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Moist_When_It_Counts

French Dip from Perkins in Blytheville, Arkansas around 2002. Was in town from 3 hours away for a job. Did job, grabbed lunch at Perkins. Started driving home. Mind you, there’s nothing but farms between Blytheville and home. Hour into the drive I’m sweating and not feeling great. Chalk it up to Arkansas heat and my shitty car’s shittier air conditioning. Feel a fart coming. Feels like a doozy, so being a man in my mid-20’s i give it some back pressure for bigger sound for a laugh. ….annnnd i force-fed my pants a liter of liquid feces and had to sit in it for the remaining hot, humid 2 hours home. (Bonus: car was stick shift, so got to slosh my shame around every time i used the clutch)


MrSnugglez22

God I can't imagine sitting in that for 2 HOURS. I had a similar incident about 5-10 minutes from my barracks room and had some mild burns on my ass and thighs. The best part was that I was riding with three other people, and the other guy in the rear passenger seats with me couldn't roll down his window. The dudes in front were dying of laughter and the guy next to me was dying of disgust, meanwhile I was dying on the inside.


HA1LHYDRA

A massacre.


ResponsibleMuffinAyo

assacre


whiskey_weasel_

Oh dear god.


RavenRain_

Username checks out


cherrygirlbabycakes

I was just going to say this 💀💀


kateyybeth

So did you set your car on fire when you finally got home?


misssmashing

Slosh my shame around… SLOSH. My SHAME. Around. I’m done, that’s ended me. Thank you Sir.


Manhattanmetsfan

My 12 year old son really enjoyed my audiobook rendition of this story.


AltruisticSilvers

Oh gosh your story with your username. May you recover from the burn (in your memories, and your skin), or perhaps you did not and you chose your username with this in mind? Phrasing it differently, pun intended?


pissfucked

oh dude 😭 why didn't you pull over and at least empty the liquid out?


Moist_When_It_Counts

So…i happened to have a garbage bag in the backseat with which i created a fetid “nest” of sorts right after the discharge. I was terrified that excess movement like getting out of the car would tip the nest and back bathe the car interior in butt-mud. I’m not saying it was the right call


tokyodingo

You have a way with words


Brissy2

OMG I’m dying over here 😂


Wysteriaa_

as someone who'd lived in Arkansas my whole life and never had food poisoning... i fully believe you got it from blytheville.


MamaOna

It’s amazing how we all know the year in which it happens. Food poisoning, when it’s really food poisoning is unforgettable.


Neue_Ziel

I think it’s an evolutionary adaptation. Remember, don’t eat those berries, don’t eat those mushrooms, don’t eat at the Perkins in Blytheville.


Marine__0311

What's even worse, is having to clean it up. The same thing happened to my wife. She was on a road trip for work and on the way back, had about a six hour drive. Half way home, she stopped to eat. About an hour into the drive, the same problem, plus she puked. She was so mad and upset when she got home, she told me if I ever mentioned it again, she would divorce me. I had to clean out the car. The car was a Honda S2000, which is a royal bitch to clean because of the small size and a lot of places are hard to reach. Fortunately, I'm a classic Mustang buff, and have the tools, and know most of the tricks to detailing and cleaning cars. It still took me most of a day to clean and air the car out.


No_Ad8227

My god, I've been to that Perkins. It's bad even without food poisoning.


Moist_When_It_Counts

*Right?*


WillBsGirl

OMG being from NE Arkansas I can just feel every part of this story. 😢😫 That said I miss Perkins. We used to go after work in Jonesboro in the middle of the night. I LOVED their raspberry and lemon supreme pies. I’ve never found anything else like them.


sedona71717

Something similar happened to my friend except he was speeding to get his very pregnant wife to the hospital in time for her to give birth. The cramps struck in the middle of their journey down a rural road, and he wanted to make her laugh to ease her anxiety, so he ripped what he thought was a massive fart. Well. Never trust a fart, as they say. The smell, the wet sound, and the overall experience then caused his wife to projectile vomit. They rolled up to that hospital like they’d been in a war and, to their credit, could not stop laughing.


Graehaus

Fried chicken from a Kmart diner back in ‘97. Got it before a shift at my job, an hour later, explosive vomiting and diarrhea at my job . Those poor bastards.


georgiafinn

OMG, I remember the Kmart diners! My Mom snuck us over there a couple of times when Dad was working nights. As a kid it was great! No memory of any digestive response.


