OK. This really pisses me off!

When eating at restaurants there is an expectation that, hey, they'll cook the food long enough, hot enough and, of course, that the food hasn't turned rancid already.

THREE TIMES in the last month I've been the victim of food poisoning, with predictably unpleasant results.

The first time was in the last week or so of April at my company's cafeteria. It was the ubiquitous "chicken on a bun" (aka chicken sandwich). Well, it didn't take long after consuming it that my stomach was in knots and I was very uncomfortable. I made a dash to the bathroom and afterwards felt MUCH better.

Then, a week or so later, I stopped in to Made in Japan Teriyaki Experience before my shift at work. I ordered the beef & chicken combo on rice. Well, not too much later after eating, I had the similar knotted-tummy feeling and the resulting, uh, "purging".

OK, then tonight, I stopped into Wendy's before work and ordered a burger and some chicken nuggets. Anyways, I think you can see where this is going...

My point is - WHY THE FRICK can't restaurants cook food properly? Yes, I know the cooks are minimum wage kids and don't give a crap if the customers shit or die - BUT STILL. What the frick is going on? Do they not care anymore about proper cooking skills???

there is a common ingredient to all those meals which you should maybe eliminate...i know i have !

yeah, Fedgie, i don't think it's the food itself as it is something in the food. I know that anything fast, or processed kills me. I go through the same stomach knots and colon-blow...

You might want to pass on the fast food for a little bit. I mean, i'm no fucking doctor or anything, just passing along my experiences.

Samurai

Posted by fedge OK. This really pisses me off! When eating at restaurants there is an expectation that, hey, they'll cook the food long enough, hot enough and, of course, that the food hasn't turned rancid already. THREE TIMES in the last month I've been the victim of food poisoning, with predictably unpleasant results. The first time was in the last week or so of April at my company's cafeteria. It was the ubiquitous "chicken on a bun" (aka chicken sandwich). Well, it didn't take long after consuming it that my stomach was in knots and I was very uncomfortable. I made a dash to the bathroom and afterwards felt MUCH better. Then, a week or so later, I stopped in to Made in Japan Teriyaki Experience before my shift at work. I ordered the beef & chicken combo on rice. Well, not too much later after eating, I had the similar knotted-tummy feeling and the resulting, uh, "purging". OK, then tonight, I stopped into Wendy'sbefore work and ordered a burger and some chicken nuggets. Anyways, I think you can see where this is going... My point is - WHY THE FRICK can't restaurants cook food properly? Yes, I know the cooks are minimum wage kids and don't give a crap if the customers shit or die - BUT STILL. What the frick is going on? Do they not care anymore about proper cooking skills???

Avoid these things. Problem solved.

Pretty nasty there Fedge.

Next time, return the food to them via the "purge" or "colon blow" methods and demand a refund as the food was obviously faulty.

On a serious note, as Samurai noted, that could be your system reacting to the cooking itself and that the food may be okay. Are there other people getting sick regularly at these places? One person getting sick could be a personal reaction to the food, more than one (especially at the same time or close to the same time) is a problem with the food itself.

Good luck and hope you're feeling better.

It doesn't necessarily mean that you have had food poisoning. If you only had diarrhea, and no vomiting or a fever, then it could be something else -however keep in mind that there are many different types of food poisoning with some very different symptoms, so I might be wrong and that you actually did get food poisoning three times in one month.

I only had food poisoning once that I'm pretty sure of, and it was with some free food at work. I was working at a grocery store, and one of the walk-in freezers in the back room broke down. As a result, they had a shit-load of frozen pizzas to get rid of. Management thought that it would be a good idea to cook up some of said pizza in the bakery department and treat all of the employees with free pizzas in the lunchroom. I didn't feel sick till nearly 10 hours after I ate, I even ate at Arby's after my shift.

Funny thing was when I started throwing up, I was throwing up remains of the free pizza, but not a trace of the Arby's I ate afterwards! I'm still trying to figure out how the hell my Arby's meal bypassed the rancid pizza in my digestive track. You would kinda figure that when you vomit, it follows a "last one in, first one out" order. It happened a few years ago, but I do remember having some slight diarrhea and a whole night of vomiting, and I do think I had a slight fever. The symptoms lasted all night, but by the next afternoon I was feeling fine again.

This happened on a Sunday, so luckily for the grocery store, it was mostly just the part-timers that got the food poisoning.

It's a good idea to keep an eye out for restaurants inspection notices. If you see one like this:



You -probably- dont want to eata there.

You can also look up the previous inspection results of any Toronto restaurant on the dinesafe website. http://app.toronto.ca/food2/DineSafeMain

You're actually lucky though, fedge. You probably didnt have "real" food poisoning. I'm not saying you didnt get sick or anything - but had it been actual food poisoning, or salmonella... It's about 100x worse than what you described. Picture sitting on the can for 8 hours puking and shitting uncontrollably. Not fun. It feels like you're dying, pretty much.

2 words: Mystery Meat

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Posted by fedge OK. This really pisses me off! The first time was in the last week or so of April at my company's cafeteria. It was the ubiquitous "chicken on a bun" (aka chicken sandwich). Well, it didn't take long after consuming it that my stomach was in knots and I was very uncomfortable. I made a dash to the bathroom and afterwards felt MUCH better. proper cooking skills???

2 more words: VOMET COMET!