Foodsday Tuesday: What Happens After You Eat

Phillyist loves food. Not just because it's what keeps us alive, but also because we really enjoy eating. That's why this weekly column exists. It's a celebration of food (and sometimes, drink). Of course, we all took high school biology. We know how digestion works. We know what happens after we eat. It isn't pretty, but it's a fact of life. We all have to do it. We all have to poop. (Feel free to scroll to the next article if discussion of the scatalogical disturbs you.)

Now, we were going to use this week's columns to talk about the relationship between greasy foods and hangovers, when we discovered PoopReport.com. It didn't say anything about greasy food acting as a hangover preventative, but it did answer a question that we've heard asked on several occasions, most recently by a friend from high school who shyly asked: "When you drink tequila, do you kinda...?"

The site was just too good not to share. We decided to look for Poop Reports on food and drink, because even though we know those things eventually end up as poop, we were curious about the process and/or results. That's how we learned that you can dye your poop green, that Korean food (which we love) doesn't agree with everybody, why food poisoning can result in bloody stool, that even Hitler shat (scroll down to the comments for that one), dog feces are dangerous to humans (and some people aren't fit to be parents), and there's even a poll for readers on what food or drink is the most poop-inducing.

For more information about how your body excretes what you consume, you should really check out PoopReport.com. You'd be surprised -- there's a chance it might prove helpful!

Image comes to us via this story on our sister site, Shanghaiist.