Florida man eats raw chicken every day for 100 days to “see what happens”

A man named John has gone viral on Instagram and TikTok after documenting his journey of eating raw chicken every day for 100 days or until he gets sick, just to see what happens.

A Florida man by the name of John has decided to go against everything we learned about chicken growing up by eating raw chicken every day for 100 days to see what really happens, and he’s documenting the whole journey on social media.

In the first video of the series, which was published on January 19, John sits in front of the camera with a raw chicken breast in his hand and a glass of raw eggs on the table.

“Day one of eating raw chicken for a hundred days, or until I get a tummy ache. Do not try this at home. Follow me to see what happens,” he said before taking a bite of the chicken in his hand. He continued to eat the rest of the chicken breast on the video before downing the glass of eggs at the end.

Although the series started on TikTok, John decided to move over to Instagram after claiming that the platform kept deleting his videos. He’s now gained over 400,000 followers on the platform who are interested to see what might happen next.

As of February 14, John has published 27 days’ worth of content and is seemingly continuing to do well despite the amount of raw chicken he has consumed.

He also varies the type of chicken he eats, such as having raw chicken wings for the Super Bowl and mixing chicken breast with salad leaves, parmesan cheese, croutons, and Caesar dressing to make a liquid version of a chicken Caesar salad.

This is not his first “raw meat” diet

This is not the first time John has indulged in raw meat. In 2022, he posted a series of YouTube videos titled “Eating raw meat at Whole Foods every day till I die from bacteria” until he got bored after 200 days. He never ended up getting sick, which is why he now wanted to take the experiment one step further with raw chicken.

He plans to keep up his raw poultry diet for 100 days — or until he gets sick. According to John, it’s all in the name of science: He firmly believes that eating raw meat is not as horrifying as we have been led to believe.

“What’s the worst thing that’s gonna happen? I’ll s**t myself for a week or something, but I’ve probably done worse things than that before in my life,” John told Vice.

“I try to put disclaimers up all the time that I don’t think anyone else should do this,” he added. “Even in my nutritional research, there are better raw foods to be eating, like beef. This is just a personal experiment for me.”

Despite John’s results in the raw poultry diet, it is not recommended to eat raw poultry. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 1 million people get sick from eating contaminated poultry every year in the US.

They also report that raw chicken can be contaminated with Campylobacter, Salmonella, or Clostridium perfringens germs, but that these germs disappear when the meat is cooked.