Tarrare, the Hungriest Man in History - A Historian Reacts
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21st century doctors: Take this medicine for 7 days and you’ll feel better
18th century doctors: Eat this eel because uh, science
It's more like 18 century doctor: gots a headache well its probably the bad blood attach this leech to drain it from you
18th century doctor when someone's dizzy: Yeah looks like you have demons in your blood. You should do cocaine about it.
18th century doctor when someone steps on a nail: well i'm gonna need to amputate the lower leg.
It's not about why, it's about WHY NOT?!
@@OGVade They'd probably need to amputate the foot to prevent the spread of gangrene,.
He's like the Napoleon of Food.
your typical lol comment
Your second stereotypical UA-cam "lol" comment.
..Yeah, If he had died trying to eat Russian and bit off more than he could chew.
Neapolitan
This is the kind of guy the avengers need
“Never heard of it? Me neither, who was in it? Fucking everybody” that shit always gets me
Lol, Sam O'nella is definitely one who likes to cover weird and obscure stories. Although there are a few I feel like you could add insight towards, like the ship during WW2 or Banana Republics.
Those ones would be perfect for this channel
Ah the Willy D
sam o'nella is like oversimplified wacky brother that love to talk about random and weird stuff. I love it lol
You could also do the one on the emu war
Sam seems to have retired
Burnt out youtuber at the age of 21. These UA-camrs careers don't last long
The Tarrare story really gets to me, what a nightmare for the guy.
Agreed.
What a nightmare for the parents of that poor baby Tarrare had eaten.
I don't know about you guys but i would rather jump of a cliff than kill and eat a toddler. You guys think he had swallowed that baby alive? The baby crying for help. Straight out from horror.
@@someguyfromfinlandtj125 he was clearly not sane. hopefully you can not relate to that too.
@@Andre-qb7on I don't belive being insane/ill makes horrible acts you commit less horrible. Or somehow not your own fault, excuses you from responsibility and makes them understandable.
If you want to pity a baby murderer because he was hungry that is up to you. But i think he should have been put out of his suffering. Its not like that monster was even living a life. Eating babies, dead human bodies and rotten carbage.
@@Andre-qb7on Maybe i am not sane. But it's none of your business. Except if i eat your baby, then it is your business. And i dont think anyone after commiting such an action being insane or not deserves to live anymore.
If ever there was someone who's body should have been donated to science it's this guy.
His body decomposed extremely quickly and stank so bad the doctors had to leave the room. They tried.
@@Banana-wr8dq Yeah sadly like this guy said the body decomposed unaturaly fast. It would have been impossible to keep it.
@Austin Duke But that would make you eat less, not more.
@Austin Duke yea, my guess is terrare didnt digest nutrients properly cus he also stunk a lot
@@Banana-wr8dq sounds like a fuckin junji ito manga plot wtf
The bigger question is why a military hospital just happened to have an eel lying around, rather than why they decided to feed that to him. XD
It not "Why?", it's "Why not?"
~ 17th-18th century doctors probably
France is big on Eels. It was probably there to serve as food for people.
Eel was pretty commonly eaten in western europe back then. It was the "eating it whole and uncooked" part that was the weird part for 16th century standards.
Because it's fake
@@quetzalcoatlz your face is fake
That poor man, his life must have been a living hell.
How about that poor baby he (probably) ate, and had to digest and poop out?
@@YAH2121 yeah it sucks, but hard to blame a guy for finally cracking after a life like that. Also it's not entirely proven, though probably is.
Literally the embodiment of gluttony itself
I can’t feel bad for a guy who ripped a cat in half and ate a baby.
@@rubyy.7374 dude he was hungry
A few words, he had the same doctor all the time, he ate live animals, his favorite food was live snake, in the autopsy the body decomposed fast and smelled absolutely horrible. The note that Tarrare ate was a few words, those wards was "Did you get the letter?".
After a bit of reading, the general who came up with the idea to use Tarrare as a spy was Alexandre de Beauharnais. A political figure and general who would be sent to the guillotine 1 to 2 years after this incident due to being blamed for a poorly defended siege and being an "aristocratic suspect". A very interesting thing about Alexandre is that he was Josephine's first husband. As in Empress Josephine, the wife of Napoleon. So yeah.
Apparently Tarrare found the baby in the morgue so it was likely already dead. Still creepy, but the man wasn’t a monster, just really sick
Yeah. Seems like he was basically perpetually starving.
