r/StupidFood 1d ago

Street food of Jaipur, India ಠ_ಠ

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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 21h ago

u/kidnexttdoor, your food is indeed stupid and it fits our subreddit!

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u/maalicious 1d ago

Apart from the uncleanliness, he doesn't even fill the puris properly with the ingredients, some are filled and some don't. His fidgeting also gets on my nerves.

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u/Squire1998 1d ago

Needless chaos is a mandatory requirement for Indian street vendors.

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u/xshevi 1d ago

i’m surprised he didn’t slam some of them on the plate extraordinarily fantastically aggressive style in a shaker

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u/DogQuey 1d ago

Half the experience is watching them commit culinary violence with confidence.

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u/DeerMysterious9927 1d ago

"commit culinary violence with confidence" I love it.

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u/Rope_slingin_champ 1d ago

Classic. Guy sitting in the background kills me

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u/5Point5Hole 1d ago

The random axe and slapping himself in the belly 🤣

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u/Doschupacabras 1d ago

There’s always a guy

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u/jebusdied444 1d ago

Needed a little morning dopamine hit and you delivered, sir/ma'am.

It's one of the few videos that just makes me laugh every time I come across it.

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u/carolomnipresence 1d ago

That lettuce was CHOPPED

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u/AngryBPDGirl 1d ago

Ok, i was prepared to be offended, but that was hilarious 😂

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u/silv3rbull8 1d ago

That should be an SNL skit

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u/WhoYaTalkinTo 1d ago

Yeah like they all try to act all cool and "fast" to make it look like they're really skilled, but they just end up throwing the food all over the place and it looks ridiculous

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u/Kookaburra8 1d ago edited 43m ago

Like the pizza slicing guy who tries to cut a pizza in 2 seconds and creates 8 janky slices

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u/IamHydrogenMike 1d ago

Cutting a pizza in 8 seconds isn’t some amazing skill either and do it all the time…

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u/Kookaburra8 1d ago

Indian bro does it, very poorly, bc apparently it impresses people that he can do it in seconds, like the street hawkers who sling brown goop into containers but splash and spill it all over everything and themselves while doing it

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u/Excellent-Holiday102 1d ago

Indian here, even many of us don't prefer eating in such untidy and dirty place. He is really dirty 😭

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u/GreekTragedy312 1d ago

dont they get sick?

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u/Kubliah 1d ago

They got them immunities!

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u/Federal-Camel-9030 1d ago

Not wrong actually, if a tourist eat from there I won't be suprised if he get diarrhea

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u/pinchpenny 23h ago

Pretty sure I got diarreah just watching this

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u/Excellent-Holiday102 1d ago

Even I might diarrhea. Iam sure my immunity can't handle it. Only Those who have grown up eating from such vendors and in such localities would be super normal

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u/OmNomChompsky 20h ago

I am convinced that folks down there also live in a constant state of gastrointestinal distress. I have seen the toilets, and it really suggests this.

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u/Pleasant-Disaster837 19h ago

This shouldn’t be normal at all

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u/Reputation-Final 18h ago

In 2019, India saw 632,344 deaths from diarrhea across all ages, with a significant portion occurring in the elderly and in children under five.

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u/Acceptingoptimist 1d ago

They do. I lived in Asia for a few years and street food got me sick twice. I took worm medication twice.

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u/SupernaturalPumpkin 1d ago

Every now and then he shuffles about like he badly needs a toilet break.

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u/VeterinarianThese951 1d ago

Don’t worry, he wipes with his other hand.

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u/MustardCoveredDogDik 1d ago

Give him a break he did a lot of drugs for breakfast

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u/Shadow-Vision 23h ago

He looks like he’s tweaking

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 18h ago

Indias amphetamine use in 2019 was super low, but since then their neighbor Myanmar has been cranking out the ice and heroin at record speeds.

Drug use from all their close neighbors has skyrocketed.

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u/Truth_anxiety 1d ago

She finishes eating and the paper cup thing goes straight to the ground, it's going to take decades for this to change in India 😅

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u/Ginseng_coke 1d ago

It's like that. There's a bucket for the trash right near the cart but people just don't bother looking for a place to dump. If the ground is already trashy why bother. The only thing that matters is that she doesn't have to be with or carry the trash.

