Something like this happened in the bathroom at my work once, and it also included vomit. To this day everyone wonders who did it.

We also had a "mystery puker". Every Monday morning for about 3 weeks someone puked all over the ground right at the customer entrance.
Human Resources even installed a video camera to try and catch the puking employee; but so many people heard about the camera that it didn't work. Gossip saved the puker's identity.

If you were eating any chips from the Proctor and Gamble company, it was payback from all the animals tortured in their needless testing over the past years.
If they weren't chips from Proctor and Gamble, my heart goes out to you.
But, honestly, if I had done this, I would be sending wonderful, anonymous Christmas gifts to the janitorial staff this season!!!

YK, how did you elimate the smell of it on your clothes? What did cleanup entail? Just soap and water, baby wipes, how did you get rid of the poo poo stink? I'm wondering.

Olestra is wicked--blocks the absorption of certain food molecules and zips them through the system--supposedly allowing you to overindulge in things you shouldn't in this 'deliberate or permissible' diarrhea scenario. But there's a price to pay, and this story describes it to you in graphic detail. Avoid Olestra-laden products.

You couldn't have made it the extra step to the crapper????? You are a turd terrorist or a liar. Nobody makes it to the stall and not the crapper. By the way, I would have held it until I got home.

I don't know how you could "hold it until you get home" when it's liquid chemical hell, specifically designed to run through your system undigested.
C Everett must be so anal you couldn't pull a needle out of his ass without a towtruck.

Wow! I have to give you major props for sticking it out the rest of the day at work. If you left, you would've easily given away your dirty little secret. Good job Y K. You're one tough son of a gun. I'd steer clear of the Olestra chips for a while.

I have those damn Olestra chips. A few years ago I was on Weight Watchers and everyone at the meetings kept raving about the fat free Pringles chips. I decided to try a few, a few turned into a few too many. I paid the price by having the most oily squirts imaginable. It looked like someone emptied a bottle of baby oil in my toilet. Nasty!! So needless to say I avoid Olestra at all costs. Y K, I assume you will too.

I mean, "I hate", not "I have".....

I never heard of this "Olestra" until today.

I found this on a website:

"More than 15,000 consumers have filed complaints saying that olestra, the indigestible fat substitute used in Wow snack chips and Fat Free Pringles, has caused problems ranging from gas to bloody stools to cramps so severe that they had to go to the emergency room.

Victims reported that olestra’s side effects caused them problems ranging from mild inconvenience to serious safety risks.

Olestra made some people soil their clothing at work or school, ruin their vacations, miss work, leave young children unattended, and vomit while driving. Two flight attendants and a military pilot said olestra prevented them from flying.

Olestra never gives me the trots, but what it does do is produce turds that are the diameter of a pencil and at least a couple of feet long. When I shit Olestra I feel like I'm shitting silly string. Hot, burning silly string, at that.

Olestra is a synthetic fat that cannot be emulsified by bile in your digestive system. Normal fat interacts with bile, which is produced in your liver, allowing the fatty acids to be absorbed by your small intestine. Because Olestra can't be emulsified and absorbed, it's basically like having oil/fat shoot straight through your system, where it predominantly ends up in your colon. (This is also why products with Olestra have zero net fat) Hence, as several others have pointed out, the side effects of eating foods containing Olestra can include, but are not limited to, greasy shit and the infamous "anal leakage"

I haven't seen a bag of chips containing Olestra for a LONG time; I imagine its market presence has probably been significantly reduced in most areas.

I want to know what daphne wants to know - how in the living hell did you get the stains off your hems so quickly? Didn't you get tell-tale splatters all over your pants? Did you have to jam a boatload of paper towels down your drawers?????.........my advice as far as food is concerned is to try to eat as little of it as possible that has ingredients that you need even a smidgeon of chemistry knowledge to understand (it's amazing how people think butter and cream are evil but think nothing of pumping food into themselves that starts with aspartame and ends with sulfur dioxide........)

Olestra doesn't do a thing for me or the majority of people. If you can't handle it then don't eat products that contain it!

Uh, Peace in the Pringles?

You went back to friggin' work with shit splattered all over your pant legs and shoes? And nobody pinned the poop pile on you? I think this is just a story intended to give Wow a bad rap.

Peace in No-fat Potato Chips. TH.

There we go! Don't go letting me down, Turd.

I had just a few of those olestra chips and I was greeted with an oily crap session. they also leave a waxy coating on the roof of my mouth...anyone else get that?

Man, I think all you guys are just really unlucky. I ate a whole can of Fat Free Pringles with Olestra once and it didn't do anything to me. Maybe I just have an invincible pooper. Yay!

Well thankfully (?) it was mostly liquid and after wiped off, left little visible trace on my black jeans. Also fortunately is that 1) I have a cubicle job so I can keep my legs under my desk all day and 2) my closest coworker gets off 2 hours before I do, leaving me mostly alone. There was some stank, but I dont think it was making it's way to anyone else.

Cleanup involed soap, water, lots of TP...and a much desired shower once I got home.

Lol, I'm not an anti-Olestra secret agent. as I said, I usually consume a lot of these things without problems, and probably will again. I think I just went too long without having any.

Mannitol & Isomalt... now those I will avoid in the future (from past experiences) unless I decide I want to die by anal explosion. I just dont have an iron stomach anymore I guess.