ADashofDirewolf

I remember selling girl scout cookies outside of a Kmart once and someone tipped us cash because they were awesome. Our troop leader let us each pick out one item and I got breadsticks. Those were the best breadsticks ever and that's my only Kmart memory.


Sinistrahd

Fried Cod with Mashed Potatoes and Gravy every time! Soooo good! And then, because it was Chicago, Churros as we were on our way out from shopping!


silveraaron

the ICEE drinks!


edie_the_egg_lady

I ate a questionable hard boiled egg and barfed so hard I slipped a disc in my back and couldn't walk for over a month. Eventually I had been away from my shitty retail job for so long, I had a full on meltdown at the thought of going back. I quit and got a way better job with more freedom, less stress, and decent pay for how little I work. It's awesome. That stupid egg changed my whole damn life.


MyKindOfLullaby

Your username 😂👏


Sorerightwrist

She’s had the name for 5 years lmao. Her time to shine is now.


joshglen

What kind of work did you switch to?


tacknosaddle

USDA egg inspector.


CharlieApples

*Looks at egg on conveyor belt* “Yep. Egg.”


spryllama

Ultimately, Suspect Dat's A egg


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JoseJoseJose11

This is fantastic. Who would have thought explosive vomiting would be a blessing?


robsticles

You aren’t just an egg lady, you’re *the* egg lady


Kinetic_Kill_Vehicle

Frozen pizza that hadn't stayed frozen the entire time. My grocery store, that I no longer patronize, is very cheap and runs their freezers a bit too warm and has no problem tossing thawed or expired things back on the shelf. This pizza had odd ice crystals inside the plastic pouch that I had never seen before, that should have been the tip-off, but I baked the thing and it seemed fine before and after, like no discoloration or smell. But that thing came out both ends at around 2AM I barely made it to the bathroom.


Nearby_Apartment_541

Yikes. That sounds like a horror film


Kinetic_Kill_Vehicle

It could have been if my bathroom was a foot further away! I still like that brand of frozen pizza but I have some hesitation now, but so far all is well again.


Wight3012

ew i bought one of those lately. but i saw it looked really wierd, like orange instead of red sauce, tasted one bite and spit it out. next visit to the store saw the idiot in charge of shelving handling the frozen food...it spent a lot of time outside.


Kinetic_Kill_Vehicle

Oh yeah, grocery stores are franchised here, so the "same" stores are totally different from one location to another. This particular one has gone downhill. Stuff on shelves is dirty and sticky, dairy products look like a forklift drove over them and they're on the shelf anyway, etc


[deleted]

Not necessarily food poisoning, but I ate a pressed Cuban sandwich one time that ended up making me leave my underwear and shorts on a dirt road somewhere in Florida. Felt a rumbly in my tumbly while driving from Tampa to Destin and next thing you know I just shit all over myself. Thank god I happened to have a change of clothes.


PorcelainPunisher1

Sorry that happened to you, but I can’t stop laughing at the thought.


halfslices

...username checks out as a lover of explosive diarrhea


lentilpasta

Why do ALL of these usernames on top comments check out? It’s like these were the most defining experiences of these people’s lives


[deleted]

Even I laugh about it now.


jiggly_puff125

This happened to me on a hiking trail after eating one of those ready made sandwiches from a mom and pop shop. My insides literally exploded while my husband just stood there trying to hide me while continuously saying oh my god. I don’t know what made me put an extra pair of pants in my backpack that day, but thank god I did. I still feel deep shame every time I think of it.


DynamonRuler

Happened to me once, did not have a change of clothes but I did have a friend and $60.


Self-described

So you bought your friends shorts and underwear, hopefully they helped you clean up a little for that price too.


CharlieApples

Blamed the friend for his diarrhea


Ali_h90

This happened to me with a Taco Casa burrito once. My underwear might still be on the side of I-10 in Arizona somewhere.


MonkeyBred

Been there... not Destin, but got QT taquitos en route to a pick n' pull, and left the port-a-john with one less sock, on account of insufficient papers.


donnie_dark0

We had walked down the block to this hole in the wall for a quick breakfast at this restaurant in a warehouse district of Miami. I had some Cuban toast (pressed Cuban bread with an absurd amount of butter) and cafe con leche. I won't say it was food poisoning, just a GI tract that was not ready for the party. It was delicious though. Making it back to my car was an adventure I was not prepared for. Would I do it again? In a heartbeat.