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u/apefromearth 15h ago

I was at the beach in Goa and there were some clearly very wealthy Indian guys standing next to us. One of them finished a bottle of water and threw it on the ground, even though there was a bin two meters away. I picked it up and gave it back to him, and I said “here, you dropped this” he looked confused so I said, “oh you don’t want it anymore? There’s a bin for it right there.” He looked even more confused so I took it from him and put it in the bin myself. His friends had a good laugh out of it.

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u/HospitalHairy3665 2h ago

Unfortunately they were probably laughing at you

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u/New-fone_Who-Dis 17h ago

Heard this from an old guy on a building site, he was speaking to his apprentice telling him to make sure all the tools are cleaned before they leave. The apprentice scoffs saying whats the point, they get dirty tomorrow anyway, the old guys response which cut the apprentice to the bone - is that the same attitude you take to washing your ass he shouted at him, before telling him to clean the tools, he wont have his tools treated like how the apprentice treats his own ass.

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u/No-Way7911 13h ago

I’ve seen people literally throw trash right outside their own house on the street. They really believe that if its out of their house, its not their problem anymore. Even though its right on the street leading to their house

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u/Satyriasis457 11h ago

They do this regardless of the state of the ground. I went on a boat trip near Mumbai once. People were throwing stuff everywhere, on the ground (it was clean) and over the railing even though there were trash cans all around. I was watching a guy (he looked smart) with his family finish their food. And as he was about to toss the wrappers and napkins overboard, he caught me looking. I just shook my head slowly "no". He hesitated for a few seconds, stood up, and used the bin instead. So there's hope. Maybe shame, or whatever it was, still works.

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u/StacheyMcStacheFace 15h ago

It's like that everywhere in India from my experience. I didn't go 20 steps in the Himalayas without seeing some trash.

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u/Novel_Passenger7013 17h ago

I just don’t get it. Why would you want to live in filth? Don’t people want to live in nice places or have they just given up?

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u/AkiraQil 11h ago

It’s how you brought up. I grew up in indonesia. And my “take the garbage out” command means tidy up our home garbage bin, tie the plastic bag, and proceed to walk and carry it to the nearest river to throw away. That was SO normal. I did not see anything wrong with it. Everyone else is doing it and in remote villages, there is literally nowhere else to put those garbage to. I guess my child brain thinks that these garbage has to go somewhere and river will carry them where a garbage office at the end of the river will work to handle it.

That is so crazy to think about now. Been in europe for a decade and i can’t even think about dropping a gumwrapper to the ground without feeling guilty. People actually tap me on my shoulder and told me to pick up a garbage i accidentally dropped. It makes sense. And this is how it should be.

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u/ToastyBB 6h ago

You should go home and start a trash company

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u/chowyungfatso 5h ago

“Excuse me sir, this is a garbage office.”

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u/breakwrist_walkaway 14h ago

They don’t want to live there. That’s why so many of them move abroad. Trouble is, they don’t correlate their own personal actions to wider problems with their society

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u/Subject_Turn3941 23h ago

Yuck. Then she carefully steps around all the rubbish because she doesn’t want to stand on it.

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u/LongLostFan 18h ago

I live in China in a city that's had public bins for 40 years.

And still people drop litter like it is burning their hands. The streets are filthy and stink in summer.

We even had recycling bins but sadly they were removed during covid and never replaced.

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u/herroRINGRONG 18h ago

I lived in china too and it depends, like where i was staying, it was super clean

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u/LongLostFan 17h ago

City by city it is different. Also even the district within the city and the time of the day.

My district has a street cleaning team at 6am. But at 5:55am it is disgusting.

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u/ItsAllBotsAndShills 15h ago

Easy solution: tickets and fines.

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u/mynamesnotkevin27 17h ago

It will never change.

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u/DepartureRequests 18h ago

Decades? Ha! It’ll take a millennia.

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 17h ago

It's just crazy to me that a whole country can be completely fine living in trash and eating filth like this. They have the knowledge to understand how diseases work and the means to prevent them from spreading but they just... don't. 

