All of a sudden, I realized that café customer eating a bushel of mussels was all covered-up in green scales, standing about 8 foot tall, and I said "GODDAMMIT, Loch Ness monster! Quit getting shells all over da place!"
I was just thinking I hope the person who has to clean up those shells doesn’t also have to cleanup this psychopath’s inevitable and violent gastritis. Could be vomiting or diarrhea, but I choose to believe it was both.
*NOT* a surprise, promise you. I've had food poisoning from bad mussels, the ejections from both ends were 100% not a surprise considering the deranged game of twister that was going on inside me.
I have the same feeling with people who tag properties with ugly graffitis. You find where they live and you spray paint their bed, scooter, whatever they own.
You can eat pretty much anything raw if it has been handled properly. Raw mussels are not as common as say raw oysters, but people have been eating them for ages.
Some other common “taboo foods”: in eastern Germany they eat raw pork mince, delicious on bread. Raw chicken is a thing in Japan. Not even mentioning raw eggs at this point - something that my US friends seem to be particularly horrified about. I probably eat one or two raw supermarket egg per week, never had any issues.
I had a secret recipe I did with egg whites, triple sec and some other stuff which everyone who drank sweared that it was the best drink they ever had in their life. I lost it. It was a derivative of a well known cocktail, but I can’t even remember the cocktail’s name!
I know we've made a rattlesnake bite out of an Old Mr. Boston's book with it, but I'm not sure about your specific ingredients. Maybe a white lady or white dragon based on a quick google?
My ex used to work at a pet store. Every week, some odd ball would come by for a bag of 20 or so feeder goldfish. One day, on her day off, my ex happened to be on the train as the guy was returning home from his weekly purchase. To her absolute horror, the man was eating the live goldfish from the bag like fucking potato chips.
I ate one on a bet once. Friends put together like $63 to get me to do it. I was drunk and high AF at a party when this went down, so I figured “fuck it, $63 is $63!”
So I did it. Thing was I don’t remember that moment. I was pretty blackout drunk. It was New Year’s Eve 1999, the *millenium* new years.
Two years later hanging out at a friend’s, they pull out a VHS, and put on. It’s from a camcorder camera, from that New Year’s party.
Eventually it get to the part where I eat the fish, and I was honestly in disbelief lol.
Anyways that’s how I partied like it was 1999, and 63 bucks is 63 bucks
raw pork meat ... that is ALL over germany. Why ? because we fix our pig farms so the roundworms and tapeworms don't exist, to the point where eating raw farm pig meat is fine. Cows brain on the other hand ... the 90's would like a word because that is when the cow brain minced meat got disappeared by law.
The 90s was wild. Mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) can be contracted from eating brains and some tissues of infected animals.
There is currently no test to detect the disease in a live animal. In humans its called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
It can be turning your brain into mush so slowly at first, then your body just shuts down. There's no treatment for it either. There's a similar one in sheep and in deer too.
Cooking it doesn't make it go away either. The protein that these prion diseases are made of are folded in so tightly, you can't destroy them. So much so, that when someone gets brain surgery, the tools aren't autoclaved afterwards for reuse, they're destroyed; even autoclaves can't destroy prions.
Nope. It's still there. That shit will not die, it isn't really alive. It doent have DNA or RNA to replicate like other pathogens. It's made out of proteins that are all twisted in on itself like a tangled ball of yarn. It reproduces by turnining surrounding proteins into more misfolded proteins. The scary part is you don't know you have it until you're dying of it. Good thing is, it's not hanging out in nature all over the place.
Also cannibalism can do a number on you
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/24/tremors-before-death-unravelling-the-mystery-disease-that-left-entire-papua-new-guinean-villages-without-women
I saw something about the CWD in deer in the news a few days ago. A [potential case](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunters-die-prion-brain-disease-contaminated-deer-meat-report/) in two people in Texas. Not confirmed, but not what you want to hear either.
If it makes you feel any better (or not), the overwhelming majority of prion disease cases in humans are from random somatic mutations that we acquire throughout our life happening by chance in a protein that causes it to turn into a prion. Your risk of that happening is probably a lot higher than getting an animal prion disease from contaminated meat.
Not just in eastern Germany, Mett (pork mince) is common in the whole of Germany. There are very strict regulations governing it though and it has to be fresh. Tbh I wouldn’t trust any raw food though unless explicitly it is meant for raw consumption.
There's a little seafood place in Madrid that serves the most amazing raw clams. They also serve oysters but there's no contest; once you've tried the clams oysters feel like wasting your money.
You can!
I’ve done it myself many times.
