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Food FYI: Man eats 28 raw eggs and dies

A 20-year-old man in Tunisia died after eating the eggs in a bet with friends, news reports say.
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By Betty Hallock
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A 20-year-old man in Tunisia died after eating 28 raw eggs in a bet with friends, news reports say.

The man reportedly ate more than two dozen eggs in one sitting after friends dared him to do it, according to news.com.au. Shortly after swallowing the raw eggs, the man complained of severe stomach pains and his friends called an ambulance to the scene just outside of Kairouan, Tunisia.

Tunisia’s Shems FM radio station said on Wednesday that “doctors were called ... but he died before medical assistance could reach him.”

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The official cause of death has not been determined.

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Betty Hallock

Betty Hallock is deputy Food editor at the Los Angeles Times. She has co-written four cookbooks, including “Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles,” “Amá: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen” and “Baking at République.” She started her journalism career at the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American in New York, worked on the L.A. Times’ Business desk, and was interim food editor at Los Angeles Magazine. Hallock also helped launch a food and nutrition vertical for wellness app RoundGlass. She’s a graduate of UCLA and New York University.

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