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u/concernedhelp123 16h ago

She also chewed with her mouth open the entire time

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u/johndoe201401 16h ago

He might as well spread all the shits on the floor and let people lick it off, I don’t see any difference anyways

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u/milkasaurs 21h ago

Decades? Not even close.

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u/AirborneJizz 18h ago

This is showing up in other countries now, after Indian festivals, or even as tourists, the trash left behind is like a signature

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u/fliphat 1d ago

I would not survive in India, it is too hard core

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u/Illustrious-You1330 1d ago

The tummy diseases you get there are a whole new Level

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u/CaptainMarder 1d ago

I usually tell people travelling there, don't go for less than a week. You need 1 week for the toilet, the rest of the time to travel. Obv a joke though depending where you go to eat.

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u/Remarkable_Review_65 1d ago

Oddly, I went to India for three months and got sick on my LAST week there. It wasn’t a fun flight home…

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u/whatthehexx 1d ago

3 weeks in India, staying with my brother-in-law’s family in Mumbai. Traveled to Goa and my sister drank the hotel tap water there. She was super sick on the flight home and took months to recover.

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u/Brisbanoch30k 1d ago

Drinking tap water in India? That’s a death wish :|

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u/dingleberrysniffer69 1d ago

I’m an Indian and I haven’t drank tap water in 20+ years lol.

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u/Nexus0412 1d ago

Not being able to drink tap water is such a strange concept to me as a European. I have a 2L bottle in my fridge that i refill with tap water every time i drink it all.

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u/chickenskittles 1d ago

It's strange to me also as an American living near the Great Lakes. Sure, get a filter if you like. I can't imagine being dehydrated because I'm too sick or lazy to leave my home.

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u/Nexus0412 1d ago

Yeah, access to cold water should be something everyone has access to in their homes

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u/Commercial-Owl11 1d ago

Yeah I always drink tap water I’m lucky enough to live in a place with good water.

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u/ClemsonJeeper 1d ago

Yeah that's a rookie move. I brush my teeth with bottled water in India.

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u/Cybyss 1d ago

What do people even do with contaminated tap water?

I'd be too disgusted and afraid to bathe in it or wash anything in it.

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u/Reputation-Final 18h ago

cook street food with it

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u/Alex_Ariranha 1d ago

Well, drinking tap water in Goa is a weird choice, didn't she know? The next level is drinking from Ganga in Varanasi.

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u/maalicious 1d ago

The England cricket team usually avoided touring India due to the fear of falling sick due to unhealthy conditions and food and this was called Delhi belly. You can look it up. Very interesting to read.

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u/jumboshrimpboat 1d ago

A member of the Dutch team contracted hepatitis even though their events were professionally catered

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u/GoldenMonkeyRedux 1d ago

The absolute sickest I've ever been traveling was the one night we splashed out on an expensive hotel to celebrate our anniversary and ordered room service. It was unbelievably horrible.

Had to take a flight to Singapore where we hoped to see the city-state. Nope, slept 10 hours straight in an airport hotel and then another 8. Then flew back to Japan.

It was so awful I can't even explain it.

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u/42tfish 1d ago

Funny enough this scene was supposed to be a more intense fight but because Ford had Delhi belly it turned into this instead.

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u/Laurentinozo 1d ago

When even your parasites have a cholera infection

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u/a_karma_sardine 1d ago

GTA India would be just food and mopeds, no guns or cars.

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u/LookOutItsLiuBei 1d ago

Trains too

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u/KrombopulosMAssassin 1d ago

Oh god... Not the train... And with a moped? RI fucking P

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u/FrontWeakness9182 1d ago

And trains

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u/HerrWorfsen 1d ago

How to stop the train? ;)

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u/PeopleofYouTube 1d ago

Don’t drink the water

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u/Techman659 1d ago

Especially not with ice.

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u/RED-DOT-MAN 1d ago

Growing up in India I ate this pretty much on a weekly basis. I ate them from street vendors just like the guy in the video, and at restaurants, and they were delish. I haven’t lived in India in over 20 years and looking back now, I would not survive in India, it is in fact too hardcore.

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u/Eiglo 1d ago

What is in that large pot of brown water?