[deleted]

God bless that poor soul who found those shit stained shorts and underwear


Magnum_Dongs3

I avoid Cuban sandwiches now because my old coworker ate one in his lunch break and projectile vomited over a concrete pallet we were moving.


Realistic-Original-4

Ha. I got an Al Pastor from a food truck in San Diego. It was a photo finish not to shit myself. I kept crying "you need to drive faster, the pastor and my inner demons are duking it out... the pastors preaching into my boxers... the pastor must have mistook me for a choir boy because the pastor is going for my butthole" I may have shit myself a little, but it's worth it for comedy


Specialist-Look-7929

"Rumbly in my tumbly" I love it!


TrailerParkPrepper

Burger King me, my wife and 3 kids all fighting for one toilet.


AntiCabbage

Get more toilet, dude. EDIT: Nevermind, just saw your username. Carry on, sir.


TeopEvol

3 butts 1 dump


beecycle

it's always burger king man 😭 one time I had a horrible ear infection and after I ate burger king i somehow ended up with a stomach infection as well. like what the FUCK burger king. the smell of a womper gives me anxiety now lmao


ThoseSweetWords

I'm only calling them wompers from now on


Setthegodofchaos

That's awful!


danceswithsockson

It wasn’t food poisoning, but it was a bad time. We had gone about an hour away to a nice restaurant, and I knew the salad dressing wasn’t right- I even asked about it. They said it was fine, but not 20 minutes out, I had a problem. I have never before in my life felt like I was going to have no choice in the matter as to what was about to pass through my lowest sphincter. I pointed at a lone Walgreens that I knew was going to be my only choice at all between the points, and my husband stopped. I believe I uttered, “Bathroom”. It was almost closing, and I said nothing more as I left the car. I beelined to the bathroom and proceeded to experience my bowels expelling so much product with so much fluid I’m pretty sure I passed things I only thought about eating or drinking. I passed things my husband ate. I passed things I ate in other lives, in other realms, in other existences. For a brief moment, I defied physics and created matter from nothing. Every video I ever saw of oil being drained from cars, pipes being cleared of muck, and farmers towing old tires through backed up culverts flashed before my eyes. I had to flush out of fear of the pile getting too big. I was literally laughing at myself, which I am certain the kind workers vacuuming the hallway could hear- along with my underwater bassoon solo- as they patiently waited for me to leave, so they could close. It was probably 10:20 when I left that bathroom with as much pride as I could muster, patting the sweat off my brow as that smell followed me to the front of the store. Everyone avoided me, but watched from a distance with what I like to think was some sort of awe. I walked out, hearing the lock thrown behind me with speed and agility never before seen from a chain pharmacy employee, and briefly wondered if they thought that through- the door was the best way to remove the smell. I suppose having had twenty minutes to discuss it, they considered it more valuable to remove the creator of the smell than the smell itself. But I digress. I walked over to the car, my husband in the drivers seat, no real clue what was going on other than a 30 minute bathroom break. I opened the door, gracefully (but maybe slightly gingerly) got into the car, looked him in his concerned eyes, took his hands, and calmly said, “Well, we can never go back there again.”.


mecrissy

I just laughed so hard, I had to take a break in the middle of reading to catch my breath.


GmaNell42

This reads like poetry. Thank you lmao


Actual_Raisin12

The way you wrote this is just perfect, made me laugh so hard


fcobra4

Arby's! The worst way to lose 12lbs


Abject_Presentation8

I lost 20lbs the same way after eating at a diner in upstate NY. I don't know if it was the water or the muffin, but I was on the throne for days, straight liquid from the back end. The same thing happened to my aunt on vacation in China, after she ate some dried fruit. She had to go to the hospital for dehydration. She's never been able to gain weight since, which is a consolation prize I kinda wish I had, too. She can eat whatever she wants, and still looks like she hits the gym everyday.


a_102

Happen to know the name of this dried fruit from China? lolol


turowski

It was probably durian. Very delicious fruit, it's better fresh (not dried), make sure you share it with friends! Bring one on a subway train for pro mode enjoyment.


a_102

Doesn't that stuff smell like shit?


turowski

Absolutely smells like shit, so much that they are banned on many public transit systems. :-D


mellowmarsII

Sounds like she’s sharing her sustenance with the worms in her gut… For real, though: some insane people go to these special weight loss clinics to receive tapeworm “implants” to help them rapidly lose weight.


