SNRatio t1_jco2f21 wrote on March 18, 2023 at 6:27 AM

Reply to comment by FuenteFOX in You only need to experience food poisonings once to be careful of what you'll eat for the rest of your life by Holiday_Chemistry_72

And quite often they are associating their illness with the last thing they ate, which may be the wrong thing. Food poisoning symptoms can take over a week to develop:

https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/symptoms.html

RangeWilson t1_jcopta9 wrote on March 18, 2023 at 11:52 AM

And sometimes it's completely obvious.

If I usually eat in and never get food poisoning, then I splurge and get takeout, then six hours later I'm puking my guts out... do you really think it's that sandwich I made myself a week ago that's causing the problem?

mekonsrevenge t1_jcps98y wrote on March 18, 2023 at 4:52 PM

Yeah, it was tamales with me. I can't even look at them anymore and the smell is revolting. So no, it wasn't the rice or beer. It was the tamales, no question.

metamorphosis___ t1_jcrokvl wrote on March 19, 2023 at 1:07 AM

Damn not eating tamales ever again is a fat fat fatt fuckin L rip bro.

PainterOfTheHorizon t1_jcq5b3y wrote on March 18, 2023 at 6:20 PM

>And sometimes it's completely obvious.

No, it definitely wasn't that ceviche in Buenos Aires 😬

BEAT-THE-RICH t1_jcs5fis wrote on March 19, 2023 at 3:26 AM

I'm looking at you expired milk product

ledow t1_jcqyuqd wrote on March 18, 2023 at 9:51 PM

Yep.

A few times I've been ill and thought "Ah, it must have been..." and then realised that there was basically no time in which that could have taken effect - and re-eating that same meal had no effect.

I don't get ill often so it really sticks out in my mind and I try to find the cause and it's basically never attributable to food.

Part of that is because I cook everything "properly" (by which I mean, fuck your still-bloody steaks, if it hasn't changed colour all the way through it's going back on the heat) but also that I preserve my food well (freezing, refrigeration, keeping it sealed, etc.) and I avoid dodgy food (e.g. seafoods unless frozen and then well-cooked).

I have even once or twice taken to literally listing everything I'd eaten in the last few days, as far as memory will serve, and eliminating them as often I still have that food around... and I re-eat it and don't get a recurrence.

Sometimes it's nothing to do with your food, and sometimes people think it can't be anything to do with their food and it was from food from weeks ago.