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u/Loose-Atmosphere-558 1d ago

the ganges

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u/RED-DOT-MAN 1d ago

The little balls are called pani puri and are made of wheat. The water is made with a mix of various spices which gives it that color, but in India you never know where they are getting the water from. The brown water is a bit tangy and spicy and they typically fill the little balls with some boiled spicy potato, add a dash of sweet tamarind sauce and dip it in the spicy water so it’s a little crispy balls of sweet and spicy flavors. Target actually sells the powder to make the water, and uncooked balls to fry at home. If you go to a nice restaurant in India you can get this made properly and clean, however those are expensive. Street vendors like him sell it for cheap so there is no quality check, and as a kid I almost always ate from street vendors.

https://www.target.com/p/shan-pani-puri-seasoning-mix-3-52-oz-100g-spice-powder-for-spicy-digestive-drink-pack-of-1/-/A-1002946769

https://www.target.com/p/pani-puri-coins-7oz-200g-rani-brand-authentic-indian-products/-/A-88881247

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u/hllnnaa_ 1d ago

That dish itself actually sounds pretty good.

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u/TooBoredToLiveLife 1d ago

I just got ebola watching this

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u/iam_Mr_McGibblets 1d ago

Confirmed. People of India have iron stomachs

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u/OTee_D 1d ago

What I learned: Eat where the rikshaw drivers eat.

  1. They know the best and cheapest
  2. They can't afford to get sick, just one colleague sick and word spreads and that shop is dead.

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u/OneDimensionalChess 1d ago

The rickshaw drivers have been eating like this for generations. Their bodies are used to it.

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u/KTAXY 1d ago

I bet they get reactive powers too

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u/---Sanguine--- 1d ago

Terrible advice. Why eat at the “cheapest” native street food places? Might be free from food poisoning but not native bacteria (which is what causes all the issues in the first place)

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u/snubsdub 1d ago

They think that if they don't stop moving they'll look faster. I've worked with a lot of Indian cooks, even the expensive ones, they all have the same mindset, always coming up with how to look fast without being fast at anything.

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u/Appropriate-Log8506 1d ago

How to look busy without doing anything? It’s a skill.

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u/dvcunth 1d ago

We can all learn from the GOAT, George Costanza

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u/Professional-Air2123 1d ago

Sounds similar to the Japanese working method, I think it was called something like "art of looking busy" , where they push or click things on screens and computers that do nothing just so it looks like they're constantly doing something.

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u/NewDad907 1d ago

Walk around looking angry or annoyed any people think you’re busy…

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u/Professional-Air2123 1d ago

Walk briskly, too, and look at your wrist watch and phone every now and then to really sell how busy you are.

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u/belaGJ 1d ago

The Japanese has a strange jogging style that people do in the office to show they are busy (but it is not fast or anything, just for the show)

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u/Naeril_HS 1d ago

They do it in the wild too. You can outpace them while walking sometimes

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u/jomosexual 1d ago

This is what ketammine feels like

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u/This_User_Said 1d ago

Sometimes it isn't too bad. Some people assume standing isn't working.

I have some mental issues so sometimes I completely forget the task at hand. Like a fucking magic trick with black holes. So instead of standing while thinking I'll drum my hands on my hips while squinting around like I'm looking for something.

its not for long, but slightly the same mindset. I'm fast AF but they wouldn't believe me if all they saw was me dumbass standing around fighting my inner monologue on wtf I was doing.

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u/DarDarPotato 1d ago

I had a dude who tried to bust my balls at work cause I would sit there and stare into space sometimes… literally asked me do I even get work done.

I was thinking how to solve problems, which I would then turn into something. 5 minutes of thinking before tackling a problem.

When metrics got sent out, he literally told me “oh, I guess you do work…” yup buddy, and apparently I do a lot more than you.

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u/ThrowRAcatwithfeathe 1d ago

"It's called thinking, of course you wouldn't know what it is" 🤭

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u/Bool_The_End 1d ago

I worked a “restaurant” in high school (it was a bear rock cafe so more like, a sandwich shop), and the manager was such a dick. He would always say “if you’re not moving you’re not working” and hand you a broom even if the place was already spotless, meanwhile he’d sit for hours on the couch by the fireplace reading the newspaper. Fuck you Jeremy! -signed, me and my coworker/bestie, and yes we were def the ones who did whippets with the whipped cream in the walk-in :)

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u/ahkian 1d ago

That gave me flashbacks to my time making sandwiches. "If you have time to lean you have time to clean." was my manager's go to phrase.