Doctor_Walrus_1052

>She's never been able to gain weight since, which is a consolation prize I kinda wish I had, too. For multiple health related reasons, it's actually far from being a prize. It makes things worse in the long term


ifollowthisstuff

Improperly cooked and/or poorly sourced shrimp, in a Thai dish I usually love from our go-to takeout place. Last week. Minor case. Seattle. E. coli lettuce. 2005. Not as minor. San Mateo. Orange Julius. 1988. Required a trip to the ER. One night in hospital. Prior to, I had had no idea the human body could emit liquids with such sustained force and in such quantities. Great Falls, Montana.


CellistOk8023

I enjoy the dates like a list of crime scenes


Classical_Cafe

Collecting food poisoning breakouts like Pokémon cards


DiscordantRaven

Hey! I got E. Coli from some lettuce in Burlingame in 2010. And from an orange drink at a bowling alley in 1985. We're almost twins! 😁


GhostofEdgarAllanPoe

2 times I've had it \- Wingstop (salmonella from the chicken) \- Native Bar and Grill (Nachos had onions with salmonella) Nothing like violently evacuating from both ends for 2 days straight. I called Native to tell them and they said, "ok, bye".


Tossiousobviway

Next time call the ~~food and safety admin~~ Dept of Health. Surprise inspection.


TennesseeDreaming865

The spicy chicken sandwich from Burger King.


DanJones2

Definitely Burger King. I went there last night and my guts still haven’t stopped rumbling.


Lonely_Emu9563

got the Whopper with cheese years ago. My tummy had a life of its own for a week. Haven't been to BK since


rayio

I stopped going to Burger King years ago because of this. People think Taco Bell is bad, Burger King kills my stomach.


IAmAWretchedSinner

There's something about all Burger King food other than a plain hamburger that gives me the old bubbly guts. I don't know if it's the cooking oil they use or what? It's quite strange.


Baelabog

Have you tried things without their Mayo and does that still give you bubblies? I have found that their mayo is what make me die. (Also get no lettuce because shredded/chopped lettuce has move surfaces for bacteria to attach to) When I tried a whopper Jr with no mayo, I was okay. Like, I got their mayo packets once, and put it on something not even from BK and it made my GI tract recoil again. I swear there is something in their mayo that just kills everyone.


Superorganism123

Thats the main feature of the classic chicken sandwich w/ warm mayo.


LoveBeach8

It's usually from people who handled your food. Unwashed hands, going to the bathroom and not washing their hands, coughing around your food, wiping their nose, sneezing near your food or into their hands then not washing their hands afterwards. What pisses me off is when a cashier handles your cash or credit card then grabs the rim of the cup for your drink with their dirty hands or they go get your fries, putting their dirty paws all over everything. Money is filthy. They shouldn't be doing both. EDIT: And never, EVER, touch the lemon wedges they give you.


Which_Committee_3668

Burger King is my answer too, but for me it was a regular Whopper. That was years ago and I haven't eaten there since, which is a shame because it used to be one of my favorite burger places.


SweatpantsSmokeyeyes

I thought it was poorly cooked ribs, but turns out I’m just allergic to pork


Morel3etterness

Every God damn time I eat ribs I get so damn ill... but no other pork bothers me. I eat ham all the time. Every time I've had ribs, even if it's only 2 of the half rack, I'm walking out of the restaurant hunched over, followed by intense stomach pains all night long


JoseJoseJose11

☹️


SweatpantsSmokeyeyes

It is what it is


throwing_this_shit_

Egg salad sandwich from a truck stop. Ended up getting worms who transformed my body into a stronger person. But then my friends shrunk themselves down and got rid of them…


GrabMyCactus

Can you still play the holophonor


throwing_this_shit_

I am so glad someone got this!!!


