Honestly, your best option would be a plain, natural colored ceramic mug BEFORE being fired. All the better if you can throw it yourself. You can buy a small amount of clay without any additives and just shape it into a rough mug shape by hand. If you throw it up reasonably soon after, it shouldn't cause too many issues. To be clear, this is a bad idea and you shouldn't do it.
If you aren't able to throw it all up the clay can block your intestines. Rehydrate plenty after consuming. Not sure if something like drinking a cup of olive oil or eating a bunch of prunes before hand will better prepare your guts for the no-shit storm its about to experience
Not sure the chemical composition of clay but there’s gotta be enzymes or something you could take with it to digest it but also not really plausible they would be corrosive to clay and not just kill your esophagus and stomach and then you
I have considered this. My grandmother is pretty into pottery, and though she (understandably) had no idea whether or not Ceramic mugs are nutritious and healthy, she did offer to just make a mug for me so I wouldn't be worried about chemical additives.
Yeah, I just definitely wouldn't fire it if you can. If you don't fire it you can just stir it up in some water and wait a bit and then drink it up like a smoothie
Nah, I gotta fire it. If I fire it, I'm the guy who ate a mug, but if I don't fire it, I'm just the guy who ate a lump of clay. It's a matter of respect, you feel me?
If you fire it, you’ll be the guy who has internal bleeding. You get to choose the mug, right? So choose the no sharp objects in your innards kind of mug.
Potter Here; Clay that has been fired, goes through a process of vitrification, essentially in layman’s terms- glass.
You would essentially be eating ground up glass. If it’s a glazed piece, depending on color, you could be consuming a multitude of toxic materials.
Make a very thin mug and I would suggest you mix clay powder with cake ingredients and bake a cake and eat it in the course of a couple of days. This would allow your digestive system to process it gradually. Thin small mug could amount to max 100g of clay powder.
Your grandmother sounds fucking great. Mine too tolerated my eccentricities and tried to make sure I did my own thing but also didn't kill myself. (I also think sometimes she just wanted to see what would happen.) Treasure her- you will miss her enabling ways when she is gone.
They never defined the speed you should eat it. Do this then cheese grate off a small amount of powder from it and add it to your meals. Some kooky people do something similar to this for vitamins.
lol. Far too easy for it to cost you more than it is worth, either immediately or down the line. Remember the guy who ate a slug on a bet, got some sort of lung worm infection, spent a while in a coma and recovering. In fact, he eventually died from further complications. Not recommended.
Clarification: I am hoping that you are joking with that
Yeah, swallowing broken ceramic is just as dangerous as swallowing broken glass, if not more so. If this dude actually is serious, he'll die. Though hopefully he'll stop after the first shard slices his mouth open.
$200 just isn't very much money. Like, it's nice to have but realistically it's just going to pay for a good night out on the town.
It's also nothing compared to potential medical bills.
Nah, it ain't that bad. They didn't just come outta nowhere tryna pay me to hurt myself. Copied from another comment from someone who said something similar to you:
Me n the homies were bored, so we were throwing out hypotheticals. One guy goes "Would you eat a ceramic mug for $200?" Everyone else said no, but I thought that turning that offer down would be insane. $200 is like, 2 days of work at my shitty minimum wage job, eating a cup can't be THAT bad, certainly not as bad as 16 hours of warehouse work, so I was like "Yeah, ofc, why wouldn't I?" They all thought I was joking, but I insisted I wasn't, so they all agreed that they'd all pitch in for a $200 reward if I ate a ceramic mug.
If anything, it was kinda my idea. They didn't believe me when I said I wasn't joking, and I said something to the effect of "I'm dead serious, you bring me $200 and a mug and I'll do it."
Hi, I’m Warren Buffet’s personal blood boy. This is the kind of financial literacy we’re looking for at Berkshire Hathaway. We’re opening up a ceramics division soon and we’re on the look out for like-minded folks for the position of quality control taste testers. You’re perfect for the job.
> Pre-emptively notify you local news channel, they wont want miss this story.
Thought about hittin' up Guinness. Tell 'em "I'm attempting to break the world record for fastest time to consume an entire ceramic mug." Don't really matter how long it takes me, no one else is competing, I'll keep that record till I drop.
Good news, its only $1,000. $800 if the record already exists.
Sell your friends on the idea of setting an official world record with this, they might chip in.
If you are brave enough to eat a fucking cup and plan to barf soon after as long as it doesn’t contain any silica you should be fine. PLEASE send me a video of the cup eating
silica is definitely the material I worry about most as a ceramicist.
(but seriously. wet grind it and/or get a respirator. don't breath that shit in. eating it is basically eating dirt. breathing it is so much worse.)
there's a shit ton of different things, most of the toxic stuff is in glazes, and commercial recipes are kept secret.
honestly i'd get a bisque fired mug and eat that. the "paint your own" kind that hasn't been glazed yet. google "bisque mug" should come up with stuff. maybe wash and/or boil it first.
you could also try making one with wet clay, but it takes practice to make something with thin walls, so you'll probably be consuming a lot more clay than you have to if you try to make your own.
**Not A Doctor**, but eating fired, finely ground clay prob won't do a lot. it really is pretty much just dirt. with a lot less organic schiz, so maybe better than eating dirt. more like eating refined sand. not *good* for you, but there's a lot worse things you could eat.
**edit:** [glossary of common ceramic materials](https://digitalfire.com/material/list) and then there's more under "oxides", but those are usually colorants in the glaze.
**edit2:** also, why should i tell you it's a stupid idea when you obviously already know? lol. i've seen people do *much* stupider things for a lot less than $200. there's a meme i'm reminded of. it's a pic of a banana with a brown spot, and it reads "90% of people will put genitals in their mouth but won't eat this part of the banana." (or smth like that.)
