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Author Topic: Food Poisoning Sucks! Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-25-2004 09:15 PM                     So it was yesterday at 4 in the mornig I awoke with pains in the stomach. I had had diahreea on and off four three days, I thought it would clear itself up as simple food poisioning had alwats done in past years, but not this case! The girlfriend took me to the emergency room at Lakeview three hours later and it was confirmed... and the bacteria had also spread to my urinary tract. Got the usual antibiotics and such and feel about 20% better today but man a bad case of food poisoning sure gets one down! Anyone else ever had a bad case of this stuff? Not sure where I picked it up from either.... Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-25-2004 09:19 PM                        Once, a long time ago, in a land far away.. Arizona.. the place.. jack in the box... hint NEVER EAT THERE... Ciao Dave  |  IP: Logged Kyle Watkins Expert Film Handler Posts: 185 From: Stuart, FL, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 08-25-2004 09:20 PM                     Yes i have, got it form taco bell in 1998. Also turns out severl peole got it form there. Took about 3 days and i was good to go. I have nto ate at a taco bell since.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 08-25-2004 09:31 PM                        Add a Las Vegas Red Lobster to the list. Along with the Denny's in Hays, Kansas. And the Marlboro (Up)Chuck Wagon at the Arizona State Fair. All of those places were memorable, for all the wrong reasons. Once I get sick in a place, I never go back. [ 09-19-2004, 11:46 PM: Message edited by: Paul Mayer ]  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-25-2004 09:49 PM                     I get sick every time I go to ShoWest. The first year it was the Rio buffet (which I will never patronize again), the second year it was some cafe in the hotel next to Bally's (of which I will also never patronize again, complete with sick waitress sneezing on the food) and last year it wasn't food poisioning...it was just Vegas itself. I have decided Vegas is evil. Yet I will probably end up going again this year, for as Ian put it best, ShoWest isn't about seeing the show after the first year, it's about seeing all of the friends you know in the industry. I have also gotten food poisioning at the Wendy's in Plano on Park Blvd and at the UA Berkeley back when I was managing it. Now food poisioning is bad enough as it is, but the UA one was beyond what words can describe and noone should ever have to go through that kind of pain. Turns out the genuises had built the theater with water lines and sewage lines running alongside each other under the slab. The foundation shifted and cracked the pipes somehow. Ended up that sewage was getting into the water lines. One of my best employees also got very sick from it too. I think I told the story in more detail somewhere in the Yak archives. I'm sure John Pytlak will be along shortly to provide a link.  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 08-25-2004 11:31 PM                     Never had it, don't want it, & if I ever make it to Showest, come lunchtime I will stay far away from Brad as it seems he is the kiss of death.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 08-26-2004 07:43 AM                        This is a stupid thread. Food poisening is AWESOME!  |  IP: Logged Jason M Miller Master Film Handler Posts: 284 From: Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 08-26-2004 09:38 AM                     Food Poisoning SUCKS I got it from a piece of beef jerky from a speedway (it was not expired)  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-26-2004 10:19 AM                     "ShoWest isn't about seeing the show after the first year, it's about seeing all of the friends you know in the industry." _________________________________________________________________ I've always done some buisness when I've been there and about every five years some manufacturer has something new to show. But I'm glad that at least two others here feel the same way I do about it. I know people that have been going there for years and still have not figured that one out.... or perhaps they just don't have any friends.... Anyway, seeing friends there every year is what has kept me going to Showest all these years, really nothing else. Luckily, I've never gotten Food Poisioning when I've been in Vegas, about 40 times now. Also never really had any awful food there either.... so I've been lucky I guess in that respect, and I eat seafood alot. I find I can take about 3 days max of Vegas.... ditto for places like L.A. and N.Y.C. Mark  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 08-26-2004 11:24 AM                     Don't blame the food service, all it takes is one employee who failed to wash his or her hands thoroughly after defecating and then handling food or dishes. As my wife says, most common food poisoning comes from eating shit -- other people's or one's own. The bacteria so necessary for digestion work in the digestive tract, but cam be left on the flush handle, stall doorknob, etc. and transferred to an unsuspecting victim. Best prevention is to wash hands with soap and water after using the bathroom, and before eating or touching food.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 08-26-2004 11:43 AM                     Food poisoning.....Garlic crabs at a now closed restuarant in Miami....my partner and where sick for a month. We used to register for full convention at ShoWest and the food poisoning and the extra pounds from the banquet food was enoungh for us to stop the practice after two years....the water from the tap in Las Vegas is a little hard to take. I have traveled to 21 countries and I have been damn lucky that my cast iron stomach works well with little problems...my partner gets more "stomach flu" since he is the type to try a food stand in an alley somewhere  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-26-2004 11:58 AM                     "Don't blame the food service, all it takes is one employee who failed to wash his or her hands thoroughly after defecating and then handling food or dishes." I will certainly agree with that part but food thats out on a buffett type restaurant also has to be kept hot enough to be able keep bacteria from growing on it. Cold food is a big problem in Vegas at some of the smaller buffets and these are the ones I generally stay away from. Huge turnover buffets are generally the least likely to have this problem since the food is put out and gone in less than 10 min. and then a new tray is brought out again. The food is always hot and fresh this way and less likely to be contaminated. Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-26-2004 02:46 PM                       Yep, what Gerard said! I was in the men's room of a McDonald's here in Eastern PA once, washing my hands at one of the sinks, amid the smell of whoever was just finishing and pulling up his trousers in the toilet stall. I hear him flush and the door flies open to reveal a McDonalds kid. As I'm drying my hands, I see him in the mirror march right on past me, past the wash basins, and straight out the door! I quickly followed to see him go behind the counter and back to work in the FOOD PREP AREA! I was incredulous. I immediately summoned a manager and said in a voice everyone could hear, "That kid back there just took a dump in the men's room and came straight out to work without washing his hands! That is inexcusable!" Although the manager corrected the situation, you know it wasn't the first time he'd done that, nor probably the last. I never went there again. I'm in public restrooms a lot since becoming a trucker, and I'm appalled at just how many people literally think their shit doesn't stink! Not enough to wash their hands, anyway. FWIW, I've further noticed white men are the worst offenders, while blacks are the most fastidious at washing up. Just an observation from the field. I was in a truck stop restroom last week, commenting on how they let the soap dispenser run dry, when a black man said, "Well, at least you wash your hands." I agreed there was no other way, and we both knew the score. I've also noticed Hispanics (or probably more accurately, illegal aliens) seem to grow up using the toilet differently, judging from factory and urban restrooms I have been in (like putting -ahem- used toilet paper in trash cans! That's just NASTY!) Since I've seen this in several different areas, I figured it must be a cultural thing. Okay, enough of the potty talk!  |  IP: Logged Ben Holley Film Handler Posts: 65 From: Texas Registered: Feb 2004 posted 08-26-2004 02:59 PM                    I was fly fishing in new mexico with my dad and the both of us got food poisening (from differant sources). He got it from some crappy salsa and I got it two days later after eating a crappy cheeseburger from a mom and pop diner. I will now never eat at one of those old fashion diners, even if its life or death.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-26-2004 03:09 PM                        quote: Ben Holley I will now never eat at one of those old fashion diners, even if its life or death. As others have noted, it's the proper supervision of employees and enforcement of good food handling practice that's most important. The big restaurants and chains can be just as likely to have a problem.  |  IP: Logged

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