Did Indiana Jones Eat Poo?

After writing this article, I remembered a scene in Temple of Doom where Indy, Short Round, and Willie ended up in that village in India after jumping out of their doomed aircraft.

Welcomed by the villagers, they camp down inside a hut and the hosts bring the tired adventurers a meal. A meal which I tend to think was a plate full of shit.

It’s been pointed out to me via a script that it was supposed to be gruel.

The women bring in a bowl from which they scoop tiny portions of grey gruel onto three plates.

Please. It looked like dookie. It was colored like it, had flies buzzing around it which Willie had to swoosh away, and I’m sure it would have tasted like it, gruel or not.

While watching the movie you don’t have the benefit of referencing what the writers and directors saw in their literal vision. There was no mention of what it was in the movie dialog itself. Indy just notes that it’s “more food than these people see in a week,” and that they’re starving.

Add in the fact that later on in the movie Pankot palace serves snakes, bugs, monkey brains and eyeball soup, it’s not such a stretch to look back a half hour or so into the movie and come to the conclusion that the villagers may have been desperate enough to eat dung.

Am I the only one that thinks that was poo? Or at least, it was intentionally not mentioned as gruel in the dialog so that sick minds like myself would come to the conclusion that they serve shit casserole in the village when the evil of Kali Ma cause the crops to die?

It’s really not a huge stretch in my opinion.

If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, then it’s definitely a plate full of poo.