What and where were you eating when you contracted food poisoning?
May 18, 2008, 7:18 pm
#168
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: PMD-ORD-AZO-ILO-NRT
Programs: UA 1K, BD Silver, Amtrak Select, SPG & PCR Plat/ICH Amb, AA, AS, DL, PR
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It was either one of the breakfast bagel sandwiches from Einstein Bros. Bagels or the Teriyaki Chicken at the Online Cafe @ DTW that did me in during a mileage Run back in January 2007. I did not look like a pleasant traveler at the arrivals hall of Terminal 2 @ LAX when I finished that run. 
May 23, 2008, 6:56 pm
#170
Join Date: May 2008
Location: SFO
Posts: 851
best friend ate some form of veggie sandwich in the cairo airport and came down with dysentery a couple days later when he was home. i consider that a form of food poisoning. he thinks it was suspect lettuce in the sandwich because he was super vigilant about food the entire trip and let his guard down once in the supposedly biologically friendly confines of the airport terminal. lost like 30 lbs in 2 weeks. 
May 23, 2008, 7:31 pm
#171
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Obvious
Programs: UA Silver, going for Gold this year
Posts: 139
I've gotten stomach sick many times, but 2 times was sick for 4 days. Serious food poisoning.
Once I ate Baskin Robbins ice cream at a county fair. Was so bad I was in the hospital for 4 days! Doctors told me that the bacteria I had comes from when ice cream or dairy gets warm for too long. When they truck ice cream to a fair, if the refrigerated truck isn't working perfectly, ice cream can get warm, then freeze again when they put it in the freezer at the fair. So the ice cream is frozen when you eat it. Beware of ice cream that travels! Hospital bill was a few thousand $$!
Another time ate undercooked chicken on top of a salad, and couldn't leave my bathroom for 5 days. Immodium didn't make a dent. Almost lost my job cuz they didn't believe you could be sick for so long.
Once I ate Baskin Robbins ice cream at a county fair. Was so bad I was in the hospital for 4 days! Doctors told me that the bacteria I had comes from when ice cream or dairy gets warm for too long. When they truck ice cream to a fair, if the refrigerated truck isn't working perfectly, ice cream can get warm, then freeze again when they put it in the freezer at the fair. So the ice cream is frozen when you eat it. Beware of ice cream that travels! Hospital bill was a few thousand $$!
Another time ate undercooked chicken on top of a salad, and couldn't leave my bathroom for 5 days. Immodium didn't make a dent. Almost lost my job cuz they didn't believe you could be sick for so long.
May 27, 2008, 8:41 pm
#174
Join Date: May 2005
Location: SFO
Programs: Volaris, UA Nothing
Posts: 276
Ate some cheese and spinach ravioles at Bottega on 4th or 5th ave in San Diego (in front of Horton plaza). Had a whole family dinner celebrating my birthday on a Friday. I had $236 tickets on AV from LAX to LIM and then to CUZ for the next day.
Spent the night returning the ravioles and then spent another 8 hours in the ER. Only 3 hours were for medical service; I spent 5 hours between being admitted, seeing a nurse, moving into the ER, moving from the ER, etc.
Spent the night returning the ravioles and then spent another 8 hours in the ER. Only 3 hours were for medical service; I spent 5 hours between being admitted, seeing a nurse, moving into the ER, moving from the ER, etc.
Jun 5, 2008, 7:01 am
#178
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Epsom, Surrey
Programs: BA Exec Club Bronze, Virgin Flying Club Red, Swiss M&M Blue
Posts: 1,023
Hard Rock Cafe Manchester England
Had a pig sandwich at the hard rock. Couldnt leave the bathroom for the rest of the day.
Never again.
Never again.
Last edited by dobba; Jun 5, 2008 at 7:01 am Reason: Correct a typo
Sep 8, 2008, 2:27 am
#180
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Somewhere in Florida
Posts: 2,622
Numerous chain restaurants & 1 roach coach in Tampa, FL. This doesn't bode well since I'm based in Tampa for the next few years 
Last incident was Bennigans before it closed. Probably just as well that it closed, 'though it was nice to have an option of a place to have a sit-down meal after 10pm in this town.
Last incident was Bennigans before it closed. Probably just as well that it closed, 'though it was nice to have an option of a place to have a sit-down meal after 10pm in this town.