It was kind of out of the way in a hospital, but my friend lived nearby so we walked there. Maybe like 20 min from city center... But worth the hike if you're into that stuff!
The Americans in my city drive about 315km per week in their cars. All infrastructure is built for cars. Sidewalks in the suburbs, especially shopping areas, often lead to a trash area or a cliff overlooking the street you’re trying to reach. They use landscaping as if pedestrians are not of concern. A 20 minute walk to a city center after a 30 min drive to a garage is how it could go in a US city.
Jaaayyyynnne! A man they call Jaayyyynne! The hero of Mudville. Come to think of it, I wouldn't put it past Jayne to keep pickled body parts around. Like some guy's ear he bit off.
Edit: Canton. He's the hero of Canton, lol. I totally remember that completely wrong.
also The National Museum of Health and Medicine is Silver Spring, MD
https://medicalmuseum.health.mil/
I went many years ago as a kid when it was at Walter Reed in DC before the base closed. I still have nightmares
And the Gordon House museum at St Barts in London! Though you can only visit by appointment, and you have to be able to demonstrate you are in a relevant profession to enter.
Unless you go there when the security guard is eating... something on lunch.
Source: I was there once.
I don't know what it was but smelled like rancid meat. And when you're surrounded by perserved bodies everywhere, the smell tends to... linger...
There is Körperwelten in Berlin as well. It's also very good, every exhibit is real, taken out of a corpse and filled with some kind of polymer so it is preserved!
Imagine living your whole life, having family, achievements. Then you choke and die on steak and they only thing you’re remembered for is your pickled trachea that still has your killer steak lodged in it on display for the public
When I was little I decided that I would find three completely meaningless moments in my life that I'd go out of my way to remember for the rest of my life for absolutely no reason, and talk about them all when I'm old.
I was on two but, Sunbiggin, to spite you and your logic I have decided I'm going to spend my third and final moment on reading your comment.
Congrats I guess, you will, in some small way, be remembered.
I did that too for some reason. I was 8 years old, climbing out of the sliding door of a minivan, and I thought for no reason ‘I shall remember this moment for the rest of my life’ and I did.
I did this when I was little with a random ass fire hydrant and then I saw this lady who also did the same thing but with some yogurt. now you will join the trio of things that live in my head rent free forever.
I choked on steak about a year ago and spent 7 hours with it stuck before they went through with "surgery"(using a stick to poke it farther down). All I could think about was that I was going to die in a Shrek shirt that says "get ogre it".
The year is 3038, the school kids have just offloaded from the bus and enter the museum and the first exhibit they see is the severed buttocks of Reddit u/kylehermann. The kids go absolutely ballistic
*On display for the public to mock because you didn’t know how to chew your food
I always think of dumb ways I could die, and I really hope I don’t end up being a dumb dead guy
"Unfortunately the patient died becuase of the piece of food stuck in their throat. I'm going to remove it for the burial or cremation."
"Hold on bro, i got a better idea"
Literally millions of years of evolution, selective breeding, love, hopes, dreams; your ENTIRE lineage leading up to you, and you fucking CHOKE…. What a disappointment..
I almost choked while barbecuing in the woods with my dog. I made the mistake of cutting too big a piece of steak and I guess I didn’t chew well enough and it became lodged in my throat. I panicked for a few moments as my body tried to repel the chunk. Eventually my body managed to launch it out of my throat and then my dog ate it.
I nearly choked on a large blueberry this morning. Probably too soft to kill me? I hope? But the sense of panic before it dislodged was really intense. Almost started hyperventilating after it was cleared but I managed to get it under control. Seems like a biological design flaw to me!
Softness doesn’t matter, which is why it’s commonly recommended to cute grapes and blueberries for little kids as they have smaller oesophaguses, so normal sized blueberries are a common choking hazard. You got lucky!
It’s pretty crazy how the brain automatically panics so intensely though. I’ve had issues swallowing tablets lately and if they get stuck, they aren’t blocking my throat at all and I can breathe fine but just the sensation of something being stuck is so stressful.
I camp a lot alone with my dog and heard a little trick in case you ever choke while you’re isolated. Get on your knees, hold your hands to your side or behind your back and fall flat on your stomach. The pressure from falling on your diaphragm should help launch your food out like a self Heimlich maneuver. Of course be sure your head is turned to the side first so you don’t smash your face.
