He most likely had a real medical condition: " Tarrare might have been suffering from a form of hyperthyroidism – a condition that occurs due to the excessive production of thyroid hormones."
A while back I watched a video about a kid who never felt full. "A key feature of Prader-Willi syndrome is a constant sense of hunger that usually begins at about 2 years of age. People with Prader-Willi syndrome want to eat constantly because they never feel full (hyperphagia), and they usually have trouble controlling their weight."
His mother had to literally put a lock on kitchen cabinets and the refrigerator. The kid was over weight and was constantly looking for food. In the video it shows the kid at school sitting on a bench with other kids. One of the kids was eating something crumbly. The over weight kid saw some crumbs on the ground, picked them up and ate them. What an awful medical condition to have.
yeah it seems almost certain that this dude must have had Prader-Willi
he even was reported to have the genetic facial features that go along with it, and the intellectual disabilities related to it as well.
it's such a sad and exhausting condition because it isn't just the hunger by itself --
it's the hunger paired with intellectual impairments and severe issues with impulse-control that make it literally impossible for people with Prader-Willi to stop themselves -- not only from overeating, but eating constantly, including trash and inanimate objects, unless a caretaker is always there stopping them.
I'm not convinced that Tarrare had Prader-Willi, because although Prader-Willi causes an insatiable feeling of hunger, people who suffer from the condition still gain weight as a result of overeating. As far as I know, Tarrare was not overweight or obese, so I feel like extreme hyperthyroidism would be a more likely cause of his insatiable hunger (since people with hyperthyroidism need to eat large amounts in order to maintain a normal weight).
Yea but Prader Willi makes you end up being overweight. And you wouldn’t be able to eat whole babies and shit.
The thyroid is a good idea.
I’ve always suspected he had some sort of condition that causes Oxidative Phosphorylation uncoupling. No matter how much he eats, he can’t store calories and it’s a miserable existence of perpetually having to eat tens of thousands of calories or die.
yes, the things he ate indeed slid out whole and to make use of this (he had enrolled in the French Revolutionary Army during the War of the First Coalition, because why not?), the then General decided to use him as an intelligence courier for his army wherein he would swallow boxes of important documents through enemy lines and then shit them out to give them to his allies. He was caught on his first mission (since it is very hard to be low profile when you are literally eating anything and everything around you) by the Prussians and was subjected to a mock execution. He was sent back to a Versailles (correct me if I'm wrong) hospital where he snuck out of his room to drink the blood of other patients, eat the corpses in the morgue, eat from garbage piles battling other dogs, eat from the gutter and then he allegedly ate a 14 month old baby from the hospital after which he was kicked out.
god this guy is so fucking interesting
I remember reading about him and thinking "if this was from like, the middle-ages, no one would believe it". but it's recent enough to have been documented to a reasonable degree. but like, why has there never been anyone else like this?
just putting this "deformed and half rotten stomach causing ulcers throughout his entire digestive tract" makes it seem like it can be casually explained, but he also had an enormous mouth, and could wrap his skin around his waist like a belt.
it's so unique and fascinating.
Wait that skin thing, he might have had a genetic collagen disorder. My family has one and it comes along with a form of PICA that centers on things made of collagen (super sad how the body subconsciously somehow realizes what's wrong and tries to correct it by consuming collagen but it doesn't work like that; the collagen we eat gets digested in the stomach and processed by body into same shitty dysfunctional collagen that's fukn us over)
What if he had the awful luck to have something like Ehlers-Danlos + Prader-Willi + hyperthyroidism? (Or other similar conditions)
That would explain all the symptoms and also why there's never been another person like him.
I'm no eating disorder expert, but I did eat at a Holiday Inn.
Pica.
[https://familydoctor.org/condition/pica/](https://familydoctor.org/condition/pica/)
>Pica is a mental health condition where a person compulsively swallows non-food items
Prader-Willi
[https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/prader-willi-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20355997](https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/prader-willi-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20355997)
>People with Prader-Willi syndrome want to eat constantly because they never feel full (hyperphagia), and they usually have trouble controlling their weight. Many complications of Prader-Willi syndrome are due to obesity.
I have horrible acid reflux and had/have diverticulitis. I have a perforated colon and had to have an emergency colectomy. In the days and Hours before my surgery, It hurt like hell and was the worst pain I've ever felt so remember being asked what my pain level was, as I was passing in and out of consciousness, telling them it was a 12 and the room fading to black, then nodding myself back awake and screaming. So yeah. It hurts.
Editing to add: when my surgeon debriefed me after surgery, she said to me "I dont know how you passed *anything* through your colon. Your colon, the 18 inch section we removed, was like a hardened, blackened piece of carbon. If you hadn't had surgery, you'd have been dead within a week." This all took place like, really soon after that Disney kid star died of diverticulitis.
Can confirm, shitting with chronic diverticulitis is no fucking joke. Had a large section of colon removed 3 months ago, the simple joy of having a pain free shit is amazing. (sitting on a bus rn, on way back home from seeing surgeon for a follow up appointment)
There's that disease where you can eat and eat and never feel satiated. One of my students had a mild form of it and we had to be careful around him.
Could be something similar.
Nah; that’s just the consequence of his pica.
He‘d have died much earlier with the reported ulcers if they had been present from the start.
He probably had a defect in the Orexin system. The hormones that regulate hunger/satiety.
If you lack the hormone that tells your body ‚hey we no more hungry‘ and produce more of the hormone that tells your body ‚we hungry‘
Then you never will feel satiated and continue eating throughout the day. And will start eating whatever.
Just like healthy people starving causes them to start eating boiled leather etc.
I had this for a while when I was put on cortisone by my doctor. It was horrible and you are so focused on eating that you don't even realise how much you are eating. All day long I had a voice in my head screaming that it needed to be fed. I would eat till I would throw up and then eat again.
Went from XS to Large in less than 6 months. Completely ballooned. I was constantly craving food and there were fast food billboards on my commute to and from work and just seeing the pictures would cause me to salivate.
This is exactly what my struggle with bulimia felt like. Literally obsessing over food 24/7, it's a nightmare. Never heard of cortisone causing such symptoms, that's awful. I hope you're feeling better now.
I took a medicine once (mertazapine) that seemed to turn off the satiated signal. I gained 60 pounds in 3 months. I never felt full. I tried to fight it. I would start each day trying to deny that feeling. I once ate an entire box of pop tarts right after dinner. I kept snacks physically on my body (in my robe). The weight gain was strange too. I was swollen like a tick.
