Have you ever gotten food poisoning from a home cooked meal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What most people. Here are failing to understand is that it can take 7-10 days to incubate "food poisoning". It isn't as immediate as most people think or seem to want.

Think your slow cooker food left out for 24 hours is safe? Wait 10 days and then report. Of course, by then most people cannot actually identify what they had to eat a week ago.

This is the bane of epidemiologists who are studying food borne illnesses. No one actually remembers or can connect what they ate beyond a day or two.

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Everyone always thinks it's the very last thing they ate.

Because sometimes it is. The body knows that something is rotten and gets started on getting rid of it -- either thru vomiting or a trip to the toilet.

[Anonymous]

Lemon poster here. Dove soap made me cringe!

[Anonymous]

I've never had food poisoning that caused me to vomit, from any meal (and I've eaten some sketchy stuff all over the world). Diarrhea, sure. Not that I can remember from any particular meal and not often, so it's hard to trace as others have said.

At home I have this fear of making my family and friends sick, so I'm super careful.

[Anonymous]

A friend of mine once made me scrambled eggs and the eggs looked so odd. I didn't want to hurt her feelings. DH and I both had stomach explosions a few hours later within 30 minutes of each other. Cringing just thinking about it!

[Anonymous]

My MIL has terrible food safety habits. She gave my husband a tummy upset by serving him old rice once. Or at least, that's the one time he thinks he got ill from something she made; I'm sure there have been other incidents when they didn't think to make the connection and probably blamed restaurant food! She freezes food but never labels it with the date. But the worst thing I've seen her do is serve visitors sweets leftover from my sister-in-law's wedding a year later...