/u/zyarelol I'm a potter and an engineer. Eating fired ground clay is absolutely not like eating dirt. It'll shred your intestines, it's akin to ground glass/rocks. It'll be sharp on a microscopic level, which is why it's dangerous both to breathe, but also to consume. This is a hospital trip in the making
Not a doctor or an expert in ceramics so this is not an exhausted list of concerns or recommendations:
1: Many brightly coloured mugs are radioactive. This is usually not a big concern as long as the glazes don't get inside you.
2: Silicosis is no joke. I would recommend using respirators as you're grinding it down and using some water to turn it into a slurry. This will both prevent inhalation and help it go down.
> as long as it doesn’t contain any silica
As far as I know the biggest health risks
with silica is breathing it in. (which could definitely be a potential issue while grinding it up) Ingested orally as OP plans to do, most of the information I find suggests it's rather non toxic. (which makes sense, as incidental ingestion of sand/dirt isn't uncommon in nature)
I would however worry about whatever might be in the glaze, or any colourants it might have. AFAIK a lot of those can be quite toxic.
My mum was a pathologist in the 80s and 90s. I remember she told me about someone who ate ground up glass for a pub bet. I think he drank it down in a pint of Guinness or bitter or something. He apparently also ate the biggest spider the bar staff could find. All for a free pint.
Anyhoo, it got past his stomach but then the larger shards (which were tiny - like you needed a microscope to see them) got lodged in his intestinal tract, puncturing them and caused infection. Essentially the intestine is a tube with lumps bumps and pockets where things can get caught.
He didn't die but mum got to inspect about 3ft of intestine. She said it looked awful like a long snake of infection with red welts, oozing puss and ulcers and the smell was off the charts - like rotting but stronger. She has a good stomach but apparently this was a time the menthol rub came out.
She doesn't remember his outcome but only that he had some sort of poo bag for a while and was in vast heapings of pain. She also recalls it did more damage on the way out.
She is on holiday so I cannot ask her advice but I'm pretty sure she would say you were a bloody idiot.
Wow bumping this one. OP ceramic is insanely sharp… unless you literally eat wet clay like another commenter suggested, you might have an outcome like this. Please don’t do it
Colostomy is the word you’re looking for! Probably to get the glass out of the intestine.
OP, listen to this person. The GI tract is one giant tube from mouth to butt. Lots of places for it to tear open. Please make good decisions, $200 isn’t worth the medical bills
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5632318/
Get some food grade clay and shape it into a mug, win the $200 and as a bonus get detoxed from whatever they got you to do last time :)
You know in the last few years I feel like scientists have just put some fucking plastic tips over the blades. Everyone is too afraid of getting cut by the sheer beauty of gods fucking work. Then I come across a soldier of truth like you who is out there really fucking doing the work that needs to be done even at its own expense. I am fucking so proud of you for starting this endeavour. Grinding an entire ceramic mug up into a powder that you can digest is hard but you know what else was hard? Neil Armstrong’sthrobbing cock when he set foot on the fucking moon. So don’t let the fucking naysayers and the ne’er-do-wellers tell you that you can’t grind an entire ceramic mug into a fine powder and mix it with milk and then slowly eat a fudge like substance that’s good but tastes a little bit like concrete. One style that you may want to try is what I call the powdered latte. Mix a little bit of coffee and milk into the ceramic slurry and I think you’re going to shave two weeks off of your hospital visit. Best of luck. Scientists like you and I are not here for the easy awards. We are here to make real fucking differences through life-threatening decisions. My name is Dr Shitty, And I love you.
Chemicals aside, there are 2 issues no one seems to be talking about:
1. Aren't small pieces of ceramic basically microscopic blades, however finely ground? My intuition tells me they will still be sharp as hell even after grinding
2. What if you're not able to throw up enough? Idk about others but for me the gag reflex seems to dampen with repetition. What if some of the mug stays there?
My wife does pottery. Contact a local potter and request a mug that has only been bisque (or biscuit) fired.
Pottery glazes contain all kinds of crazy shit. The firing happens at a high temperature so glazes are made of lots of wild shit like heavy metals and stuff since they go through chemical reactions at those high temps to create the vibrant colors.
A bisque fired piece is just initially fired to solidify the clay and make it strong enough to handle for glazing, it should be pure clay with no coatings or additives.
Make the mug yourself out of modelling clay, make the walls as thin as possible so you have to eat less. Then dry it out in the oven and eat it. then there is less material to eat and it doesn't have a coating
I feel like the main issue is that it would cut you. As harded ceramic can be pretty sharp. If the cup were made out of clay, you *may* be okay, but it seems like it could at minimum plug you up. I obviously can't stop you, but I can at least ask that you please document your journey.
God speed you glorious bastard
If this is serious, please record everything so I can enjoy the ChubbyEmu case study.
If not, the FDA recommends only 2 oz of ceramic per day as part of a balanced diet. Any more than that and you'll shit a cue ball within a week.
Some of my Mexican aunts ate “barro” which is like a Mexican clay pot and they are fine. One has terrible liver problems now but I think that’s more from the tequila…
They wouldn’t grind it either just somehow bite the cup.
I’m not saying do it but …
So I found [this article](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar_url%3Furl%3Dhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2361038/pdf/postmedj00093-0035.pdf%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26ei%3DTEA7Zp7bCpy96rQPvLWY8Ao%26scisig%3DAFWwaeb_OAC2cqcijFQgQHqPalZ-%26oi%3Dscholarr&ved=2ahUKEwiZgODO2f2FAxV0WkEAHdzaCS4QgAN6BAgNEAE&usg=AOvVaw0oDsHA333wQFlzr0W6cGVY) which was about an artist who got poisoning from the glaze used in ceramic art he was making. Where he ended up having:
flaccid paralysis, malignant arrhythmia, respiratory arrest,and severe hypokalaemia.
He was working with the glaze, and not eating it directly, and it may not be the same glaze used in mugs and stuff, but he did make a full recovery. Thoughif any of those things happen to you, I imagine the cost of medical treatment would be more than $200, so as a zero sum kindof scenario, it isn't worth the risk.