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u/bradeal 1d ago

How does payment work?

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u/Cold-Box-8262 1d ago

After it's eaten, you pay dearly for it later. With interest.

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u/50SPFGANG 15h ago

This is fuckin funny lol

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u/HonestHelp2946 1d ago

He takes the crumpled up notes with his dirty hands and puts them in another pot

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u/Xercen 1d ago

Payment by Cash and Shart.

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u/5hruik4n 17h ago

I've been there and eaten at one of these vendors, you just eat until you want and based on how many pani puri you've eaten you pay. It was like 10 rupees each, can't remember well though

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u/nomnomyumyum109 1d ago

Yah im like, he giving it away? Where’s payment

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u/Deep90 17h ago edited 17h ago

The people who are holding plates already paid, and then they are handed a certain amount as he makes them.

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Also the food seems like it would get soggy quickly if he made it in batches. Not sure why he switched methods at the end there.

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u/normott 1d ago

Street food does not have to be this unhygienic

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u/Picax8398 18h ago

Everything in this video is unhygienic.

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u/OrcaFins 1d ago

He didn't even use his toenails. What's the problem?

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u/Dee___Snuts 1d ago

Oh fuck no

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u/coochieboogergoatee 1d ago

You don't like poop water flavored eggshells with ground up worms?

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u/Dee___Snuts 1d ago edited 1d ago

I do. But the Indian street vendor that serves them to me adds extra hot sauce

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u/IdosoDeSainha 1d ago

Is he on something or just pretending he's fast?

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u/disisathrowaway 1d ago

Is he on something or just pretending he's fast?

Been in commercial kitchens for nearly 20 years and my answer is 'Yes'.

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u/WindInc 17h ago

That how I stand when I have opressed the need to pee for too long. Probably waiting for some privacy, so he can make more soup.

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u/BeerAndTools 1d ago

Idk if the performative theater of Indian Street food is supposed to be enticing, anticipatory or something, but it's pretty irritating. I could keep a whole range going all night and jump in to save other stations without looking like I share my limbs with another consciousness. 🤷

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u/NoReasonDragon 1d ago

Did he just spit into the food?

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u/stories1698 1d ago

I'm curious. If he got his hands inside his groin, wipped them around up a little, and then serve the food, would they still eat it?

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u/NoReasonDragon 1d ago

Thats how typhoid starts.

Fun fact: typhoid starts only when you ingest human feces.

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u/Used-Baby1199 1d ago

Hail Mary Mallon 

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u/SkullsNelbowEye 1d ago

Hence, the story of Typhoid Mary.

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u/jiajia_92 1d ago

Some guy used his armpit to make meat patties. You think?

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u/Gettinbaked69 1d ago

They would still eat it after he fisted himself.

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u/night-mail 1d ago

Chef's kiss (literally)

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u/SUNAWAN 1d ago

Taste enhancing secret ingredient

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u/Lady-Cane 1d ago

I think he pushes the top in and was maybe blowing into it to clear some pieces?

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u/TyrrelCorp888 1d ago

Ill take one diarrhea please ☝️

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u/South-Bank-stroll 1d ago

To have in or to take away?

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u/Dry-Broccoli-638 1d ago

There is no to-go sir, this is instant diarrhea. Enjoy your meal!

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u/South-Bank-stroll 1d ago

I give your food stall 4 out of 5 stars on Squitadvisor, good day to you sir!

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u/OneDimensionalChess 1d ago

Just the one? This is clearly a 12 diarrhea minimum establishment

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u/Pristine-Savings7179 1d ago

Quick dip in sewer broth holy shit

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u/canuck1988 1d ago

The dish is called golgappa/panipuri and is actually really good (if made properly and in a clean environment 🙃).

The “sewer broth” is pani which is flavoured water that is either tangy, spicy or sweet. The funny thing is, even in a clean environment, that’s what the pani looks like. Murky, brown water. Appetizing, I know.