@isaacdayton4962 feeling hunger for all of your life must have seriously damaged his mind too
@@RazalasTrebla hunger is an understatement. His metabolism must have been horrible to live with. If he couldn’t adequately absorb nutrients on top of that it just becomes a nightmare
100 LBS at 17 years old is horribly underweight, even for 17th century French peasant standards..
I assume if they had any real proof that Tarrare actually killed and ate a baby, he would have been executed for it.
It was probably just a rumor caused by the childs disappearance, which became widespread enough that the hospital decided to kick out Tarrare to save their own public image.
I last saw him when he had 50k and now he has 130k
Same he’s growing fast and honestly really deserves it
One thing to keep in mind, back then most available "eggs" were pheasant eggs, or other similar eggs, and were much smaller. Even chicken eggs of the time were a bit smaller too. So with modern AA white chicken eggs at the market, it would be literally impossible to fit 12, even with a genetic abnormality, but eggs at that time were smaller so it could be true in that sense.
Maybe chicken eggs were smaller, but pheasant eggs more available than chicken ones? No, just no, a lot of farms had coops with dozens of laying hens, pheasants were only in the wild, or raised for nobles hunts, that's stupid XD
Where did you get this idea from?
As for the mental illness part (I'm just speculating), if he wasn't digesting things and getting the nutrients he needed, Tarrare would have essentially been starving constantly no matter how much he ate. That could have had an effect on his brain development throughout childhood. Also, anyone who's dealt with starvation knows that it messes with your head. Once someone hits a certain point, they're willing to eat just about anything including other people. It's tragic to imagine someone spending their whole life in that state.
Tarrare 's eating disorder reminds me of Pica, a disorder in children where they eat things that are not edible such as glue, paper, or in extreme cases, bizarre things such as spoons, or nails.
I feel like the "mental illness" part is more a result of the constant starvation he felt himself going through. Hunger makes people do crazy things to survive, he probably felt like he was just trying to make it another day by eating what he could get.
Although i don't have nearly this level of difficulty, i also have a hyperactive metabolism. It's got a facy name but i can never spell it properly.
Anyway, i have these spikes in my metabolism, typically it was when i was a teenager and due to the hormonal imbalance of puberty. If i did anything physical, or was active in any way, i could easily eat many meals in a day.
my record to this day stands at 25 meals. And this isn't me cheating mycounting an apple or four grains of rice. I'm talking full english breakfasts of bacon, hash browns, beans, sausage and many other things. i had five of them. Next came lunch which consisted of wraps, burgers, sandwiches - subs, chips - french fries, and other items associated with the meal. i had 12. lastly we came to dinner which was again another large affair. i'm talking about chicken breast, fish fingers -- fish sticks, pizza and spaghetti of many styles. i had 8.
The camp cook - as i was working in a summer camp at the time - thought i was wasting or throwing away the food. they had me stand to the side of the line and eat the meal before going back in again for more. they watched me eat an entire meal in the time it took them to dish out somewhere in the region of 11 people. i don't know the exact number but it was small. when i came back up for more they realised i wasn't lying and gave me larger portions to try and help. it did, but i still went for thirds and fourths most meal times.
today, it has slowed down but i am still a person that can become full, though it rarely lasts long. The change means that i now find more filling meals or food stuffs that help keep me satiated before going back in for more.
hope you found this entertaining to read.
JC
Probably the most interesting comment I’ve have ever read
Is the name hyperthyroidism?
Fascinating
Goddamn....... Are you sure you are human?
The best things I can eat is 5 small portions of fried rice and after that I can't eat anything for 6 hours because I was so full.
Buffets hate this man.
I am so glad i found your channel and i love history and have probably watched every salmonella and over simplified video, but with you commentating the rewatchabilaty have increased alot. I am just 13 and dont know much about history but I still find it super interessting.
That’s awesome. You’re the same age as my son Caleb. I wish more young people loved history.
I saw a mini doc on a guy with a similar condition (I think in iowa?) where he had two genetic conditions, one that prevented his body from creating the chemical that controls our sense of hunger, so no matter how much he ate he always felt like he had been starving for weeks, and the second one made it so that he could never put on any weight and couldnt absorb almost any nutrients from food, so he literally ate everything (like 6 loaves of bread in an hour) and couldnt get anything out of it at all.
The Banana Republic awaits
All I remember is "Commie!!!".