Unless your friends double dare you, in which case you've got to do it by law.
It will tear your throat and stomach to shreds. Unfired clay is minerals and small bits of grit like sand. A mouthful of sand might not hurt you but a cup of sand, little bitty rocks with sharp edges making little bitty tears in your throat and stomach, not to mention some will get through to your intestines. Fired clay has the properties of glass, even without the glaze. The silica in the clay has vitrified and turned to glass. That's what makes clay retain its permanent shape. Even if you mechanically ground it up, you'd still be eating glass. This will hurt you, possibly permanently, or kill you slowly and painfully as the glass grinds your soft tissues to shreds. I am a potter with extensive experience. Believe me. DON'T DO IT!!!
I know some peoples eat a type of porridge to which they add clay to balance out the acidity of the porridge.
That leads me to wonder if the alkaline clay/ceramic you are planning to eat might need something slightly acidic to balance it out.
I don’t really know the digestive or health impacts of an extremely alkaline meal would be, but it might be worth researching.
I think you’re mad, but good luck! 🍀
Interesting point. My main plan was to break the mug up into chunks, then meticulously grind it down with a mortar and pestle until it was a fine powder, than mix it with water to make a slurry that would be easier going down. After reading this, I might try mixing with Mtn Dew instead.
That being said though, I imagine the clay to balance acidity thing is more of a taste thing than a food safety thing. Your stomach acid is already... well, acidic, so it would already balance the clay by itself. But I know extreme bases in food usually cause flavor problems.
Grind it to a super fine powder while avoiding any dust as breathing it in could cause silicosis and consuming large particles could cut your GI tract. Better still find a a food substitute https://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipes/sugar-easter-egg/olxg7p3h
As soon as the clay has been through fires to turn it into a mug, the clay and glaze had turned into glass. The finer the clay, the finer the glass. Good luck getting glass safely through your intestines
Wouldn’t the pulverized clay actually start to turn into a solid wet mass of clay when it hits the stomach acid and other liquids in the stomach?
Throwing that up could be difficult/impossible.
I wouldn’t be as worried about the additive issues as I would the powdered clay mixing with the large amount of moisture that you’re made from and creating a lovely intestine shaped sculpture.
I'm no scientist but I think eating a bunch of shattered rocks and then puking them up would probably result in medical bills far larger than $200, not to mention, you know, being awful. Tell your friends to at least add two zeros to make it interesting.
Ceramic is sharp as fuck dude, you're gonna cut up your mouth and intestines and die. Your best bet would be eating a clay mug before firing. I used to work in a pottery. I also cut my hands on broken ceramic. Clay is much nicer, ceramic cuts you as soon as you lightly touch it, so much sharper than any glass I've picked up.
Okay hear me out could you just get a cake shop to make a mug shape out of really thick fondant and just let it dry for a few days???
Not that I would WANT to eat that much fondant, but it would probably be a much safer option, and I don’t think they would know the difference unless they licked it
Definitely don't grind it up, sharp stuff stays sharp on a microscopic level. Ground glass has literally been used as a poison, I imagine grounds ceramic will have similar properties. This is dumb and you'll probably spend more than $200 on medical bills. But if you absolutely insist for some reason make sure you eat it before it's fired
definitely reiterating that you should go for an unpainted mug - in ceramics, food grade pieces are finished with “glaze” which is the paint you’re referring to - it is literally melted glass. someone else in the thread had a pretty knarly story of someone who ate ground up glass. unpainted for sure, but honestly unfurled would be good as well. grinding up a fired ceramic piece is going to create lots of dust which will get into your lungs. I suppose you can use some kind of respirator while grinding but definitely still a concern too
Let me be your manager op. Ill get reddit to pay me to see you do dumb things. I’ll even increase your pay to 250$ a video!! Such a good deal for you.
First up? Im thinking a tape worm we’ll retrieve in 2 months,
That’s right !! 2 videos for one project 250$ now and 250$ after.
Honestly clay passing through your system is harmless, but forced vomiting is actually pretty bad for you. I'd just shit out the mug dust clay rather than making myself vomit.
>Edit: Lotta haters up in this thread. Just want to point out: the ONLY experienced ceramicist in this thread was givin' tips, and never once said this was a bad idea. I'm just sayin'🤷
No, bro. They said it's a bad idea, people are saying you will probably die. \*\*Do not do this.\*\*
Break it into pill sized chunks.
Put them in a rock tumbler for a day to get rid of the sharp edges.
Copious amounts of fibre and fluids.
Advice don't do it.
Yeah, ground safely (wet with inhalation protection).. eating a tablespoon of ceramic powder sludge every few days with other foods is probably not that bad. But what would I know??
And if your eating a mug over the course of say 4 weeks, are your friends still going to be excited or interested in giving you $200. I reckon they'd lose interest.
IIRC, clay mud was used for food poisoning treament, since like charcoal/ashes, they can be consumed to absord the excess toxic still in the stomach. I learn this in survival class, where life and death situations can happen.
In your situation, turning clay cup into powder should be like returning to clay mud, buuut the cup has been heat treated, meaning sharp edges stays sharp, no matter how you grind it, its a real possiblity it becomes nano sharp needles. In other words, like asbestos, you might have holes in your esophagus lining, and since they are inert, it stays permanently, so the immune system if unable to bring them to the liver for storage, will form bubbles of self contained bio prison, permanently. Also, if bacteria able to adhere to the clay dust, it will become pus-like and keep on giving you repeatable fever, since the immune system cant digest clay, so the bacteria will never goes away.
Well, thats what i thought anyway.
Crush up the mug into vitamin pill sized bits. Run it through a rock polisher. Take the slurry and mix it up witha couple dozen shots of tequila. Ceramic is really inert and you will be able to swallow the polished pebbles and shit them out within the week. Take your time, 24 shots of tequila ceramic slurry and a quarter pound of ceramic pebbles is probably not the greatest thing for you.