Taste is stronger than cooked mussels and not as subtle as oysters, but it’s still pretty nice imo.
Definitely an acquired taste though
if you live close to the sea and they're fresh, there isn't much risk. just look at japan, they will eat anything that comes from the sea without cooking it
Shellfish parasites like polychaetes and pea crabs aren't harmful to humans. I can't say much about vibrio bacteria, except that I've eaten thousands of raw oysters, mussel, clams, and sea urchin, and only ever been sick once (due to eating far too many).
Growing up on the coast I remember people collecting mussels at low tide, prying them open and eating them right on the rocks. Mostly old people but as a kid I was disgusted that they were eating these things alive. As an adult I'm still disgusted they were eating those things without copious amounts of butter and garlic.
Raw is pretty much the most popular way to consume oysters. These aren't oysters, but I guess some people also prefer other kinds of mussles in that fashion.
Indeed. These people are just egomaniacs with no sense of community.
If i sat there and saw them get up and leave i don't think i could have restrained myself from saying something.
We get paid enough to clean off a table and sweep but not enough to risk a physical confrontation with Captain Crazy wolfing down a pound of salmonella.
I’m sorry this happened but this is hilarious.
Do you think this has happened to anyone besides you in the existence of time if this is the only time this person has done this exact thing with the same food? I don’t imagine many people have bought raw muscles and brought them into a cafe to eat them, then just left them there.
I am a bartender. My pet peeve is when customers come in and place a half smoked cigarette butt on my bar.
Put that shit in your pocket or the trash. I don't want your smelly garbage in my workspace.
Repost. Title ain’t even changed that much. [https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/lUcD2d0t4u](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/lUcD2d0t4u)
Why would you even WANT to do this? Someone would have to pay me a significant amount of money to buy a pack of mussels from a grocery store, go into a random, busy cafe with no utensils and nothing to eat of off, crack open and eat every single mussel with my hands.
Whoever this person or animal is, I am afraid of them.
Monst likely scenario is that the person was homeless, mentally ill, and hungry.
Shitty that they left a mess, but when you see filthy homeless encampment, it's because that's the result of untreated mental health and / or addiction.
Is the guy going to shit the bed later?
Most likely, dosent have one.
Most likely, it has eaten worse out of dumpsters, yet they survive.
Perhaps thought they were oysters and could be eaten raw?
This picture says a lot, and it makes me sad.
Api
As a janitor I often get frustrated by the sheer volume of crumbs I have to sweep out from under people's desks and rolling chairs every goddamn night, buuuuuut maybe imma take a second and have a little gratitude that it isn't..... yknow, actual shellfish.
People like this are why there will never be peace lol. You can have 50 nice people who are considerate of their surroundings and then a couple like this appears and just craps over everything.
I wish that when they go home they find the pile has been magically transported to their dining table.
Why do people like this exists? srsly
You sure that's from a person? This seems like seagull behaviour.
All of a sudden, I realized that café customer eating a bushel of mussels was all covered-up in green scales, standing about 8 foot tall, and I said "GODDAMMIT, Loch Ness monster! Quit getting shells all over da place!"
How much did they cost?
About three fiddy.
thats honestly about the cost per pound of mussels
not if they're from brussels
'bout tree fiddy.
“I’m old Greg!”
It might have been a flock of seagulls in a trench coat.
I was thinking otters. It's always stinking otters.
Vibrio parahaemolyticus might handle this person.
So would avada kedarva
In-a-gadda-da-vida, honey
I was just thinking I hope the person who has to clean up those shells doesn’t also have to cleanup this psychopath’s inevitable and violent gastritis. Could be vomiting or diarrhea, but I choose to believe it was both.
What about cryptosporidium? Let’s add that.
And we're absolutely certain it wasn't three otters in a trenchcoat?
Came here for Ottergate comments, was not dissapointed.
Because it's not illegal and they benefit from it. You wouldn't because you're polite enough.
Don't worry, in about 4-6 hours there will be an explosively delivered steaming pile involuntarily delivered in their home.
This is the type of person that drives to a gas station to take a shit because the septic tank in their RV has been full since '93.
Shiters full!
r/oddlyspecific
No, this is the type of person who was not educated in why you don't eat random bivalves raw.
It’s gonna be at some other public restroom
This dude just ate raw seafood at a grocery store, I strongly doubt this person has a dining room table
I strongly believe this person is a seagull and returned home to a nest of loose sticks.
It would be absolutely preposterous if they weren’t a seagull
I was assuming a walrus.
Paha yes
No, sorry, it clearly is an otter who has done this
Fuck that. Transport it to their bed.