@@kevinchapman2794 REEEEEEEEE
@@kevinchapman2794 Go get 'em, Dwight!
He is a dirty...collectivising...COMMIE!
@@tsarnicholasthesecond728 you'd know all about dirty colletivising commies now wouldn't you, Nick?
I got a nutrition minor in college and I’m extremely curious what could’ve been going on with this man’s physiology. It seems like he must’ve had major issues with digestion and absorption of nutrients if he could pass things mostly intact without *much* issue 😳 it would also explain to a degree why he would be so hungry despite eating so much, the actual nutrients weren’t getting into his cells. I’m sure it was more complex than that but he clearly had issues with actually putting his food to use. Poor guy, it sounds like he must’ve had a really uncomfortable and pretty miserable life.
10:30 That's why i like you. Never trust blindly what someone (on the internet) tells you. Try to verify it.
@Sebastian Samper ok let me rephrase that, since i don't know how likable the sites are.
I like it when someone takes the time at all to fact check it and not just says "How cool (or disgusting in this case)". And this is the first reactor i saw doing that.
Okay?.
@@TheLibermania Again okay lol.
@@delete---7593 If you don't have anything to say that adds to conversation, then don't reply.
@@priyan605 waffles
It really did happen that a baby went missing, though...I don't think they actually proved it was Tarrare. They just assumed it was him eating the baby and kicked him out.
Tarrare's mind was definitely broken, likely because of the mess that was his internal body - often they go hand in hand.. it has taken us up until 21st century to even begin to see how they are connected so he never stood a chance in 1700s, likely he became so crazed due to a combination of his physicall illness, his life-time of being ridiculed and abuse plus growing mental problems.. all of which resulted in a "perfect storm" scenario to create one of history's most demented characters.
Watching this while eating lunch was a mistake
I just wanted to say that this channel has been an absolute joy to watch!!
Fun video, pretty relaxing after the main historical content with all of the wars and battles, plus a video from Sam O'Nella is always nice to see. Thanks for posting!
I would not call anything related to Tarare relaxing
@@ronanshanley7829 I've seen worse
@@drrakw2432 Do tell.
Please react to “Dumbest Rags to Riches Story” from Sam O’Nella
The most hilarious Sam video imo
Arguably the best video he ever made
All I needed to see is the stick figure in the thumbnail to know he was reacting to sam 😂 edit: I am so glad I finished eating before this video
That's like saying "all I had to see was Homer to know that he was taking about The Simpsons!"
I’ve watched everything from Sam O’nella I wish he was still releasing content
Same🥲
Especially since his last video about the unluckiest ship was massively inaccurate.
He's busy with school and stuff, he's said on Twitter he will be back making content one day but education comes first
@@YukoValis How was it inaccurate?
@cellpool thanks I didn’t know that
Love your stuff man, so happy you're blowing up!
the more i see this video the more i’m convinced he might’ve been a demon child/hybrid and it’s hard to argue that the more he’s explained and described
This is one of the funniest reactions I’ve seen from you, and one of the most horrifying stories I’ve heard.
dude I just binge watched 19 episodes of the ck3 on your other channel. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, great job.
keep up the good work.
Whilst the idea of passing an entire undigested eel whole is better than the idea of the skeleton going through your intestines, it's still a pretty damn horrifying mental image I really didn't need in my life.
Discovered this channel a couple of days ago and i absolutelt love your stuff man keep it up👌👌
I just love the “Look at me. HEY. Look at me.” Before asking if he ATE A BABY.
Honestly I love that you researched and checked for the baby part
it feels oddly good to see your channel grow so quick
So what I'm assuming the problem with Tarrare is that his stomach biome might be aggressively active. I don't know if there's modern day examples of his condition (I hope not). And the closest thing I can think of is Anorexia, but that's more Psychological...
Anorexia is not eating. A psychological condition as you said, a stomachs biome would have no bearing on it.
The opposite of Tarrare
My dad was a social worker for years and worked with a guy that had Prader Willi. He would sneak into the kitchen and eat the coffee grounds he would feel so hungry, its such an unbelievable illness but its so dehabilitating
Now that i think of it, this guy would make for a great psychological horror movie.
Holy crap already 130k subscribers?! Congrats!!
I’ve never heard about this dude...what an odd piece of history.
this is the Horror of history I love
Great as always. Always keep it up,you will always have my support.
