i don't know of anyone that really wants to know.
or cares, for that matter.
but my parents & grandparents never experienced it.
they lived way back in the sticks and in the woods.
if they could grow it, or catch it, or kill it, they ate it.
this food poisoning stuff, what's it all about anyways?
When we were kids, no food was ever thrown out...even if it had mold on it or had been sitting around for a lot longer than anyone would have wanted. Lots of other food we ate was intentionally spoiled (i.e., fermentation, old milk curdling, etc.). To this day, I will eat food that others won't touch and I've had food poisoning a grand total of once in my 50 years, and that was from a packaged pastry from the supermarket that had something wrong with it.
The theory in our house is that we have conditioned our bodies to deal with all the nasty stuff that would usually result in food poisoning.
i don't know of anyone that really wants to know.
or cares, for that matter.
but my parents & grandparents never experienced it.
they lived way back in the sticks and in the woods.
if they could grow it, or catch it, or kill it, they ate it.
this food poisoning stuff, what's it all about anyways?
I've had it twice. The first time I was in my late 20s. It was from a package of frozen candied yams. I wasn't so much afraid that I was going to die as afraid I wouldn't. Constant vomiting.
Last time was just last year, and it put me in the hospital for about five days. It was from under-cooked chicken.
Got it bad from a KFC in ABQ 30 years ago coming home from a hunting trip. Threw up and schitt for 500 miles all the way home. I haven’t ate KFC since and won’t to this day.
I got it once in London from an Indian resturant,have not eaten Indian(dot) food since,27 yrs
I think my gut has a good tolerance to all foods ,but as I get older there are a few things that don't work out so well.
Once for me in 54 years. Carol made homemade pizza using mushrooms from a dented can, and we were both sick all night. Next morning I tried to get to sick call, but my number came up for a Whizz Quiz.
Of course the last thing you need to do in the morning after you spent the night crapping and puking is to take a whizz. They finally let me go after the base hospital called and requested my presence there for an IV and a checkup!
I seldom eat fast food, and Penny’s a nurse and she’s pretty anal about food prep and dirt!
7mm
Only time I ever got it was in the Johannesburg airport on the way back from SA.
Stepson got it in the Windhoek airport on the way back, too. Food poisoning on a loooong plane ride is no fun.
Having said that, it’s rarely serious. My son had a stopover in Singapore on his way back from Australia. He hit the first street food vendor he could find.
He’s a chef and wanted the food experience. He said “Food poisoning only lasts 24 hours, anyway.”
He got sick in Oz from eating some curried chicken that the Sri Lankan’s who lived upstairs made. He told them their bodies are used to bad chicken, his wasn’t.
Historically, cultures that used heavy spices like curries and hot peppers were covering up tainted meat.
E-Coli from a food vendor at a local Festival, I lost 10# in the first 24 hours.
Historically, cultures that used heavy spices like curries and hot peppers were covering up tainted meat.
Schits and a burning bung is Not a good combo,lol
E-Coli from a food vendor at a local Festival, I lost 10# in the first 24 hours.
There’s another good reason I don’t eat off of those kinds of stands.
Historically, cultures that used heavy spices like curries and hot peppers were covering up tainted meat.
Schits and a burning bung is Not a good combo,lol
That's sig line material right there!
mike r
Had it 2 times.
The first was a mild case and it was over in a week.
The last time i got it from a chicken pot pie.
This happened down in Houston back in the early 70's.
I had a stay in the hospital and it did take a while to get back the weight.
To this day i have not eaten one,i still like the taste of them but will not try them.
Turns out that there was a large shipment of them things that were bad.
I had it about 12 years ago from E. coli tainted peanut butter. It had been recalled but I found out too late. I was down and out for days. Shoulda sued somebody.
Only had it once. My fault. Frog leg gumbo.
I had to pull over on Highway 18 and hold onto the passenger door as my azzhole ejected everything I had eaten since I was 5 years old.
I had it about 12 years ago from E. coli tainted peanut butter. It had been recalled but I found out too late. I was down and out for days. Shoulda sued somebody.
