Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
When I went to Egypt as a kid we were warned not to eat or drink anything we bought locally. I said "screw that, I'm invincible" and ate some ice-cream with two other kids. All three of us became ill with the runs. In Guatemala after I bravely drank mosquito-infested water in the jungle I had dodgy insides for months.
Well, as in all things, ymmv, as I believe our colonial cousins have it. However, far better to live a day as a lion than a lifetime asa sheep, surely?

I once ate some dodgy meat on a stick in a market on the shore of Lake Victoria, which left me with crippling griping cramps for 18 months. But I never shít myself.