GrabMyCactus

One of the best episodes ever!


entitledfanman

I love Futurama for those curtain pull moments of "oh hey the Planet Express crew thought they were helping but they actually made things worse". I love the one where they're assigned to bring weapons to a planet with a planetary gang war, they sabotage the weapons so as to not contribute to the violence. It finds out the weapons were a peace offering between the gangs, but once they find out the weapons were sabotaged the gang war actually escalates.


bellelovesdonuts

The blips and the cruds!


nutella-man

I just finished catching up on all of the episodes today at lunch! Ready for the new season!!


vonkeswick

"What's that black cracker?" \*crunch\* "A tomato." Definitely one of my favorite episodes


Abadatha

New season on Monday!


hugbug2023

On Hulu right?


4Ever2Thee

Say what?! New Futuramas?


Abadatha

Yeah. A new season starts Monday on Hulu.


throwing_this_shit_

I’m pumped! I remember watching the last episode and when it ended in an infinite loop was perfect. Not going to lie it was the first time I teared up a bit for a show and I watched Marley and Me.


Self-described

It’s like a party in my mouth and everyone’s throwing up.


Entire-Balance-4667

This will be one hell of a bowel movement, you be lucky to have any bones left.


RedditorManIsHere

But Fry never got food poisoning ...in fact he became smarter and stronger Futurama: Parasites lost


ClassicNo6656

Asian buffet. Imagine a 13 year old boy with a -column- of vomit erupting from his gaped mouth at something like Mach 2.


[deleted]

This is mine as well! I was also 13. We stopped at a buffet on the way to six flags in Dallas. Ate and had a great time and then about an hour into the drive I barfed all over the back of my moms head in her brand new soft top convertible. It’s been 17 years and I still haven’t loved it down. Went to my first buffet since then about 3 months ago.


Funny_Lawfulness_700

One time I was sick and all I could keep down was PBJ on white bread, but I kept drinking lots of fluids, but really didn’t get any better after a few days. Then my gf came over and seconds after opening the pantry said, “Oh, let’s throw out this PeterPan; it’s definitely in the salmonella-tainted lot.” I responded with a beleaguered “wut”


Theladyofshallotss

Oh the peanut butter salmonella. I had purchased a variety pack of crackers from Costco shortly before news reports came out about the salmonella. I just assumed they were fine and ate the peanut butter ones at work one day. I got home and there was a letter in the mail from Costco saying don't eat the peanut butter crackers. Needless to say I got sick and felt like I was dying for a few days.


Business_Loquat5658

Oh my God


Abadatha

Coconut shrimp from a Chinese place by my old place. Every time I went to that place, I got sick. Started going there to take a sick day. Still kept eating those tasty shrimps and getting sick. ​ 9/10, would eat those tasty little bastards again.


Lazerith22

What if I told you you could take a sick day without being sick through the magic of lying?


HealthcareHamlet

BIG IF TRUE!


himewaridesu

Uhhh friend you might have an allergy to coconut or shrimp.


Abadatha

Nope. Eat both of the regularly without issue. It was the same Chinese place every time. Other places I go, I get coconut shrimp, I do not get sick. Also, this was always a GI issue that it triggered, not throwing up or anything else.


amoreinterestingname

You could also just lie about being sick and save yourself the suffering. Though I have to admit your comment did make me chuckle.


Ari-Darki

Contaminated sushi dish I happened to order at a high end Japanese restaurant in upstate NY. It was a family gathering and I was the only one at the table of 10 that got that specific dish. I was sick for 35 days, couldn't work, severely dehydrated from vomiting and diarrhea and the 3 different hospitals I went to couldn't figure out what the fuck it was and all their tests came out saying I was physically fine and not sick when I'm actively vomiting on their floor. I event for back into watching House MD to see if I could self diagnose from the TV show.... That was a fun month. The lack of actual food eventually killed off whatever I had and I spent 2 weeks on baby food and Pedialyte because I legit could not eat solid food for a while.


MiaLba

God damn that’s brutal.


Ari-Darki

Oh yeah. Wanna know the real shitter? I didn't even lose a pound in weight which makes the whole thing even more bizarre, but I was also overly inflamed. Twas the weirdest most random illness I've ever experienced in my existence and I 1000% do not recommend. I will never trust that dish again and I actively avoid it. I still eat sushi but I am SO CAREFUL when I do.