Daphne, why must you make a political statement with every post. Jesus, let it fucking go.

the only thing that happens to me (a girl) is that i poop out softer poop with orange grease which leaves an orange ring around the toilet. it also leaves a greasy film on the roof of my mouth. i like the fat free pringles. they dont make me shit orange grease, just the WOW chips do especially the ruffles.

Hahaha, I remember having that happen to me twice in life, and at the worst times.
On the first instance, I held it for 24 hours because I was afraid of doing damage to my girlfriends place. When I took a crap, I was shocked at how much hell it would have raised
The other time, it was at grandma's house, and her crapper doesn't work that well, so hiding the evidence wasn't easy.

I'm just an occasional reader, and I enjoy this site. It's good for smiles! :) I've never had a problem with Olestra. It's also known that you aren't supossed to have large amounts of them in one serving.. you're supossed to have, well, one serving. Everyone's system is different, but if you keep it to the 15 chips at a time, it might go better for you.

That Olestra is nasty stuff. It gives me greasy squirts too. Splenda does pretty much the same thing only with the added benefit of some serious flatulence to help out. I can just imagine eating a bag of olestra chips and a nice bowl of that fake ice cream made with splenda :) I think you'd have your next 24 hours pretty well planned for you at that point. Better lay in a good supply of reading material and moon floss.

I don’t know anyone who’s tried the Olean products who hasn’t experienced some major league trottage. I remember buying some nice sugar-free ice cream treats one time. They tasted really great. But I had the most amazing farts all of the time accompanied by gas-propelled liqui-poo. It took me quite a while to make the connection between having eaten the Splenda, and the onset of these symptoms.

Once I figured it out, I read the box and it actually warns of the effect!

It’s like some of the drugs they sell on TV. You’ve got thinning hair – so take this pill to help out. Oh, by the way, you may experience nausea, vomiting, sexual side effects (whatever that might indicate), dizziness, heart problems, liver problems, or in some cases death. And don’t let pregnant women even be in the same room with one of these pills. Yeah, sounds like a really good product!

At some point, the benefit of the product is overshadowed a bit by the side effects. I think most folks would draw the line at a low fat or low-carb product that makes you shit yourself.

yea one time i ate a whole bag of those sugar free peanut butter cups. well let me tell you, i had jet propelled shits all day. i literally had to grab ahold of the toilet seat. then my mom took me to Subway. i had to blast ass in the resteraunt toilet. it just kept coming like a faucet. i even shit myself. i had literally about 20 episodes of this brown water diarrhea. it starts as horrible farts and then goes directly to the most explosive didrrhea imaginable.

Did anyone notice that Olestra containing chips no longer include a warning about anal leakage, etc. That is because the percentage of people experiencing side effects is so low that they are no longer required to post a warning. Kind of like beans.... they don't have to warn people about flatulance. People react differently to different foods. If you eat a whole bag of chips (Olestra or regular), you are probably going to be in a LOT of pain.

Several months ago I was blindsided by Olestera in a bad of Lay's Light Original potato chips. I wouldn't have bought them if I'd known they contained Olestera ... FDA buckled (as usual) to pressure and label requirement was removed. I suffered for nearly 5 weeks with severe abdominal cramps, diarrhea first, then steatorrhea (excess fat in stools rather than water). I had to take 2 sick days from work, it was so bad.

Recovered from that ... today I ingested approx 1/2 bag of Brach's sugar-free gummy somethings with Splenda. This must be the first time I've had Splenda. I've been experiencing major gas and bloating for the past 4 hours with no end in sight ! Symptoms started less than an hour after ingestion. I noticed that the gummies tasted like smoke and even thought they didn't smell like smoke I still had the sensation of smelling smoke. Because of that I didn't finish the package. Good thing ! So now I'm sitting here wondering if my symptoms are going to get worse, am I going to sleep tonight, am I going to be functional tomorrow ???

Fuck these food-chemical manufacturers !

oh man, i ate 3 bags of lays light chips! i did not know about olean, now i really do,i have had cramps for 3days and oily orange stools,the thing im concerned about is the constant dull bellyache does it go away? or should i go to dr?

OMG, I thought I was gonna shit myself laughing at this story. Thanks for sharing. I just wanted to point out to the people who were having problems with no sugar added foods that it was likely the sugar alcohols in those foods, which are known to cause gas, bloating, diarrhea, cramping, etc. because they are indigestible, that caused your problems -- not the splenda that may have also been present in those foods. I have a pretty strong reaction to sugar alcohols in amounts more than is in, say, a stick of gum -- so I definitely try to avoid anything with it in it now. At least more than "one serving," which is pretty hard to stick to sometimes. Look for "-itol" on the label, e.g. mannitol, sorbitol, etc. and avoid like the plague if you know from the past you'll have a strong reaction.

Yeah that olestra is nasty stuff. But I did have a bag of Herrs chocolate pretzels with sorbitol and didnt have any nasty side effects so maybe that stuff works differently on me.
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Usually I go #2 several times a day, but I've been backed up for about a week now. During this time, I've eaten 3 cans of those fat-free Pringles. What is the deal? Everyone else here is talking about uncontrollabe shitting and I'm starting to get envious.