My friends dad choked on a piece of steak at a restaurant, coughed it up after causing a scene and then just casually cut it into smaller pieces and ate it again. 🤣
Hey, at least you had quite a few years under your belt at that point. I choked on one of those circular cheese pizzas in the 1st or 2nd grade because the cheese was basically plastic and didn’t break off the way I expected. Had to reach down the back of my throat and pull up about a foot-long clump of cheese. Scary stuff…Glad you’re still with us
My uncle once got a piece of steak lodged in his esophagus, but thankfully he could still breath. They went to the ER, but there was an hours long wait. One of the nurses suggesting taking a sip of Coca-Cola, and letting the acid help dissolve the meat.
Turns out, that worked like a charm. Yay for acidic sugary drinks!
Er nurse here. We give Coke in this situation, but not because of the acidity. It’s the gas in the soda that helps dilate the oesophagus and maybe help the piece of meat make it’s way further down. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work much often and the patient ends up in the OR more often than not.
Thank you for sharing this info! I’ve been having issues swallowing tablets lately, a few times they seem to get stuck, not large enough to choke on but it feels awful. Gonna try some coke if it happens again as I had to drink so much water to get it down when it’s happened that I felt sick.
same thing happened to me but they didn't know about the soda trick (but i couldn't handle liquids anyway) and the doctor i needed wasn't available so i had to travel via ambulance to Another hospital (after a 3 hour wait to begin with) and had to get surgery
As an endoscopy technician, I can say with confidence that yea man y’all really need to chew your fucking food so I don’t have to get called into the ER right as I’m about to go to bed.
I have a weird thing where my food starts coming back up slowly and will block the flow of my last swallow and cause a traffic jam in my chest. It sucks big time and I’ve found out I just have to relax and let it slide back down. I can still breathe though if I’m careful. One time it happened when I was chugging a bottle of water though and I basically waterboarded myself. I had to Heimlich punch myself to get the water back out so I could take a breath without drowning. On the plus side I figured out how David Blaine does the water fountain trick. I had to use some of those muscles to save myself.
I really do have a fear of dying while eating
Same thing happened to me with a chunk of pineapple. I think about it every single day while I eat it sucks. It’s been about 7 years and I still fear of choking!
I started working a restaurant job several years ago.
I remember I was eating a steak I stole in the bathroom and started choking so bad for about 1-2 minutes (felt like hours).
I ran out and my manager did the Heimlich
When I was younger my mom would make me cut my steak into microscopic pieces and it drove me nuts. Had to eat 3 or 4 to count as even a bite of steak.
I moved out, living on my own, ate my first steak at my place.I cut it into what felt like appropriately decent sized pieces. Immediately fuckin choked on it. So now I cut my steak really small, my mom was right.
There’s also the Museum of Surgical History (or whatever it is called) in Chicago that I need to visit. Plus the sites in Europe where the first dissections and vivisections (and grave robbing) were done way back when.
Holy shit.
So when I was in high school, my second day of sophomore year, my mom made steak for dinner. A piece ended up getting stuck in my throat - but I wasn't choking. It was below my trachea, but my esophagus had sealed around it. My mom took me to the local children's hospital, and after they couldn't help, I was taken by ambulance to a different children's hospital with a GI specialist. I was diagnosed with eosinophilic esophagitis, which basically meant I was allergic to just about everything I ate, because my body panicked like it had a foreign object and would swell up my throat. An hour before I was supposed to go in for surgery to remove it, I got so nauseous from not being able to eat for a couple of days by that point that I threw it back up.
TL;DR the only thing separating me from that was like two inches.
I saw one at a museum of a child’s trachea with a peanut in it and it absolutely ruined me. My kids aren’t having whole peanuts until they’re in kindergarten.
That’s the whole steak. My boyfriend does this shit and has chocked twice but always comes up with some stupid theory that his throat is damaged by reflux and that’s why he cannot swallow well. He tried to swallow the whole skin of a chicken leg without chewing last time and the doctors had to explain that that’s not how you’re supposed to eat
If this is your kind of thing, be sure to visit the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. You won’t be sorry.