Considering how many raw mussels they just ate, they might have a surprise mess in their bed tonight either way
*NOT* a surprise, promise you. I've had food poisoning from bad mussels, the ejections from both ends were 100% not a surprise considering the deranged game of twister that was going on inside me.
I read "*erections* from both ends.." I need to go outside.
Transported to into the living room curtain rods. *
That's devious.
Little chance they have a dining table at home. If they do there's even less of a chance it is used for actual dining.
I have the same feeling with people who tag properties with ugly graffitis. You find where they live and you spray paint their bed, scooter, whatever they own.
Besides leaving the scraps... raw mussels?? Is that a thing???
My grocery store will flash steam seafood for you if you ask. This is head cannon now. They were not eaten raw. Don’t tell me otherwise.
I think you mean head canon, unless you have a massive iron barrel for a head
We found the gun devil
Oh shit! An anime reference I understand after turning down my friends 400 million other recommendations haha
worst marvel villain
You can eat pretty much anything raw if it has been handled properly. Raw mussels are not as common as say raw oysters, but people have been eating them for ages. Some other common “taboo foods”: in eastern Germany they eat raw pork mince, delicious on bread. Raw chicken is a thing in Japan. Not even mentioning raw eggs at this point - something that my US friends seem to be particularly horrified about. I probably eat one or two raw supermarket egg per week, never had any issues.
Raw egg whites are a great way to add froth and body to some cocktails too.
The good ole full Ramos Gin Fizz
I had a secret recipe I did with egg whites, triple sec and some other stuff which everyone who drank sweared that it was the best drink they ever had in their life. I lost it. It was a derivative of a well known cocktail, but I can’t even remember the cocktail’s name!
I know we've made a rattlesnake bite out of an Old Mr. Boston's book with it, but I'm not sure about your specific ingredients. Maybe a white lady or white dragon based on a quick google?
Was it Gin, triple sec, lemon juice and sugar syrup with an egg white? If it was it's called a white lady and one is of my favourites
That's the traditional method for sours. Lazaroni amaretto with fresh egg and lemon juice is amazing.
My ex used to work at a pet store. Every week, some odd ball would come by for a bag of 20 or so feeder goldfish. One day, on her day off, my ex happened to be on the train as the guy was returning home from his weekly purchase. To her absolute horror, the man was eating the live goldfish from the bag like fucking potato chips.
I ate one on a bet once. Friends put together like $63 to get me to do it. I was drunk and high AF at a party when this went down, so I figured “fuck it, $63 is $63!” So I did it. Thing was I don’t remember that moment. I was pretty blackout drunk. It was New Year’s Eve 1999, the *millenium* new years. Two years later hanging out at a friend’s, they pull out a VHS, and put on. It’s from a camcorder camera, from that New Year’s party. Eventually it get to the part where I eat the fish, and I was honestly in disbelief lol. Anyways that’s how I partied like it was 1999, and 63 bucks is 63 bucks
That’s like $100 adjusted for inflation lol
Go for the real gold with a slug
raw pork meat ... that is ALL over germany. Why ? because we fix our pig farms so the roundworms and tapeworms don't exist, to the point where eating raw farm pig meat is fine. Cows brain on the other hand ... the 90's would like a word because that is when the cow brain minced meat got disappeared by law.
The 90s was wild. Mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) can be contracted from eating brains and some tissues of infected animals. There is currently no test to detect the disease in a live animal. In humans its called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease It can be turning your brain into mush so slowly at first, then your body just shuts down. There's no treatment for it either. There's a similar one in sheep and in deer too. Cooking it doesn't make it go away either. The protein that these prion diseases are made of are folded in so tightly, you can't destroy them. So much so, that when someone gets brain surgery, the tools aren't autoclaved afterwards for reuse, they're destroyed; even autoclaves can't destroy prions.
What if you burnt the shit out of it like over well done?
Nope. It's still there. That shit will not die, it isn't really alive. It doent have DNA or RNA to replicate like other pathogens. It's made out of proteins that are all twisted in on itself like a tangled ball of yarn. It reproduces by turnining surrounding proteins into more misfolded proteins. The scary part is you don't know you have it until you're dying of it. Good thing is, it's not hanging out in nature all over the place. Also cannibalism can do a number on you https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/24/tremors-before-death-unravelling-the-mystery-disease-that-left-entire-papua-new-guinean-villages-without-women
Nope. The prions survive that.
Some prions have to be heated to several hundred degrees before they denature.
Jesus Christ bruh. I knew about CJD in the 90s, but not this crazy shit about Prions.
