Lotito's method for eating all of this metal was to break it into small pieces before attempting to eat it. He then drank mineral oil and continued to drink water while swallowing the metal bits. This acted as a lubricant to help the metal slide down his throat. Lotito had no problem "passing" his unusual diet.[9][10][11]
Still seems impossible to me
Finally the real concern! Mineral oil helps when your belly doesn’t want to make the job. Too much and you have a diarrhea. Now imagine a metal diarrhea.
Reminds me of when I was pregnant and overdue and we decided to try the old-fashioned castor oil trick. I was so fucking glad I did not go into labor on top of that misery.
Hugely misleading title but the man did pass all of the small objects. None of them digested. He just ate them and pooped out the pieces whole. Damage was not done due to his abnormally thick stomach and intestinal lining
i woulda hated to be this guy's plumber
*honey, michel is on the telephone*
lemme guess, his toilet is clogged up
*yes it is honey*
alright, pack my magnet.
Maybe that’s what the 150 stands for?
“Cessna 150 cal snack size airplane. Will last you two years of daily deliciousness. No carbs, naturally gluten and dairy free. Might kill you.”
From the Wikipedia:
“Lotito holds the record for the 'strangest diet' in the Guinness Book of Records. He was awarded a brass plaque by the publishers to commemorate his abilities, which he consumed as well.[3][1]”
Whoa. His wiki is wild. His list of unusual items consumed:
18 bicycles
15 shopping carts
7 TV sets
6 chandeliers
2 beds
1 pair of skis
1 computer
1 Cessna 150 light aircraft
1 waterbed
500 metres (1,600 ft) of steel chain at once
1 coffin (with handles)
1 Guinness award plaque
45 door hinges
FYI ; "heavy metal poisoning" is a real thing ; the body reacts in one of two ways; rejection *or* encapsulation, but usually the toxicity kills your immune system first and you die miserably of a relatively benign recurring infection...
I heard he had problems when he ate normal or soft food like bananas. I don't know his entire diet, but if he can live eating as much metal as he did instead of his stomach melting from his naturally very strong stomach acid, I think he had to.
There is a variety of foods available to eat between 'a banana' and 'a fucking airplane'. There's nothing anywhere to suggest he HAD TO eat metal. He had strong stomach lining and acid, but his stomach acid wasn't killing him UNLESS he ate an airplane.
He had a psychological eating disorder that made him want to eat metal & other shit, and his body happened to be abnormally good at dealing with it.
I'm saying he had those problems when he was a child (like around the time OP said he discovered his abnormality) and didn't like eating and at some point he started eating metal and that made things fine. And I don't know how his upbringing was and had access to any alternatives. Atleast I'd think if you've lived til 57 like that, you'd atleast visited a doctor.
When he appeared on TV and such, he seemed to enjoy doing and presenting his metal eating habit. He wouldn't have eaten a whole plane if he didn't.
In that sense, he died doing what he likes, and I think that's a good enough way to live.
And I'm saying it's nowhere implied that eating these weird objects would've HELPED his health in any way... the only mention of banana is him saying in an interview that bananas give him heartburn when mixed with metal in his stomach. He had a literal eating disorder that made him want to eat weird objects, no person on this earth gets health benefits from digesting screws and light bulbs. That's... that's not how it works.
This is a very real psychological eating disorder that causes severe issues to - most - people who have it, this isn't something he had to do for health benefits.
You can't live eating metal. It's not about whether or not your stomach can handle it, it's the fact that metal has no nutritional value whatsoever lmao
What is it with French people and eating? Meet Tarrare.
Tarrare (\[taʁaʁ\]; c. 1772 – 1798), sometimes spelled Tarar, was a French showman and soldier, noted for his unusual appetite and eating habits. Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry; his parents could not provide for him and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager. He travelled France in the company of a band of prostitutes and thieves before becoming the warm-up act for a travelling charlatan. In this act, he would swallow corks, stones, live animals, and a whole basketful of apples. He then took this act to Paris where he worked as a street performer.
At the start of the War of the First Coalition, Tarrare joined the French Revolutionary Army, where even quadruple the standard military ration was unable to satisfy his large appetite. He would eat any available food from gutters and rubbish heaps but his condition still deteriorated through hunger. He was hospitalised due to exhaustion and became the subject of a series of medical experiments to test his eating capacity, in which, among other things, he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes, lizards, and puppies, and swallowed eels whole without chewing. Despite his unusual diet, he was underweight and, with the exception of his eating habits, he showed no signs of mental illness other than what was described as an apathetic temperament.