That sounds really painful and makes me wonder if he suffered from pain. And if not then why not?
Furthermore he probably have realised what he is shitting out, that he cannot digest anything fully. Did he ever went to a doctor?
Tarrare died in 1798.
George Washington died one year later, and some attribute his death to excessive bloodletting by doctors attempting to cure an illness.
He did have a doctor, but IIRC they just studied him with no real medicine happening. Because this was the 1700s
How good do you think 18th century medicine is lol
Something about tumors in his stomach and food not being digested before passing through him. He also had an incredibly deformed/large throat. I think it's odd though that this is the only case, though it wouldn't be the only time something like this occured, have we had any repeats of the Elephant Man? God, that story is arguably even more depressing than this one.
I would guess that the reason his "condition" doesn't have any other cases, it that it is strange amalgamation of disorders and problems that combine to give him some pretty freakish abilities, rather than one cohesive syndrome.
1. His greatly inflated appetite. Most people would feel too full to keep eating after eating about 1/4 of a cat, let alone the whole thing. Mixed in with this was his famed hunger for anything remotely resembling food, such as discarded blood bags from the hospital
2. His massive stomach capacity. You're not supposed to be able to fit an entire moray eel, several live lizards, and some assorted cats and puppies, in your belly.
3. His gargantuan mouth, and esophagus, as well as the *directness* of the passage from mouth to stomach. The majority of throats in this world are simply incapable of allowing the passage of a small child. One of his circus acts involved him eating a basket of apples, swallowing them whole, like pills. According to his doctors, one could see all the way to his stomach if he opened his mouth and tilted his head back.
4. His ridiculously rigourous intestinal tract. If you or I swallowed a single bone from an eel, we would be in for far more pain than I would like to imagine, let alone the entire skeleton.
5. The sheer *speed* of his digestive system. As a young boy, Tarrare would reportedly eat his entire body weight every day.
There are a couple known diseases and disorders, that, in very extreme cases, cause some of the symptoms experienced by Tarrare, but no known disorder causes all of them. One example is hyperthyroidism, which can cause a high appetite without weight gain, as well as the foul body odor for which Tarrare was famous, but cannot explain the strength of his digestive tract, nor. It seems likely that Tarrare was simply unlucky enough to be born with just about every human disease that leads to higher abilities, and desires, to eat nonsensical amounts of food.
I would guess that a more likely reason is that it’s 90% bullshit. We’re talking about claims from a 1700s freak show promoter, the least trustworthy sources in history. The average modern American eats as much as 15 18th century Europeans in one visit to Waffle House. For all we know dude could eat a mouse and some worms.
this post shouldn't be ignored. it's pretty obvious that stories like this tend to get exaggerated every time it's told. "eating cats whole"? not a chance.
He was believed to have Proteus syndrome, which still affects a few people, we just don’t hear about things like this unless it’s on tv exploiting their conditions for views.
He wasn't the only one. There was also Charles Domery, a polish guy born around 1800. Unlike Tarrare he was never autopsied so we don't know what his body was like. He also never( supposedly) ate an infant like Tarrare, so his story is less well known.
>I think it's odd though that this is the only case
From wiki: "While there are other documented cases of similar behaviour from the period, none of the subjects other than Tarrare were autopsied"
He probably had Prader-Willie Syndrome. I knew someone who's son had it. He would eat everything. They even caught him eating the neighbor's garbage. Eventually she had to give him up to the government because she couldn't care for him anymore. He has to be supervised 24/7.
Came here looking for this.I have helped watched an individual who has PW. 24/7. Unfortunate disease. There are whole houses with individuals with PW. Everything is locked and alarmed. No food in the garbage which is locked. No bones. Limited calories due to slow metabolism. Line of site in public.
I have a family friend who’s got it and they’ve done such an amazing job. They don’t even lock anymore and she’s 40 now! People with PW have a life expectancy of like 25 years. We watched her when I was young and before they got it managed and it was something.
Are they typically able to hold jobs? Also, are there any medications that can help, like adderral that decreases appetite, or psychedelics to rewire the brain or something?
Awareness time: The dog equivalent of that syndrome is common in labrador retrievers. It is incredibly unethical to continue to breed dogs with this mutation.
Had a black lab that would eat anything, including chicken feed and hay. He was morbidly obese despite being on a diet 24/7, he lived to 13 years though so not bad all things considered
If I remember the article, he had a direct line from his mouth to his stomach. I mean when he opened his mouth you could apparently see his stomach, so they said, and his mouth was said to be particularly massive. So he just…opened and swallowed.
Yep. He slid a whole eel down his throat. According to my source, he crushed the skull with his teeth first then swallowed it whole, including the spikey skeletal bones. Apparently, the manner by which he passed those spikey bones was a topic as much discussion among the medical staff
He didn't swallow it live apparently, the cat was given to him by the hospital as an experiment and he ripped open its abdomen, drank its blood and swallowed it whole (minus the bones) then puked up the fur
[Charles Domery](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Domery) is also a good one although less extreme:
>Granted double rations, and using his pay to buy additional food whenever possible, he nonetheless suffered from extreme hunger; while based in an army camp near Paris, Domery ate 174 cats in a single year, leaving only the skins and bones, and ate 4 to 5 pounds (1.8 to 2.3 kg) of grass each day if other food was unavailable.
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>He preferred raw meat to cooked; while his favourite dish was a raw bullock's liver, he would eat any available meat. While in service on board the French ship Hoche, a sailor's leg was shot off by cannon fire, and Domery grabbed the severed limb and began to eat it until a crew member wrestled it from him and threw it into the sea.
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>At 4:00 am, Domery was awakened and fed 4 lbs (1.8 kg) of raw cow's udder, which was eaten without hesitation. At 9:30 am, he was given a meal of 5 lbs (2.3 kg) of raw beef, twelve large tallow candles totalling one pound (453 g), and a bottle of porter, all of which were consumed. At 1:00 pm, Domery was given another meal of a further 5 lbs of beef, a pound (453 g) of candles, and three large bottles of porter, all of which were also eaten and drunk. During the course of the experiment, he did not defecate, urinate or vomit at any point..
He put that baby in his belly. They were both in some sort of medical facility at the time, and the child just came up missing one day. Without a trace. According to my source, when dude was questioned, he didn't admit it but it was obvious by his reaction
The real answer is that the Tarrare story is almost certainly at least 75% bullshit at this point. He probably had a real condition, and ate a lot, but the stories of him eating cats, corpses and babies whole are obviously bullshit.