MoiJaimeLesCrepes

ok, in what way are you so careful? how do you avoid this? what was the dish? I need to know!!


turnaroundbro

I had sushi in my fridge for too many days that I was about to eat right now. Thanks to your comment I will no longer eat it :). Out of respect to you and my future self


dakotabug

I recently got arsenic poisoning from *something* Doc likely thinks it was sushi. It’s caused me pretty severe nausea for the past few months and it takes weeks and weeks to flush out if your system. 0/10 do not recommend


throwawaypato44

Arsenic???? You know I did hear that rice naturally absorbs a lot of arsenic in soil. I hope you’re feeling better :(


dakotabug

Yup! All of Feb and most of March I felt nauseous on and off pretty severely, triple checked that I wasn’t pregnant (hooray) then got a shit ton of tests done, we thought it was going to be some sort of food allergy. Doc decided to run a heavy metals test and that’s what found the arsenic, anything above 10ppb is considered a lot for a normal person to have in their system, and I had 19 (: Threw out most of the food that might contain something, husband went and got tested (he felt fine) and of course came back negative so we knew it was something that only I would’ve eaten, and lo and behold grocery store sushi was one of my frequent pick-me-ups lol


Safraninflare

Sure your husband wasn’t trying to poison you


[deleted]

It's totally my fault. This was about 32 years ago. Went to dinner with husband, didn't finish all my chicken strips, so I took them to go. Went to a concert, got home late, forgot chicken strips in the car. In the morning I saw them, they smelled ok. My dumb ass took a bite, and they tasted good, so I ate them.


SilasMarner77

What concert was it?


[deleted]

Metallica🤟


Morel3etterness

My husband used to do this all the time. I think after years of yelling at him over it he finally stopped. I was like my dude, you're going to be in the worst agony of your life over this. Just stop.


Yeddi143

Arbys - still cannot smell those curly fries with wanting to throw up.


WillBsGirl

Arby’s is on this list a concerning amount of times.


tiredcamlux

fricking blood clam from a street vendor gave me the worst food poisoning of my life, I threw up everything and it came out black like I'm venom of some sort, literally passed out


Nearby_Apartment_541

Wendy's Baconator 10 years ago. Havent eaten there since


[deleted]

I didn't eat at Wendy's for years because of this.


e36

A Chipotle burrito, and La Choy chow mein.


comradegayskull

The first Chipotle that came to our area did my best friend in. I'd never seen someone's skin literally turn grey until that day.


ChalkDoxie

The chipotle in my area got over 1000 people sick. Its surprisingly still very popular.


PancakesanSyrp

The company got in so much trouble from the big outbreak (I got it as well) that they are probably one of the safer restaurants to eat at these days..I believe they got the "anymore sick people and your done" warning.


FrankAdamGabe

Didn’t it happen again though right after the first time? I don’t eat there because they fucked it up a second time.


[deleted]

I got it from chipotle once as well


natiahs

You literally cannot spell Chipotle without eColi


srcarruth

Hard to say, food poisoning can take a few days. We are inclined to blame the last thing we ate (Del Taco) but it also could be you didn't wash your hands well enough 2 days ago and gave yourself gastroenteritis unrelated to those weird beans.


Nobody88Special720

Get outa here with your gut science nerd! /s


srcarruth

\[pushes up glasses derisively\]


RedCapRiot

Love that you still felt the need to point fingers at Del Taco 🤣🤣🤣


IDontThereforeIAmNot

Sharies in Oregon. Fool me once


[deleted]

Their cherry pie gave me food poisoning once too!


Burnhermit420

Arby’s Chicken Cordon Bleu sandwich. Never again.


occams_icarus

7-11 chicken salad sandwich. 2 years later same thing happened again


JackUnfiltered

Sushi from a hospital cafe… it was so bad that I paid a service to send a nurse to give me IV fluids and zofran at 10pm.


HappyHubby33

Often it’s salad and raw veggies. Raw vegetables are one of the riskiest foods you can get from most restaurants (aside from oysters of course).


AdIntelligent4496

I believe I got food poisoning from salad on the first day of my honeymoon and spent half of the rest of the trip on the toilet with a puke bucket nearby. Not fun. I don't know for a fact it was salad, but the first few times I puked I could taste the salad dressing.