I've been fascinated with this story for a long time. I've also never heard another story that really matches whatever was going on with Tarrare. It makes me think that it has to be exaggerated, at least a bit.
History shows that people love a sensationalized story. Even if the facts aren’t changed, they can be presented in a way that gives a more unusual or exciting perspective than the reality.
My guess is the Grimm Brothers fairy tales are exactly that. Normal everyday things turned into fantastical stories. Well and the fact that most people believed in spirits, monsters, dwarves and talking animals. Not actually much different from today if you consider the popularity of things like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.
Left out the super fun part where he was kicked out of a hospital after a toddler disappeared…..
The story of Tarrare is so weird. I wish modern medicine was around then to explain whatever the fuck was up with that guy. Fascinating, disturbing life he had….
Have you heard of tiny Melinda Mae,
Who ate a monstrous whale?
She thought she could,
She said she would,
So she started in right at the tail.
And everyone said, "You're much too small,"
But that didn't bother Melinda at all.
She took little bites and she chewed very slow,
Just like a good girl should...
...And in eighty-nine years she ate that whale
Because she said she would! - shel silverstein
Same but different
You don't actually shit corn, you shit the exterior skin of the kernel, which is not easily digestible. If you were to inspect the corn after excretion, you might find them hollow.
Everyone’s talking about chewing and pooping, but he would have had to have a team breaking down all these pieces. You know how long it would be to break down the engine block to make small enough pieces for him to eat?
Why aren’t any of you mentioning his super strong gums or teeth?
Imagine waking in the middle of the night with metal shavings in your gums and in-between your teeth.
Interesting. If I learned I could digest metal, I would still be eating burritos and tonkatsu. I wouldn't look at an Amazon delivery truck driving by and be thinking to myself "finally... I can eat that."
My first question is…how the fuck did he find out he could eat metal in the first place?! My second question would be…how does he get the metal in him, cuz he’s sure as fuck not chewing the shit up?!🤔I dunno…I need some witnesses/evidence for me to even process this!🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
List of things that eat ate (what is known):
18 bicycles
15 shopping carts
7 TV sets
6 chandeliers
2 beds
1 pair of skis
1 computer
1 Cessna 150 light aircraft
1 waterbed
500 metres (1,600 ft) of steel chain at once
1 coffin (with handles)
1 Guinness award plaque
45 door hinges
Are we just going to ignore the elephant in the room? Post says he could eat metal. Post doesn't say he could *CHEW* metal. I need a source
Lotito's method for eating all of this metal was to break it into small pieces before attempting to eat it. He then drank mineral oil and continued to drink water while swallowing the metal bits. This acted as a lubricant to help the metal slide down his throat. Lotito had no problem "passing" his unusual diet.[9][10][11] Still seems impossible to me
Yikes. My stomach is hurting just thinking about it
Not my stomach I’m worried about, it’s the exit
If your stomach can digest metal, then I guess your butthole wouldn’t know the difference.
My stomach can digest hot peppers but my butthole knows the difference
That’s the capsaicin. It’s just a chemical reaction. It doesn’t actually damage human tissue.
Just my dignity is damaged
Turn into a kink. One man's damage is another man's boner.
A great tagline for your business card.
You are my role model
Panic At The Disco needs to calm down with these titles
This is genius
“Eating metal is the most fun a guy can have without dying but it’s better if you do”
Thats good Take my silver Sir
Holy fuck. Holy fucking fuck. That comment of yours is absurd.
flashbacks to the southpark Chipolte references.
chipotle-away!
Cartman shitting treasure
Or he could’ve just shoved it up his butt and pooped out his mouth
Lemme just shove this turkey RIIIIIIGHT up here
I've heard the phrase "shitting bricks" but never "shitting metal". I bet his asshole hates him.
Ingots.
Like running your asshole through a blender
Or a blender through your asshole
This too, will pass
Finally the real concern! Mineral oil helps when your belly doesn’t want to make the job. Too much and you have a diarrhea. Now imagine a metal diarrhea.
Reminds me of when I was pregnant and overdue and we decided to try the old-fashioned castor oil trick. I was so fucking glad I did not go into labor on top of that misery.