Buddy got PAID by Chipotle a few years ago.
i don't know of anyone that really wants to know.
or cares, for that matter.
but my parents & grandparents never experienced it.
they lived way back in the sticks and in the woods.
if they could grow it, or catch it, or kill it, they ate it.
this food poisoning stuff, what's it all about anyways?
Wife said there is an E Coli outbreak right now.
I read somewhere once that the processing techniques of yesterday were less conducive to the spread of E Coli.
I find that hard to believe, but would like to find out why.,
Only had it once. My fault. Frog leg gumbo.
I had to pull over on Highway 18 and hold onto the passenger door as my azzhole ejected everything I had eaten since I was 5 years old.
Not much worse than having it out on the road while your driving!
It’s bad enough even stuck on the schitter at the house
i had it from old lunch meat. schit was in the fridge for god knows how long. me and a buddy come in one night allll fugged up and i threw that schit in a pan and dumped some bbq sauce on it and heated it and we ate about 2 pounds worth. next morning he calls me after my 20th trip to the throne giving me hell. we were both puking and schitting our brains out. i think if you looked down my throat you would have seen my feet.
one time 30 years ago bad oysters . no I don't eat any that I or a few family people get
Yaki mando in TDC Korea 1981!
Only had it once. My fault. Frog leg gumbo.
I had to pull over on Highway 18 and hold onto the passenger door as my azzhole ejected everything I had eaten since I was 5 years old.
LOL!
Paging Beaver10, Beaver10...
KFC
16yrs old
Bangor Maine
Hogan Rd " resturant" IIRC
I wouldnt wish those 2 or 3 days on any Conservative.
Lol!!!
think i got it a couple of times as a kid, haven't had a stomach problem in yrs.
Avoid the mayo and sour cream.
Fast food places, got me twice (same place about 6 months apart).
Put my kid in hospital (a different place got her).
Avoid the mayo and sour cream.
Fast food places, got me twice (same place about 6 months apart).
Put my kid in hospital (a different place got her).
And the Tuna Salad. I see folks ordering tuna salad sandwich’s all the time at Subway.
In the immortal words of ole Red Foreman... “Dumbasses”
i don't know of anyone that really wants to know.
or cares, for that matter.
but my parents & grandparents never experienced it.
they lived way back in the sticks and in the woods.
if they could grow it, or catch it, or kill it, they ate it.
this food poisoning stuff, what's it all about anyways?
Wife said there is an E Coli outbreak right now.
I read somewhere once that the processing techniques of yesterday were less conducive to the spread of E Coli.
I find that hard to believe, but would like to find out why.,
E Coli spreads because The dirty frigging Mexicans and Guatemalans don’t wash their hands after they chit and piss all over the fields while they’re picking veggies
i don't know of anyone that really wants to know.
or cares, for that matter.
but my parents & grandparents never experienced it.
they lived way back in the sticks and in the woods.
if they could grow it, or catch it, or kill it, they ate it.
this food poisoning stuff, what's it all about anyways?
Wife said there is an E Coli outbreak right now.
I read somewhere once that the processing techniques of yesterday were less conducive to the spread of E Coli.
I find that hard to believe, but would like to find out why.,
E Coli spreads because The dirty frigging Mexicans and Guatemalans don’t wash their hands after they chit and piss all over the fields while they’re picking veggies
^^^This^^^
I was poor and ate a sub sandwich 6 hours after a tailgate in 60 degree weather. I ended up in the ER at 2 in the morning. I had liquid coming out of both ends. I literally asked to die that night. I got 5 liters of saline in the ER and still didn't pee for 24 hrs.
Almost impossible to pin point what might of caused food poisoning. Could be caused by something you ate 3 days prior. Different type food groups can harbor different bacteria and all pretty much have different incubation periods. Only way to pin it down it to interview a lot of people who ate the same items and chart their symptoms.
Food borne infections are not related to how much of a bad item you might of consumed.
Food borne intoxication is directly related to how much of the bad item you did consume.
Yea, investigating source of food borne illness was my job for 20+ years.
Years as an over the road trucker have given me a bit of experience
With this.
