I don't know if I have. it's too hard to distinguish between a virus and food poisoning, and then to trace it back to an exact source.

My dad got food poisoning from chicken he made. Apparently he reused the marinade it soaked in as a sauce! It turned into Guillen Barre syndrome too, serious stuff. Now I am extremely paranoid of chicken.

I think I may have gotten something from garbanzo beans left to soak in the summer, even though they were cooked after

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.

+1

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

Read this. It will make you want to stop eating.

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/09/common-foodborne-pathogens-and-toxins-in-the-us/

Anonymous wrote:Rice for me.

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

But if you cook it doesn't that get rid of the bacteria?

No. But I only had food poisoning twice in my life - once from creampuffs when I was a child, and another from airplane food (do not buy those pre-wrapped sandwiches, who knows how long they were there).

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.

I had all the symptoms of food poisoning after a bridal shower at an acquaintance's house. I don't really know if it was food poisoning or if I picked up a stomach bug from someone at the party. Awful either way.

Yes. I ate some frozen soup and it nearly killed me.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Anonymous wrote:

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??

It's not really that easy. We cook rice basically every day and sometimes forget it in the rice cooker overnight. I've never (in about 100 times of forgetting over 20 years) gotten sick from eating the rice later.

I also eat raw eggs a LOT and have never gotten sick from that (freshly cracked eggs eaten right away).

No, never. Only from eating at restaurants. And only in America! I travel to Vietnam frequently and have never got food poisoning there, even from street food vendors!

No.

Yes. My mom made something with cottage cheese.

No, which makes me think all the posters who routinely throw out food that's been given to them or left out for an hour are crazy.

well, don't judge. My DH is immune suppressed so we throw out more than we normally would, but it is worth the caution. I'm otherwise the total opposite of a germophobe, which has made the transition to worry over germs for his sake very difficult for me.

I once got sick from steak (hospitalized) but what was really strange is my parents ate the exact same meat out of the same container!