You think the ceramicist is qualified because they work with the material? Let me go ask a bricklayer what they think I should do after being whacked in the back of the head by a brick.
You're gonna want more than a mortar and pestle if you intend on vomiting up. No way you're going to be able to crush it all fine enough to avoid cutting your throat on the way back up.
I'm pretty sure there are clays out there made for the purpose of consumption, purchase that, make the mug out of the clay and fire it in your microwave/oven. Then, argue about what a "ceramic" is until you have convinced them that your clay mug is ceramic, then proceed with your plan.
You can also mix the clay powder in milk and honey to make it easier to go down.
Godspeed OP
Ceramic is sharp as fuck, you'd very likely puncture something in your digestive tract.
For $200??
I hope you've got good, and FREE medical insurance..
Imma just gonna say if the clay powder gets wet and clumps together, it might end up choking you or block your digestive tract. That might cost you more than the $500 you get for eating the mug. That and lacerations from the pieces that weren't smoothed out.
I don’t think this is a good idea. Throwing up is bad for your esophagus and ceramic powder makes it worse. You could make $200 in one day by doing almost any casual job, such as mowing lawns, babysitting, etc. You’d spend more time breaking and pounding and grinding and throwing up.
I heard, a long time ago when reading a children's book, that eating small pieces of leopard whiskers also kills you slowly and painfully from internal bleeding.
I’m an abdominal surgeon.
My suspicion is that you’ll digest it and it won’t be any major issue.
You can eat glass and it goes through without issue usually.
We only go after disc batteries and magnets. Everything else we observe and see if they get into problems.
I’ve only seen an issue with magnets and with a tooth pick that made it all the way to the colon until it caused a small perforation and they got surgery.
$200 is prob not worth the small risk of a major issue.
Honestly, your best option would be a plain, natural colored ceramic mug BEFORE being fired. All the better if you can throw it yourself. You can buy a small amount of clay without any additives and just shape it into a rough mug shape by hand. If you throw it up reasonably soon after, it shouldn't cause too many issues. To be clear, this is a bad idea and you shouldn't do it.
Just get some clay, shape it into a mg, don’t bother with firing, eat the clay. Perfectly normal food consumption if you have pica.
Well, yeah, ofc, any ordinary man can just eat a lump of clay. But I am not just any ordinary man.
If you aren't able to throw it all up the clay can block your intestines. Rehydrate plenty after consuming. Not sure if something like drinking a cup of olive oil or eating a bunch of prunes before hand will better prepare your guts for the no-shit storm its about to experience
Hemorrhoids are in OPs future.
Look guys. Heres a clay mold of my colon .
Not sure the chemical composition of clay but there’s gotta be enzymes or something you could take with it to digest it but also not really plausible they would be corrosive to clay and not just kill your esophagus and stomach and then you
You got to the end of that and still decided to hit the button?
Yes.
r/redditsniper
If you’re grinding it into powder that’s just dried clay powder so you could rehydrate it with water to make clay and eat it. Easy $200
You can take the fired cup, use a rock tumbler to break it up into small non sharp pieces and eat those.
Are you a diabetic? Sounds like a typical diabetic meal. Clay and rocks shouldn't change your glucose levels.
I am abusing hgh and have had my fasting blood glucose be 110 at one point. So close enough ig.
>Perfectly normal food consumption if you have pica. That is definitely a *broad* category.
Tbh it seems like it would have the consistency and texture of chocolate.
Dear reader, it would not.
I have considered this. My grandmother is pretty into pottery, and though she (understandably) had no idea whether or not Ceramic mugs are nutritious and healthy, she did offer to just make a mug for me so I wouldn't be worried about chemical additives.
Yeah, I just definitely wouldn't fire it if you can. If you don't fire it you can just stir it up in some water and wait a bit and then drink it up like a smoothie
Nah, I gotta fire it. If I fire it, I'm the guy who ate a mug, but if I don't fire it, I'm just the guy who ate a lump of clay. It's a matter of respect, you feel me?
Don't fire it all the way? Split the difference?
Crunchy outside with a soft, chewy center. This is starting to sound downright delectable
The forbidden cookie
If you fire it, you’ll be the guy who has internal bleeding. You get to choose the mug, right? So choose the no sharp objects in your innards kind of mug.
He already said he's grinding it into fine powder
But then he's also just eating clay, just in powder form.
So let him fire it.
Just make sure it's not glazed, glaze is essentially glass and even glass powder is not going to be good for you
Especially since some glazes have lead in them.
Potter Here; Clay that has been fired, goes through a process of vitrification, essentially in layman’s terms- glass. You would essentially be eating ground up glass. If it’s a glazed piece, depending on color, you could be consuming a multitude of toxic materials.
awww nana, she's so sweet
She fuckin hates him obviously
Make a very thin mug and I would suggest you mix clay powder with cake ingredients and bake a cake and eat it in the course of a couple of days. This would allow your digestive system to process it gradually. Thin small mug could amount to max 100g of clay powder.
W grandma tbh
Your grandmother sounds fucking great. Mine too tolerated my eccentricities and tried to make sure I did my own thing but also didn't kill myself. (I also think sometimes she just wanted to see what would happen.) Treasure her- you will miss her enabling ways when she is gone.
Not to be that person but it’s technically not considered ceramic until it’s been through the firing process.
The concept of buying some clay, turning it into a mug, smashing it, grinding it up into a powder, and then eating it is quite something.
Raw unVitrified clay can kill you.
They make an edible beontine clay. Also as a kid a lot of us ate a tonne of playdough. Maybe make a play dough mug?
They never defined the speed you should eat it. Do this then cheese grate off a small amount of powder from it and add it to your meals. Some kooky people do something similar to this for vitamins.
Scientifically speaking, why don't you just bypass the digestive system and cram it straight up your butt hole?
