Tarrare, the Hungriest Man in History 

He died when he was 26!!! He did all of that in 26 years

I wonder if he ever used the phrase “I’m so hungry I could I eat a horse”

tarrare's stomach this tarrare's mouth that, no one thinks about how he shit out an entire box whole

I love the doctor's tone of "I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed" when he's asking if Tarrare ate an actual entire baby

"You're not you when you're hungry"

One of my (many) favorite bits from his Wikipedia page: "Members of the crowd carried him to the Hôtel-Dieu hospital, where he was treated with powerful laxatives. He made a full recovery and offered to demonstrate his act by eating his surgeon's watch and chain; M. Giraud, the surgeon, was unimpressed by the offer and warned him that if he did so, he would cut Tarrare open to recover the items." Damn.

I don't want to imagine the horror it would have felt to meet Tarrare on the battlefield

His habits are scary and gross but the most disturbing part is definitely the alleged cannibalism. The fact that it was purposeful to EAT THE CHILD but also the fact that he was just so hungry that that’s what he resorted to is terrifyingly disturbing

The wikipedia page says that he believed he died due to a fork lodged inside him. The last line? "The fork was never found."

For everyone wondering why he only got kicked out of the hospital: They couldn't prove that he actually ate the toddler. It was just as likely that someone stole the toddler.

I know this probably wouldn't have happened but imagine being an austrian soldier in the 1790s and all of a sudden a random Frenchman just charges in and starts eating your entire regiment, their supplies and your horses

What’s scary is that if somebody like Tarrare was able to exist back then, there probably isn’t anything keeping him from existing now.

You forgot to mention that before he died, he thought his sickness was caused by a golden fork he swallowed a year earlier They never found the fork in the autopsy

The all-you-can-eat restaurants' worst nightmare.

The rewatchability of this video is unique

“Yep, we got a goddamn demon on our hands” kills me every time 😂

An alien who put on human skin, forgot its mission, and just psychotically ate everywhere he went. That's how my mind processed this.

They should have sent him to eat all the enemy's supplies in middle of the night.

“Did you eat a FUCKING BABY” gets me every time

Hearing about him, I want to know what caused the physical characteristics. The thought that a human could have an oesophagus wide enough to see into the stomach is terrifying, but was that from birth or just an adaptation from all the odd things he ate over the years?

"Tararre, look at me" Tararre: *nervous baby eating sweats*

I really miss the 8 minutes ago when I didn't know who Tarrare was

3:06 the way sam says "now, this is hair-clenchingly horrifying for a couple of reasons" always gets me

Love terrare's face once he got caught for the baby situation. He actually looks regretful,and kinda guilty yet he knows he did it on purpose

I used to think about tarrare constantly like his story haunted my dreams for years and I finally forgot only to be reminded of him here

imagine telling the parents that their baby was eaten alive by a deformed demon like human

Here's a 70's advertising jingle for you. "Have you fed Tarrare today?"

There was a similar man, known as Charles Donery/Donerz who was (supposedly) a Pole ser:ing in Prussian army. The notable differences were that Donery started exhabiting symptoms at 13, was considered quite handsome, looked absolutely normal and was sweating mostly around the time of his sleep. It is also worth to note that he claimed that his many siblings suffered from the same condition and that like them his father preferred raw meat and ate a lot (he couldn't exactly remember if it was as abnormal as in his case) He most notably ate grass, candles, live cats (he killed them first if he wasn't particularily starving), rats and tried to eat a severed leg of his fellow soldier once but was stopped. Other than that he was absolutely normal, liked to smoke tobacco and it seemed that he suffered much less than Tararre, because none of the accounts of him seem to indicate he was in particular distress due to his condition Oh and he also fought in the war of the first coalition, just at the Prussian side

“Where’s the infant” Tararre: *[REDACTED]*

Girl: Show me what that mouth can do. Tarrare: * eats entire eel *

What I find to be the craziest about Tarrare is the fact that he ate that eel. Eel blood is extremely deadly (when raw, the poison is nullified when cooked) and causes your heart to stop even from very small amounts, and yet somehow he ate an entire raw eel and was fine.

Imagine if a woman ever asked him "Can you eat ass?" and than she ended up like that guy after the Alaskan Bull Worm take a bite out of him

All you can eat restaurants: I fear no man But that thing *points at tarrare* It scares me

After years of selective breeding, we did it boys. We made Kirby!

I love the fact that this guy existed, not for any reason but just to show that anyone can do anything even if said things aren't what anyone ever wanted to do in the first place.

SO NOBODY'S GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW BRO WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO RIP A LIVE CAT APART😨

He was considered sane, too. No indication that he was suffering from any real mental condition. Imagine just being fully conscious of how degrading and horrible it is to eat all that garbage and fight stray dogs for food but you literally have to do it because you are completely consumed by ravenous hunger and no matter how well you may know on a rational level that eating bodies is horrifying you still do it because you are just that hungry and you have no real choice.

What a terrible day to have eyes

5:50 "Did you eat a f*cking baby?" I BURST OUT INTO LAUGHTER HELP-

Tarrare: eats rotting dead humans, from the cemetery. Raw. Sam (and most people watching):”Alright. Guess he must have been hungry🤷‍♂️”

Tarrare:. What's for dinner. Girl: I am. Tarrare: poor choice of words.

imagining him as a real human makes me want to rip my eyes out

Back when i was in high school there was this guy in one of my classes that repeated this script nearly verbatim to a bunch of people and claimed it as his own research

Ok but did he try drinking water? Sometimes you feel hungry but just need water

_Tarrare is just a vore standard to artists._

Poor guy, born in a time before snickers and he suffered because of it

Are we not going to mention how Tarrare CRUSHED an eel skull with his TEETH

1:48 so what you're saying is Tarrare had the first ever mukbang channel.