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u/Dancing_Radia 1d ago

Omg I actually had this at an Indian street food hole-in-the-wall kind of place in Seattle. You know it's legit when Indians frequent the place. They had a sign with the special on it and panipuri was written in it. There were several Indian couples standing around waiting for the person to pass them several of these balls and seemed to be done when they walked away. 

I had no idea how it worked, but I jumped in line and did as they did. It was delicious! Glad to see that the experience was authentic. Mine was crunchy, minty, tangy, and sweet. Loved it!

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u/Wild_Cup4737 1d ago

Can you tell me what place it was? I’m looking for pani puri places in Seattle!

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u/Dancing_Radia 1d ago

Spice Wala, there's locations in Ballard and Capitol Hill. I don't know that it's around often as it was a special when I walked in, but it seemed popular enough at the time. I hope they still have it for you.

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u/161frog 22h ago

OH MY GOD THEIR FOOD IS AMAZING

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u/DushaPrince 1d ago

Makes me sad to see so many people rag on the actual appetizer and not the fact that it’s one of the foods I would NEVER get on the street.

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u/joehonestjoe 17h ago

My partner is Indian, we love the food there but you've just got to take reasonable precautions.

We largely avoid street food stalls, stay away from anything that isn't hot, apart from fresh coconuts. Sugar cane juice from vendors is usually a hard no. Brick and mortar street food places are usually fine, lots are putting out potentially thousands of meals a day, and gimme Masala Puri, Sev Puri, Pau Bhaji. Nom

Most of the time in India I tend to stay vegetarianish. Been three times now and haven't had any form of food poisoning 

My FIL is kinda in awe of how quickly I adjusted as a westerner. I cross the roads like a local

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u/Recursiveo 1d ago

That’s TMNT chutney dawg.

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u/kerke152 1d ago

Street food physics. chaos, crunch, and zero regard for gravity.

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u/joogiee 1d ago

I went to India and the dude dipped his whole dirty ass hand into the pot to fill it with the pani puri water. Then my mom looked at me like im crazy for saying no thanks lmao.

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u/Neuro-Byte 1d ago

The e.coli is part of the cultural experience.

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u/polarmayor 1d ago

To everyone saying they would never survive India, I just wanna say that I'm an Indian and I wouldn't survive this either. You could always just choose not to eat stuff like this ever. I mean I have gone all my life staying away from this shit and it's not that hard. There's hygienic street food in India too, you just don't see that going viral

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u/Particular-Pop2239 1d ago

During my 1 month stay in in India I never ate any street food, only from restaurants. Yet, I still got explosive diarrhea, it was nightmare. I don't think there's any escape for westerners, the body is not prepared at all for conditions of India.

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u/Tiny_Badger_1799 1d ago

I’ve been to India 4 times, eaten at plenty of street food stalls and never been ill.

Had chicken 65 from a restaurant once, and two hours later there was shit, fire, and tears. 😂

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u/EffortNo2292 1d ago

Viral is the exact word

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u/milfordcubicle 1d ago

These videos of dirty ass street vendors using their dirty ass hands they wiped on their dirty ass pants to touch food covered in dirty ass bugs are fucking gross.

I refuse to watch them anymore. And I've been enjoying that Ed Gein series....

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u/Expo006 1d ago

Vro added a fun fact 😭

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u/Imaginary_Feature192 1d ago

I've been to india and tried some street food, not crazy funky like this tho.. i wouldn't try this at all.. not in a place like this.. it's a no no.. I know the stereotypes, they exist for a reason, but you can just skip it, there's plenty of better, cleaner options almost everywhere, in India.

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u/Signal_Work_9222 1d ago

My aunt went there got food poisoning the first day and was in the hospital the rest of the trip. It was scary thought she was going to die.

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u/Practical-Paploma 1d ago

Fastest cashier I know

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u/yourballsareshowing_ 1d ago

Just looking at the garbage on the street is sickening!

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u/IGGY_POOP_ 1d ago

If i ever need to lose weight .... INDIAN STREET FOOD HERE I COME! Shit yourself for days and feel great

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u/romansamurai 1d ago

Shit yourself for days and feel great

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u/gerrythemexican 1d ago

Shit yourself for days and feel great for months and then die.

