojimbo@lemmy.world is entirely correct that they’ve eliminated nothing if the experiment is totally defined by 8 bowls and 8 bouts of diarrhea. They’re still converging on at least one cause, but there could still be others. My career is ruined.
In fact, they could be allergic to some or all of the ingredients eliminated. Or to the delivery driver’s personal hygiene.
Or neither.
We’ll take them at their word that they’ve truly narrowed the variables to tuna and house sauce (i.e. they’ve eaten a meal consisting of only tuna and house sauce and gotten sick, at least one of which has always been the underlying cause, but everything else they’ve eaten has been properly eliminated, and there are no ways outside of the food truck they could’ve gotten sick), and thus the only logical options are T, HS, or T+HS. The premise of the joke already relies on completely unrealistic simplifying assumptions, so we can too.
Edit: We will not do this because it’s logically impossible based on the described experiment thus far. I’m an utter dipshit.
They said they ate 8 times and got diarrhea 8 times, the only way to be sure it’s one of them is to eat at least once without those ingredients and not get diarrhea
They said they got diarrhea 8 times over 8 bowls, but they never said how many ingredients they used.(Edit: Fuck)Assume nine ingredients exist: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i
- Bowl 1: a + b + c + d + e + f + g + h + i: Diarrhea
- Bowl 2: a: No diarrhea
- Bowl 3: b: No diarrhea
- Bowl 4: c: No diarrhea
- Bowl 5: d: No diarrhea
- Bowl 6: e: No diarrhea
- Bowl 7: f: No diarrhea
- Bowl 8: g: No diarrhea
- Bowl 9: The one the OP is referring to “tomorrow”, which could have h, i, or h + i
That’s a perfectly feasible if disgusting way to have a bowl from a poke truck if you’re doing it solely for an experiment. And that’s just one setup; there are more convoluted ones you could do that have fewer ingredients but mixed together so your bowls aren’t just one combination. I just chose the counterexample that’s easiest to construct mathematically and which logically uses the fewest steps to eliminate each ingredient.
Edit: Wait, sorry, I misconstructed this because I misread it even while quoting it. Fuck, if they got diarrhea each time, then yeah, they’ve properly eliminated nothing.
Yeah that’s what I meant, 100% diarrhea means they eliminated nothing. Sorry I should have phrased that better.
Oh, no, you phrased it fine; I read 8 bowls and 8 bouts multiple times and somehow still misinterpreted the experiment. It was only after I wrote down and submitted an example setup that I snapped out of my own illiteracy. I realized every possible counterexample was assuming “no diarrhea” trials.
If we’re taking them at their word (and not the silly joke it is) technically they could have removed 7 ingredients so far, with only 2 left, while still having diarrhea each time. In that context, say next time they try the dish with only 1 ingredient and the don’t have diarrhea, then they have the likely suspect. They could then try the dish with every ingredient except the suspected allergen to confirm it
100% diarrhea means they eliminated nothing.
I take exception to this phrasing, whenever i have 100% diarrhea I eliminate the the contents of my guts and a half roll of toilet paper at least.
OMG I did the same thing at a local pub. Thinking steak sandwich. Ordered one up. Pretty good! Went home, went to bed. Three hours later - gurgle - glorp - oh shit! The rest of the night it was coming out both ends. Feel fine after some sleep. Forget all about it. Three weeks later, at the same pub. Thinking steak sandwich again. Pretty good! Went home, went to bed. Sure enough, three hours later, lather, rinse, repeat. Feel fine after some sleep. Forget all about it. Three weeks later, go to the same pub. Thinking steak sandwich again, third time’s the charm, right? My face when the pub had a sign up saying it was closed down for health code violations :/ To be fair, it was a good sandwich.
Get checked for hepb if you’re unvaccinated for it. It lingers after exposure. That shit will ruin your liver later if ignored.
Pretty sure he’s forgetting the constant variable, where x equals the times the cook uses the porta potty divided by the times he washes his hands.
(i.e division by zero = butthole undefined, or maybe infinite diarrhea).
Fun fact: This is not actually much different from the process of testing which foods trigger your IBS. After keeping the low FODMAPs diet, wherein you initially remove all possible triggers, you then test them one by one to see which ones you have specifically.
No, it’s very different.
When you have multiple allergies/intolerances, starting at zero and then adding one thing at a time is a lot more efficient than removing one thing at a time.
Removing one thing at a time will create many false negatives, where you remove a hit but don’t notice because you left another hit behind.
I feel like a binary search method would work too
dude I’ve def ate food I loved the taste of but knew it was gonna make me shit liquid fire.
i thought my beer had expired one night because i had a terrible time on the toilet at 4am but i totally forgot i ate an entire wedge of blue cheese earlier
It’s like me trying to figure out which brand of the 12th beer courses me to be sick the day after.
8 times.
Human capacity never ceases to amaze me.
This is a strange thing to do, tell people you have a diarrhea fetish.
This guy. Taking the bullet for all of us. A true scientist.
Somebody needs to learn about a binary search.
(Assuming that there is exactly one ingredient causing the problem.)
"How badly do I need to poop? "
A novel application of Binary Space Partitioning
Authors: Harry S. Stool, Floe O. Welles, Lavat T. Rushdie
Search Engine (podcast) had a 2 part episode on this that was interesting. They even did a DNA test on some samples of fish when trying to narrow down what it could be.
Pretty much every study I’ve seen where they DNA test fish shows that the fish was not even the type of fish it was labeled as.