*"you could make a religion out of thi-"* *"no don't"*

Eats entire cows Steals Food Eats whole eel Drinks blood Eats half a cat Eats dead humans Eats and poops out box *"And then one day he took it too far"*

Imagine tarrare was actually a new species of human that couldnt multiply itself making him the first and last of his theorized species

So you´re telling me... he crushed an eel skull between his teeth... and ripped a live cat in half... Nah Bro isn´t human

His parent definitely misnamed him. His real name is Terror.

I love that his Wikipedia page ends with "The fork was never found."

He lived as he died, via Consumption.

Its hard to believe someone like this exists its incredible

Everyone ripping on Tarrarre when they've never even tried a Dutch baby.

Ironically, "Not every story has a moral, some things are just sad and disgusting" actually works pretty well as the moral of a story.

This guy is the closest possible thing to SCP-913, Mr. Hungry. They can both eat literally anything and have a nonstop appetite.

Honey wake up it’s time for our yearly SamONella Tarrare video rewatch

if tarrare was alive today, he'd have a mukbang channel

This guy was the literally physical incarnation of gluttony like holy hell

This is genuinely scarier than most horror movies.

My guy could close all you could eat buffets

The dude ate dead bodies and a baby and everyone was just like "ayy classic tarrare"

Baby: *crying* Tarrare: "shh, little child, *I must äbsőrb yøuř ñuťriənťş"*

He wasn’t commiting the sin of Gluttony, he was just actually hungry, he needed the food.

Why is Sam 100 times better than any other history teacher?

X: Hey Tarrare, we're going out to eat. What do you want? Tarrare: yES

When the doctor said “Tarrare... look at me” even I got nervous

i cant help but wonder what the fuck wouldve happened if tararre ever smoked a fat blunt

I told this story in my class and everyone was petrified. Thank you.

this guy is a goddamn SCP

This guy's biography reads like an SCP article.

2:58 The pause and eventual delivery of the revelation from the eel line is perfectly, PERFECTLY done

If Tarrare were alive today he would destroy every other mukbanger at a food eating contest

Tarrare: *_exists_* All-you-can-eat restaurants: not stonks

I’ve watched this video at LEAST 12 times, but RU-vid just keeps re-recommending it to me over and over at different monthly intervals… And ofc I watch it every single time.

This is an actual condition. I saw a video a few months ago of a little girl with the same problem. She's a normal little girl, the problem is the aching hunger that never goes away ni matter how much she eats. She'd sneak out of the house at night when everyone is asleep to dig through trash. It's really sad. Her family is so distraught for her.

Some extra things left out in the video: He apparently was always burning hot and would get hotter the more he ate, so much so that there were visible vapors reeking off him. The skin around his torso apparently stretched so far that he could wrap it around his fucking waist like a goddamn skin blanket. The surgeon-in-chief of the hospital, Baron Percy, stated this of Tarrares animal eating escapades: "The dogs and cats fled in terror at his aspect, as if they had anticipated the kind of fate he was preparing for them" Apparently Tarrare died from eating a fork which they never actually found during the autopsy. Though this is just speculation on behalf of Terrare himself. Also, his corpse rotted much faster than a usual corpse (not a big surprise) so much so that the surgeons at the hospital originally completely refused to perform the autopsy on that literal hellspawn. Fucking terrifying.

Tarrare presumed to have eaten a 14 month toddler. "Guess he was hungry"

“ Yeah we got a goddame demon on our hands “ bro is literally the sin of gluttony

"My hungry a** could never take care of a baby"

I love how Tarrare doesn’t say a single word in this video, thus solidifying the idea that he’s some kind of demon with no desire but to consume everything

Fun fact: "Tarrare" is not his real name which is lost to history. "Tarrare" is a french onomatopoeia for "Explosion".

I watched this three times in one weekend. It never gets old

"Did you eat a fucking baby." MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD

Me: **get’s throat poked with edge of cheez-it** OW! Tarrare: **gets poked with 40 needles** *M U S T C O N S U M E L I F E J U I C E*

The real question is: *did it hurt when he pooped the box?*

Doctor: Tarrare. Look at me… Did you EAT a fucking baby!? Tarrare: *sweats profusely*

If gluttony was a person

Mom: go play with the neighbour’s kid The neighbour’s kid:

This is the man that mukbangers worship and pray to as their god.

I've watched this video like 4 times and still haven't gotten bored at all.

Still rewatching this..

Hypothesis: He had a portal to hell in his stomach.

Fun fact for those still discovering this video: at roughly the same point in history as Tarrare's life, a Polish man named Charles Domery was found to have a very similar upbringing, also became a Prussian war soldier, and had almost the exact same symptoms as Tarrare. However, Tarrare's name was never confirmed to be his legal name, and the only proof of Charles Domery's existence is one medical journal from 1799 penned by Drs. J. Johnston and Thomas Cochrane. Therefore, it's possible that Tarrare and Domery may have been the same person under different aliases.

“With great devour comes great responsibility” had me *wheezing*

love your story telling. cheeky.