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YouTuber Komeo served 500 bowls of “Death Crab Ramen” from a food stall, and 160 cases of food poisoning were reported, sparking a thread on 5ch. In addition to salmonella, the bacteria detected reportedly included Plesiomonas, typically associated with freshwater organisms, and photos circulated showing cardboard boxes stored inside the kitchen. The thread split between commenters slamming the sloppy hygiene management and those defending the stunt itself.
What people said
Piece of cake to dodge.
That's actually a pretty solid batting average, though (in Japanese baseball, hitting .300 is considered elite).
That's insane, gotta respect it.
It's probably staged for the video, but even so, it's funny.
But a challenge resulting in 160 knockouts is not okay.
↑ Isn't that literally you guys?
An intestinal tank that demolishes the stomachs of everyone who eats it.
Exactly.
For some reason haters always pile on the slightest failure
and never bring up the successes.
Nobody's even debating whether it tasted good.
Didn't the Death Muffin look so obviously dangerous that it ended up with zero victims?
Wasn't there no actual pathogen even found in the Death Muffin case?
https://x.com/MIKITO_777/status/2095793530950349104
Apparently this outbreak involved not just salmonella but also Plesiomonas, a bacteria that spreads via freshwater creatures like eel.
Oh…
He's the least suited person for the job.
Forget being a professional cook, he's the type who shouldn't even be feeding friends in his personal life.
You're not supposed to bring cardboard into the kitchen — Komeo doesn't even know that basic rule.
He's probably setting it straight on the ground too, and likely touching the ingredients and cooking tools right after handling the cardboard.
Don't a lot of shops — ramen places included — actually keep cardboard boxes in the kitchen?
Guess that's not allowed.
Ah, the ramen that knocked out 160 people.
There's probably some kind of hygiene manager paperwork, but that can just be filed under the owner's name or whatever.
The problem is nobody's actually passing that info down to the staff.
They're probably just thinking "Crab's so tasty, right?! Crab!" and nothing more.
Of course it failed — he was trying in a direction he shouldn't have been trying in.
Reminder: even trial and error has its limits.
Personally I think the ramen stall was just too high a difficulty level, and I hope young people keep taking on challenges, learning from this failure.
Boxes that held frozen goods get wet and breed bacteria there, and bacteria breed in the holes of the cardboard itself anyway.
So when stuff arrives boxed, most places immediately move it into the freezer and fold up and toss the box.
There are probably plenty of shops that keep them around just because they've got nowhere else to put them, though.
But that's a violation as far as the health department's concerned — if they inspect, they'll flag it.
Whoa, TIL, thanks ("サンガツ" is 5ch slang for "thanks").
It's less a ramen stall and more just chilled ramen.
I'm honestly impressed he thought he could pull that off.
There's zero heating happening right in front of you.
And on top of that, it's chilled ramen lol
Way too much of a challenger spirit.
No wonder it's wild.
I've never even heard of a chilled ramen stall.
On paper, the basic format is just "this kind of shop will sell this kind of item, here are the details."
In this case there was apparently some rule about heat treatment, but I think he got around it by saying the heating is done in-store and then it's chilled before being sold.
Honestly it all comes down to paperwork in the end, so that part's pretty easy to clear.
Background and Key Points of This Story
Operating a food business in Japan requires a permit under the Food Sanitation Act and the appointment of a food hygiene supervisor, but meeting the paperwork requirements doesn’t guarantee that on-site hygiene practices actually measure up. In this case, critics pointed to the unheated, chilled preparation method and cardboard boxes left inside the kitchen, suggesting that holding a business permit is a separate issue from the actual hygiene standard in practice. On the thread, arguments defending the stunt with the view that “society has become intolerant of taking risks” ran alongside criticism that the scale of harm shouldn’t be downplayed — worth noting is that the discussion proceeded without clearly separating whether the stunt itself was appropriate from the separate issue of poor hygiene management.
※This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “Komeo’s Death Crab Ramen gave 160 out of 500 servings food poisoning lololololol.”
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