Food poisoning horror stories - share yours?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH and I ate spinach artichoke dip at a restaurant. Within a couple of hours, we were both sick. I have never been that sick in my life. We were leaving for a quick vacation about 36 hours after this incident, and we still weren't 100% by then. We look wan and sickly in all the pictures from that vacation.

Ten days later, it's the first day of my new job and they took me to lunch at the exact same restaurant where DH and I got food poisoning! I think I ordered a side salad but just picked at it. I couldn't bring myself to eat anything from that place. I'm pretty sure DH and I never went back there.

I've got sick from salads before when I've been trying to be good. Fries are safer.

[Anonymous]

DH and I got sick on a trip to Puerto Rico with our then-toddler. We were not in San Juan - we were in a remote area (El Con resort) where the suites were only accessible via funicular that shut down nightly after 11 p.m. So when we both awoke with wild diarrhea at 2 a.m...we were out of luck completely until we could get to the main hotel, which had a tiny convenience store offering off-brand Tums. We were both sick both ways, one tiny bathroom, for three days while our toddler begged to go to the pool. (He was fine; had tenders for dinner while we had shrimp.)