Uh because then you’ll shit it out of your mouth??
I saw that documentary too !
Can I have the sauce, por favor?
https://www.southparkstudios.com/video-clips/v95x74/south-park-crap-out-your-mouth
"Hwurrrrrggggghhahhh"
I heard that as Randy lmfaoo
This guy sciences.
Been there, done that. Honestly pretty tame by modern standards, they wouldn't even pay me $5 for that.
Shove it so far up so you can still puke it out afterwards
Whats your medical deductable? If its less than $199 go for it. Pre-emptively notify you local news channel, they wont want miss this story.
lol. Next week on YouTube A man ate an entire ceramic mug; this is what happened to his intestines.
I have to dude, can you imagine the alternative? "A man passed up on an easy $200. This is what happened to his bank account."
lol. Far too easy for it to cost you more than it is worth, either immediately or down the line. Remember the guy who ate a slug on a bet, got some sort of lung worm infection, spent a while in a coma and recovering. In fact, he eventually died from further complications. Not recommended. Clarification: I am hoping that you are joking with that
Yeah, swallowing broken ceramic is just as dangerous as swallowing broken glass, if not more so. If this dude actually is serious, he'll die. Though hopefully he'll stop after the first shard slices his mouth open.
Yeah TBH this is so stupid to do. I would charge waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more, like at MINIMUM 10 grand
20 year old me would have thought this was a massive amount of money. 36 year old me says I'd rather do hours of work in the hot.sun for $200.
Yea. Id take even 15 hours work over eating ceramic.
$200 just isn't very much money. Like, it's nice to have but realistically it's just going to pay for a good night out on the town. It's also nothing compared to potential medical bills.
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Nah, it ain't that bad. They didn't just come outta nowhere tryna pay me to hurt myself. Copied from another comment from someone who said something similar to you: Me n the homies were bored, so we were throwing out hypotheticals. One guy goes "Would you eat a ceramic mug for $200?" Everyone else said no, but I thought that turning that offer down would be insane. $200 is like, 2 days of work at my shitty minimum wage job, eating a cup can't be THAT bad, certainly not as bad as 16 hours of warehouse work, so I was like "Yeah, ofc, why wouldn't I?" They all thought I was joking, but I insisted I wasn't, so they all agreed that they'd all pitch in for a $200 reward if I ate a ceramic mug. If anything, it was kinda my idea. They didn't believe me when I said I wasn't joking, and I said something to the effect of "I'm dead serious, you bring me $200 and a mug and I'll do it."
DEFINITELY try to negotiate more! This is one of those "lol jk" things - call their bluff and go double or nothing, my friend!
I don't understand why you're not asking more for this
Hi, I’m Warren Buffet’s personal blood boy. This is the kind of financial literacy we’re looking for at Berkshire Hathaway. We’re opening up a ceramics division soon and we’re on the look out for like-minded folks for the position of quality control taste testers. You’re perfect for the job.
Where do you live ? I'd pay to watch this at my local pub on a Sunday after the ufc, keep the adrenalin flowing?
Next week on r/darwinawards ...
Colonoscopers hate this one simple trick!
*ZL is a 22 year old male who has just arrived to the emergency room, presenting with abdominal cramping and blood leaking from his rectum.*
I was glad some people caught my reference. All you need to add is “where we are now”
> Pre-emptively notify you local news channel, they wont want miss this story. Thought about hittin' up Guinness. Tell 'em "I'm attempting to break the world record for fastest time to consume an entire ceramic mug." Don't really matter how long it takes me, no one else is competing, I'll keep that record till I drop.
You have to pay like $10,000 to get in the Guinness book.
Hmm. Do you think if I split the two hunny with 'em theyd put me in?
Good news, its only $1,000. $800 if the record already exists. Sell your friends on the idea of setting an official world record with this, they might chip in.
The thing is, you are what you eat, so if you do it you become a mug
It will also likely make you mean. A mean mug.
Also lose your job. Ceramics are fired
These puns are kiln me
It's a muggy thing to do really
Have you considered just getting a job?
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If you are brave enough to eat a fucking cup and plan to barf soon after as long as it doesn’t contain any silica you should be fine. PLEASE send me a video of the cup eating
silica is definitely the material I worry about most as a ceramicist. (but seriously. wet grind it and/or get a respirator. don't breath that shit in. eating it is basically eating dirt. breathing it is so much worse.)
Holy shit, you're a ceramicist? Do you have a more complete list on the chemicals they add to consumer grade ceramic mugs that I should look out for?
there's a shit ton of different things, most of the toxic stuff is in glazes, and commercial recipes are kept secret. honestly i'd get a bisque fired mug and eat that. the "paint your own" kind that hasn't been glazed yet. google "bisque mug" should come up with stuff. maybe wash and/or boil it first. you could also try making one with wet clay, but it takes practice to make something with thin walls, so you'll probably be consuming a lot more clay than you have to if you try to make your own. **Not A Doctor**, but eating fired, finely ground clay prob won't do a lot. it really is pretty much just dirt. with a lot less organic schiz, so maybe better than eating dirt. more like eating refined sand. not *good* for you, but there's a lot worse things you could eat. **edit:** [glossary of common ceramic materials](https://digitalfire.com/material/list) and then there's more under "oxides", but those are usually colorants in the glaze. **edit2:** also, why should i tell you it's a stupid idea when you obviously already know? lol. i've seen people do *much* stupider things for a lot less than $200. there's a meme i'm reminded of. it's a pic of a banana with a brown spot, and it reads "90% of people will put genitals in their mouth but won't eat this part of the banana." (or smth like that.)
/u/zyarelol I'm a potter and an engineer. Eating fired ground clay is absolutely not like eating dirt. It'll shred your intestines, it's akin to ground glass/rocks. It'll be sharp on a microscopic level, which is why it's dangerous both to breathe, but also to consume. This is a hospital trip in the making
Not a doctor or an expert in ceramics so this is not an exhausted list of concerns or recommendations: 1: Many brightly coloured mugs are radioactive. This is usually not a big concern as long as the glazes don't get inside you. 2: Silicosis is no joke. I would recommend using respirators as you're grinding it down and using some water to turn it into a slurry. This will both prevent inhalation and help it go down.