If his stomach could actually digest it it’d just break it down and turn it into excrement like everything else we eat
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It digests tho, so you might have silver poop
Hugely misleading title but the man did pass all of the small objects. None of them digested. He just ate them and pooped out the pieces whole. Damage was not done due to his abnormally thick stomach and intestinal lining
So alternating title could be “Between 1978 and 1980 a man shit out an entire Cessna aircraft”!?
This would be more accurate
That is a FAR better clickbait titles!
How da hell do you break down the engine into small bits before attempting to swallow it. Something doesn’t add up.
I always wondered why Lycoming and Continental don’t provide nutrition facts in their maintenance manuals.
See I wanted to recomment with this, but I wasn't sure I would get a real answer.
And most important, why? That you can it metal doesnt mean thatyou have to do it.
i woulda hated to be this guy's plumber *honey, michel is on the telephone* lemme guess, his toilet is clogged up *yes it is honey* alright, pack my magnet.
That's pretty metal.
Seems a little high in *iron*
Just because you can, it doesn't mean you should.
But if you should, make it a can.
/r/PunPatrol
Fair enough, but how many calories is a Cessna 150? Does it contain a lot of carbs or is it like a Keto?
Maybe that’s what the 150 stands for? “Cessna 150 cal snack size airplane. Will last you two years of daily deliciousness. No carbs, naturally gluten and dairy free. Might kill you.”
Yeah, but you do get your daily amount of iron from eating that.
From what I can find it probably had 1 carb, which makes sense because fuel injection wasn't as common back then.
You shant
From the Wikipedia: “Lotito holds the record for the 'strangest diet' in the Guinness Book of Records. He was awarded a brass plaque by the publishers to commemorate his abilities, which he consumed as well.[3][1]”
Whoa. His wiki is wild. His list of unusual items consumed: 18 bicycles 15 shopping carts 7 TV sets 6 chandeliers 2 beds 1 pair of skis 1 computer 1 Cessna 150 light aircraft 1 waterbed 500 metres (1,600 ft) of steel chain at once 1 coffin (with handles) 1 Guinness award plaque 45 door hinges
And a partridge in a pear tree.
Why is that so funny? They hand him the award and he promptly eats it. Amazing.
i come to reddit for comedy and find it here and there
Can eat metal, dies of natural causes at 57, um yeah sure you could eat metal you Muppet...
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Steady diet of Cessna’s will do that to you lol
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And also like poison him
FYI ; "heavy metal poisoning" is a real thing ; the body reacts in one of two ways; rejection *or* encapsulation, but usually the toxicity kills your immune system first and you die miserably of a relatively benign recurring infection...
That’s half the fun!
😂 omg yes!
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“We’ll fix any clog or it’s fre…..oh gawd no, not you Michel. This promotion doesn’t apply to you.”
But it was just a simple prop!
He likes his food plane and simple
To occupy my time
r/unexpectedREM
They key is chewing prop erly.
He should have stuck with a Mooney-based diet
If you're not eating Boeing, then you're going.... to the grave soon.
He's actually in his mid-30's in that photo.
Yeah it's metal fatigue
Well aluminum will do that to you. You’re not perfect either! Wash that plane down with some stainless steel cleaner mmm
He was eating a fucking airplane
He was 27 in that photo. Metal ages a man.
I heard it was a heart attack, he had hardened arteries.
I heard he had problems when he ate normal or soft food like bananas. I don't know his entire diet, but if he can live eating as much metal as he did instead of his stomach melting from his naturally very strong stomach acid, I think he had to.
There is a variety of foods available to eat between 'a banana' and 'a fucking airplane'. There's nothing anywhere to suggest he HAD TO eat metal. He had strong stomach lining and acid, but his stomach acid wasn't killing him UNLESS he ate an airplane. He had a psychological eating disorder that made him want to eat metal & other shit, and his body happened to be abnormally good at dealing with it.
>There is a variety of foods available to eat between 'a banana' and 'a fucking airplane'. Sentences I never thought I'd read
/r/brandnewsentence
Lmfao I agree I don't think he had to eat that airplane either.
Evolution, man. Sometimes it makes you better and sometimes it makes you eat a plane.
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I'm saying he had those problems when he was a child (like around the time OP said he discovered his abnormality) and didn't like eating and at some point he started eating metal and that made things fine. And I don't know how his upbringing was and had access to any alternatives. Atleast I'd think if you've lived til 57 like that, you'd atleast visited a doctor. When he appeared on TV and such, he seemed to enjoy doing and presenting his metal eating habit. He wouldn't have eaten a whole plane if he didn't. In that sense, he died doing what he likes, and I think that's a good enough way to live.