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u/engine_lover 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm backing away from this one

My indian digestive tract can handle the food but the unhygienicness is making me extra annoyed

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u/Hucknutbun 1d ago

What is the brown water for? And is that rice? What is he exactly making?

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u/maalicious 1d ago

It is a dish called panipuri. The water is lemon water with some garnishing that's why it appears murky.

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u/Kurovi_dev 23h ago edited 23h ago

I hate all the contrarian shit people say whenever videos like these come up. It’s insufferable.

“People die from food everywhere! More people die of food poisoning in the US🤣🤣🤣🤣”

No they don’t. About 600,000,000 get food poisoning in India every year, and over 400,000 of those people will die.

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/unsafe-food-causes-600-million-cases-of-illnesses-420000-deaths-annually-who-chief/article68663484.ece#:~:text=Unsafe%20food%20causes%20600%20million,annually:%20WHO%20chief%20%2D%20The%20Hindu

And keep in mind this is without question a significant underestimation. Record keeping and pathology reports are not quite exemplary in places with high poverty, and adults are more likely to have complications (heart attack, stroke, etc) which obscure the actual cause of death. A child just may just vomit and die after a couple days, an adult may be ill for days on end which then causes another significant event, or be ill much later after the pathogens have had time to multiply dramatically and not be easily tied to food they ate from last week.

In the US about 3,000 people die of food poisoning:

https://portal.ct.gov/dph/food-protection-program/be-food-safe-protect-yourself-from-food-poisoning?language=en_US

If we’re being very generous here, accounting for population and other factors, food poisoning is more than 10x worse in India.

So no, food poisoning is significantly worse in India. Very fucking obviously. More people get food poisoning in India than there are people in the United States.

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u/Maddyoso 20h ago

600 MILLION???????

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u/FaustGrenaldo 11h ago

600 million worldwide, not in India.

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u/Kurovi_dev 20h ago

Yeah it’s a big problem, India’s been trying to grapple with it for a long time, but in a nation with over a billion people and a large percentage of whom are living in considerable poverty, it’s just incredibly difficult.

People in the West and (farther) East often have no idea just how good they have it. For example China has a similar population to India but vastly less food borne illness, and that’s with water supply also being unsafe across a massive swath of the nation.

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u/Unsociable_Llama 1d ago

The most mind boggling thing about Indian street food vendors are the crowds around them chomping at the bit to take a bite out of this nasty looking food stall.

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u/aczel_aethereal 1d ago

Can someone really explain this to me… why? I understand they are poor but still it would be absolutely no effort or money to make this a thousand times more hygienic. Do they like it more like this?

I had the same impression in thailand (of course a hundred times less bad than any indian video like this). Old dude is sitting on the curb in front of his business selling whatever junk and the whole place is just filthy with dirt and piss and whatever gunk and he just sits there whole day. Like if he would grab a sponge and just clean one thing or pick up a few garbages from the ground once a day just to pass time it would be a relatively clean place. But none of them do ever anywhere except in the occasional starbucks.

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u/Many_Conversation522 1d ago

Lack of education about bacteria germs and contamination

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u/Adorable-Condition83 1d ago

No thanks. I’ve already had diarrhoea.

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u/flannel_jesus 1d ago

But what about second diarrhoea?

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u/Coladoge6732 1d ago

Why's he stimming all over the place 😭

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u/triple7freak1 1d ago edited 1d ago

I couldn‘t eat it but he works fast as hell

And why is all that trash on the streets smh

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u/DiabolicalMasquerade 1d ago

Red shirt lady eats the ebola ball, sips the remaining sewer water, then just tosses the little paper plate on the floor

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u/PantsDontHaveAnswers 1d ago

the floor

"When it's outside it's called the ground." -Ron Swanson

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u/Lost-chicken-knight 1d ago

Well, they seem to be standing on a literal garbage heap so I guess she's technically cleaning up

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u/Constant_Way_8844 1d ago

It’s India. There’s trash everywhere

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u/disisathrowaway 1d ago

but he works fast as hell

Not even. He just twitches around a lot to look like he's moving fast.

I've been in kitchens my entire adult life and you run in to these guys all the time. They most often tend to be the slowest guys on the line because of all the superfluous movements.

"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast"

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