YYZNomad, when I was in my 20's me and a (half-crazed, Dutch, green-eyed, communist,personality disordered, ridiculously good-looking) girlfriend went to India for 3 months. For the first 2 weeks, I hardly ate at all, drank only Coca-Cola or bottled beer and got Bombay-tummy. The lunatic/uber hot/Dutch girlfriend on the other hand ate everything.

Street food, pork sitting in 110 degree heat for 5 hours before being cooked, stuff she didn't know what it was, meat covered in flies, curry flavored corn flakes, medium-rare chicken......the works.

She didn't get sick once. Seriously. She basically developed a cast-iron stomach that no food borne illness could touch. Here I am subsisting on bottled drinks and the occasional raw vegetable and I was on the toilet for the first 15 days of the trip.

Last I heard of her (2005), was she was in a Swiss prison/mental health place for her own protection.

My point is.........some guys never wash their hands after the toilets, eat anything and use zero manners. All it does is further freak out germaphobes.

Life goes on..............