What makes for a good shot on cruelty TikTok could cause nausea, stomach pain, food poisoning and even appendicitis.
Dunking a live squid into a shot glass of spicy chili sauce – a new and nasty food fad on Thai TikTok called a “squid shot” – risks exposure to parasites and disease, health officials warned this morning.
“Please be careful when you’re eating a squid shot because of the potential pathogens and parasites,” celeb lab tech Pakpoom Dejhasadin wrote this morning.
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He said the bacteria in uncooked seafood can cause severe intestinal distress including diarrhea, vomiting, severe abdominal pain, headaches and chills for 12 to 24 hours after consumption.
The Parasitic Diseases Research Center at Suranaree University of Technology also weighed in, saying last night that eating live squid risked a range of food-borne parasites with frightening names.
In recent days, some have shared clips of their freshly caught squid being ducked head-first into a shot glass of spicy seafood sauce. They say the squid will “feel the burn” of the sauce and suck it into its body seconds before it dies.
One video liked more than 124,000 times shows squids convulsing inside shot glasses as their bodies change color.
Some of those not turned off by the prospects of abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, ulcer-like symptoms, food poisoning, and increased chance of appendicitis found that a bit savage.
“I saw this on TikTok, and I scrolled past it immediately,” one comment read on another foodie’s post at Unlucky to be Delicious. “I don’t want to see it, I know the squids must suffer a lot. Why do you need to eat something so zany?”
“I know it’s food but please eat it in a more normal way. If it was a person, it would be like forcing it to drink acid. How much would that hurt?” another wrote.