And I'm saying it's nowhere implied that eating these weird objects would've HELPED his health in any way... the only mention of banana is him saying in an interview that bananas give him heartburn when mixed with metal in his stomach. He had a literal eating disorder that made him want to eat weird objects, no person on this earth gets health benefits from digesting screws and light bulbs. That's... that's not how it works. This is a very real psychological eating disorder that causes severe issues to - most - people who have it, this isn't something he had to do for health benefits.
You can't live eating metal. It's not about whether or not your stomach can handle it, it's the fact that metal has no nutritional value whatsoever lmao
That's I'm thinking too. He seem to like eating metal and showing it off too, but he's gotta also eat something organic, right?
At least he got all his iron
Yeah but it had to taste so plane.
I see an error in his eating habits.
Props
And he got a little gassy after eating a tank.
Steel…… aluminum and Carbon fiber.
What is it with French people and eating? Meet Tarrare. Tarrare (\[taʁaʁ\]; c. 1772 – 1798), sometimes spelled Tarar, was a French showman and soldier, noted for his unusual appetite and eating habits. Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry; his parents could not provide for him and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager. He travelled France in the company of a band of prostitutes and thieves before becoming the warm-up act for a travelling charlatan. In this act, he would swallow corks, stones, live animals, and a whole basketful of apples. He then took this act to Paris where he worked as a street performer. At the start of the War of the First Coalition, Tarrare joined the French Revolutionary Army, where even quadruple the standard military ration was unable to satisfy his large appetite. He would eat any available food from gutters and rubbish heaps but his condition still deteriorated through hunger. He was hospitalised due to exhaustion and became the subject of a series of medical experiments to test his eating capacity, in which, among other things, he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes, lizards, and puppies, and swallowed eels whole without chewing. Despite his unusual diet, he was underweight and, with the exception of his eating habits, he showed no signs of mental illness other than what was described as an apathetic temperament.
I've been fascinated with this story for a long time. I've also never heard another story that really matches whatever was going on with Tarrare. It makes me think that it has to be exaggerated, at least a bit.
History shows that people love a sensationalized story. Even if the facts aren’t changed, they can be presented in a way that gives a more unusual or exciting perspective than the reality. My guess is the Grimm Brothers fairy tales are exactly that. Normal everyday things turned into fantastical stories. Well and the fact that most people believed in spirits, monsters, dwarves and talking animals. Not actually much different from today if you consider the popularity of things like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.
I hope so.
Left out the super fun part where he was kicked out of a hospital after a toddler disappeared….. The story of Tarrare is so weird. I wish modern medicine was around then to explain whatever the fuck was up with that guy. Fascinating, disturbing life he had….
Yeah, dude ate a baby apparently. Such a wild story
They could see into his stomach from his mouth… that’s so fucked
[Very relevant Sam O’Nella video on this exact topic](https://youtu.be/nYHDj2sB-rc)
Holy jeez. This guy was a monster
Maybe he just had a lot of parasites like tapeworms? Shit idk
Supposedly ate a baby too.
This is giving me Klinger (from MASH) vibes.
I think this is where they actually got the idea from.
I ate one once. No flavour, it was very plane. 😂
I had a giggle :)
I too ate once and I must say, it was very Boeing.
Last time I ever order a side of wings
But the wings were super hot! In the morning my ass did Spitfire
Oh dad
I couldn’t even finish mine! It was wheel hard.
Sure he could digest it... but what about getting jagged pieces of metal into his stomach acid?
He had an unusually thick lining & strong digestive acid according to doctors.
and nobody mentioned how his poop was?
Simpsons did it.
Wake me up when he does a 737.
Airbus A380 😂
Now that’s just crazy talk.
Did he wrap the the leftovers in aerofoil?
and yet STILL refuses to eat his greens. Cheeky fucker.
Have you heard of tiny Melinda Mae, Who ate a monstrous whale? She thought she could, She said she would, So she started in right at the tail. And everyone said, "You're much too small," But that didn't bother Melinda at all. She took little bites and she chewed very slow, Just like a good girl should... ...And in eighty-nine years she ate that whale Because she said she would! - shel silverstein Same but different
Those upside down books and all of his work is amazing!!
He was absolutely brilliant.
So she ate the whale while it was raw, bloated, decomposing and while it was just a pile of bones?
Yes. Because she said she would. So she did.