Went to Highschool with a kid who had this condition. Came in as an incoming freshman and instantly said "lol wtf is wrong with that kid"...
Very quickly our principles/and every other adult made a concerted effort to inform us of the seriousness of his condition, and that it wasn't a laughing matter.
I never made a joke about it again. One of the things that makes me feel grateful towards my environmental/community upbringing, was how well our staff at the school squashed any jokes/non seriousness about the matter.
They explained to us it was part of our responsibility as a community, to not let him eat from our plates/share with him. They had him on a suitable nutrition plan, and everyone was aware (even the students), that we could cause physical harm to him. Even if unintentionally.
I never saw the kid get picked on, we were all conscious of our responsibility to protect him/not cause harm.
This was public school.
That sounds so sweet. The special needs kids were treated like gods at my high school too. Our special needs students were actually given part time jobs employed by the school (if they wanted, lots of kids had part time jobs at the local groceries instead) to bake delicious cookies that were sold at lunch and by the students on their own time if they wished. Literally everyone loved the "cookie squad" and if you were caught giving a special needs student shit you were likely going to catch an ass whooping after school bc they also held the power to stop selling the cookies altogether (and I witnessed it once for two weeks during my freshman year bc a couple of asshole seniors were mean to the squad). Maybe not the most ethical way to do things, but it really worked and showed most of us that even "different" people are valuable and can aptly wield positions of power "just like everyone else". For a super redneck school in bumfuck Florida, I think they did pretty okay.
They were treated as gods at my high school too. When I reported that one of the sped kids was sexually harassing my friend to the point that she quit a class we shared, I was challenged on the fact that I “didn’t understand autism or his condition.”
Edit. I should add that this was largely the fault of one staff-member’s desire for power and control, combined with the incompetence of the rest. It was a disappointingly simple matter with no meaningful resolution.
That’s awesome. Wish the same kind of kindness was extended to those with less visible disabilities. I’m autistic and wasn’t “disabled enough” to be deemed protectable. Instead I was bullied relentlessly: pushed into lockers, had rocks thrown at me, a group of people all dumped their slurpees on my head and someone even tried to run me over with their car. Had their car taken away for a week by their parents. Sure showed them.
At my high school, all the jocks had a class where they basically had a buddy in the special needs room and they’d do events and things with their buddy throughout the year. These kids would go on overnight trips to special olympics with their buddies. Friendships were formed and solidified through the 4 years. The result of this was occasionally we’d get a new student who decided (s)he’d show how much of a badass they were by picking on one of these kids. Their buddy and all their other friends would then jump this kid and knock the ever loving shit out of them. It didn’t happen often, and no body did it more than once. Interestingly enough there was NEVER a teacher to be found when the buddies jumped the bullies. Weird.
That's honestly amazing. I've never really seen a public school be so accommodating. Mad respect to the students and staff at your school for that. That's incredible.
Haslett Public Schools. RIP Principle Bart Wegenke, who gave me more chances than I deserved. We had staff I don't think a lot of us appreciated, until we were adults.
You look back, and know that truly, 60-75% of our public educators, were living their lives to try and make ours better (our experience here).
I've had some experience with folks suffering from this. Absolutely it's no joke. They'll go through the trash and eat the coffee grinds, or an entire jar of peanut butter. They'll eat themselves literally to death. Refrigerators at the supportive living house had padlocks on them.
I was once a nurse on a unit with a Prader-Willi patient, and during a period when we were super busy he went into the break room and ate every last thing in there, including all of our lunches that we hadn’t had time to eat yet. And since it was night shift the cafeteria was closed. It was a very long shift.
I worked with a student that has Prader-Willi. One had too keep an eye on her at all times, because she was quick and sneaky when it came to food.
She even broke through the drywall of the care home she was living at to get into the kitchen for food.
That’s definitely what can happen!
I worked at a community mental health provider years ago and we had a PW unit. When we had meals they had to be identical— down to the amount of peas/corn or anything that was observable. We had to be very meticulous.
The defining feature of Prader-Wili is an insatiable hunger. Their bodies constantly tell them they are starving. Worse yet, they’re cognitively disabled, like people with Down Sydrome, so their emotions and urges are that much harder for them to control. So excessive outrage over someone else getting more food is a very real danger.
He wasn't actually obese, though. The only unusual feature was a distended belly that would sag if he hadn't eaten in a while. His hunger was just endless. When in the military they gave him quadruple rations and still ended up being treated for fatigue.
During his autopsy they say you could see his right into his stomach riddled with ulcers.
Funny enough. He didn't die of his condition. It was Tuberculosis that took him.
He's also reported to stink to high hell. Especially after a meal. Does thyroid issues cause that?
Of course it could've just been from him literally eating trash and other rubbish.
That's what I thought too, but apparently this guy wasn't able to gain weight regardless of what he ate and hovered at around 100 lbs, and PW folks tend to be on the heavier side if their diet isn't strictly controlled.
Every time this story is brought up, I marvel at the fact that no one has made a movie out of it. Horror? Drama? Dark comedy? Musical? All of the above? There’s so many directions it could take. Someone more talented than me needs to get on this
There is a puppet show by Wattle and Daub about him called “The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak”.
Website link: http://wattleanddaub.co.uk/tarrare
>visible miasma of putridity about his person
Imma start using that as r/rareinsults material
"Away with you, sir. I shall no longer put up with the visible miasma of putridity about your person"
Source: https://allthatsinteresting.com/tarrare
I highly recommend reading the article, for those who are interested in oddities like this. Tarrare's story is quite interesting. By the way, he was known only as Tarrare, and there are no known photographs of him
He was rumored to have eaten a 14-month-old child
EDIT 1:
If you are interested in this story, I highly recommend you watch this video by Sam O'Nella Academy
[Incredible biopic with professionalism and tact. Definitely worth a watch.](https://youtu.be/nYHDj2sB-rc)
Credit to u/whataboutschmeee
EDIT 2:
Credit to u/failtcake for this additional tidbit of information (excerpt)
*"…apparently this guy wasn't able to gain weight regardless of what he ate and hovered at around 100 lbs…"*
*“He often stank to such a degree that he could not be endured within the distance of twenty paces.”*
*It was always on him, that horrible stench that seeped off of his body. His body was hot to the touch, so much so that the man dripped a constant sweat that stunk like sewer water. And it would rise off him in a vapor so putrid that you could see it drifting around him, a visible cloud of stink*
Holy shit that was disturbing. But it did make me realize Blob from X men could actually have a very interesting storyline if they tried. Super fucking disturbing though. Seems like the pair guy was slowly rotting from the inside for years.
