Anonymous wrote:Not that I can recall, but from restaurants many times - I do remember a huge work dinner once where the wife of the partner cooked dinner for like 20 people - chicken breasts. Everyone was hesitant to tell her that they were VERY pink and under cooked, so ate as much as they could stomach - literally half the team ended up with food poisoning.

Ugh, how awkward! I probably wouldn't have the heart to say anything either and would just eat something else.

It is very memorable when it happens! We went to a friends country home. She was a big drinker and also saved money by purchasing the "over sell by" meat. So she made this meal featuring the sausage. It tasted great at the time. OH, oh, oh. many trips to the throne later, she confesses... I don't eat pork myself. Still hurts just thinking about it and that was 3 years ago.

PP who had pork and lettuce, and assumes it was the pork because you washed the lettuce: you can't wash e-coli or salmonella off lettuce. It gets into the cells of the plant when it is watered with contaminated water, usually when runoff from a animal confinement sewage pit nearby gets into the irrigation water. So it probably wasn't bad practice on your part, but bad lettuce.

I have gotten deathly ill from home cooked food...but only in developing countries. That says a lot to me about the safety of our food system in general, but mostly is says a lot about potable water and toilets! Yay for toilets and handwashing!

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Anonymous wrote:Rice for me.

Many people do not realize how easy it is to get food positioning from rice....

Count me as one of those people. How do you get food poisoning from rice??

Rice naturally carries a bacteria, B. Cereus. If you don't cool fast enough or store properly, it's a jerk. It's the most common complaint for "Chinese food fod poisoning".

DH got while travelling domestically and eating at a well known and reputable restaurant. I was literally screaming at him over the phone to go to the hospital, as he was so dehydrated he was going in and out. Thank god I found a coworker to take him to help. He ended up in hospital for 2 days.

To this day, neither of us will eat rice unless made at home.

Not that I can recall, but from restaurants many times - I do remember a huge work dinner once where the wife of the partner cooked dinner for like 20 people - chicken breasts. Everyone was hesitant to tell her that they were VERY pink and under cooked, so ate as much as they could stomach - literally half the team ended up with food poisoning.

Have you ever looked in other people's grocery carts when shopping. I think you can tell their food safety habits starting when they get their food. The worst is when people buy a giant package of raw chicken breasts and throw it on top of their fresh vegetables they refuse to put in plastic bags. Do they really not think chicken juice can't drip on to their lettuce. I always think these people are going to go home and give themselves food poisoning.

Anonymous wrote:Rice for me.

Many people do not realize how easy it is to get food positioning from rice....

Count me as one of those people. How do you get food poisoning from rice??

Once that I can recall. I cooked mushrooms that were slightly wet-looking with soft spots (after washing them well). Never again.

Anonymous wrote:I was just thinking about how every time my questioned my mom's cooking or questionable prep habits she'd yell at us "Have I ever made you sick?!" And she hasn't so we usually just shut up.

But I'm curious: has anyone gotten sick from something their parents made or have you made your own family sick?

Never. But I don't have questionable prep habits. I've had to hover around FIL though, when he was grilling drunk off his ass many times to make sure there wasn't any cross contamination

Rice for me.

Many people do not realize how easy it is to get food positioning from rice....

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Anonymous wrote:Yes - from salmon that I cooked until it was well done but it tasted funny yet I stupidly continued to eat it.

Salmon for me too. My DH got much sicker than me, but he ate more of it. Just the other day I was eating cheese and thinking "this tastes weird" yet I continued to eat it. Only later did I realize half of the block had mold on it. No illness though! I have an iron stomach.

Salmon here too. Founding Farmers btw.

Not from a home cooked meal.
However I once went to a Korean noodle restaurant which served a raw garlic garnish. I spent the next two days throwing up non stop.

Anonymous wrote:Yes - from salmon that I cooked until it was well done but it tasted funny yet I stupidly continued to eat it.

Salmon for me too. My DH got much sicker than me, but he ate more of it. Just the other day I was eating cheese and thinking "this tastes weird" yet I continued to eat it. Only later did I realize half of the block had mold on it. No illness though! I have an iron stomach.

Never. Sick from restaurants MANY times!!

No but I've thrown meat away a few times because it smelled bad. I don't risk it.