The TRUTH About "Fried Rice Syndrome" (STATISTICS)

calling it fried rice syndrome is probably a little bit racist allow me to explain why do they call it fried rice syndrome if everybody dying all the cases they eating pasta they want to blame it on the rice exactly exactly so we're here to talk about what you guys may have heard on Tik Tok on Instagram on YouTube as fried rice syndrome this is a the bacteria that is sometimes on rice and also pasta and a bunch of other things that can get you sick and potentially is fatal depending on how much you eat it's called reheated rice syndrome and it's actually pretty dangerous let's talk about it the danger really isn't in the reheating part it's in that precarious time between the cooking and the storing that I always love to talk about usually I'll just tell y'all reheat to a surf save temperature it's usually 165 for leftovers and you should be good to go the problem is in the type of bacteria that grows in leftover race it's called basilla serious or be serious for short be so serious uh it's actually heat resistant essentially no amount of reheating nuking microwaving steaming whatever is going to save you if that bacteria did happen to grow in your rice guys we are referring to basilis seras that is the bacteria that causes food poisoning so I'm going to explain why and I got the receipts to show why it actually probably if anything I don't want to throw pasta under the bus but should be called Old pasta syndrome or we should just call it food poisoning so anyways please hit that like button check out other episodes of the hot poop boys as we get into this but one thing that you don't have to worry about ISU guys it's sold out online right now but check it out we're going to be restocking soon from suana Sicily listen guys uh why do they call it fried rice syndrome if anything first of all it's unfair to fried rice they should have called it old fried rice syndrome they wouldn't shouldn't even called it fried like just old rice syndrome but even then it's not fair because almost all the cases documented in the west have been people dying from from eating old pasta yeah so we're going to go through it guys because you guys have probably heard about it but it should probably be called rotten rice syndrome or rotten pasta syndrome okay that's actually the more accurate terms but of course I don't know did it get racialized guys you let me know is it kind of anti-asian to call it fried rice syndrome cuz I was like fried rice syndrome I eat a bunch of fried rice how am I going to get sick well you know it's a little bit easier to blame it on the chineses let's be honest you know this this better than I don't want to take the heat yeah well you if you call it pasta that's really going to hit the pasta industry kind of hard and you know we can't afford that but anyways guys let's talk about August 2003 five children in a family get sick four of them get really sick one of them unfortunately passes away from eating pasta guys the one case that everybody quotes is a 20-year-old college student in Belgium dies from eating spaghetti that he left outside of the fridge for 5 days again spaghetti and then there was lasagna the first or pasta salad next one multi-organ failure in America caused by lasagna all right so all these big cases that take place in the western world are actually involving pasta not rice right but I guess is it because and this is to play Devil's Advocate in the west most people eat pasta as the carb whereas in the East the primary carb is rice yes I'll get into that there is some logic but let's just let me keep going let me keep going in America there are about 63,000 cases of basilis serus okay this bacteria case a year not a lot of people die in America but a lot of people get sick all right now if you go to China this is recorded cases and remember China is four times the size and eats 10 times the amount of rice per capita which is probably actually like 30 times the amount of rice in total guys there was 8,000 cases over 10 years so actually the rate of reported cases now you could say that there's some unreported because it's China right maybe they don't report everything but it's really not that bad or maybe their stomachs are strong because look at what they eat over there they eat all types of things well a little rivet of Rise ain't compared to what they put in their stomachs I'm not saying China's perfect and I'm not saying China's better than America at everything but as far as recorded cases it's really not that bad all right so why did they name it that man cuz it sounds like they're just trying to blame everything that's related to uh toxin or you know weird foods bad things relating food on the Chinese okay all right first of all snow M that did start in China but anyways guys fried rice syndrome was I apparently they called it that because the early documented cases were linked to cooked white rice that were not refrigerated now are these cases from Asia are they in America cuz to me guys out of the 63,000 cases of this bacteria in America how much of do you think that is rice and how much do you think is attributed to Pasta considering that in America they probably eat more pasta than they do rice white people which make up the majority of America but to be honest even like I think a lot of black people they don't have rice cookers That's how little they eat rice I don't know a single white person that's not a sushi chef or like an otaku that has a high-end Zojirushi rice cooker or cuu yeah I don't know any of them exactly guys so so to me what I'm saying is and we're going to get into the comment section about all this and then like the Reddit post and stuff like that but I guess I was just making the case and it's not that I want to put the blame on pasta and throw Italian food under the