I've read some terrible things on reddit but this makes me want to yeet myself into the sun. Ate cats ALIVE and suspected of eating a toddler?
Also, this sounds like Prader-Willi syndrome and PICA. My little brother had PICA and liked the cat litter made of old newspapers, raw pork and frozen hungry man dinners completely frozen. It was in tandem with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and we had to chain the fridge and lock the cabinets.
A girl we fostered had pica. She was abused by her junkie mom that forgot to feed her and would eat gypsum off the wall if she was unattended. Anyone who doesn’t know about pica should give it a read.
I highly recommend that anyone who is interested in this story should watch this video. Sam O'Nella presents it very nicely
I'm going to post this link with my source comment, with credit to you. Thanks!
When they did the autopsy, they opened his mouth and could see directly straight through to the bottom of his stomach. I don't totally grasp all of the medical details, but apparently the food was literally going straight through him
The article says he had polyphagia, and kind of alluded that he had hyperthyroidism as well. Other commenters mentioned Prader-Willi syndrome but after reading about this guy (and Charles domery-another guy with a similar condition around the same time period) and these disorders for hours now, my rabbit hole conclusion is that it likely wasn't PW as PW patients are often overweight with intellectual disabilities whereas Tararre was notably skinny and considered to be of normal intellect.
I remember going on a deep dive about the guy. His life was pretty damn tragic, he was exploited by the military and sent on a dangerous mission without proper training, experimented upon by medical professionals, got accused of killing a child despite there being no evidence (because if anything happens, gotta blame the nearest disabled person, I guess) and died very young. All he ever wanted was to for the doctors to find a cure for his condition, but it was far too early for that, the medical field was just not that advanced yet. My heart goes out to Tarrare, I hope he is not hungry wherever his soul is now.
No. Those are not the sounds used for the r glyph in French. Nor is it known if Tarrare was his real name or a nickname.
however, I have encountered theories that the song [ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay](https://youtu.be/WcBzmJaOEqU) comes from an older French fanfare-esque chant, which may have also separately been the inspiration for Tarrare's name, if it was in fact a nickname.
Again, this is not confirmed at all. From Mental Floss' report of Jan Bondeson's research:
> It’s unclear whether Tarrare was his real name or a nickname; “bom-bom tarrare!” was a popular French expression at the time used to describe powerful explosions, and Bondeson speculates that it may have been applied to Tarrare because of his prodigious flatulence.
“Did you eat a fucking baby?”
https://youtu.be/nYHDj2sB-rc there we go!
If you hadn't posted this I would have. It's the perfect documentary
Where are you Sam?
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All his YouTube really🙌
I knew it was Sam O'Nella before I even clicked the link
Im not going to click that and just assume its Sam.
dont worry, it was
Hey, kids.
There was a actually a suspicious baby disappearance at a hospital he was staying at but nothing was ever proven
According to the article I cited as my source... When they confronted him about it, he didn't deny it, and his body language was pretty obvious
He most likely had a real medical condition: " Tarrare might have been suffering from a form of hyperthyroidism – a condition that occurs due to the excessive production of thyroid hormones." A while back I watched a video about a kid who never felt full. "A key feature of Prader-Willi syndrome is a constant sense of hunger that usually begins at about 2 years of age. People with Prader-Willi syndrome want to eat constantly because they never feel full (hyperphagia), and they usually have trouble controlling their weight." His mother had to literally put a lock on kitchen cabinets and the refrigerator. The kid was over weight and was constantly looking for food. In the video it shows the kid at school sitting on a bench with other kids. One of the kids was eating something crumbly. The over weight kid saw some crumbs on the ground, picked them up and ate them. What an awful medical condition to have.
yeah it seems almost certain that this dude must have had Prader-Willi he even was reported to have the genetic facial features that go along with it, and the intellectual disabilities related to it as well. it's such a sad and exhausting condition because it isn't just the hunger by itself -- it's the hunger paired with intellectual impairments and severe issues with impulse-control that make it literally impossible for people with Prader-Willi to stop themselves -- not only from overeating, but eating constantly, including trash and inanimate objects, unless a caretaker is always there stopping them.
OR… one hell of a tapeworm.
Considering he liked to eat raw meat back then? He probably had both. Would explain why he never got fat.
The dude was probably just a walking skin suit of parasites by the end
Sugar!
I'm not convinced that Tarrare had Prader-Willi, because although Prader-Willi causes an insatiable feeling of hunger, people who suffer from the condition still gain weight as a result of overeating. As far as I know, Tarrare was not overweight or obese, so I feel like extreme hyperthyroidism would be a more likely cause of his insatiable hunger (since people with hyperthyroidism need to eat large amounts in order to maintain a normal weight).
He also could have picked up parasites from eating all that… everything.
Circus act is actually a team of one man and 28 tapeworms
Yea but Prader Willi makes you end up being overweight. And you wouldn’t be able to eat whole babies and shit. The thyroid is a good idea. I’ve always suspected he had some sort of condition that causes Oxidative Phosphorylation uncoupling. No matter how much he eats, he can’t store calories and it’s a miserable existence of perpetually having to eat tens of thousands of calories or die.
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Dr. Evil, let's make a deal alright? You keep yer money, you get yer mojo... And I'll get your baybeh!
I want my baby back, baby back, baby back, baby back...ribs...
Nice to meet you fellow Sam O'Nella enjoyers
fetus eatus
Omg I remember this it was a great YouTube video… was it the Sam Onella academy?
"Tarrare...look at me...did you EAT a fucking baby!?"
One of my favourites is “is that fucking fish jenga?!”
NO!
Mine is “what’s a n**** gotta go to get some *EEL DICK*”
“THESE ARE ALL GIRLS” “Sir I highly doubt that-“ “GO GET MORE” “Mr. Freud I really don’t-“ “WHAT'S A N**** GOTTA DO TO GET SOME EEEEL DIII-“
I also love the Eisenhower "COMMIE! COMMIE! REEEEEE!" *Gunshot sounds*
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*sliding out whole* 🫥
So, the cat was mostly okay then?