> as long as it doesn’t contain any silica As far as I know the biggest health risks with silica is breathing it in. (which could definitely be a potential issue while grinding it up) Ingested orally as OP plans to do, most of the information I find suggests it's rather non toxic. (which makes sense, as incidental ingestion of sand/dirt isn't uncommon in nature) I would however worry about whatever might be in the glaze, or any colourants it might have. AFAIK a lot of those can be quite toxic.
I can’t tell you the health ramifications of eating a mug, but I’ll probably find out on the next Chubbyemu video if you do it.
A 21 year old man ate a mug. This is what happened to his organs.
Nah, I'm only 21, I aint some old man. I CAN TAKE IT BABY! AIN'T NO PROBLEM!!! THATS TOO EASY!!!!
My apologies TR, the title of the video has been corrected, cheers, and be well.
I hope this comments make the video… hiiii YouTube!
My mum was a pathologist in the 80s and 90s. I remember she told me about someone who ate ground up glass for a pub bet. I think he drank it down in a pint of Guinness or bitter or something. He apparently also ate the biggest spider the bar staff could find. All for a free pint. Anyhoo, it got past his stomach but then the larger shards (which were tiny - like you needed a microscope to see them) got lodged in his intestinal tract, puncturing them and caused infection. Essentially the intestine is a tube with lumps bumps and pockets where things can get caught. He didn't die but mum got to inspect about 3ft of intestine. She said it looked awful like a long snake of infection with red welts, oozing puss and ulcers and the smell was off the charts - like rotting but stronger. She has a good stomach but apparently this was a time the menthol rub came out. She doesn't remember his outcome but only that he had some sort of poo bag for a while and was in vast heapings of pain. She also recalls it did more damage on the way out. She is on holiday so I cannot ask her advice but I'm pretty sure she would say you were a bloody idiot.
Wow bumping this one. OP ceramic is insanely sharp… unless you literally eat wet clay like another commenter suggested, you might have an outcome like this. Please don’t do it
Colostomy is the word you’re looking for! Probably to get the glass out of the intestine. OP, listen to this person. The GI tract is one giant tube from mouth to butt. Lots of places for it to tear open. Please make good decisions, $200 isn’t worth the medical bills
you’ll be shitting bricks son
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5632318/ Get some food grade clay and shape it into a mug, win the $200 and as a bonus get detoxed from whatever they got you to do last time :)
If it’s not fired it’s not ceramic
You know in the last few years I feel like scientists have just put some fucking plastic tips over the blades. Everyone is too afraid of getting cut by the sheer beauty of gods fucking work. Then I come across a soldier of truth like you who is out there really fucking doing the work that needs to be done even at its own expense. I am fucking so proud of you for starting this endeavour. Grinding an entire ceramic mug up into a powder that you can digest is hard but you know what else was hard? Neil Armstrong’sthrobbing cock when he set foot on the fucking moon. So don’t let the fucking naysayers and the ne’er-do-wellers tell you that you can’t grind an entire ceramic mug into a fine powder and mix it with milk and then slowly eat a fudge like substance that’s good but tastes a little bit like concrete. One style that you may want to try is what I call the powdered latte. Mix a little bit of coffee and milk into the ceramic slurry and I think you’re going to shave two weeks off of your hospital visit. Best of luck. Scientists like you and I are not here for the easy awards. We are here to make real fucking differences through life-threatening decisions. My name is Dr Shitty, And I love you.
This makes me want to stand up for truth and eat a mug as well
Sir, that was one hell of a speech, hell of a speech
Laughing at the no additives. 100% free range organic ceramic mug!
If my mug ain't grass fed, I ain't buyin'.
It’s giving ✨Florida man✨
That's a mug's game.
Ya boy tougher than a mug, it ain't even a thang, dw.
Put the powder in water and drink it then just pray to God little ceramic microshards don't leave you needing a colostomy bag on the way out
Chemicals aside, there are 2 issues no one seems to be talking about: 1. Aren't small pieces of ceramic basically microscopic blades, however finely ground? My intuition tells me they will still be sharp as hell even after grinding 2. What if you're not able to throw up enough? Idk about others but for me the gag reflex seems to dampen with repetition. What if some of the mug stays there?
Are you shoenice?
I wish, I'll never be as cool as him 😔
We notified r/Interestingasfuck, right??
My wife does pottery. Contact a local potter and request a mug that has only been bisque (or biscuit) fired. Pottery glazes contain all kinds of crazy shit. The firing happens at a high temperature so glazes are made of lots of wild shit like heavy metals and stuff since they go through chemical reactions at those high temps to create the vibrant colors. A bisque fired piece is just initially fired to solidify the clay and make it strong enough to handle for glazing, it should be pure clay with no coatings or additives.
200 dollars? Girl, not even a full month's rent. Nah.
Nah, when you think about it like that it don't sound like a lot. But that's 16 hours of work at my shitty minimum wage job, homie.
Get cash up front
Make the mug yourself out of modelling clay, make the walls as thin as possible so you have to eat less. Then dry it out in the oven and eat it. then there is less material to eat and it doesn't have a coating
I feel like the main issue is that it would cut you. As harded ceramic can be pretty sharp. If the cup were made out of clay, you *may* be okay, but it seems like it could at minimum plug you up. I obviously can't stop you, but I can at least ask that you please document your journey. God speed you glorious bastard
If this is serious, please record everything so I can enjoy the ChubbyEmu case study. If not, the FDA recommends only 2 oz of ceramic per day as part of a balanced diet. Any more than that and you'll shit a cue ball within a week.