The McDonald's on the eastbound side of the Ohio Turnpike
at the Pa line. No idea what the deal was, but I stopped there
numerous times on th e way home for the weekend. [bleep] my heart out
115 miles later right before the Somerset tunnel. Every time! Never got real sick...WTF!
Smartened up, went home hungry.
Have been seriously sick numerous times. In a truck, under load.
Needing to go, when you can't stop going(or puking) ain't no fun.
Quit that [bleep] (long haul) years ago, have only had it once since.
The worst time, wife and I were teaming, i would have went to the ER had
I been home. I didn't want to be hospitalized in Atlanta, and we were going to be home the next day. Figured it couldn't kill me in a day.
That one took several days to recover.
A friend and his wife were some of the first to get Sheetz' s bad lettuce.
60 odd years old, she had a transplanted liver. They both did ok, her a bit worse. She was still sick 2 days later, so he got a Sheetz sub for supper.
Round 2. That darn near fixed him.
Last year i consumed a giant breakfast burrito "freshly" prepared at the coolest market in Jackson, Wy. It was undeniably the best I have ever tasted. 6 hours later I was azz blastin to a poi 8' from the muzzle in the snowy woods of the Teton wilderness. No 3rd world food ever produced a more violent reaction. Never trust yuppie grub.
mike r
With respect to food poisoning, schiett happens.
With respect to food poisoning, schiett happens.
It that you Yogi ? 😜
Never had food poisoning. But my wife is a well trained restaurant cook and scrubs her hands about every five minutes in the kitchen. And my folks were very careful. Home canned veggies were boiled for a substantial time to neutralize any possible botulism toxin. And nobody left picnic foods to warm in the sun.
E coli does not worry me much. It was a daily item of my diet in my days milking cows. But Salmonella is scary. We are very careful with raw eggs and mayonnaise. And
Momma will not even touch a piece of raw chicken unless she is wearing gloves, and washes the counter with bleach water after.
Never got it from food I prepared.
Last time was airport food on a layover. Never again will I willingly eat at an airport or have airline food.
Takes about a month to die of starvation. Most flights are shorter than that.
I had it once a half hour or so I had an apptly named Grizzly Burger. Owner of the 2 place "chain" was Tony Knowles.
He was as crappy as Governor of Alaska and mayor of Anchorage as he was a resturaunteer. Fugged the state up as badly as he did my guts.
Closed his burger places about a month later - apparently I wasn't the only one, but it was kept hushed up. IIRC this was between Mayor and Gov.
Not being a germaphobe, actually thinking a person's immune system needs some exposure to everyday bugs to stay working, my sanitation measures are basically those of my childhood. Did get food poisoning exactly once. Must have been the burger at Mickey D's in Rawlins. Had an audit and got checked into a motel in Salt Lake City before it hit. Memorable experience, remember thinking ambulance time but didn't have the energy to roll over and pick up the phone. Started Friday evening. By Monday was good enough to show up at the audit site. That must have been forty years ago - like I said, it was memorable.
Funny thing, when on the road most of us picked a national chain because they were standardized and reliable.
I’ve had it damn near every time I go to satans ass hole....aka Mexico. I had beaver fever from camping and swimming in the mouth of a crystal clear creek. I was towing the boat back from one corner of the state to the other and was puking for the entire 8 hour trip while driving.
I eat raw hamburger meat often, always have. Have a craving for it sometimes.
I'll stop at the Publix, get me about a lb of some of that in-store grind chuck.
A bottle of garlic season and a fresh deli rolls.
Sit in the parking lot and eat it.
My transplant team would take turns kickin my ass up between my ears if they knew it.
I can't remember that last time I was ever actually down from 'food poisoning'
I refuse to eat at Subway, that place just gives me a bad vibe. To me it has all the elements of FP. Slimy meat, brown lettuce, room temp mayo, no givin a shît teenage workers and usually some filthy ass asian indians running the joint. God only know what they'll refuse to throw out. Durka durka, no no no dis still good.
lotsa of good case studies on here for the astute reader.
i got hep A markers in my blood work.
thoughts are it came from dirty shellfish out of savannah.
it very well might not have, might have been biloxi, or PCB.
anyways i ate a lot of farm dirt when a little one, an ankle biter.
had to be wormed several times, or maybe it was de-wormed?
i disremember, but lot's of worm opportunities on a dirt farm.
at lunch down in atlanta in the building basement at the greasy spoon.
it must have been green and greasy. i blew it all out late that afternoon.