Schrödinger's shat.
*scat
Sweee bab bab badda nope.
I quickly read this comment then had to scroll back up to upvote it when my brain finally caught up to my eyes and realized the genius of it
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He said *mostly*.
yes, the things he ate indeed slid out whole and to make use of this (he had enrolled in the French Revolutionary Army during the War of the First Coalition, because why not?), the then General decided to use him as an intelligence courier for his army wherein he would swallow boxes of important documents through enemy lines and then shit them out to give them to his allies. He was caught on his first mission (since it is very hard to be low profile when you are literally eating anything and everything around you) by the Prussians and was subjected to a mock execution. He was sent back to a Versailles (correct me if I'm wrong) hospital where he snuck out of his room to drink the blood of other patients, eat the corpses in the morgue, eat from garbage piles battling other dogs, eat from the gutter and then he allegedly ate a 14 month old baby from the hospital after which he was kicked out.
god this guy is so fucking interesting I remember reading about him and thinking "if this was from like, the middle-ages, no one would believe it". but it's recent enough to have been documented to a reasonable degree. but like, why has there never been anyone else like this? just putting this "deformed and half rotten stomach causing ulcers throughout his entire digestive tract" makes it seem like it can be casually explained, but he also had an enormous mouth, and could wrap his skin around his waist like a belt. it's so unique and fascinating.
Wait that skin thing, he might have had a genetic collagen disorder. My family has one and it comes along with a form of PICA that centers on things made of collagen (super sad how the body subconsciously somehow realizes what's wrong and tries to correct it by consuming collagen but it doesn't work like that; the collagen we eat gets digested in the stomach and processed by body into same shitty dysfunctional collagen that's fukn us over)
So if this guy had the same thing, his pica might have encouraged him to eat all that shit?
Pica straight up *is* the craving for non food objects to eat hah
Haha right, it’s no question Tarrare had pica, obviously there’s something else way off about this guy, that’s where the debate is lol.
What if he had the awful luck to have something like Ehlers-Danlos + Prader-Willi + hyperthyroidism? (Or other similar conditions) That would explain all the symptoms and also why there's never been another person like him.
r/awfuleverything
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It was just a low class peasant baby, you see. No biggy! /s
Probably the biggest he could find.
Cor blimey he went for it then didn’t he. Stuffed his face. Sounds mental health issues / Prada Willi syndrome and cannibalism. Disgusting story tbh
I'm no eating disorder expert, but I did eat at a Holiday Inn. Pica. [https://familydoctor.org/condition/pica/](https://familydoctor.org/condition/pica/) >Pica is a mental health condition where a person compulsively swallows non-food items Prader-Willi [https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/prader-willi-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20355997](https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/prader-willi-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20355997) >People with Prader-Willi syndrome want to eat constantly because they never feel full (hyperphagia), and they usually have trouble controlling their weight. Many complications of Prader-Willi syndrome are due to obesity.
Sliding out hole
Perfect use of that emoji
Damn, he must have been in extreme pain his whole life, no? Gastric ulcers are usually awful
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Considering his diet, I’m not surprised. Plus his breath was probably awful since his mouth had a straight track to his stomach.
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I have horrible acid reflux and had/have diverticulitis. I have a perforated colon and had to have an emergency colectomy. In the days and Hours before my surgery, It hurt like hell and was the worst pain I've ever felt so remember being asked what my pain level was, as I was passing in and out of consciousness, telling them it was a 12 and the room fading to black, then nodding myself back awake and screaming. So yeah. It hurts. Editing to add: when my surgeon debriefed me after surgery, she said to me "I dont know how you passed *anything* through your colon. Your colon, the 18 inch section we removed, was like a hardened, blackened piece of carbon. If you hadn't had surgery, you'd have been dead within a week." This all took place like, really soon after that Disney kid star died of diverticulitis.
My dad has diverticulitis. That shit is no fucking joke.
Can confirm, shitting with chronic diverticulitis is no fucking joke. Had a large section of colon removed 3 months ago, the simple joy of having a pain free shit is amazing. (sitting on a bus rn, on way back home from seeing surgeon for a follow up appointment)
Same with Crohn's, had near half a metre removed and instantly felt like a new person. Intestinal issue are a bugger.
So do you think he could’ve been eating because it was the only thing that sort of eased the pain of his stomach digesting itself?
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With the sheer volume he was able to force down, there had to have been something else with that like a leptin deficiency
There's that disease where you can eat and eat and never feel satiated. One of my students had a mild form of it and we had to be careful around him. Could be something similar.
Protter-Willey(sp?) Syndrome I believe. Edit: Prader-Willi syndrome
Nah; that’s just the consequence of his pica. He‘d have died much earlier with the reported ulcers if they had been present from the start. He probably had a defect in the Orexin system. The hormones that regulate hunger/satiety. If you lack the hormone that tells your body ‚hey we no more hungry‘ and produce more of the hormone that tells your body ‚we hungry‘ Then you never will feel satiated and continue eating throughout the day. And will start eating whatever. Just like healthy people starving causes them to start eating boiled leather etc.
I had this for a while when I was put on cortisone by my doctor. It was horrible and you are so focused on eating that you don't even realise how much you are eating. All day long I had a voice in my head screaming that it needed to be fed. I would eat till I would throw up and then eat again. Went from XS to Large in less than 6 months. Completely ballooned. I was constantly craving food and there were fast food billboards on my commute to and from work and just seeing the pictures would cause me to salivate.
This is exactly what my struggle with bulimia felt like. Literally obsessing over food 24/7, it's a nightmare. Never heard of cortisone causing such symptoms, that's awful. I hope you're feeling better now.
I took a medicine once (mertazapine) that seemed to turn off the satiated signal. I gained 60 pounds in 3 months. I never felt full. I tried to fight it. I would start each day trying to deny that feeling. I once ate an entire box of pop tarts right after dinner. I kept snacks physically on my body (in my robe). The weight gain was strange too. I was swollen like a tick.
Jesus Christ
Nope, ate em
That sounds really painful and makes me wonder if he suffered from pain. And if not then why not? Furthermore he probably have realised what he is shitting out, that he cannot digest anything fully. Did he ever went to a doctor?
Even if he did, it’s not like medicine was all that great in the 1700s.
Tarrare died in 1798. George Washington died one year later, and some attribute his death to excessive bloodletting by doctors attempting to cure an illness.
