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Fitness & Health

26th Nov 2014

Man creates a tablet that makes farts smell like chocolate and flowers

This could be ideal after the mandatory overeating and stomach ache that occur around Christmas…

Alan Loughnane

This could be ideal after the mandatory over-eating and stomach aches that occur around Christmas…

We all have that one friend who you can’t go on long car journeys with, the one friend whose scent commands the room’s attention, the one friend who believes that if it’s ‘silent’, then nobody will notice it at all.

We are of course talking about the common problem of flatulence or to use its scientific name, the person who stinks the house out with their dirty farts.

Well the days of holding your nose for fear of suffocation or unstoppable vomiting may be a thing of the past as one French man has released a pill which makes a person’s farts smell like chocolate, roses (the flower, not the sweets), or violets depending on which pill you take.

Inventor Christian Poincheval has created this handy pill known as the Fart Pill (a catchy name) and is selling it on his website to help people deal with their chronic flatulence.

We don’t understand the exact sciency stuff of it all, but this can only be a good thing, right?

The ingredients would make even the biggest fitness freak happy with fennel, blueberries, charcoal and seaweed all included to help ease the digestive process.

They are sold in jars of sixty and will set you back €9.99. A small price to pay for some clean air in your life.

We know what we want in our stockings this year; a PlayStation 4. But we will definitely be investing in some of these pills for some our family members.

Hat-tip to The Telegraph.

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