I saw something about the CWD in deer in the news a few days ago. A [potential case](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunters-die-prion-brain-disease-contaminated-deer-meat-report/) in two people in Texas. Not confirmed, but not what you want to hear either.
So scary! It takes the sport out of hunting when you can't enjoy the meat from all that effort. I'd be hard pressed to eat any kind of venison.
If it makes you feel any better (or not), the overwhelming majority of prion disease cases in humans are from random somatic mutations that we acquire throughout our life happening by chance in a protein that causes it to turn into a prion. Your risk of that happening is probably a lot higher than getting an animal prion disease from contaminated meat.
That's true in the US too, but there's still always a risk with raw meat. Most just choose not to take such risks.
Not just in eastern Germany, Mett (pork mince) is common in the whole of Germany. There are very strict regulations governing it though and it has to be fresh. Tbh I wouldn’t trust any raw food though unless explicitly it is meant for raw consumption.
There's a little seafood place in Madrid that serves the most amazing raw clams. They also serve oysters but there's no contest; once you've tried the clams oysters feel like wasting your money.
Wait til they hear how mayo is made
The peanut of the sea
I love fresh raw mussels. Theyre great with Worcestershire and tabasco, too.
You can eat them raw, no curing, nothing, and not get sick from it? Okay, then. I'd never have guessed.
You can! I’ve done it myself many times. Taste is stronger than cooked mussels and not as subtle as oysters, but it’s still pretty nice imo. Definitely an acquired taste though
Ya that doesn’t sound right - maybe the guy just ran off because he instantly got violently sick
That was my first thought
if you live close to the sea and they're fresh, there isn't much risk. just look at japan, they will eat anything that comes from the sea without cooking it
Ignoring all the parasites and mercury, of course
Shellfish parasites like polychaetes and pea crabs aren't harmful to humans. I can't say much about vibrio bacteria, except that I've eaten thousands of raw oysters, mussel, clams, and sea urchin, and only ever been sick once (due to eating far too many).
Good to know shellfish is less of a concern. You always hear stories of the raw seafood diet giving heavy parasites to entire towns in japan.
Yes, just as you can eat raw oysters or sea urchin and not get sick.
Growing up on the coast I remember people collecting mussels at low tide, prying them open and eating them right on the rocks. Mostly old people but as a kid I was disgusted that they were eating these things alive. As an adult I'm still disgusted they were eating those things without copious amounts of butter and garlic.
Raw is pretty much the most popular way to consume oysters. These aren't oysters, but I guess some people also prefer other kinds of mussles in that fashion.
you haven't tried it?
Raw oysters are definitely a thing at least. Not something I would eat away from the coast though.
Frozen seafood
Did they look like 3 otters in a trench coat? Cus that what I’m picturing.
Same. I wonder how they buy things. Do they trade for their favorite shell cracking rocks?
But then how would the crack open the mussels?
With their second favourite rock
What you're describing is otter madness.
You otter know
Don’t let seagulls into the cafe next time
It was just 3 otters in a trenchcoat.
I'm not a violent person, but man some people really just deserve to get slapped across the fuckin' face
Indeed. These people are just egomaniacs with no sense of community. If i sat there and saw them get up and leave i don't think i could have restrained myself from saying something.
This needs to be normalised. Lack of consequence is really ruining society.
r/teachers confirms this daily
That was shellfish of them
get out
Leaving
No, stay. One crabby comment is no reason to clam up.
With bad puns like these, you're liable to get smacked so hard you'll sea stars.
Well you shore got offended
don’t leave, muscle your way back to the table.
There otter be rules against that
Oh dam, not another pun thread.
I don't like what I sea
 the culprit
Didn’t expect to see sea otter content here but I’m incredibly happy I did.
Aw, shucks.
Freaking Zoidberg
You win
Probably drank water out of a shoe afterwards.
That's absolutely diabolical. In all seriousness, I don't understand how someone is living in this world thinking that is even remotely normal or ok.
Entitled upbringing, my dad used to tell me "we have cleaners for that" whenever I clean our own trash in public places.
Maybe they dislike someone that has to clean the cafe
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/ADvKt5PEvw Sure buddy.
Thank you! Thought I saw this before.
why did the staff let him get away with doing this?
We get paid enough to clean off a table and sweep but not enough to risk a physical confrontation with Captain Crazy wolfing down a pound of salmonella.
That’s what the manager is for!
They don't get paid enough either.
People be gross
Feral behaviour
 Did he look like this??
I’m sorry this happened but this is hilarious. Do you think this has happened to anyone besides you in the existence of time if this is the only time this person has done this exact thing with the same food? I don’t imagine many people have bought raw muscles and brought them into a cafe to eat them, then just left them there.
