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[–] PrimarilyPrimate@lemmy.world 54 points 3 months ago (3 children)

In Pennsylvania it's called the Hershey squirts.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This sounds like a joke, but we really do say that!

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My dad used to say this. None of my family has ever even been to Pennsylvania to my knowledge though, lol

[–] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Same, I don't think this is a Pennsylvania-ism

[–] owatnext@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have heard it called that and I physically recoil every time I hear it.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And underwear streaks are referred to as Hershey Highways.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the older you get, the more frequent the highways

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

🎶life is a highwayyy, and I’m gonna ride it all night long🎶

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Hershey PA contained by far the largest morbidly obese humans I've ever seen, like fascinating. All seats must be benches.

[–] ladel@feddit.uk 41 points 3 months ago

There's Dehli Belly as well. No alliteration, but it's got the rhyme.

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I never liked the term Montezuma's Revenge. Moctezuma the Second was an accomplished leader and deserves more respect than to have his name misspelled with a diarrhea diagnosis.

That being said I got it right as I left Mexico from vacation and prayed for death to take me.

[–] tilefan@lemm.ee 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I like the idea that he's so powerful and vengeful that he's returning from the grave to fuck with Europeans

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

His name translates roughly "angry lord" or "lord he who frowns/grimace" so I like the idea he's just mean mugging the descendents of man until the end of time.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I totally agree with you on Moctezuma. Tourists ruin everything. Especially their own digestive tracts.

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I wanted to go see Tenochtitlan and Teotihuacán. Worth it.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago

The Sienne Better Days

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Beaver Fever" is the occasional Canadianism I've heard, although its specifically for giardiasis.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

That sounds utterly horrific for a vagina

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is that what we call Beaver Belly in Canada? (from drinking contaminated water?)

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I have heard "beaver fever"... but typing it out for the internet just makes it sound like a euphemism.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago
[–] Window_Error_Noises@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

It's probably a term used elsewhere too, but in the US Navy, when it's coming from both ends, especially stationed or deployed on ship, it's the double dragon. Ship food is bad. Ship food is rejected prison food. Moldy. Horrible. Absolute garbage. Garbage would probably be safer.

[–] Smurfe@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

US here. When I was a kid in the early 70s, in the Midwest we called it Hershey Squirts.

[–] HiddenLychee@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Feces Pieces, Dookie Crisp, poop loops, tootie pebbles,

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

My mom taught me intestinal distress.

[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 6 points 3 months ago

I'm not here to kink shame but that's pretty gross

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[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] gac11@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was gonna say Taco Bell hell

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[–] iamericandre@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Not a place around the world but when I was growing up there was a restaurant called genghis grill and it was really good but we called the aftermath Kahn’s revenge

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I do know that when you're walking down the hall, and you feel something fall, it's diarrhea. Uh uh! Diarrhea !

[–] Devorlon@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

From Scotland and the family calls it "the runs".

[–] Todini@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

The Havana Splatters

[–] WhyFlip@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Explosive diarrhea is how I frequently excuse myself from events.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was in Bali talking to my Ballaniese mate who says he gets Aussie Belly haha

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, so so many aussies on Bali on the south end around Nusa Dua/Kuta/Seminyak. I stay away from all that stuff.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

The “stormy shits” in parts of Atlantic Canada.

[–] z00s@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I like the actual German name for it, "durchfall". When I look in the toilet, it looks like something that would be called "durch". And yep, it fell right outta me lol

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

German here, durch means through. As in it fell through your intestines. At least that has always been my interpretation

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Everyone in the UK of a certain age knows what durch means because of Audi

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Durch Audi is a much worse slogan than Das Auto

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[–] Seaguy05@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I think for a nice universal slogan we should rally...behind.... "Throwing soup"

[–] Manzabar@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Huh, I'd never heard of this meaning to Montezuma's Revenge. I was only familiar with the old video game.

[–] amenotef@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Every time I get it (like once every 2-3 years) for me it's never with diarrhea.

Just agonizing with a lot of vomits, fever, congestion, coughing, muscle pain etc.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Oof that's so much worse.

[–] EPBJ@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Dirt Squirts

[–] prex@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

The squits. You don't want to be a squitter

[–] Aeternal1@hilariouschaos.com 3 points 3 months ago

TIL a childhood game was a shitty joke I missed my whole life🤣

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

La tourista !

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