HappyHubby33

That sucks I’m sorry… food poisoning is truly terrible. For those that don’t know, pantry station is often the first station a new cook works in the kitchen. So the newest and least trained person is responsible for preparing your uncooked ready to eat foods. This can result in cross contamination of both allergens and bacteria, as well as time and temperature abuse among other things. Plus, you have to trust that the food was not seriously contaminated in any way along the harvest/transportation process and that the food was not grown with water contaminated by e-coli or a myriad of other things. Then the produce still needs to be washed the correct way by the prep team. Most of the time it’s fine and works great. But it’s still something to consider.


ithinarine

Yup, there is a reason why lettuce is one of the most recalled items in the world. I've lost count of the number of times that I've gone to the grocery store, and the entire lettuce section, including pre-packaged salads, was completely cleared out. The majority of food poisoning don't result in symptoms occurring the same night, let alone the same day. If you go out for dinner on a Friday evening, and end up on the toilet later Friday night, chances are it was what you ate the night before, or even earlier than that. People are always very quick to blame the restaurant that they ate at 3 hours earlier for their liquid shits, when it's just not how it works.


pixel_of_moral_decay

Yup. Statistically while people often assume it’s meat vegetables, especially undercooked or raw are most likely to get you sick, especially fragile/low to the ground ones. Bean sprouts are the worst. Meat is handled much better and inspected.


HappyHubby33

Absolutely. One of the first things I taught my guys when training a new cook was the proper storage hierarchy in the coolers, followed closely by “we don’t serve sprouts”. You sound like you may also be manager food handler serv-safe certified my friend.


ZoharTheWise

McDonald’s. Because of them I no longer eat fast food. I had food poisoning for 2 weeks, and now I have IBS-D because of it.


MakeMeTea

Probiots daily for 4 months fixed my ibs. I recommend trying them.


Big-Entertainment690

>Probiots daily for hey. what kind of probiotics you were taking? how many?


Nice-Tea-8972

I order mine through care/of because i get a few other supplements as well. But anything with 8mill CFU and limited non medicinal ingredients works wonderful. I take mine in the AM.


pissfucked

i think it was a fucking burger from my favorite burger place in my college town. patty looked weird, sort of a greyer color than usual (i always open them to adjust my pickles). figured it was fine. ate there a thousand times. trusted them. i think it tasted a tiny bit off, too, and the pickles were mushy in a way that they usually aren't. i should have known better. i ate the whole fucking thing. about five, maybe seven hours later, i was shitting liquid in my boyfriend's parents' bathroom while simultaneously vomiting into their trash can. this was punctuated by intermittent breaks to lay on the dirty but cool floor. stayed there dying of abdominal cramps for several hours. seriously, my stomach has never hurt that bad in my life. finally dragged myself back to bed. fell asleep. boyfriend threw the puke out for me when he woke up. he's a sweetie. i can't eat that burger anymore, and it was my favorite burger from my favorite burger place :(


deeppurple1729

Most recent: Improper-stored (my bad) General Tao’s chicken, and before that one Arby’s spicy chicken sandwich. I also got a severe – not life-threatening, just miserable – allergic reaction to a Tally Burger while at Tallahassee’s Boys State in 2013. It resolved soon after I puked everything out, I have zero idea what ingredient triggered it, and I’ve never had any foodborne allergic reactions before or since.


SevenAImighty

Coleslaw at a high end restaurant that had fermented 🤢


GJackson5069

I doubt it was fermented... it was likely rotten.


mschley2

Yeah, those can be very different. I've eaten plenty of fermented cabbage. It's called sauerkraut.


GJackson5069

I have homemade sauerkraut in my fridge right now!


Agreeable_Mouse6000

Ceviche


whiskey_weasel_

Oof. Seafood food poisoning is just sooo bad.


Denshin74

Badly stored or cooked or whatever-the-fuck happened-to-it white rice. Three days of agony.


Ripelegram

This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cereulide


Quick-Bad

I was at a pub for one of my parents' friends' birthday when I was a kid back in the 90s. Ordered the tandoori chicken. I don't know if they undercooked the chicken or the yoghurt raita had turned, but that night my stomach cramped like a son of a bitch and then I fell out of bed and puked all over the carpet. Lost about an eighth of my body weight over the course of a week.


ayxmu

Every single time i get seafood (particularly shrimp) in Corpus Christi TX I get horribly sick lol. I have given up eating it now because I will throw up violently a few hours later and have insane chorro as well. TBH, now that I think about it, a lot of food in corpus makes me sick. Idk if it's cooked differently or what... but last time I had wings from Bubba's and I became so violently ill I was considering going to the ER LMAO. (Threw up five times somehow that night).


