I think i ate shit. is it normal for food to taste like actual shit?

Oh man, super grateful I found this. Just went to the most popular fast food place in the U.S. (you know the one I mean, the one where fucking "It" is the spokesperson), and ordered a couple hashbrowns. First bite...fine. Second bite I dipped in ranch and my whole mouth and nostrils filled with the smell of green diarrhea. I gagged. I was so confused at first I thought I might have accidentally ran over a cow filled with the shit of a thousand clowns. I spit it out after accidentally swallowing some first and I almost puked. I smelled the air to see if someone was spraying farm fields nearby with fertilizer (aka, shit), because sometimes you can taste it on a bad day. It didn't seem to be the air. I sniffed the ranch and it didn't smell like a ranch so I decided it was fine. Smelled the other hashbrown I had and my God, pure, rancid diarrhea. The really bad kind. The kind where you stay home for two days because you're scared it will happen again. Unmistakably, it has got to be the same compound as actual diarrhea. I've been Googling diarrhea and bacteria for an hour and I should have been Googling potatoes. I was worried someone who works there got a little insane with their feces. The fact that the first bite was fine makes me doubt it was the oil. I'm relieved that rotten potatoes just taste like that. I'd take a rotten potato any day in comparison to what I was convinced it was. Thank you for giving me hope.

I know this is an old post, but I just googled this very thing. Earlier today I went through the drive through at a local fast food restaurant and similar story to yours. The first few fries tasted completely fine, but then I took a bite and it literally tasted like someone had dragged them though poop. My initial thought was I tasted like a cow pasture was getting taste of hay and poop. I spit it out and didn’t eat anymore. I could only imagine why it would taste like this. Glad to hear others have similar stories. Hopefully, it was just a rotten potato.

The people in the comments here no nothing of the trauma you have been through.

An couple of hours ago I was eating dinner and got some oven fries and was ready to motherfucking chow down when I caught this whiff of what literally smelled like cat shit. And at first I was like — whatever, this is the price I pay for having cats. So like and idiot I just freaking start hoovering down these oven fries like my life depends on it but THEN suddenly the smell of urine and rotting corpses becomes so strong but it's too late because I'M ALREADY EATING THE FRY IN MY HAND. It tasted like literal shit. Like actual human faeces. I felt like I was gonna die.

Immediately my mind is racing like, did someone somehow shit in the chip making factory? Did I literally just consume human shit? Anyway after some Googling I found out that rotten potato actually does happen to taste and smell like shit. So we just got some really nasty fries. Somehow that's more comforting to me than thinking that I literally consumed faeces.

My parents always buy the big (like huge 10 pound) bags of crinkle-cut fries from Sam's and just yesterday, for the second time, my brother got one of those fries. It looked perfectly fine and everything but the fry (slightly chewed at this point) smelled exactly like fermented sewage and decomposing corpses. Mind you we get those (big brand name) bags all the time and this is the second time he got one of the fries and it's exactly like you describe. From what I've gathered it's simply a rotten fry/potato. I always watch How it's Made and my brother and I always comment on the food processing factories how you always see a piece of food (for instance, a fry) stuck like in the corner of a machine while all the other ones pass on by and I would joke that that's the fry that sits there spinning in the corner of the machine for 4 months then finally dislodged and went into your batch.

You're funny. I laughed at the end of this. I'm so sorry though. I have eaten some really nasty tasting things but I have never had anything that tasted like shit. I don't know what happened. It could have possibly been a bad fry or maybe it got left on the floor and someone picked it up to throw it in the fryer. But the sky is blue haha, you'll be fine. I promise.

Settle down, it's over and yes, you are being very over-dramatic.

You'll probably never find out what happened that day. Though chances are it was just a bad fry. I once was served some bad fries and they tasted like the smell of farts. I didn't finish those fries.