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Paul Rodriguez Blames Illness on Smut Mishap

Posted Oct 8th 2009 12:45AM by TMZ Staff

Paul RodriguezSo turns out a fungus might have sent Paul Rodriguez to the ICU -- and get this ... he actually ordered it as an appetizer.

We're told the comedian was at a Mexican joint in Washington D.C. where he got the "Carne Asada Plate" ... but he started things off with a dish containing huitlacoche -- a corn fungus also known as "corn smut" -- and that's what he thinks made him sick.

It may be a Mexican delicacy, but there's nothing delicate about spending three days in the hospital.

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Tags: corn smut, CornSmut, food poisoning, FoodPoisoning, huitlacoche, mexican food, MexicanFood, paul rodriguez, PaulRodriguez

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1. First!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 12:47AM on Oct 8th 2009 by Simone

2. Im mexican and I've never even hear of that...sound pretty gross though...

Posted at 2:08AM on Oct 8th 2009 by Nellie

3. Glad your doing better paul. You were always in our thoughts and well wishes. Take care.
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Posted at 4:48AM on Oct 8th 2009 by Rob Jenkins

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Posted at 6:48AM on Oct 8th 2009 by TMZ INFO

5. Hey Kooky ... any recipes for corn smut ??? ..... lol

Posted at 8:15AM on Oct 8th 2009 by I'm hungry

6. He should have just gone to Mexico and drink the water.

Posted at 8:41AM on Oct 8th 2009 by justsaying

7. I'd bet anything that NO.5 is a WASP. That word has all the trademarks.

Posted at 8:47AM on Oct 8th 2009 by justsaying

8. damn mexicans will eat anything. from screwing donkeys, to killing bulls as a sport, to chicken fighting to eating fungus. definitly 1 species on this plant that we could live without

Posted at 9:30AM on Oct 8th 2009 by mmafighter4life

9. Hey TMZ.. if you are going to constantly cover Paul, make it positive... or do you oppose how he is trying to help the farmers/farm workers in the Central Valley...??? Why don't you use all this press and time of yours to bring light to the situation down there.... Get the water turned back on... Help this guy help all those 1,000s of people in the Central Valley get their farms back and running...... do you not realize how many people are out of work?? do something positive with your time and don't just report stupid gossip!!

Posted at 10:25AM on Oct 8th 2009 by sL

10. Corn smut IS gross! It's a fungus that attacks corn stalks. It used to grow on our farm's corn. It looks like a disease. I can't believe anybody would eat this.

http://plant-disease.ippc.orst.edu/plant_images/corn_smut_ear2_99.jpg

Posted at 12:08PM on Oct 8th 2009 by Milly

11. # 9 That's just what I was going to say! You beat me to it.

Posted at 11:16AM on Oct 8th 2009 by ME

12. NO.7 is wrong as usual ... i'm a hornet ....LMFAO!!!!!

Posted at 12:18PM on Oct 8th 2009 by justreplying

13. Paul Rodriguez: "Hmmmmmmm, I wonder if eating all that ROTTEN CORN could have made me sick???"......... "Nah, it couldn't be that,.......Hey waiter, bring me some more Peruvian Guinea pig tartare, a plate of Escamoles and a Corona to wash it down!" His dining habits are as rancid as his so-called 'jokes'.

Posted at 12:20PM on Oct 8th 2009 by Al K. Sellzur

14. have you ever eaten mushrooms? mushrooms are a fungus people! i've had huitlacoche and it's actually quite tasty. eating a fungus does not make you sick--poor food handling and preparation do.

Posted at 12:37PM on Oct 8th 2009 by hello

15. I once took a job for college money picking fields of corn, my cousins went with me. We worked until it was dark, thus couldn't see the smut on the ears as we grabbed. It's really gross and mooshy, Think of a corn kernel with severe athlete's foot disease. We had nightmares of it.

Then I met a guy who actually eats it. I thought it was a hillbilly thing. He eats it fried.

Posted at 11:55PM on Oct 8th 2009 by buckitz

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