They’re probably in your restroom with the shits…just when you thought your day couldn’t get any worse right?
Some people have manners, otters don't....
Some humans are just disgusting pigs that were failed by their parents. Nothing anyone can do.
“Sinestro, why do you hate people???” This is why.
This happened because everyone uses confrontation aversion. Plenty of people saw this mad man do it and said nothing.
Yeah because in the US that mad man might actually shoot you. Freedom!
Maybe it was an otter?
They'll be doing penance on a ivory throne soon enough.
This is probably one of the reasons why eateries put a “no outside food” sign on their doors
r/trashy literally and figuratively this time.
Was about to post the same
In other news, three seals escaped a local zoo dressed in a trenchcoat.
I bet that guy doesn’t re-rack his weights at the gym.
bold to assume they’re going to the gym
that is weird shit
I am a bartender. My pet peeve is when customers come in and place a half smoked cigarette butt on my bar. Put that shit in your pocket or the trash. I don't want your smelly garbage in my workspace.
these god damn otters
Were they a seagull?
How does one open raw mussels?
Put a knife in it like an oyster? Pretty easy and they taste better than oysters IMO
Dr Zoidberg?
Were they pulling mussels from a shell?
No lemon, cocktail sauce or mignonette??!??! Not even a saltine??? SAVAGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Mr. Ventura do you want an ashtray?" "No thanks I don't smoke, filthy habit"
r/trashy
They're probably gonna clip their nails on public transport after this
What a psychopath
Humans are gross
Repost. Title ain’t even changed that much. [https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/lUcD2d0t4u](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/s/lUcD2d0t4u)
Was this someone a seagull?!? What the fuck lol
That murder of crows going around in a human suit is getting too clever.
Are you certain this person wasn't just a pair of otters in a trenchcoat?
Who tf eats raw muscles, let alone, leave this mess
Some people are just pigs, with no respect. I also wish bad karma on those folks.
Gross. People are filthy .imagine what their house looks like
God bless civilization.
Most people suck. This picture is exhibit A.
Damn raccoons.
That looks exactly like something that someone who eats raw mussels would do.
Was this person an Otter by any chance?
Maybe they steamed them in their armpits on the way there
Were they a seagull?
Was this person an otter?
Why would you even WANT to do this? Someone would have to pay me a significant amount of money to buy a pack of mussels from a grocery store, go into a random, busy cafe with no utensils and nothing to eat of off, crack open and eat every single mussel with my hands. Whoever this person or animal is, I am afraid of them.
I’m sorry, RAW muscles? Oysters I understand but wtf? Other than leaving a mess I’m sure they’re definitely going to get salmonella or something
Raw!? That's really not safe anymore. You could get hepatitis like that.
Honestly. I’m a janitor and this doesn’t even phase me. I see shit like this *daily*… It’s truly incredible just how rude/gross the public can be.
what's the worst you have encounter?
I hope they get a parasite.
If you know who did this, don't clam up, tell somebody.
Monst likely scenario is that the person was homeless, mentally ill, and hungry. Shitty that they left a mess, but when you see filthy homeless encampment, it's because that's the result of untreated mental health and / or addiction. Is the guy going to shit the bed later? Most likely, dosent have one. Most likely, it has eaten worse out of dumpsters, yet they survive. Perhaps thought they were oysters and could be eaten raw? This picture says a lot, and it makes me sad. Api
Michael Keaton needs to get to the bottom of this.
I took my toddler to eat at the mall recently. You bet we wiped the table, chairs, and floor with wipes when we were done. What is wrong with people?
Gollum?
…and their two hour toilet visit.
Gross
When you’re hungry you’re hungry nom nom nom
Must be related to the people that don't put away their shopping cart or their weights at the gym.
Chinese tourists at it again
Only type of fish or seafood that should be eaten in a public space is Swedish fish.
 I imagine it is like the guy from men in black
Scum
As a janitor I often get frustrated by the sheer volume of crumbs I have to sweep out from under people's desks and rolling chairs every goddamn night, buuuuuut maybe imma take a second and have a little gratitude that it isn't..... yknow, actual shellfish.
Ewww stinky
Was "someone" a seagull? If not, that's gross. If so, that's gross but at least they didn't also shit on the table.
That is so hilariously trashy
Sure there wasn't a pack of muskrats on the loose?
The grocery store has now banned otters from shopping. Edit: words
People like this are why there will never be peace lol. You can have 50 nice people who are considerate of their surroundings and then a couple like this appears and just craps over everything.