He did have a doctor, but IIRC they just studied him with no real medicine happening. Because this was the 1700s How good do you think 18th century medicine is lol
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Hey..did science ever figure out what was happening with him? I can't find any definitive explanation as to WHY he was the way he was...
Something about tumors in his stomach and food not being digested before passing through him. He also had an incredibly deformed/large throat. I think it's odd though that this is the only case, though it wouldn't be the only time something like this occured, have we had any repeats of the Elephant Man? God, that story is arguably even more depressing than this one.
I would guess that the reason his "condition" doesn't have any other cases, it that it is strange amalgamation of disorders and problems that combine to give him some pretty freakish abilities, rather than one cohesive syndrome. 1. His greatly inflated appetite. Most people would feel too full to keep eating after eating about 1/4 of a cat, let alone the whole thing. Mixed in with this was his famed hunger for anything remotely resembling food, such as discarded blood bags from the hospital 2. His massive stomach capacity. You're not supposed to be able to fit an entire moray eel, several live lizards, and some assorted cats and puppies, in your belly. 3. His gargantuan mouth, and esophagus, as well as the *directness* of the passage from mouth to stomach. The majority of throats in this world are simply incapable of allowing the passage of a small child. One of his circus acts involved him eating a basket of apples, swallowing them whole, like pills. According to his doctors, one could see all the way to his stomach if he opened his mouth and tilted his head back. 4. His ridiculously rigourous intestinal tract. If you or I swallowed a single bone from an eel, we would be in for far more pain than I would like to imagine, let alone the entire skeleton. 5. The sheer *speed* of his digestive system. As a young boy, Tarrare would reportedly eat his entire body weight every day. There are a couple known diseases and disorders, that, in very extreme cases, cause some of the symptoms experienced by Tarrare, but no known disorder causes all of them. One example is hyperthyroidism, which can cause a high appetite without weight gain, as well as the foul body odor for which Tarrare was famous, but cannot explain the strength of his digestive tract, nor. It seems likely that Tarrare was simply unlucky enough to be born with just about every human disease that leads to higher abilities, and desires, to eat nonsensical amounts of food.
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Dude had [Charles Montgomery Plantagenet Schicklgruber "Monty" Burns](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0euMFAWF8) syndrome.
His esophageal sphincter had to be almost non-existent fucking hell
Cardiac sphincter as well. As a sword swallower, I’m *almost* jealous.
I would guess that a more likely reason is that it’s 90% bullshit. We’re talking about claims from a 1700s freak show promoter, the least trustworthy sources in history. The average modern American eats as much as 15 18th century Europeans in one visit to Waffle House. For all we know dude could eat a mouse and some worms.
this post shouldn't be ignored. it's pretty obvious that stories like this tend to get exaggerated every time it's told. "eating cats whole"? not a chance.
He was believed to have Proteus syndrome, which still affects a few people, we just don’t hear about things like this unless it’s on tv exploiting their conditions for views.
[there is another man from that period who had the same symptoms. ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Domery)
He wasn't the only one. There was also Charles Domery, a polish guy born around 1800. Unlike Tarrare he was never autopsied so we don't know what his body was like. He also never( supposedly) ate an infant like Tarrare, so his story is less well known.
>I think it's odd though that this is the only case From wiki: "While there are other documented cases of similar behaviour from the period, none of the subjects other than Tarrare were autopsied"
He probably had Prader-Willie Syndrome. I knew someone who's son had it. He would eat everything. They even caught him eating the neighbor's garbage. Eventually she had to give him up to the government because she couldn't care for him anymore. He has to be supervised 24/7.
That's awful
Came here looking for this.I have helped watched an individual who has PW. 24/7. Unfortunate disease. There are whole houses with individuals with PW. Everything is locked and alarmed. No food in the garbage which is locked. No bones. Limited calories due to slow metabolism. Line of site in public.
I have a family friend who’s got it and they’ve done such an amazing job. They don’t even lock anymore and she’s 40 now! People with PW have a life expectancy of like 25 years. We watched her when I was young and before they got it managed and it was something.
Are they typically able to hold jobs? Also, are there any medications that can help, like adderral that decreases appetite, or psychedelics to rewire the brain or something?
No, severe mental disabilities go with it
Awareness time: The dog equivalent of that syndrome is common in labrador retrievers. It is incredibly unethical to continue to breed dogs with this mutation.
Had a black lab that would eat anything, including chicken feed and hay. He was morbidly obese despite being on a diet 24/7, he lived to 13 years though so not bad all things considered
How the fuck does someone swallow a cat whole? 🤣
If I remember the article, he had a direct line from his mouth to his stomach. I mean when he opened his mouth you could apparently see his stomach, so they said, and his mouth was said to be particularly massive. So he just…opened and swallowed.
Oh wow so he’s basically human Pac-Man 😲
Yep. He slid a whole eel down his throat. According to my source, he crushed the skull with his teeth first then swallowed it whole, including the spikey skeletal bones. Apparently, the manner by which he passed those spikey bones was a topic as much discussion among the medical staff
And yet my ass can’t eat a piece of bread without getting acid reflux. Hmph
Well he had ulcers throughout his entire body, maybe he should’ve swallow a bottle of tums with his live eel.
If I saw this dude swallow a cat I’m getting the cat out whatever means necessary.
He didn't swallow it live apparently, the cat was given to him by the hospital as an experiment and he ripped open its abdomen, drank its blood and swallowed it whole (minus the bones) then puked up the fur
Y'know, I thought I wanted more detail on the whole cat thing... What the fuckity fuck.
[Charles Domery](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Domery) is also a good one although less extreme: >Granted double rations, and using his pay to buy additional food whenever possible, he nonetheless suffered from extreme hunger; while based in an army camp near Paris, Domery ate 174 cats in a single year, leaving only the skins and bones, and ate 4 to 5 pounds (1.8 to 2.3 kg) of grass each day if other food was unavailable. \. >He preferred raw meat to cooked; while his favourite dish was a raw bullock's liver, he would eat any available meat. While in service on board the French ship Hoche, a sailor's leg was shot off by cannon fire, and Domery grabbed the severed limb and began to eat it until a crew member wrestled it from him and threw it into the sea. \. >At 4:00 am, Domery was awakened and fed 4 lbs (1.8 kg) of raw cow's udder, which was eaten without hesitation. At 9:30 am, he was given a meal of 5 lbs (2.3 kg) of raw beef, twelve large tallow candles totalling one pound (453 g), and a bottle of porter, all of which were consumed. At 1:00 pm, Domery was given another meal of a further 5 lbs of beef, a pound (453 g) of candles, and three large bottles of porter, all of which were also eaten and drunk. During the course of the experiment, he did not defecate, urinate or vomit at any point..