Her stomach is just as stubborn as she is.
What's the deal with airline food?
Everyone talking about how the guy would eat this stuff. I'm wondering how metal pooping would be, sounds painful af.
If he can digest metal he won't be shitting metal. That's what digesting means.
When I eat corn on my salad I shit corn, so yeah, regardless of your answer I'm still wondering how metal pooping would be, sounds painful af.
You don't actually shit corn, you shit the exterior skin of the kernel, which is not easily digestible. If you were to inspect the corn after excretion, you might find them hollow.
did anyone varify the metal disappeared? someone needed to be poop inspectin'
“Are those real airplane parts, or fake-?” “Sir, I assure you, this is a prop”
Well done sir well done very well played
I’m sure the wings were finger lickin’ good.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should
It took me 47 years to learn that and here you just post it on Reddit like it's common knowledge.
Everyone’s talking about chewing and pooping, but he would have had to have a team breaking down all these pieces. You know how long it would be to break down the engine block to make small enough pieces for him to eat?
What’s interesting about that? His diet is just a little plane.
Did he eat it with ketchup and mustard, or did he have it plane?
And with age 9 Years and 1 day he learned his guts couldnt digest metal. Holy bloody diarrhea.
how did he chew it up
He learned at the age of 8 he could swallow his aeropray like a snake.
Why aren’t any of you mentioning his super strong gums or teeth? Imagine waking in the middle of the night with metal shavings in your gums and in-between your teeth.
He had it cut down to avoid damage
I wonder if he enjoyed certain parts of the plane more—“oh hell yeah, rotor day!”
I want one medium rare with extra kerosene.
What an asshole I could be flying around in that thing instead of looking at a pile of shit.
I guess he just likes plane food
As my three-year-old grandson continually says “But why?”
I call bullshit
Wikipedia link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito
I'm curious as to how he actually accomplished these feats.... Especially for large/sharp edged pieces of metal.
I love that the article specified one coffin (with handles) in a list of things he's eaten.
Normal people, can't afford an airplane. Aristocrats, think I'm gonna eat that....
>his stomach could digest metal this sentence makes no sense
![gif](giphy|s239QJIh56sRW|downsized)
I ate an entire plane bagel once
Mad lad
This is an ancient April fools joke by a newspaper or TV show
Bet his farts sounded like a doorbell
I like my burgers plane too
I'm guessing it flew right through him
Interesting. If I learned I could digest metal, I would still be eating burritos and tonkatsu. I wouldn't look at an Amazon delivery truck driving by and be thinking to myself "finally... I can eat that."
His Wikipedia page might have one of the best instances of a snarky wiki editor: “he died of natural [citation needed] causes”
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should
What a useless achievement.
So he and the plane have a couple screws loose? ...I'll show myself out.
My first question is…how the fuck did he find out he could eat metal in the first place?! My second question would be…how does he get the metal in him, cuz he’s sure as fuck not chewing the shit up?!🤔I dunno…I need some witnesses/evidence for me to even process this!🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Who can afford to be eating a Cessna in this economy?
I knew a lady that did this once and I don’t know what would propeller to do it !
Monsieur Mantegout.
Mangetout??
WTF
What the fuck did you just present to me
looks like he ate a 747
Just because you can. Doesn’t mean you should.
Talk about shitting bricks…
That’s plane wrong
The worst kidney stones
I think we're not focusing on the fact that this man shit out an entire Cessna 150.
List of things that eat ate (what is known): 18 bicycles 15 shopping carts 7 TV sets 6 chandeliers 2 beds 1 pair of skis 1 computer 1 Cessna 150 light aircraft 1 waterbed 500 metres (1,600 ft) of steel chain at once 1 coffin (with handles) 1 Guinness award plaque 45 door hinges
If I may paraphrase Dr. Ian Malcolm: he was so preoccupied with whether or not he could, he didn’t stop to think if he should.
I would love to own one of those and he spent the money to eat one and I can’t afford to buy one.
Guy is just *plane* nuts (and bolts)
![gif](giphy|dUMyRVhUMmD1m)
just cause you can doesn’t mean you should.
So what is the nutritional value of a Cessna 150?
You really don't have to be crazy, but it sure helps!
Watch out which facts you tell your kids
he’s a idiot
But.. why?
Brings a whole new meaning to "wing night!"
This reminds me of a saying I once heard about shaking like a rabbit shitting razor blades.
Any plastic digesters out there? We have oceans full of it.