In article .com>,
"Nancy2" > wrote:

> On Mar 13, 12:02 pm, Anim8rFSK > wrote:
> > In article om>,
> >
> > "Nancy2" > wrote:
> > > On Mar 12, 4:40 pm, "Backspace, Backspace, Backspace"
> > > <backspace@backspace> wrote:
> > > > Does somebody like Andrew Zimmern have to build up a tolerance to such
> > > > exotic foodstuffs? If I went to the Philippines and tried balut, would
> > > > it
> > > > make me sick?
> >
> > > I believe on one of the Survivor seasons, the competitors had to eat a
> > > bunch of these things. As I recall, some of them gagged, but we
> > > didn't ever find out if they got really sick from them.
> >
> > > N.
> >
> > Yeah, they had to eat 'em. That was pretty bad.
> >
> > I'd think you'd get sick from almost anything you ate after having not
> > eaten for a couple weeks. Wolf down a cheeseburger, barf it back up.
>
> I think on the earlier Survivors, it was the other end of the body
> that was affected most.
>
> N.

after a couple weeks without water I wouldn't think a cheeseburger would
make it halfway down . . .