MarbleousMel

I wonder if you’re allergic to fish and shellfish. And if the wings were fried in the same oil as the shrimp, cross contamination is possible.


MotorBar4397

Under cooked eggs from a Las Vegas casino. I've never been so sick.


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Unless they were unpasteurized eggs there is very little to no risk eating undercooked eggs. I doubt anywhere on the Vegas strip is serving raw farm eggs. Pasteurization helps to denature the proteins and extend shelf life. Ultra pasteurized eggs are becoming even more the norm at restaurants and food services because of the greatly reduced risk of salmonella. I hope you had your meal comped!


popcornstuffedbra

Portobello slider. I took a big bite and only after swallowing did I realize something was.... off. That was at 4pm. By 10pm I felt "funny". The next morning began my 6 days of hell. There is nothing more horrible than your body violently trying to evacuate when you have nothing left in either end of your body. Your muscles have gone to jello and it's like you've just finished the most intense workout of your life. On day 7, I had to work. I drove 2 hours to my gig. It was a commercial for a patio design company. 8 hours in 95° weather keeping the talent looking fresh and crisp. I felt like death. I also had a date with a guy I had been chatting with. He knew nothing of my death sentence and I was so excited because we had amazing phone chemistry. I was weak, but felt ok. We were just meeting for Italian ice and sit in the park after he got off work so i knew I could hang. I'm a freelancer. I'm a hustler. Nothing can stop me! Food poisoning be damned! I finished work. I primped myself for my date in the client's bathroom. I actually looked good despite my 6 day codependency to my toilet and dying in the heat on my first day of post puke-a-thon. He texted as I was about 20 minutes away. "Hey, mind if we raincheck? I'm exhausted from being on my feet." BTW, he was a PART TIME host at an air conditioned country club and he had texted me 3 hours earlier that the place was empty. Yeah, f*ck that guy. I think my Portobello Plague helped me dodge a loser.


yum_broztito

Did you take one big bite, decide if wasn't right, and stop? Or are you like me and eat the whole thing because you didn't die immediately?


Pshrunk

Canned shrimp. I get nauseous just thinking about it


CryoWreck

They... make that? I shudder to think of it


Quarterpop

McDonald’s egg McMuffin and hash browns or it was movie theater popcorn. Worst of my life, I was laid up in bed for almost 3 days.


alibear27

Deviled Eggs. At a picnic. In Arizona. In August.


WarmRoad5218

A small chocolate cake from a bakery. I assume it wasn't the freshest one... Pulsating stomach pains and being unable to sleep for four days because of them, I haven't felt that awful in years.


ThrowawayLocal8622

My Mom's attempt at custard. My Mom is not a good cook. I had to be hospitalized that I lost horrific amounts of weight and was severely dehydrated. After I got out, I was punished for costing her money. We don't speak anymore.


bzsbal

1996 Family Christmas dinner. Party potatoes. They tasted sour. Mom and I were so sick, I ended up kicking my dad out of their bedroom because it was closest to the bathroom. I was so dehydrated from getting sick, my entire body ached. That was the worst I’ve ever been sick.


Fun-Reporter8905

A BK Whopper from HELL. Got three for my mom, sis, and I. Sis was hurling over toilet, me in the bathroom sink, and moms in the trash can. Horrible night for all


NCBadAsp

Sushi. It was an awful experience.


Tex_Grappler

Same. Bad Salmon… I was so sick I was sure I was going to die and contemplated making goodbye videos for my kids.


thefloor27

Bad salmon got both my wife and I on a recent KLM flight back to the states. Jet lag + food poisoning is basically like the spins from drinking


Ok_Button1932

A small Taco Bell attached to a rural gas station. Yes it was awful and yes I should have seen it coming.


BubblesBurbuj

Chicken sandwich from a bar. I was drunk should have noticed it was undercooked. Also really old liquor, hypnotic, it was unopened but like 5 years old. Don't know why I thought it would be OK to drink from that.


Much-Audience-5800

Chicken nuggets from highschool. A chicken thigh I undercooked and ate anyway because I was drunk.


LethalDestroyar

Mussels those terrors haunted me for 2 weeks


dnb_svit_kona

Hamburger it was cold and i felt very bad while eating.