Seems like every week one hears about one meat/vegetable recall or another, so I’m wondering if any of you have been sick from eating tainted meat?
I hope not!
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One reason my wife and I have stopped eating fast food and/or eating at certain other restaurants is because we fear getting sick, Docta G, and it’s obvious that with quotes such as, “Smells like money to me,” it’s only going to get worse.
Your nick indicates you may be in the medical field. So was I (as a respiratory therapist), and I’d be willing to bet that not even 5 out of10 restaurant workers know proper handwashing technique, and some may not even bother after leaving their restrooms.
We may not get to see this in the theater, but we will definitely rent it when we can.
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The worst food poisoning I’ve ever experienced was from a very respectable Mexican restaurant in Kansas City, with two weeks of bloody diarrhea and projectile vomiting.
I don’t believe I’ve ever gotten sick from any fast food, as they have standards that smaller restaurants lack. They tend to have a carefully worked out set of health standards and compliance officers, while the one or two location local place has, at most, a few knowledgeable employees. The small place is more likely to push the envelope on safety with food they bought than someone working for a faceless corporation that has deeper pockets to protect.
A friend of mine got severe food poisoning from sushi. My brother still makes fun of him for eating sushi in Arkansas. (“Do you know how far away we are from the ocean?”) Of course, what happened to him was a real fluke. That restaurant is still going strong years later.
We suspect my father got sick from the bad peanut butter a few years back. He’d been sick and miserable for a while, and didn’t tell us. When they recalled the peanut butter he stopped eating it, and suddenly felt fine.
Heh.
Food poisoning twice in my life - once from fresh salsa from a health food store. Once from - don’t know what the culprit was, but after eating a gargantuan home-cooked meal in Egypt.
Everyone on this board is infected with E. coli. It’s usually harmless and even beneficial. It’s only the few exceptions that are a problem.
As for food poisoning, I’m sure I’ve had mild cases of salmonella in the past.
“Salmon Ella”? Wasn’t she that fish monger who sold bad salmon because she didn’t wipe her ass well enough after taking a dump and never washed her hands? 
A contemporary of “Typhoid Mary”, I believe?
No?
Well, then…
Quasi
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Got it, or at least I think that was it, in Amarillo in 1984. It hurt like hell, I don’t know exactly what place I got it from, and it lasted a while. In desperation, I dosed myself with bourbon that I’d sneaked into my college dorm room.
Not a recommended therapy but I was feeling fine a short time later.
Yes. From something some well meaning friends brought over after a tragic death in the family. I had to leave the memorial, quickly…and was too sick to go to the funeral.
I think it was the fried chicken.
Sitting on the pot with my head in the trash can. Fun times.
I’d like a second opinion, but I very much doubt you are going to get one of the virulent strains of E. coli from a restaurant worker who hasn’t washed his hands. We are all of us loaded with E. coli; I read somewhere that the average human turd consists of 25% E. coli and it is perfectly normal. The virulent strains come from farm animals who have been raised with antibiotics and have nurtured antibiotic-resistant strains. And then their shit runs off into the nearest stream, which is used to irrigate lettuce.
When I worked in a lab as an undergraduate, E. coli was considered so benign that we used to pipette it with an open pipette. I never swallowed any, but I was assured that if I did it would be perfectly harmless.
Now typhoid and even cholera are a different story. You can certainly get them from a careless restaurant worker.
Thanks, Hari! You being a Medical Technician (I hope that’s the ciorrect, word. Sorry if it isn’t, but I didn’t just wanna say “Lab tech”.)
In Atlanta, several years ago, White Water (a slide and pool thing) had to be closed because they found e.coli. in the water.
Maybe some of our Doctor friends will check in and let us know!
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