moriah said:
Kat replied:
Food poisoning, kids… same thing. You usually have to go to the hospital to get your stomach pumped and you feel bad for a while afterwards.
What stumps me is why people keep doing the same thing all over again that brings back the same condition.
Peace.
I’ve ended up with a serious case of salmonella poisoning TWICE,and i’m only 28…One was from bad eggs in French Toast at a greasy spoon diner, and once from chicken at a restaurant. I will never, ever take my chances on chicken or eggs in a restaurant. I just can’t do it. Lets just say that both times I prayed to God almighty to just take me already and end the suffering. If Dr. K was in the neighborhood, I’d have maxed out my Visa to pay him. It’s unreal. I figured it was payback for being such a rotten kid.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
rolls eyes I’ll repeat it for you: “No and yes but, ummmm, for a different reason.”
Meaning, first: no, I haven’t had your “24 hour flu whose symptoms were only vomiting and/or diarrhea (with a slight fever)”.
And, yes, I’ve had your “stomach or intestinal cramping without being sick in any other way” but I can assure you it was not caused by food poisoning of any kind. Think about it a little bit, 'kay? Get back to me if you can’t figure it out.
“It’s bacon!!”
I remember my wife and I had received a recipe for chocolate mousse from my grandmother, who lives in Boston. We went to Chicago, made the mousse, and my mother-in-law would not let any one eat it because of the raw eggs and threat of salmonella. We weren’t sure what to do, so we decided to call my grandmother.
Us: “Is there any problem with the mousse as far as salmonella?”
Her: “What are you talking about? There’s no salmon in this chocolate mousse!”
Hey what about the cookie dough in those log-type things you can get in the supermarket? I eat that stuff raw occasionally.
pasteurized eggs again, no worries. I’m pretty sure it says so on the package, actually.
Chalk up another respondant on the list of those who eat raw cookie dough, raw meat & sushi and have never been food poisoned. Actualy, once, when I was a kid, I got food poisoning but it was from a turkey sandwich. Like a previous poster I have a cast iron stomach and am very very very rarely ill. I haven’t taken a sick day for which I was actually sick in over 3 years. I was sick one or two days of college that I can remember (bronchitis). ::shrug::
OTOH, I am very paranoid about handling raw chicken & turkey. I don’t go out of way to eat raw eggs either. But I dont run in fear from licking the beater blades.
So why not just use pasteurized eggs for the things you’re likely to eat raw? I’ve been cooking with pasteurized eggs for years and haven’t had any problems, either with getting sick or with the quality/consistency of the finished product.
Well, the only thing I ever got from eating raw dough were extra pounds and a tummy ache once from eating so much of it! LOL.
I think the raw stuff tastes better than the cooked stuff.
Hell, I think I’ll go and get me some cookie loggage…
drooling
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While those * could * be symptoms of food poisoning, the underlined symptom occurs as often as several times a week for people with irritable bowels. Maybe once or twice it was food poisoning after eating cookie dough, but I really wouldn’t notice the difference if that’s all the distress it caused. I certainly wouldn’t chalk food poisoning up as the most likely cause of discomfort, though.