After going to a Halloween Dance last night, Jim and I stopped for a couple of Wendy’s cheeseburgers. We noticed they were slightly pink and pretty cold when we got them home, but we ate them anyway because we were starving and had waited for them for twenty minutes in the drive-through. (Okay, in hindsight, that looks like a pretty stupid decision. “Hey, this dangerous food looks even more dangerous than usual! Let’s chow down!”)
Anyway, today we’re both feeling a little off in the tummy region, and I’m wondering if it’s because of the bad burgers, or if it was Wendy’s poisoning it would be pretty damned obvious (ie both of us heaving chunks by now). Anybody got experience with slightly-off fast-food (yeah, duh, I know)? How long do symptoms take to occur? If we have to ask if we have food poisoning, does that mean we don’t have it? What do you do if you have it?
I’ve eaten at Jack in the Box twice in my life, and both times I woke up and spent the next day puking my guts out. I learned my lesson the second time, and will NEVER go back. Ever.
No. Fast food sits perfectly well with me. The only irregularities I ever experience are with more expensive sit-down food, and food from the school cafeteria. As much as I’d like to pick on fast food, I can’t; it’s always been good to me.
Of course, if I got a burger like that, I probably wouldn’t eat it.
Sonic is my culinary Sirens’ call onto the rocks of indigestion.
It doesn’t matter which Sonic or which burger I eat, but it gets me. This is unfortunate because in truly rural America (where I live) Sonic is one of the few fast food places that moves into small towns.
This means either don’t dine at Sonic or set aside time for post dining activities accompanied by less than enjoyable side effects.
Our local Sonic’s burgers are OK, but the time my wife tried the fish sandwich and I tried the grilled chicken breast sandwich, the fish patty was thin and had freezer burn and the chicken was tasty but Arby’s next door has more meat for less money. Nobody got sick, though.
Sonic’s cherry limeades are wonderful, BTW.
The whole family got sick in 1995 after eating at the Burger King on Rushmore Road, near the medical center. one of the kids threw up in the car on the way back to the motel, and the rest of us had" toxic gas" and diarrhea.
We vacation in that area every year and have avoided all Rapid City Burger Kings ever since. Never a problem with any other Burger king, Wendy’s or Arby’s–our 3 most-frequented fast food chains.
Other intense intestinal experiences were had at a now-defunct local Pizza Hut and at a local taco chain called Taco John’s.(Taco John’s started out in little stands no larger than the typical state park outhouse. Could that fact coupled with the food’s fast-flush action account for the name?)
I too, once ate an Arby’s roast beef sandwich. I didn’t actually vomit, but I felt like barfing for a good two hours. I haven’t, nor will I ever eat at Arby’s again.
I feel sick every time I eat Burger King, but I never barf. And I still eat Burger King, I don’t know why I punish myself.
I get the, um, runs every single time I eat any burger from Burger King. It only took 4 or 5 times for me to decide to never eat there again. I don’t have a problem with McDonalds or Jack in the Box burgers, so I’m not sure what they do over at Burger King, but every. damn. time!
Actually, I’ve read that after the Jack in the Box e. coli outbreak in 1993 they’ve installed a painstakingly detailed food safety policy, and it’s now pretty much one of the very safest places you can eat. Nothing like hindsight, eh?
Dairy Queen got me twice (once in Palestine, Texas and once in Texarkana, Arkansas) nearly 15 years ago. I haven’t eaten and never will eat a burger from any DQ again.
Wendy’s burgers = 24-hours of intestinal distress. They serve up tasty burgers, but the price is too high, gastro-intestinally.
I’ve had food poising twice in my life. Once from shrimp at one of my favorite resteraunts (I still go there, but avoid the shrimp), and once from the “Roach Coach” - putrid bacon on an egg sandwich. Of the two, the shrimp incident was worse. Much worse. I spent the better part of 36 hours semi-conscious, rising only to vomit and uh, well, some things are better left unsaid.
Just saw a program on BBC today. It stated that Burger King had a rule that if a burger is not sold within 10 minutes of it being made, it’s chucked into the bin.
Got sick from the same kind of situation - late night desperation leads to eating a cold Burger King burger - never eating another one of those again (memory of the result is too vivid). Doesn’t stop me from enjoying their chicken tenders though.
A Big Mac doesn’t taste anywhere near as good, or look anywhere near as deliciouis, coming up as it did going down.
The last time I ate at McDonald’s I was fine up until about 2:00 a.m. I then awoke to that awful feeling of having your dinner sitting right behind your Adam’s apple. I barely made it to the bathroom in time. There wasn’t any sort of virus going around at work, at the day care center, or in the neighborhood so I laid the puking squarely at the feet of Ronald McDonald.
As God is my witness, I’ll never eat McDonald’s again.
I don’t know what the normal elapsed time between ingestion and indegistion is, but I suspect that it is only a few hours. Sounds like your experience.