Originally Posted by
capebretonboy
I can almost guarantee you it was not from the flight. It typically takes nearly 3-4 days for food poisoning to impact your body. Lots of people think it is a matter of hours, but it is not. So I would rewind the tape and think about the days in LHR leading up to the return flight to where you and the BF ate together. Airline food is generally quite safe. Stringent quality controls, sterile factory kitchens all pre-cooked and re-heated to a very high temperature.
3-4 days???????? I can assure you from personal experience that a bad lunch put me and 2 others in hell inside of 8 hours.
Besides, food poisoning can simply involve flushing out the irritant. And for all the hygienic preparation of food, meat that lasts a year usually contains chemicals and toxins that don't go down well with everyone. How or why would it take more than a few hours for the body to detect and toss it out?
To be honest, I can't understand why any airline would serve food with a one year expiry date when it has a daily turnover? That the chemicals in it provoke the odd reaction is hardly surprising. You seem to think its not possible, given your emphasis on hygiene. Maybe it's an ingredient, not a biological entity?