On one visit to Germany a friend and I each had a massive crap attack hit precisely the same time after eating identical sandwiches from a train station vendor several hours before. A second friend had no sandwich and no crap attack. I don't know if it was food poisoning in the usual sense because a ride on the porcelain thunderbucket cured us right away, but it was intense.
All I know is we were always warned about the "toemain" poisoning and had to watch for the "samanellas" too. Mom refused to eat home canned stuff from our cousins' place, she was a city girl who had been brought up to be a Mom in the style of the late 40's and 50's. S&W and Bird's Eye were modern companies and would NEVER allow their customers to get the ptomaine poisoning. But my aunt and her canning jars and pots..........no way was mom allowing that stuff on her table. She would eat raw hamburger most any time it was being used for something for dinner though. Go figure, eh?
Can't ever remember getting it as a kid. I do remember getting a case on the Friday night of a Memorial Day weekend blowout we had yearly on the top of an 8000' foot mountain. We had brought up 3 kegs of Dark Lowenbrau when it was still imported from the Old Country, a house stereo and speakers, lot's of vinyl, and were prepared for the duration. Projectile vomiting is no fun, the first event barely got any on the foot of my sleeping bag when I shot straight up , bent at the waist, and became a vomit fire hydrant. Pissed me off as I figured it was going to ruin my beer drinking for the weekend. We didn't crack the kegs until late Friday night as some of the contributors had to work that day and didn't make it up the mountain until 11:00 or so. I managed to drag myself out of the sack long enough to have one glass, then back to bed and more puking. I was mostly over it the next morning, guess my body rejected it fairly well. Near as I can figure it was probably from the sides I got with my grilled ham and cheese sammi at the mom and pop place on the way up the hill from the city.
Had another not so fun time after eating a single serving frozen seafood dinner at work one night. Actually thought it might be because it had scallops in it and I'd never eaten them before. More likely, it had thawed somewhere along the line and been refrozen before it was sold to me. I didn't trust scallops for 30+ years after that even though I have no bad reactions to any other mollusc. A couple of years back I slowly worked myself into eating them and have no reaction. Frozen food can be problematic that way.
Then there's the Mexico experience, just different bugs in the water, but no fun nonetheless.
Worse than those experiences were the two cases of Giardia I've had......................no fun at all.
Puking from food poisoning is relatively easy, I had lots of practice during my wild days of drinking and carousing. Days on the crapper with Giardia are no thrill, along with the stinkingest gas imaginable.
Slumlord, I admire you. I wish I could sit down with some good raw burger now and again. I don't trust places nowadays. Used to be if I was going to cook a 16oz steak only 12 oz would make it to the grill from the cutting board. Had a steak a few weeks back and had to have some thin slices. Did the same with my tuna last night, had to have some sashimi. It wouldn't do justice to the fish if I didn't. (And I've got loads of training in what kind of parasites fish carry)
Oh, there's no "5 second rule" around me. I play it by ear and don't wear a watch. Probably depends on how high value the food that fell on the floor is, can it be rinsed off in the sink if there's a bit of dog hair and dust on it and still taste OK? Have always told my wife, since we met, that the "Geno Germs" will take care of 99% of whatever gets on it.
Geno
All I know is we were always warned about the "toemain" poisoning and had to watch for the "samanellas" too. Mom refused to eat home canned stuff from our cousins' place, she was a city girl who had been brought up to be a Mom in the style of the late 40's and 50's. S&W and Bird's Eye were modern companies and would NEVER allow their customers to get the ptomaine poisoning. But my aunt and her canning jars and pots..........no way was mom allowing that stuff on her table. She would eat raw hamburger most any time it was being used for something for dinner though. Go figure, eh?