Love your videos! Have you ever thought of reacting to historical movies and giving input while watching?
Sam O'Nella is so funny, thanks for covering it! Found your channel thru your cover atun-shei, happily newly subscribed to you as well :)
The critical factor nobody goes into is that Tarrare didn't gain weight. He got almost no nutrition from the calories he consumed, even the edible ones. He also had chronic diarrhea & flatulence. Could he have been missing a large portion of his intestines? He had insatiable hunger because his body couldn't metabolize properly. A real autopsy would have revealed this. Whole thing sounds like an urban legend, doesn't it?
9:15 that face palm was so funny
I'm just so glad I found your channel.🤗
I never got to that level, but I was a skinny guy. Needed a medical waiver just to join the army for being 1 pound underweight. On my first deployment I'd get an extra meal. I was supervised as I ate. I enjoyed the extra food, but barely put on any weight. My 1SG gave up. I could eat whenever I wanted, but they gave up on trying to put weight on me. I think I maxed at 165lbs at a height of 6'
Oh, and side note, I've never eaten a baby. I prefer Chilli Mac MREs
More please i love watching both of your videos
Been waiting for this video
This is a video I wanted you to react to since I first watched your channel..... the time has come
10:40 the doctors assumed that he ate the baby and that is correct he did, he had already tried to eat corpses by this point, its not too far fetched
Please do a reaction of the Falklands war or the Football war of Oversimplified.
I love that video, I hope he dose
@@KingArcher141 the emu wars too
Battle of hastings too!
Fuck it… all the mini-war videos, lol
@@AdamJ11 I like how you think, all miniwars videos in one!
Fredrick Knudsen just came out with a video on May Island and submarines in the British Navy. As a fellow historian it's a very interesting watch.
6:12
Oh yes, very professional doctors right here
definitely didn't expect I'd be learning about this when I woke up today
If you reacted to every Sam O'Nella video he's uploaded, I wouldn't complain. Hope to see more of these.
Tarrare may be the king of eating. But when it comes to drinking all bow to the late André René Rousimoff better known as Andre The Giant. His drinking was legendary in wrestling locker rooms. Ric Flair saying Andre down 116 beers in a single sitting or Mean Gene Okerlund saying Andre would start the day with an entire case of wine. Makes you wonder how his liver didn't give him hell.
Thanks for putting out these videos. I was never interested in history or geography until I came across people like yourself who make these subjects more enjoyable. And thanks for leveling out the audio. In earlier videos I was turning the volume down while you spoke and turning up the volume when the video you were reviewing had audio playing. The audio on this video seems better.
UA-cam keeps recommending your videos, you are about to blow up
Was waiting for this reaction
Been watching these History videos today for 10 hours straight so far 😅
Means that I gotta sub too, I guess. Great videos!
Thank you and welcome!
I'm no doctor, but I did like the theory that the cause of his unnatural hunger was severe stomach ulcers. Perhaps eating such massive quantities of food helped put pressure against them and made them less painful, but the constant eating kept them pretty much non stop agitated so they'd never heal and the constant abuse of his stomach to alleviate that pain/"hunger" caused his digestive tract to stretch out over time. It might even explain the odor and the "outhouse flooding dumps" if at almost all times he had a raging sore oozing in to his stomach and intestines. But again, I'm not a doctor. I just remember hearing that theory and thinking "Huh, maybe?"
The trick to eating competitions is apparently drinking HUGE amounts of water in the coming weeks to the event, larger amounts everytime so the persons stomach is essentially trained to stretch more and more so it can at the big day hold a huge amount of food. Another trick is chewing on frozen tootsie rolls to condition and strengthen the muscles in the jaw
A historian that was also a youth pastor?!
Awesome! 😊 That’s basically a diet version of my ideal career path (I’d like to be a head pastor and a political & economic philosopher).
I’ve been waiting for this
Nice video.
I'd suggest extra history's great northern war series. It's my favorite from them.
you make me wanna become a history teacher one day, what college did you go to if you dont mind me asking?
Also, keep up the good stuff, it's really nice and i love learning about things i didnt know of.
Honey wake up samonella uploade-
Wait this isn't sam o' nella
I suspect his tendency to eat all kinds of garbage wasn't really mental illness as much as it was lack of options. Or, at least not any mental illness apart from what endless hunger would drive you to.