bus cuz I love Italian food but it is unfair and inaccurate compared to the proportion of rice cases to call it fried rice syndrome like that's crazy to call it fried rice syndrome when the only documented earlier cases of people getting sick maybe were from white rice or pasta and then most of the most horrible cases of death in a in the western world are from pasta yeah it would have been crazy if they called it fly life syndrome with the accent with a fly li like just call it rotten pasta syndrome rotten rice syndrome I would take rotten rice syndrome that's fine cuz rotten still need maybe rotten people are looking for some more visceral like visual marker of rottenness cuz this is like I guess imperceptible bacteria why are you trying to bring down the fried rice industry David fried rice I it's one of the best things you can eat at end of day it's easy for them to blame it on Asians or blame it on Chinese at the end of the day I'm not saying that there's not some validity to it I know that rice has a really high surface area it's very moist it's the perfect breeding ground for these was a basilis serious serious things but like so are a ton of other things and they never get pointed out so there is some science behind it um other people are talking about fermentation interestingly enough once the rice begins to ferment you don't uh there's no more chance for bacteria to grow on it that's why like alcohol keeps for a really long time like sake and things like that because um bacterium has to have a certain scientific like canvas well it has to have like a lot yeah a lot of uh water or something I don't know like the fermentation like kills a lot of like germs I guess yeah yeah it doesn't provide them well also not all bacteria is bad for you obviously there is bacteria that is good for your gut and then there's bacteria that can kill you so not all bacteria is the same there was a lot of people being like dude we come from a culture where we eat old rice all the time whether we let it out sitting out for 5 hours it's in the rice cooker we might eat it 3 days later I never died I'm 75 years old um how much do you think it is like you you can find a scientist to be freaked out about everything in 2024 yeah listen um like I I just wouldn't eat old food that's been sitting out too long but I know a lot of people who have eaten day old fried rice maybe even two day old rice three day old I'm not saying we can put a exact number though I think you are risking it if it's past two days I think you're risking it and I don't think you should keep your rice out on the kitchen counter you should put it in the refrigerator for sure oh yeah in the fridge I think things it it slows everything down you could do it for like weeks or whatever but I'm saying outside in the danger zone which is room temperature like just don't be stupid with it but like overall people I've eaten two-day old rice in room temperature before I'm not saying I would do it purposely it doesn't taste good yeah I wouldn't do it purposely for that but if I if you had to survive you do what you do um this person said the refrigerated cooked rice is safe for 3 to 5 days you just need to confirm it with a visual smell and taste test in the sense of like just eat a tiny piece to get a sense of it and use your smell as well because a lot of bacteria will begin to smell dude it's just like spoiled milk man you know you can't always look into the milk carton before you pour it out right but if you think it's overdue and it's like crusty at the top you open it up smell it and if it's not not sour and it still smells like milk then you might be able to drink it I'm not telling you to do it but I'm just saying it it's probably safe people were talking about Bento boxes all around Asia at 7-Elevens and Japan at Lawson Japan is famous for being very clean but guess what they got the rice in the Bento boxes out in the Lawson it is true that when you're at the Lawson generally it's either in the cold section or a little bit of a warm section though yeah listen again I'm not saying that cases in Asia do not exist of course people eat 20 30 times the amount of rice as a country in Asia so of course there's going to be some cases but what I'm saying is their death rate is not even any higher yeah they might have stronger stomachs too I don't know how it is like is is it like a peanut allergy where when you're exposed very young you build up this like strength and tolerance to it yeah I mean over 10 years I'm just saying the statistic show only five people died over 10 years it's there was even some white people chiming in saying being like this young generation is absolutely ridiculous man I live until 95 I keep my butter out on my counter I keep all types of breads out on the counter I cook some food maybe I put in the fridge maybe I don't I never died all y'all are wimps everybody's weak and this like you know of course there it's true and there's a lot of older people in the west I'm not even talking about Asian immigrants uh I'm talking about like old white people that are really mad at the current state of things yeah and I think guys let's be honest like something that a lot of people are not thinking about is your ability to fight off this bacteria has to do with your age your size obviously the in one of the cases where the five kids got sick the youngest daughter died unfortunately because you usually children don't have very strong immunity yeah and I'm saying the older ones survived and and so I'm saying you have stronger immunity also if you're healthier you could probably fight it off more okay also it depends on how much you eat cuz I'm saying I've everybody's eaten some moldy bread before I've did it on accident where I literally ate something and I look back on it and I look at like some slices I was like oh this