Can't ever remember getting it as a kid. I do remember getting a case on the Friday night of a Memorial Day weekend blowout we had yearly on the top of an 8000' foot mountain. We had brought up 3 kegs of Dark Lowenbrau when it was still imported from the Old Country, a house stereo and speakers, lot's of vinyl, and were prepared for the duration. Projectile vomiting is no fun, the first event barely got any on the foot of my sleeping bag when I shot straight up , bent at the waist, and became a vomit fire hydrant. Pissed me off as I figured it was going to ruin my beer drinking for the weekend. We didn't crack the kegs until late Friday night as some of the contributors had to work that day and didn't make it up the mountain until 11:00 or so. I managed to drag myself out of the sack long enough to have one glass, then back to bed and more puking. I was mostly over it the next morning, guess my body rejected it fairly well. Near as I can figure it was probably from the sides I got with my grilled ham and cheese sammi at the mom and pop place on the way up the hill from the city.
Had another not so fun time after eating a single serving frozen seafood dinner at work one night. Actually thought it might be because it had scallops in it and I'd never eaten them before. More likely, it had thawed somewhere along the line and been refrozen before it was sold to me. I didn't trust scallops for 30+ years after that even though I have no bad reactions to any other mollusc. A couple of years back I slowly worked myself into eating them and have no reaction. Frozen food can be problematic that way.
Then there's the Mexico experience, just different bugs in the water, but no fun nonetheless.
Worse than those experiences were the two cases of Giardia I've had......................no fun at all.
Puking from food poisoning is relatively easy, I had lots of practice during my wild days of drinking and carousing. Days on the crapper with Giardia are no thrill, along with the stinkingest gas imaginable.
Slumlord, I admire you. I wish I could sit down with some good raw burger now and again. I don't trust places nowadays. Used to be if I was going to cook a 16oz steak only 12 oz would make it to the grill from the cutting board. Had a steak a few weeks back and had to have some thin slices. Did the same with my tuna last night, had to have some sashimi. It wouldn't do justice to the fish if I didn't. (And I've got loads of training in what kind of parasites fish carry)
Oh, there's no "5 second rule" around me. I play it by ear and don't wear a watch. Probably depends on how high value the food that fell on the floor is, can it be rinsed off in the sink if there's a bit of dog hair and dust on it and still taste OK? Have always told my wife, since we met, that the "Geno Germs" will take care of 99% of whatever gets on it.
Geno
on wknds out at the hood, i had the good fortune to work in the kitchen at the local recreation bowling alley.
i was kitchen boy, the lowest ranking member in all respects of the game.
most were e 6 and above. and a civilian ran the joint.
anytime something fell on the floor we were lucky.
as the fates would have it, it allus fell on clean paper.
it was on wknds i'm speaking of, not my real job.
I got it once in London from an Indian resturant,have not eaten Indian(dot) food since,27 yrs
I think my gut has a good tolerance to all foods ,but as I get older there are a few things that don't work out so well.
I got one in London once too. Nasty GI infection sent to the hospital for 4 days after I got back.
Paging Beaver10, Beaver10...
Never had it...Don’t know nothing about it...
Now drinking a bottle of prescription Colon Blow will refresh your memory on things you ate a year ago...💩😛😎
i suspect the digestive system of humans is a pretty tough environment.
lot's of microbes of various denominations just making a living.
the ecology of a gi system is probably very complex.
keeping our friends alive, and doing it humanely...
I eat raw hamburger meat often, always have. Have a craving for it sometimes.
Ditto.....something my Dad taught me. Guys at the firehouse gag when I consume some while making a meatloaf for the evening dinner. Buncha millennial pussies...
there's the likelihood or possibility that we might be fortunate enough to pick up bugs who are willing to travel with us from the earliest beginnings?
that is, in our upper and lower gastronomics there are eco-systems that reside there-in who are agreeable to traveling with us?
i'm pretty sure the dogs and cats in our family are very familiar with our gastro-economics.
whether the gold fish are, i have no clue. but perhaps they're traveling with us, too?
Fistful of raw burger, salt and pepper. That's good.
Throw that frozen burger in the skillet, let it brown good on one side.
Flip that sucker over, use the spatula to cut the loose stuff off the meatcicle.
Eat that.
Browned meat on one side, cold on the other.
Wife says I'm going to get worms.
I hope.
Eat all I want,
still lose weight!