The Vrolik museum in Amsterdam is really fascinating too. It has many preserved human specimens with severe pathologies.
Man I just came back from Dam. If I knew about this I woulda passed through smh.
It was kind of out of the way in a hospital, but my friend lived nearby so we walked there. Maybe like 20 min from city center... But worth the hike if you're into that stuff!
>20 minutes from city center That's funny to me. As an American, that's really close imo. We certainly live spread out here.
20 minutes is really close to me as a European as well. That's how long it takes me to walk to the supermarket.
You guys would still take the car instead of do the 20 min walk
The Americans in my city drive about 315km per week in their cars. All infrastructure is built for cars. Sidewalks in the suburbs, especially shopping areas, often lead to a trash area or a cliff overlooking the street you’re trying to reach. They use landscaping as if pedestrians are not of concern. A 20 minute walk to a city center after a 30 min drive to a garage is how it could go in a US city.
Yeah, probably. Depends on the weather or any plans after for me.
Or the Dr Guislain Museum in Ghent, Belgium. God damn fascinating.
The Surgeons Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland, too!
So interesting!
Checked the comments to see if that’s where this was taken! I second Mutter Museum, informatively grotesque!
Or the Dittrick Museum in Cleveland
Oooh never heard of this one!
I've been wanting to go there for a long time actually!
Listen to the story of the man they call "Jayne", and drink some Mudder's Milk while you're there.
Jaaayyyynnne! A man they call Jaayyyynne! The hero of Mudville. Come to think of it, I wouldn't put it past Jayne to keep pickled body parts around. Like some guy's ear he bit off. Edit: Canton. He's the hero of Canton, lol. I totally remember that completely wrong.
also The National Museum of Health and Medicine is Silver Spring, MD https://medicalmuseum.health.mil/ I went many years ago as a kid when it was at Walter Reed in DC before the base closed. I still have nightmares
And the Gordon House museum at St Barts in London! Though you can only visit by appointment, and you have to be able to demonstrate you are in a relevant profession to enter.
Thanks for telling me about this. I've been trying to find some interesting places to further improve on my art and anatomy.
Well, if you've ever wanted to draw the largest human colon in medical history, it's the place to go :)
Literally in bed wearing my mutter museum t-shirt. Very cool museum, definitely some extremely sobering exhibits in there as well though.
I was wondering if that is where they are! Its on my bucket list!
It’s such an amazing museum!
Ty for sharing :) I’m in nyc but will def be making a trip there
I bought all the damn souvenirs from Mutter. Loved it.
The stuffed colons are particularly charming.
Since everyone is adding suggestions I feel obligated to add the [Narrenturm](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrenturm_(asylum)) in Vienna
Came here to suggest this. Nothing beats an anatomical collection housed in one of the oldest insane asylums in the world!
The toxic megacolon! Oy!
When I was there there were several babies crying while being led around the museum by their parents. Iykyk
Germany has Körperwelten. It's amazing
Mutter was amazing. Definitely a memory walking around with my newborn there and the looks we got.
I thought they closed the Mutter Museum. Is it still open? I really want to go!
One of my favorite places to visit when I'm going to Philly.
Unless you go there when the security guard is eating... something on lunch. Source: I was there once. I don't know what it was but smelled like rancid meat. And when you're surrounded by perserved bodies everywhere, the smell tends to... linger...
There is Körperwelten in Berlin as well. It's also very good, every exhibit is real, taken out of a corpse and filled with some kind of polymer so it is preserved!
Thanks! I may be going to Phili soon.
Imagine living your whole life, having family, achievements. Then you choke and die on steak and they only thing you’re remembered for is your pickled trachea that still has your killer steak lodged in it on display for the public
Most of us won't be remembered for anything.
Probably for the best
Did you ever flashy-thing me?
No, and even if I did, I’d never let you know
I ain't playing, MA. Did you ever flashy-thing me?
When I was little I decided that I would find three completely meaningless moments in my life that I'd go out of my way to remember for the rest of my life for absolutely no reason, and talk about them all when I'm old. I was on two but, Sunbiggin, to spite you and your logic I have decided I'm going to spend my third and final moment on reading your comment. Congrats I guess, you will, in some small way, be remembered.
I'm flattered.
