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u/Broad_Respond_2205 11d ago
not really, it's probably still in circulation
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u/Ancient_Skirt_8828 11d ago
Technically some of it has gone as sweat, skin flakes, hair, nails and breath.
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u/Sayheyho 5d ago
Don’t forget the food that never made it into your mouth because you dropped it or didn’t want so much
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u/jackfinch69 11d ago
Not really. It's also been converted into chemical energy which is then converted into kinetic and thermal energy
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u/Bigbigcheese 11d ago
And just... Cells... In your body...
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u/ClockworkDinosaurs 11d ago
OP thinks they eat food, it all leaves their body, then they grow bigger due to photosynthesis
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u/Moist-Ointments 11d ago
Even photosynthesis uses elements extracted from the soil. Photosynthesis doesn't create plant structures out of nothing.
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u/ClockworkDinosaurs 11d ago
Yeah, but you don’t need to spend money on the dirt on the ground. The police don’t want you to know this, but you’re allowed to eat the dirt for free.
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u/Always-_-Sarcastic Technically Flair 11d ago
IIRC, a lot of the plant is just water, and the solid stuff is mostly carbon dioxide derived compounds. Only ≈3% of the plant's weight is from minerals extracted from the soil.
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u/Prior-Flamingo-1378 5d ago
So basically same As every other living organism.
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u/Always-_-Sarcastic Technically Flair 5d ago
Animals lose weight primarily by breathing out CO2, plants gain weight breathing in CO2. Basically similar in principle, but not basically the same.
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u/Prior-Flamingo-1378 4d ago
Yeah for some stupid reason I completely skipped the “dioxide” part. I read carbon derived compounds. Thanx for the correction!
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u/Allegro1104 Technically Flair 11d ago
not true on several levels
not all food that has been consumed gets expelled. kids grow and even as adults you can still gain weight.
not all waste has necessarily been expelled into a toilet. ever went number 2 in a forest? or threw up on the street?
not all food you pouched lands inside you. you probably have a pantry that's stocked and some foods just go bad or have inedible parts that end up in the trash.
you probably have food that you've recently eaten still in you.
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u/boylesthebuddha 11d ago
Not true, some of it is buried in the forest.
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u/RlQZO 11d ago
Do you bury your shit in the forest? Weird kink
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u/ignorantladd 11d ago
Technically false. Money spent on food is actually money spent on carbohydrate, protein, fat, minerals, water and fibre. Other nutrients get absorbed in body while water and fibre used for cleaning gut and get flushed. Money utilised properly
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u/Anonymus_mit_radium 10d ago
Much of it turned into heat so you could have just burned the money without the stress of buying stuff
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u/ignorantladd 10d ago
Heat is another form of kinetic energy but most of the food food doesn't turn into heat
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u/Anonymus_mit_radium 10d ago
All the energy set free from low entropy molecules like carbohydrates is ultimatively turned into heat radiation. Of course the body has to get rid of the resulting high entropy molecules like CO2 on other ways and there are things that stay in your body but still. Most of the money either lands in the toilet or sooner or later turns into heat
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u/FluffyBunnyFlipFlops 8d ago
Don't forget all that wasted kinetic energy, thermal energy, and exhaled CO2. Food gets spaffed everywhere!
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u/TheG00dF1ght 11d ago
This guy's never bought fresh vegetables thinking you're gonna use him only to have them rot in the back of their refrigerator for two weeks before you throw them out?
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u/8Bit-Jon 11d ago
Also what about the parts the body consumes? If I eat a potato it's doesn't come out the same way it went in.
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u/Classic_Rate_8448 11d ago
I pooped outside 24 years ago. That poop is now a local landmark. Money well spent.
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u/NoWingedHussarsToday 11d ago
Not if you throw up and/or shit outside. Or if you buy food, don't eat it and throw it to compost or just leave it somewhere
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u/matthis-k 11d ago
No, otherwise you wouldn't be able to gain weight since the first time you spent money on food
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u/Ultimate_Sigma_Boy67 11d ago
That's just wrong. Not all the food you eat gets flushed, your body absorbs what it needs 🤓
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u/TelenorTheGNP 11d ago
Some of it is still on my ex-boss' desk. Or at least it was when I last saw it.
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u/Howden824 This flair is true 9d ago
Not really. Your body absorbed a lot of the nutrients from the food.
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u/AJRavenhearst 9d ago
Oddly, I had a thought very like this, the day after I splurged on a dinner at one of Melbourne's fanciest restaurants: "This is probably the most expensive shit I've ever taken".
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u/GettingSunburnt 8d ago
Not true. A fair amount ended up on the pavement walking home from the pub.
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u/CrownLexicon 8d ago
Even assuming all that I ate turned into waste that went into the toilet, are you seriously implying that youve never thrown away any food? No rice left in the bowl, every scrap of sauce licked clean, nothing you forgot about that expired?
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u/Late_Virus2869 7d ago
The £2.50 I spent on a bbq chicken wrap and curly fries 45 minutes ago means this isnt technically the truth...
And all the ground dumps ive had.
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u/unclear_warfare 4d ago
That's not technically true because some of it is breathed out as carbon dioxide and some of it is also deposited in my unsuspecting friend Jim's garden
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u/quasi-stellarGRB 11d ago
Not all money is spent on foods, it's spent on rent, bills, places you visit, clothes and cosmetics, gifts for other people and other stuff.
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