The fact that he lasted 20 something years is incredible
Oh I've been waiting for this one
I watched a documentary on competitive eating. The top competitors treat it as a sport and they eat in such a way to stretch their stomachs, mostly by eating lots and lots of lettuce so as to not gain weight. They also work out significantly and try to maintain core strength.
Medical perspective.
A weird unfortunate combination are things?
Prader-Willi syndrome gives people insatiable hunger (aka hyperphagia).
I assume he had that.
-many people with bulimia, when they binge, and Prader Willi syndrome have ruptures of oesophagus and stomach due to over staffing. This did not happen to him.
So, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome could explain the extreme stretchiness of his skin, and the syndrome is believed by many to be closely tied with autism.
If Tarrare separate from Prader Willi, Ehlers-Danlos and mild autism, that would explain a great deal of it.
Trimethylaminuria is a malabsorption issue that can cause someone to have a terrible smell and this could’ve been coupled with other malabsorption issues which is why he was nearly undernourished 100lb (46kg) as an adult man even though he ate enough for 15.
This video legitimately scared me and now I constantly live in fear that I too will be eaten. I do feel bad for the guy tho but I will probably be having nightmares tonight
Great job! Love sam’s academy.
"So let's just picture that for a minute....." *UA-cam cuts to a taco bell ad*
I think I read or heard somewhere (Count Dankula?) that there may have been some sort of parasite in his stomach that did something to his appetite or something? I don't remember the details, but it sounded horrific.
So ready to dive into something.
Sam-O-Nella is amazing. I love his video about the Banana Republics!
COMMIE!!! COMMIE!!!
@@BingQilin REEEEEEEEEEE
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The dumbest part with Tarrare is that none of the medical staff even attempted to sketch his grotesque physical abnormalities nor preserve his corpse.
Assuming the physical descriptions were not exaggerated, nobody in written history has ever had an abnormality that is even remotely similar to what he suffered.
It's reported his corpse rapidly decomposed. He died of tb. They did document it in words, but a pictures worth a thousand words.
Awesome reaction I love how much you talk about the subject. A video that I think would make a great reaction is the newest video from fredrik knudsen aka down the rabbit hole it's called the battle of may island. I think it will be right up your ally.
You were a pastor? That's awesome, are you into philosophy or theology? I am studying Spinoza right now.
In one of his videos he said hes a Christian
@@sEEKllsevN I remember that, but this is the first time I heard he was a pastor.
@@m_b_lmackenzie4510 yeah, as a Christian I can confirm we have youth pastors. And in what vid did he say he is Christian? Just curious
@@brettster0677 I think the one where he reacts to "history of the entire world, i guess"
@@brettster0677 In his reaction to the sabaton song 'The Last Stand' he mentioned he was a christian
If he did indeed eat the dead he was cannibalistic so 90% sure the was behind the incident with the child but you have to remember he resorted to that to feed his hunger and more than likely very unwell and most of all misunderstood
your face at 10:28 tells everything you felt during that moment
More vids from this channel por favor
just when I had managed to forget about this guy... well, here we go again ig
e: 4:52 that expression is a whole ass mood
Wait what did he mean about that withdrawal I’m confused
I think he might've had an eating disorder called Pica. Pica is a eating disorder where the person eats anything, and I mean ANYTHING! even inedible objects
If he wasn’t digesting right I’d bet he got more from the blood than a lot of things
Can you do a video on Mad Jack? I think it would be an amazing video to react to.
2:32 Ah yes I remember that game from a totally family friendly video.
i cant hear the words "chubby bunny " or "stuffy bunny" normally anymore
130,000 subscribers, huh? Didn't you celebrate 100,000 like 2 weeks ago? My man, you are CRUSHING the UA-cam game 😮
Believe it or not there was another man at the time named Charles Domery that had a similar condition. He served in the prussian army and ate like 5 pounds of grass when he couldnt find enough food. He was captured by the royal navy and he ended getting rations for 10 men a day.
I was very hungry after skipping lunch so i watched this to delay my appetite an hour more. it worked alright.
Blissfully unaware me looking for a cool video to finish up my meal too clicking on this video.... WRONG video for a lunch break D:
It sounds like a severe case of Prader-Willi Syndrome. A genetic disorder that causes insatiable hunger. It comes with generally lower intelligence/developmental disabilities and a markedly shorter than normal stature, but sufferers are usually obese. And while they have been known to eat non food items i have not heard of anything as extreme as this.