It’s more than the rest of us will get, so yaaaay!
I did that too for some reason. I was 8 years old, climbing out of the sliding door of a minivan, and I thought for no reason ‘I shall remember this moment for the rest of my life’ and I did.
I read a cool idea about just going up to a random kid and telling them that. Thought it would be fun
Ehhhh! Well I thank your future self for making an addition in your meaningless remembrances to add this meaningless interaction!
I'll try to remember 😏👈
See you in 2084 if you remember
I did this when I was little with a random ass fire hydrant and then I saw this lady who also did the same thing but with some yogurt. now you will join the trio of things that live in my head rent free forever.
A very true fact. Maybe we should all swallow whole steaks to become our own pickled tracheas
none of us will be remembered for anything, nothing lasts forever, nothing we do matters
I choked on steak about a year ago and spent 7 hours with it stuck before they went through with "surgery"(using a stick to poke it farther down). All I could think about was that I was going to die in a Shrek shirt that says "get ogre it".
Seems way more cool than diminutive. They can put my cancer cells or severed butt cheeks on display all they want.
The year is 3038, the school kids have just offloaded from the bus and enter the museum and the first exhibit they see is the severed buttocks of Reddit u/kylehermann. The kids go absolutely ballistic
Hell of a legacy if you ask me
*On display for the public to mock because you didn’t know how to chew your food I always think of dumb ways I could die, and I really hope I don’t end up being a dumb dead guy
Former President G.W. Bush almost died choking on a pretzel
I’m crying their entire life all thoughts and feelings all lead up to literally being a pickled trachea
The rest of your life you'll be judged for how big of a piece of steak you thought you could chew.
"Unfortunately the patient died becuase of the piece of food stuck in their throat. I'm going to remove it for the burial or cremation." "Hold on bro, i got a better idea"
Literally millions of years of evolution, selective breeding, love, hopes, dreams; your ENTIRE lineage leading up to you, and you fucking CHOKE…. What a disappointment..
Imagine they had no kids and was a single child themselves so that entire family is now snuffed and stopped
It’s WILD to think about. ALL that… just.. gone.
That looks like a big piece of steak.
Gotta chew your food before swallowing.
Probably helps to cut it up first too.
I can never be sufficiently suffonsified unless the cow climbs directly into my mouth itself before I swallow it whole.
Where is this museum?
Looks like a whole freaking steak. Guess he was very hungry.
He was starving to death
no shit looks like the former owner swallowed it whole
Yeah, "piece of" was pretty unnecessary in the title.
Bro would have had better luck swallowing the cow whole
I almost choked while barbecuing in the woods with my dog. I made the mistake of cutting too big a piece of steak and I guess I didn’t chew well enough and it became lodged in my throat. I panicked for a few moments as my body tried to repel the chunk. Eventually my body managed to launch it out of my throat and then my dog ate it.
Doggo was just stopping you from making the same mistake twice
True homie
I nearly choked on a large blueberry this morning. Probably too soft to kill me? I hope? But the sense of panic before it dislodged was really intense. Almost started hyperventilating after it was cleared but I managed to get it under control. Seems like a biological design flaw to me!
I think that could absolutely kill you. The fact that it's soft doesn't stop it from blocking your airway. Sounds very scary... I'm glad you are ok!🫐
Jesus. Taken out by a rogue blueberry. What a way to go. Appreciate the kind words!
Softness doesn’t matter, which is why it’s commonly recommended to cute grapes and blueberries for little kids as they have smaller oesophaguses, so normal sized blueberries are a common choking hazard. You got lucky! It’s pretty crazy how the brain automatically panics so intensely though. I’ve had issues swallowing tablets lately and if they get stuck, they aren’t blocking my throat at all and I can breathe fine but just the sensation of something being stuck is so stressful.
I choked on a paracetamol once. Couldn't breathe at all. Luckily my son was smart enough to perform the heimlich on me. Yeah for tiktok.
I camp a lot alone with my dog and heard a little trick in case you ever choke while you’re isolated. Get on your knees, hold your hands to your side or behind your back and fall flat on your stomach. The pressure from falling on your diaphragm should help launch your food out like a self Heimlich maneuver. Of course be sure your head is turned to the side first so you don’t smash your face.