is has spots but I didn't die and even get sick of it the only time I ever really had food poisoning was doing was eating uncooked fish that I tried to cook myself and that was actually a day before our sister's wedding and then I was just vomiting and pooping like crazy that was terrible you got hit by the basilis you remember that I don't know if it was basilis but it was one of the three main bacterias that will get you listen guys if you are more of a medical professional work in a stem field you're probably more familiar with the exact back bacterium and and the whole process and the breakdown the Low Middle High versions of It ultimately it's this man I just think a lot of people nowadays they're trying to create content that there is some science backing it but they want to go viral and if they want to go viral they got to sensationalize it and they're going to tell you that you're going to die if you left your rice out overnight and you eat it in the morning just like these Tik toks the Tik toks they want to go viral in a moderate scientific in the-middle equation where you're explaining different immunity strengths and bacterium strains and protein moisture growth surface level areas diameters radiuses it's not going to hit so people just go with the the fried rice syndrome's going to kill you and then they go viral on Tik Tok and that's what they want that's they get the dopam mean I went viral I went viral do you think to wrap this up David do you think how similar how much do you think of an impact the smid M te the spand demic had on this ation about like if you're healthy you can withstand a lot more and that all these things are true that it is bacteria guys that is on Rice it's on pasta It's on it's a real bacteria yeah room temperature generally is not a good temperature for uh keeping food safe yeah they call it the danger zone for a while but but that because just there's a few cases of things happening does that mean that it's something that everybody should be worried about you know what I mean where it's like Remember When people thought like oh uh uh was it socially distant from 10et 5et away you know everybody wear a mask everybody when you're wearing mask when you jog with each other oh you got an n95 but the n95 prevents your intake but then the exhale has all I mean there's a case where I remember reading about this as a kid and Mom got worried because she was like hey guys I just read a case about this kid who got scratched by a rusty fence and then they got a flesh eating disease so you have to watch out every time you touch a rusty thing first of all watch out anytime you touch something rusty period yes but if you do touch something rusty and you're not cut you're probably not going to die either you know what I mean I think to be honest and you know some people are going to disagree with this I think a lot of people know a lot of like obscure knowledge nowadays whether it's about conspiracy theories their favorite video game or their favorite movie series and they know 17 different conspiracies on Game of Thrones when realistically the writers didn't even write those conspiracies in in the first place cuz they were just trying to get it done and make the money from the show so now you're spending all this time knowing conspiracy theories that the writer themselves didn't even concoct in their own mind because if you guys know about content creation a lot of people like reading the things that the original writer IP you know intellectual property Creator didn't even think of and then you don't know science you don't know basic stem and basic stem is conditional on a lot of different factors it's multifactoral so now you're seeing a Tik Tok that sounds kind of good you somebody articulately put an argument in a lopsided way and now you're getting tricked exactly because you spend all your time thinking about the trivial thing instead of the Bas level fundamental things you need to just be a smart Common Sense person and you know what's funny you know what's funny is that I don't think a lot of people who have cooked tons of rice for years or chefs are worried about this I think it's young people who have not cooked a lot of food in their life I can imagine think about it that you are just starting to live on your own like let's say you're a 17 18yearold you're going to college for the first time and you're thinking about cooking on your own like in your dorm or something you're going to hear this story about basilla serus and fried rice syndrome you're like oh my gosh I don't want to cook rice anymore but if you've been eating rice for 25 years and you cooked it your own you're like somewhere along the way I've eaten rotten rice guys and I've been fine so it's just like when you are inexperienced and you hear this headline and this story then it is kind of fear-mongering you know what I mean and again I'm not saying it doesn't exist these bacterias are true I've been hit with food poisoning before but I'm just saying you guys are tripping and coling a fried rice syndrome it's rotten pasta syndrome man if anything you should just be worried about refined carbohydrates more than you know poisoning yourself and killing yourself yeah stay fit and drink vitamin C all right guys uh let me know what you guys think in the comments down below was it racially charged to call it fried rice syndrome instead of a different name because I think that was a pretty bad name to call it so I just want to call it out again I'm not a snowflake I'm not super easily sensitive and offended by these things but I call it out when I see it so but yes keep your food fresh and especially for kids younger kids I mean CU their immunity is not as strong cuz they're still developing logical all right everybody thank you so much for watching and until next time we out peace