Question Of The Day - Thursday 31 May

[GemsGem]

Hi everyone


Have you ever had food poisoning ? If so, what from ?



I have had food poisoning once about 10 years ago from a cheese sauce. I was really ill, I lost over a stone in 3 days

 

[Katie M]

My whole family got it from a McDonald's. The only thing we all had in common was fries. Ruined a vacation

 

[1CatOverTheLine]

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Eight or nine years ago, yes - from Cashew nuts of all things. I'd rather have another Snowshoe Cat than food poisoning!
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[micknsnicks2mom]

yes, from a McDonald's cheese burger. never again......

 

[aliceneko]

I've had it several times, twice from Christmas dinner at restaurants (never with home cooked Christmas dinner). I get pretty bad food poisoning that feels like a death sentence. It's horrible - I'm not normally someone who gets physically sick often; but it's always so violent when I have food poisoning.

 

[kashmir64]

I had it when I was around 10.

 

[Willowy]

I got food poisoning from 10-day-old deli turkey once (it smelled fine, and tasted fine!). That's the only time I've even gone home sick from work. That's also the only time I was 100% sure it was food poisoning.

There have been other times when I had a lesser upset tummy but never knew if it was actual food poisoning or just something that disagreed with my digestion.

 

[Etarre]

Once after eating chicken at a relatively fancy restaurant and once after eating pastrami at a very famous NY deli.

Thankfully, both were relatively mild cases.

 

[muffy]

I never had food poisoning. I though it was because I was vegetarian but I see that is not always true.

 

[Draco]

I've had upset tummies from things I've eaten, but never food poisoning. I can't imagine how terrible it feels

 

[Mother Dragon]

The worst case of food poisoning I ever had occurred on a motorcycle trip. We were staying in San Antonio but rode up to Austin to visit my husband's brother. I wanted to eat at the famous Threadgill's. I was the only one who had squash casserole. By the time we rode back to the motel that evening, I was worshipping the porcelain goddess every way possible. The problem continued the next day and I was so sick my husband rode home and came back with the car. By that time I was pretty much over it. However, I lost several pounds on Mother Nature's Quick Weight Loss Diet. And I never went back to Threadgill's.

 

[raysmyheart]

I had food poisoning thirty years ago from eating seafood at the coast and another time about thirteen years ago from chicken salad. Luckily those were the only times in my life I was stricken by food illness.

 

[denice]

I had it once years ago from a sausage biscuit at McDonald's. It didn't taste right. I spit out the bite I had taken and threw it away but it still got me. Luckily it was the tamer version, the one called the Buffet Germ. I was super sick for about two hours, sickest I had ever felt. I took a nap and woke up with a horrible headache I assume from dehydration. I drank two of the old 16 ounce returnable bottles of Pepsi, the headache went away and I was fine.

 

[neely]

Years ago I went out to lunch with my co-workers and got food poisoning from a restaurant's hot buffet. My co-workers told me the food may have not been cooked at the proper temp. or heated and re-heated. I wrote a letter to the city's Dept. of Health as well as the restaurant since I was retching.

 

[Willowy]

We're such delicate creatures, you have to wonder how our ancestors survived long enough to make babies. No refrigerators, no preservatives. . .no wonder everybody on the Oregon Trail died of dysentery .

 

[MonaLyssa33]

I have never had food poisoning. My sister and brother-in-law both got food poisoning from the leftover fried rice from their rehearsal dinner that had been left out too long. It happened a few days after the wedding so the wedding itself wasn't affected.

 

[phillip dale]

I had food poisoning about 20 years ago from a can of Cream of Mushroom soup. For about 3 days, my stomach felt like it had a knife scraping around in there. Haven't been able to eat any kind of mushrooms since then.

 

[margecat]

Years ago I went out to lunch with my co-workers and got food poisoning from a restaurant's hot buffet. My co-workers told me the food may have not been cooked at the proper temp. or heated and re-heated. I wrote a letter to the city's Dept. of Health as well as the restaurant since I was retching.

You did the right thing in reporting them. The food either was not cooked to the right temp, and/or was not being held at the right temp consistently. (I'm a licensed food service manager, BTW, and am qualified to oversee a professional kitchen to ensure that this stuff DOESN'T happen )

 

[betsygee]

Wow, I see a few McDonald's stories here. Glad I don't eat there.

I had it once about ten years ago from leftover coleslaw that my mom assured me was 'fresh.' Most horrible experience ever.

 

[cassiopea]

I got food poisoning some years ago from eating a carrots and dip package I bought at FIFA Women's World Cup match in the stadium shopping area.

I didn't want to wait in a long line for expensive hotdogs or fries during half time, so I was content just quickly grabbing that at a veggie food booth to tie me over. It was pretty tasty and fine as I watched the rest of the game.


Until I got home and suuffffffeeeeerrreed!

I think it goes without saying that buying carrots and dip at a very crowded event like that during the summer was not smart.


I've had food poisoning before so it wasn't just that one time (Once because of soup, another because of salad etc) so I've become so much more diligent about these things. Ah, my delicate disposition