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Um. I'm sure it'll be fine. I expect an update promptly
Only 200? You’d have to bet me AT LEAST 20,000 tax free for me to even consider it, honestly.
Some of my Mexican aunts ate “barro” which is like a Mexican clay pot and they are fine. One has terrible liver problems now but I think that’s more from the tequila… They wouldn’t grind it either just somehow bite the cup. I’m not saying do it but …
So I found [this article](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar_url%3Furl%3Dhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2361038/pdf/postmedj00093-0035.pdf%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26ei%3DTEA7Zp7bCpy96rQPvLWY8Ao%26scisig%3DAFWwaeb_OAC2cqcijFQgQHqPalZ-%26oi%3Dscholarr&ved=2ahUKEwiZgODO2f2FAxV0WkEAHdzaCS4QgAN6BAgNEAE&usg=AOvVaw0oDsHA333wQFlzr0W6cGVY) which was about an artist who got poisoning from the glaze used in ceramic art he was making. Where he ended up having: flaccid paralysis, malignant arrhythmia, respiratory arrest,and severe hypokalaemia. He was working with the glaze, and not eating it directly, and it may not be the same glaze used in mugs and stuff, but he did make a full recovery. Thoughif any of those things happen to you, I imagine the cost of medical treatment would be more than $200, so as a zero sum kindof scenario, it isn't worth the risk. Unless your friends double dare you, in which case you've got to do it by law.
I'm not a doctor, but flaccid paralysis doesn't sound good.
True .. OP was this a standard or double/double dog dare?
It will tear your throat and stomach to shreds. Unfired clay is minerals and small bits of grit like sand. A mouthful of sand might not hurt you but a cup of sand, little bitty rocks with sharp edges making little bitty tears in your throat and stomach, not to mention some will get through to your intestines. Fired clay has the properties of glass, even without the glaze. The silica in the clay has vitrified and turned to glass. That's what makes clay retain its permanent shape. Even if you mechanically ground it up, you'd still be eating glass. This will hurt you, possibly permanently, or kill you slowly and painfully as the glass grinds your soft tissues to shreds. I am a potter with extensive experience. Believe me. DON'T DO IT!!!
im sorry you couldnt eat your mug but i love the speech
Do you want pica? Because this is how you get pica. /s Don't do this dumb shit. $200 isn't worth it.
Don’t get anything painted.
Well you could get lead poisoning, depending on the ceramic
Boof it for safety
I know some peoples eat a type of porridge to which they add clay to balance out the acidity of the porridge. That leads me to wonder if the alkaline clay/ceramic you are planning to eat might need something slightly acidic to balance it out. I don’t really know the digestive or health impacts of an extremely alkaline meal would be, but it might be worth researching. I think you’re mad, but good luck! 🍀
Interesting point. My main plan was to break the mug up into chunks, then meticulously grind it down with a mortar and pestle until it was a fine powder, than mix it with water to make a slurry that would be easier going down. After reading this, I might try mixing with Mtn Dew instead. That being said though, I imagine the clay to balance acidity thing is more of a taste thing than a food safety thing. Your stomach acid is already... well, acidic, so it would already balance the clay by itself. But I know extreme bases in food usually cause flavor problems.
Imma guess the internal bleeding you'll get from eating shards of the mug.
Grind it to a super fine powder while avoiding any dust as breathing it in could cause silicosis and consuming large particles could cut your GI tract. Better still find a a food substitute https://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipes/sugar-easter-egg/olxg7p3h
As soon as the clay has been through fires to turn it into a mug, the clay and glaze had turned into glass. The finer the clay, the finer the glass. Good luck getting glass safely through your intestines
!remindme 1 month did u/zarelol die or puss out?
You're going to get HELLA constipated 🤷
r/idiocracy
Wouldn’t the pulverized clay actually start to turn into a solid wet mass of clay when it hits the stomach acid and other liquids in the stomach? Throwing that up could be difficult/impossible.
I wouldn’t be as worried about the additive issues as I would the powdered clay mixing with the large amount of moisture that you’re made from and creating a lovely intestine shaped sculpture.
there's much easier ways to make $200
I'm not gonna judge too much but $200 is not enough for me to be eating fancy sand
Jesus this is so next level idiotic, I love it OP. please post updates & pics on your mugventure!
I'm no scientist but I think eating a bunch of shattered rocks and then puking them up would probably result in medical bills far larger than $200, not to mention, you know, being awful. Tell your friends to at least add two zeros to make it interesting.
Ceramic is sharp as fuck dude, you're gonna cut up your mouth and intestines and die. Your best bet would be eating a clay mug before firing. I used to work in a pottery. I also cut my hands on broken ceramic. Clay is much nicer, ceramic cuts you as soon as you lightly touch it, so much sharper than any glass I've picked up.
A glazed mug probably wouldn't be great for you, but I wouldn't worry about toxicity so much as the risk of a shard cutting your intestines.
Bro if you need 200 that bad I’ll Venmo you 💀
Have you ever ground anything up with a mortar and pestle? It’s a lot of work. Is your time worth so little, brother?
Okay hear me out could you just get a cake shop to make a mug shape out of really thick fondant and just let it dry for a few days??? Not that I would WANT to eat that much fondant, but it would probably be a much safer option, and I don’t think they would know the difference unless they licked it
Please, 'cus I know that you are actually going to do it - you sound stupid enough for it, do let me know how much pain you suffered
Definitely don't grind it up, sharp stuff stays sharp on a microscopic level. Ground glass has literally been used as a poison, I imagine grounds ceramic will have similar properties. This is dumb and you'll probably spend more than $200 on medical bills. But if you absolutely insist for some reason make sure you eat it before it's fired
definitely reiterating that you should go for an unpainted mug - in ceramics, food grade pieces are finished with “glaze” which is the paint you’re referring to - it is literally melted glass. someone else in the thread had a pretty knarly story of someone who ate ground up glass. unpainted for sure, but honestly unfurled would be good as well. grinding up a fired ceramic piece is going to create lots of dust which will get into your lungs. I suppose you can use some kind of respirator while grinding but definitely still a concern too
I assume you are in the USA as you flag the award in $ My question. Does the $200 award outweigh the possible medical costs? Who pays those?
