It has been a curiosity, for example one rule in Vietnam (along with a few others) if you are a foreigner you do not drink local water and iced beverages because of the dirty environment it came from can get you a gnarly stomachache.
Street food is questionable on how it is prepared but it’s a coin flip on getting sick.
After such exposure does your stomach get stronger years down the line? To a point if you were to revisit the same food vendor you can consume food like it’s normal?
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Yes and no, your digestive tract is reacting to pathogens it doesn’t recognize because well, you aren’t from there. Many can be adapted to, in that your body learns to deal with them like the native population, but some cannot.
You can absolutely get acclimatized to eating street food or drinking local water as much as anyone, but if more serious germs are in there (eg E. Coli) you will still fall ill as your body can’t learn to fight it off like less serious germs
>if you are a foreigner you do not drink local water and iced beverages
Oh god I lived off a diet of iced coffee in Vietnam lol.
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