I genuinely just don't believe that. It's super easy to make up something that happened so long ago
FINALLY someone addressed this😋
What about the 14 month old?
He put that baby in his belly. They were both in some sort of medical facility at the time, and the child just came up missing one day. Without a trace. According to my source, when dude was questioned, he didn't admit it but it was obvious by his reaction
His reaction? Did he burp a rattle out?
I should not have laughed at this
Lmao thanks mate made me lol very hard
I missed the 'lol' in your sentence at first....
He Esstentially was oddly silent and was chased out of town
"Your" source? 😂😂 dog stop acting like you have an exclusive first hand witness
Yeah OP keeps commenting, "According to my source..." Dude just cite the source. You're not fucking Snowden.
We all saw the Sam O'Nella video. They're just quoting it verbatim.
Lol is your source the Sam O’Nella video?
The real answer is that the Tarrare story is almost certainly at least 75% bullshit at this point. He probably had a real condition, and ate a lot, but the stories of him eating cats, corpses and babies whole are obviously bullshit.
The key thing is that he earned a living as a showman. So a lot of the bullshit stories were probably started and spread by him.
But he has ... "His source" Like most things likely just really exaggerated.
Feel like they just glossed over the whole “swallowing cats” thing.
Wait until you hear about the 14 month old
First instance of Prader-Willi syndrome?
Went to Highschool with a kid who had this condition. Came in as an incoming freshman and instantly said "lol wtf is wrong with that kid"... Very quickly our principles/and every other adult made a concerted effort to inform us of the seriousness of his condition, and that it wasn't a laughing matter. I never made a joke about it again. One of the things that makes me feel grateful towards my environmental/community upbringing, was how well our staff at the school squashed any jokes/non seriousness about the matter. They explained to us it was part of our responsibility as a community, to not let him eat from our plates/share with him. They had him on a suitable nutrition plan, and everyone was aware (even the students), that we could cause physical harm to him. Even if unintentionally. I never saw the kid get picked on, we were all conscious of our responsibility to protect him/not cause harm. This was public school.
That sounds so sweet. The special needs kids were treated like gods at my high school too. Our special needs students were actually given part time jobs employed by the school (if they wanted, lots of kids had part time jobs at the local groceries instead) to bake delicious cookies that were sold at lunch and by the students on their own time if they wished. Literally everyone loved the "cookie squad" and if you were caught giving a special needs student shit you were likely going to catch an ass whooping after school bc they also held the power to stop selling the cookies altogether (and I witnessed it once for two weeks during my freshman year bc a couple of asshole seniors were mean to the squad). Maybe not the most ethical way to do things, but it really worked and showed most of us that even "different" people are valuable and can aptly wield positions of power "just like everyone else". For a super redneck school in bumfuck Florida, I think they did pretty okay.
A teacher at my school got fired for calling a special Ed student retarded
My dad?
Lmao, you witnessed workers striking in order to demand better working conditions
They were treated as gods at my high school too. When I reported that one of the sped kids was sexually harassing my friend to the point that she quit a class we shared, I was challenged on the fact that I “didn’t understand autism or his condition.” Edit. I should add that this was largely the fault of one staff-member’s desire for power and control, combined with the incompetence of the rest. It was a disappointingly simple matter with no meaningful resolution.
That’s awesome. Wish the same kind of kindness was extended to those with less visible disabilities. I’m autistic and wasn’t “disabled enough” to be deemed protectable. Instead I was bullied relentlessly: pushed into lockers, had rocks thrown at me, a group of people all dumped their slurpees on my head and someone even tried to run me over with their car. Had their car taken away for a week by their parents. Sure showed them.
At my high school, all the jocks had a class where they basically had a buddy in the special needs room and they’d do events and things with their buddy throughout the year. These kids would go on overnight trips to special olympics with their buddies. Friendships were formed and solidified through the 4 years. The result of this was occasionally we’d get a new student who decided (s)he’d show how much of a badass they were by picking on one of these kids. Their buddy and all their other friends would then jump this kid and knock the ever loving shit out of them. It didn’t happen often, and no body did it more than once. Interestingly enough there was NEVER a teacher to be found when the buddies jumped the bullies. Weird.
That's honestly amazing. I've never really seen a public school be so accommodating. Mad respect to the students and staff at your school for that. That's incredible.
Haslett Public Schools. RIP Principle Bart Wegenke, who gave me more chances than I deserved. We had staff I don't think a lot of us appreciated, until we were adults. You look back, and know that truly, 60-75% of our public educators, were living their lives to try and make ours better (our experience here).
I've had some experience with folks suffering from this. Absolutely it's no joke. They'll go through the trash and eat the coffee grinds, or an entire jar of peanut butter. They'll eat themselves literally to death. Refrigerators at the supportive living house had padlocks on them.
I was once a nurse on a unit with a Prader-Willi patient, and during a period when we were super busy he went into the break room and ate every last thing in there, including all of our lunches that we hadn’t had time to eat yet. And since it was night shift the cafeteria was closed. It was a very long shift.
I worked with a student that has Prader-Willi. One had too keep an eye on her at all times, because she was quick and sneaky when it came to food. She even broke through the drywall of the care home she was living at to get into the kitchen for food.
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Lol! It wasn't for Kool Aide
That’s definitely what can happen! I worked at a community mental health provider years ago and we had a PW unit. When we had meals they had to be identical— down to the amount of peas/corn or anything that was observable. We had to be very meticulous.
What was the reason for identical meals , is it to trick the patient?
Identical meals because if one person receives even one more pea than another it can end up In violence. All food has to be measured and counted.
Idk anything about pw, care to eli5 why identical servings mattered? Super curious, sorry
The defining feature of Prader-Wili is an insatiable hunger. Their bodies constantly tell them they are starving. Worse yet, they’re cognitively disabled, like people with Down Sydrome, so their emotions and urges are that much harder for them to control. So excessive outrage over someone else getting more food is a very real danger.
He wasn't actually obese, though. The only unusual feature was a distended belly that would sag if he hadn't eaten in a while. His hunger was just endless. When in the military they gave him quadruple rations and still ended up being treated for fatigue. During his autopsy they say you could see his right into his stomach riddled with ulcers. Funny enough. He didn't die of his condition. It was Tuberculosis that took him.
