Viagra in Food?

I fully understand that prisons and military routinely put Saltpetre (Potassium nitrate) into prepared food to prevent erections (although according to Snopes.com it is an Urban Legend that it actually causes this effect...although Herbals going back to Medieval times will beg to differ).

I also understand that a large number of pharmaceuticals find their way into our Water Supply in more than just trace amounts (Drugs in US Water Supply, Prozac, Painkillers Found in Tap Water).

However, I had my first, first-hand experience this weekend with Viagra put in food!

I had taken my family out to eat at a National Restaurant Chain (not to be named for obvious reasons). My daughter had Soup, my S.O. had Chicken and Salad, and I had Steak. My daughter and S.O. were fine, but before we even left the restaurant, I knew there was something wrong.

Thankfully, I don't ever have to fear Food Poisoning or other such things as my body will generally flush the entire contents of my bowels and stomach the moment it detects a problem. So, assuming such might be the case, we rushed home so that I could be near a bathroom when such an inevitable event occurred. However, such didn't happen, and 5 minutes later I had a physical reaction I wasn't expecting...

...I got a case of Priapism lasting over 8 hours!

Let's just say that I was so engorged after eating that my male anatomy, rather than my waist-line, gained several inches beyond normal...to the point that there was physical tearing of tissue.

Thankfully, a night of rest and everything returned to normal by mid-morning the next day, but that was not only painful but entirely unexpected.

My S.O. joked that perhaps that is why that National Restaurant Chain is so popular with the Elderly demographic, which is the vast majority of their clientele.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a sign of the times? I can't imagine a Restaurant Chain purposely doing this as the intentional dispensing of pharmaceuticals to their clientele without a prescription would put them far outside of the law, but then again, it certainly might help their business dramatically doing such under the table.

So, is this an isolated event or an underhanded business practice to attempt to boost patronage during Economic tough times? Inquiring minds would like to know.

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Do you think it might have been a testosterone additive and not viagra per se?

It might be possible you hit a piece of steak from a rather well injected cow?

Wow.......

I just don't even know what to say about that.

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Sounds like it could have been some sort of chemical reaction given the amount of additives in food, especially these days.

There are certain foods that can increase verility although its disputed, as for an increase in erm mass thats something that I am not so sure about as to cause etc.

Can you imagine if it was actually something deliberate, this would become the norm....

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(May contain offensive humor to some, thought I might mention just in case)



Was it fast food?, I understand why you would not want to mention the actual food chain etc or why you might not want to mention the category etc.

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[edit on 9-11-2009 by elevatedone]

I had the same problem this weekend when I downed a few bottles of corona in between shots of cognac at our local tavern

Granted I don't eat a lot of meat, limiting myself to approximately 2-4 lbs a month (36 lbs a year)...however, I've never experienced such a thing from eating meat before.

However, that is an interesting theory. When I cook meat myself I usually buy Organically Grown meat (although OG Beef is a misnomer as they are still fed blood-meal)...so then again, I'm usually not eating meat with Antibiotics and Hormones. And, this was a National Restaurant Chain that specializes in Steaks, so their Beef is probably more processed and filled with Hormones than most.

So, I'm not going to discount that as a possibility...as it is definitely the most logical explanation thus far, but the reaction happening within 5-10 minutes of eating seems to make it seem unlikely. To be digested and absorbed into my bloodstream that quickly wouldn't it have to be refined for quick release as a pharmaceutical would?

That's some experience fraterormus!

Parsley is also used to 'spice the food' and it's known to cause sexual incitement but not in that extent I'd guess. The reason I mentioned parsley, was to point out that adding sexually exciting ingredients into the food is nothing new in restaurant business.

But if you are correct, and viagra was the 'secret' ingredient, then I think the restaurant has exceeded all boundaries of tactfulness.

-v

It could have just been someone messing around in the kitchen to try and get a laugh out of it. You never know what could be going on in there, just my thought anyway

Wow where in the heck did you eat at,sounds kind of bizarre,did the waitress stare at you and ask"I see you enjoyed your meal" lol

I hope my wife doesn't find out what restaurant this is. I'll never get any sleep.

Pretty strange though. You know you could have gone to the Dr and gotten a blood test to see what was in your blood from the food (if anything). Of course, if you live in Canada where its free that wouldn't be a problem but I would imagine in the USA that would cost a couple hundred bucks.

How long did the effects last for?

You can rule out actual V in your food by observing whether you had hightened sensitivity to light. It also has a mild laxative effect on some people. If you didn't have anything of the above, that probably wasn't it.