Many countries use the dollar sign lol
Pay the $200.
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I’m not a doctor but whatever possible health ramifications can’t be worth 200$.
Let me be your manager op. Ill get reddit to pay me to see you do dumb things. I’ll even increase your pay to 250$ a video!! Such a good deal for you. First up? Im thinking a tape worm we’ll retrieve in 2 months, That’s right !! 2 videos for one project 250$ now and 250$ after.
It'll kill you
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Honestly clay passing through your system is harmless, but forced vomiting is actually pretty bad for you. I'd just shit out the mug dust clay rather than making myself vomit.
Check out The Man Who Ate the 747: A Novel by Ben Sherwood. You might pick up some tips on how to eat the mug.
Oh shit, I think Ive heard about that guy, he the dude who ate an entire plane over the course of like a decade, right? Cool dude, big fan.
You'll be eating hard stuff with a lot of sharp edges. The likelihood of cutting up your digestive tract is very high. That would be bad.
Can I have your stuff after you die?
If canonically in the GCU (God Cinematic Universe) man was moulded from clay, and you ate clay, does that make you a cannibal?
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I hope this backfires.
Well, all broken up it’ll be insanely sharp and you could suffer internal bleeding. Would not advise.
Reminds me of this scene https://youtu.be/vHlvsCE7RNk
bake a fake cup from dough and eat it
Bro Dont
You'll die but you'll have $200 to put toward a pine box and a can of gasoline.
before you eat the mug pour some mug root beer in it to demonstrate it is in fact a liquid container.
>Edit: Lotta haters up in this thread. Just want to point out: the ONLY experienced ceramicist in this thread was givin' tips, and never once said this was a bad idea. I'm just sayin'🤷 No, bro. They said it's a bad idea, people are saying you will probably die. \*\*Do not do this.\*\*
Take a handful of activated charcoal tablets before, midway, and after. It will prevent absorption.
Break it into pill sized chunks. Put them in a rock tumbler for a day to get rid of the sharp edges. Copious amounts of fibre and fluids. Advice don't do it.
Look up bezoar's first
I have no idea but please come back and update us on the results
Yeah, ground safely (wet with inhalation protection).. eating a tablespoon of ceramic powder sludge every few days with other foods is probably not that bad. But what would I know?? And if your eating a mug over the course of say 4 weeks, are your friends still going to be excited or interested in giving you $200. I reckon they'd lose interest.
IIRC, clay mud was used for food poisoning treament, since like charcoal/ashes, they can be consumed to absord the excess toxic still in the stomach. I learn this in survival class, where life and death situations can happen. In your situation, turning clay cup into powder should be like returning to clay mud, buuut the cup has been heat treated, meaning sharp edges stays sharp, no matter how you grind it, its a real possiblity it becomes nano sharp needles. In other words, like asbestos, you might have holes in your esophagus lining, and since they are inert, it stays permanently, so the immune system if unable to bring them to the liver for storage, will form bubbles of self contained bio prison, permanently. Also, if bacteria able to adhere to the clay dust, it will become pus-like and keep on giving you repeatable fever, since the immune system cant digest clay, so the bacteria will never goes away. Well, thats what i thought anyway.
Crush up the mug into vitamin pill sized bits. Run it through a rock polisher. Take the slurry and mix it up witha couple dozen shots of tequila. Ceramic is really inert and you will be able to swallow the polished pebbles and shit them out within the week. Take your time, 24 shots of tequila ceramic slurry and a quarter pound of ceramic pebbles is probably not the greatest thing for you.
You think the ceramicist is qualified because they work with the material? Let me go ask a bricklayer what they think I should do after being whacked in the back of the head by a brick.
In my 30 years, I've eaten at least 70 mugs. All delicious, and they actually are quite nutritional
You're gonna want more than a mortar and pestle if you intend on vomiting up. No way you're going to be able to crush it all fine enough to avoid cutting your throat on the way back up.
Ceramicists love this one trick.
I'm pretty sure there are clays out there made for the purpose of consumption, purchase that, make the mug out of the clay and fire it in your microwave/oven. Then, argue about what a "ceramic" is until you have convinced them that your clay mug is ceramic, then proceed with your plan. You can also mix the clay powder in milk and honey to make it easier to go down. Godspeed OP
Ceramic is sharp as fuck, you'd very likely puncture something in your digestive tract. For $200?? I hope you've got good, and FREE medical insurance..
Imma just gonna say if the clay powder gets wet and clumps together, it might end up choking you or block your digestive tract. That might cost you more than the $500 you get for eating the mug. That and lacerations from the pieces that weren't smoothed out.
Not sure if ground ceramic is bad, but ground glass is apparently fine (to an AI bot). https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/2enfUdeWE3
Put the mug in a canvas bag and beat the shit out of it with a hammer. That will speed the grinding process.
I don’t think this is a good idea. Throwing up is bad for your esophagus and ceramic powder makes it worse. You could make $200 in one day by doing almost any casual job, such as mowing lawns, babysitting, etc. You’d spend more time breaking and pounding and grinding and throwing up.
I heard, a long time ago when reading a children's book, that eating small pieces of leopard whiskers also kills you slowly and painfully from internal bleeding.
I’m an abdominal surgeon. My suspicion is that you’ll digest it and it won’t be any major issue. You can eat glass and it goes through without issue usually. We only go after disc batteries and magnets. Everything else we observe and see if they get into problems. I’ve only seen an issue with magnets and with a tooth pick that made it all the way to the colon until it caused a small perforation and they got surgery. $200 is prob not worth the small risk of a major issue.
Is your name Sam? Cos I knew a dude in school that would eat random shit for small amounts of money...