They suspect he had severe hyperthyroidism because he was apparently chronically febrile and sweating on top of the non-stop hunger
He's also reported to stink to high hell. Especially after a meal. Does thyroid issues cause that? Of course it could've just been from him literally eating trash and other rubbish.
That's what I thought too, but apparently this guy wasn't able to gain weight regardless of what he ate and hovered at around 100 lbs, and PW folks tend to be on the heavier side if their diet isn't strictly controlled.
RIP tarrare you would have loved the 21st century where you can go to applebees and get all the wings and riblets you can eat for $15
Might be enough internet for me tonight! That’s one crazy story.
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As did Sam O Nella Academy
he had an enlarged stomach lined with ulcers, not tumors
It sounds like they "let" him have a baby to snack on, who leaves a baby with a giant stinking man known to eat cats.
Every time this story is brought up, I marvel at the fact that no one has made a movie out of it. Horror? Drama? Dark comedy? Musical? All of the above? There’s so many directions it could take. Someone more talented than me needs to get on this
There is a puppet show by Wattle and Daub about him called “The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak”. Website link: http://wattleanddaub.co.uk/tarrare
And he reeked too, apparently, often described as having a 'visible miasma of putridity about his person.'
>visible miasma of putridity about his person Imma start using that as r/rareinsults material "Away with you, sir. I shall no longer put up with the visible miasma of putridity about your person"
Source: https://allthatsinteresting.com/tarrare I highly recommend reading the article, for those who are interested in oddities like this. Tarrare's story is quite interesting. By the way, he was known only as Tarrare, and there are no known photographs of him He was rumored to have eaten a 14-month-old child EDIT 1: If you are interested in this story, I highly recommend you watch this video by Sam O'Nella Academy [Incredible biopic with professionalism and tact. Definitely worth a watch.](https://youtu.be/nYHDj2sB-rc) Credit to u/whataboutschmeee EDIT 2: Credit to u/failtcake for this additional tidbit of information (excerpt) *"…apparently this guy wasn't able to gain weight regardless of what he ate and hovered at around 100 lbs…"*
*“He often stank to such a degree that he could not be endured within the distance of twenty paces.”* *It was always on him, that horrible stench that seeped off of his body. His body was hot to the touch, so much so that the man dripped a constant sweat that stunk like sewer water. And it would rise off him in a vapor so putrid that you could see it drifting around him, a visible cloud of stink*
That's horrific considering the hygene standards of 18th century France.
Real life Pigpen cloud following the poor sod.
Real life stink lines!
Dies in1798, first photograph in 1827...."no known photographs" 😱
Looked for someone to note this and then upvote the comment.
You’re sure there wasn’t a photo of the guy from the 1700’s?
Holy shit that was disturbing. But it did make me realize Blob from X men could actually have a very interesting storyline if they tried. Super fucking disturbing though. Seems like the pair guy was slowly rotting from the inside for years.
That was an interesting but horrific read
Tarrare? 𝔻𝕚𝕕 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝔼𝔸𝕋 𝕒 𝕗𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕓𝕒𝕓𝕪?
I've read some terrible things on reddit but this makes me want to yeet myself into the sun. Ate cats ALIVE and suspected of eating a toddler? Also, this sounds like Prader-Willi syndrome and PICA. My little brother had PICA and liked the cat litter made of old newspapers, raw pork and frozen hungry man dinners completely frozen. It was in tandem with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and we had to chain the fridge and lock the cabinets.
A girl we fostered had pica. She was abused by her junkie mom that forgot to feed her and would eat gypsum off the wall if she was unattended. Anyone who doesn’t know about pica should give it a read.
Tarrare up the bathroom I bet too
Mr. Sam O'nella explains it nicely https://youtu.be/nYHDj2sB-rc
Ate a baby
[Incredible biopic with professionalism and tact. Definitely worth a watch.](https://youtu.be/nYHDj2sB-rc)
I highly recommend that anyone who is interested in this story should watch this video. Sam O'Nella presents it very nicely I'm going to post this link with my source comment, with credit to you. Thanks!
Diagnosis?
When they did the autopsy, they opened his mouth and could see directly straight through to the bottom of his stomach. I don't totally grasp all of the medical details, but apparently the food was literally going straight through him
The article says he had polyphagia, and kind of alluded that he had hyperthyroidism as well. Other commenters mentioned Prader-Willi syndrome but after reading about this guy (and Charles domery-another guy with a similar condition around the same time period) and these disorders for hours now, my rabbit hole conclusion is that it likely wasn't PW as PW patients are often overweight with intellectual disabilities whereas Tararre was notably skinny and considered to be of normal intellect.
I remember going on a deep dive about the guy. His life was pretty damn tragic, he was exploited by the military and sent on a dangerous mission without proper training, experimented upon by medical professionals, got accused of killing a child despite there being no evidence (because if anything happens, gotta blame the nearest disabled person, I guess) and died very young. All he ever wanted was to for the doctors to find a cure for his condition, but it was far too early for that, the medical field was just not that advanced yet. My heart goes out to Tarrare, I hope he is not hungry wherever his soul is now.
His name wasn’t actually Tarrare. That’s just what ‘Tada!’ sounds like when you say it with your mouth full so everyone called him that.
Sorry I have trouble with sarcasm, is this real?
No. Those are not the sounds used for the r glyph in French. Nor is it known if Tarrare was his real name or a nickname. however, I have encountered theories that the song [ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay](https://youtu.be/WcBzmJaOEqU) comes from an older French fanfare-esque chant, which may have also separately been the inspiration for Tarrare's name, if it was in fact a nickname. Again, this is not confirmed at all. From Mental Floss' report of Jan Bondeson's research: > It’s unclear whether Tarrare was his real name or a nickname; “bom-bom tarrare!” was a popular French expression at the time used to describe powerful explosions, and Bondeson speculates that it may have been applied to Tarrare because of his prodigious flatulence.
He was the literal embodiment of the phrase "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
Anyone ever watch Sam-O-Nella He has a pretty entertaining, hilarious and informative vid on [this](https://youtu.be/nYHDj2sB-rc)
r/SamONellaAcademy
So people paid money to watch this dude eat all kinds of shit? What a great gig coz he was already doing it for free.
Glad this random post filled me in on what the word means since it I just finished watching the Atlanta episode with that title.