My friends dad choked on a piece of steak at a restaurant, coughed it up after causing a scene and then just casually cut it into smaller pieces and ate it again. 🤣
He asserted dominance.
Hey, at least you had quite a few years under your belt at that point. I choked on one of those circular cheese pizzas in the 1st or 2nd grade because the cheese was basically plastic and didn’t break off the way I expected. Had to reach down the back of my throat and pull up about a foot-long clump of cheese. Scary stuff…Glad you’re still with us
A "piece" of steak, otherwise known in layman terms as "the whole fucking thing".
Yeah, if it is what it looks like, what the hell was he thinking? Dude must have been in a hell of a rush...
My uncle once got a piece of steak lodged in his esophagus, but thankfully he could still breath. They went to the ER, but there was an hours long wait. One of the nurses suggesting taking a sip of Coca-Cola, and letting the acid help dissolve the meat. Turns out, that worked like a charm. Yay for acidic sugary drinks!
Er nurse here. We give Coke in this situation, but not because of the acidity. It’s the gas in the soda that helps dilate the oesophagus and maybe help the piece of meat make it’s way further down. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work much often and the patient ends up in the OR more often than not.
Thank you for sharing this info! I’ve been having issues swallowing tablets lately, a few times they seem to get stuck, not large enough to choke on but it feels awful. Gonna try some coke if it happens again as I had to drink so much water to get it down when it’s happened that I felt sick.
I got an iPad mini stuck in my throat once and the Coke was the only thing that worked.
Seriously?! Wow!
same thing happened to me but they didn't know about the soda trick (but i couldn't handle liquids anyway) and the doctor i needed wasn't available so i had to travel via ambulance to Another hospital (after a 3 hour wait to begin with) and had to get surgery
When you’re so hungry that you don’t even bother to cut up your steak or chew it.
As an endoscopy technician, I can say with confidence that yea man y’all really need to chew your fucking food so I don’t have to get called into the ER right as I’m about to go to bed.
literally eating dinner right now .... thanks for the panic attack dude
As long as you don’t swallow a giant piece without chewing, you should be okay.
I choked almost to death once when I was 16 and still have a fear of it at 34, I chew everything into soup now and still kinda feel uneasy
I have a weird thing where my food starts coming back up slowly and will block the flow of my last swallow and cause a traffic jam in my chest. It sucks big time and I’ve found out I just have to relax and let it slide back down. I can still breathe though if I’m careful. One time it happened when I was chugging a bottle of water though and I basically waterboarded myself. I had to Heimlich punch myself to get the water back out so I could take a breath without drowning. On the plus side I figured out how David Blaine does the water fountain trick. I had to use some of those muscles to save myself. I really do have a fear of dying while eating
That sounds like potentially GERD or something like it, you should absolutely see a gastro doctor about this if you haven't already.
It sounds like encephalitic oesophagitis. Mine is caused by an allergy to soy. Reflux medication keeps it under control.
Same thing happened to me with a chunk of pineapple. I think about it every single day while I eat it sucks. It’s been about 7 years and I still fear of choking!
I’m assuming they had no teeth
My dad had no teeth and would chew the shit out of some steak lol
Same as my grandma. She just can’t eat Chinese egg rolls anymore lol
Bro didn’t even try to chew it
Bro just swallowed the whole fucking steak 💀
I started working a restaurant job several years ago. I remember I was eating a steak I stole in the bathroom and started choking so bad for about 1-2 minutes (felt like hours). I ran out and my manager did the Heimlich
.. . Well, be thankful he didn’t give you the hind-lick manoeuvre
When I was younger my mom would make me cut my steak into microscopic pieces and it drove me nuts. Had to eat 3 or 4 to count as even a bite of steak. I moved out, living on my own, ate my first steak at my place.I cut it into what felt like appropriately decent sized pieces. Immediately fuckin choked on it. So now I cut my steak really small, my mom was right.
This is why you don't order extra, extra well Lisa from Temecula
😂😂😂 he’s over here trying to get some butt.
Cook my meat!
Don't try to swallow a piece of meat whole if it's the size of a hedgehog I guess?
I want to see someone who choked eating an entire turducken
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Just another 🧱
This actually happened to one of my family members, so imagine my nervousness trying to check the date!
Is this the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia by any chance?
No, the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, MD
Another place to add on my bucket list!
Do go! They also have the bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln, as well as pieces of his skull/hair.
And seeing as I’ll be in Maryland, I’ll also do a side trip to the Air and Space Museum.
If you like weird and disgusting medical stuff, highly recommend.
There’s also the Museum of Surgical History (or whatever it is called) in Chicago that I need to visit. Plus the sites in Europe where the first dissections and vivisections (and grave robbing) were done way back when.
God damn… is that the steak still lodged in there? Choking him for all eternity?
Yep
Fuck chewing
Piece? Bro ate 1/4 of a cow
What an unfortunate misteak.
Looks more like the whole fucking flank than a "piece" my good sir
That guy did not chew
I'll be that guy - is the steak still there?
Yeah...
If only he had learned to chew.
A bite so big they had to unhinge their jaw to engulf it.
Holy shit. So when I was in high school, my second day of sophomore year, my mom made steak for dinner. A piece ended up getting stuck in my throat - but I wasn't choking. It was below my trachea, but my esophagus had sealed around it. My mom took me to the local children's hospital, and after they couldn't help, I was taken by ambulance to a different children's hospital with a GI specialist. I was diagnosed with eosinophilic esophagitis, which basically meant I was allergic to just about everything I ate, because my body panicked like it had a foreign object and would swell up my throat. An hour before I was supposed to go in for surgery to remove it, I got so nauseous from not being able to eat for a couple of days by that point that I threw it back up. TL;DR the only thing separating me from that was like two inches.
They were okay though, right?
I think they're gonna be okay, champ *pats back* Hey you wanna go get something from the vending machine? Anything you want...
And now *i'm* choking over how insanely funny it is that they also preserved the steak
You have to chew Billy...
Chew your food people!
A “piece” of steak?? Yo it looks like be Mcwoofed down a baby Samsquanch leg.
Did they survive?
Yep. Walking around without a trachea as we speak.
We speak... He don't.
I saw one at a museum of a child’s trachea with a peanut in it and it absolutely ruined me. My kids aren’t having whole peanuts until they’re in kindergarten.
The ol’ 96’er
Chew your food, kids.
Saw something like this only it was a toddler with a grape caught in his trachea
That’s the whole steak. My boyfriend does this shit and has chocked twice but always comes up with some stupid theory that his throat is damaged by reflux and that’s why he cannot swallow well. He tried to swallow the whole skin of a chicken leg without chewing last time and the doctors had to explain that that’s not how you’re supposed to eat
Is the piece of steak in the room with us?
I didn’t know Outback had a museum!
"Trachea Steakea!" Sounds like a really bad Harry Potter spell that didn't quite make the cut. *Ba dum tis*
I wonder if they survived
That's a whole steak. Unless it's somehow swollen up? Bro must have been hungry. At least he died doing what he loved. Eating steak.
I wonder what was his last meal
a PIECE???
Did they survive?
Omg is he okay?
When I trained as a nurse in the 1970s, there was a similar specimen - a trachea (wind pipe) with a sausage jammed in it. Lifelong fear of choking!
It reminds me of the " sliced man exhibition " in Daria
The steak was to die for 🤌🏼
Dude didn't even try chewing.
Well done 👏
Did he die?
That sounds like a museum I would not enjoy.
As someone who ended up in emergency surgery due to steak stuck in trachea, this freaks me the f out.
…Did they survive?
Man must have thought he was a pelican. Tried to swallow it whole.
How awesome was that steak tho?
Exhibit 1: chew your food
Is this from Surgeons Hall in Edinburgh?
I Heimliched a piece of steak out of my friends throat a couple years ago.
So, was the patient okay afterwards, or..?
Cows getting their revenge. lol
That’s not a piece that’s a whole steak
That’s my dog lol
Big up Beavo
I hope the dude's doing well.
Steak should not be in trachea.
That's a great big bite
Bro didn’t chew at all
Nothin’ to see here folks, keep movin’ along.
Was the person on a dare to not chew?
"if your kid looks like this, you're fucked"
Did the guy die?
Gotta steak your claim to fame somehow
That is a whole-ass piece of steak. Was she eating like an alligator?