Your worst food poisoning?

[FriscoKid]

Mine was in Shanghai. Had just visited that big temple in the city center. Can't quite remember the name (might have been the City God Temple Complex). Anyway, right after finishing the visit, we ate at some stir fry noodle joint. It looked fine, kind of like a local fast food place. There were these little strips of pink mystery meat in the noodles and I couldn’t get a straight answer about what the meat was. It didn’t look like chicken or pork. About an hour later I headed to the airport for my flight back to Bangkok. We weren’t in the air for even half an hour before it started coming out both ends at the same time. I completely destroyed one airplane bathroom and then they had to lock it off so nobody else could use it. Then I started demolition work on a second bathroom about thirty minutes later. Between bathroom runs I was lying on the floor under my seat moaning. By the time we landed in Bangkok everything had stopped though and by the next morning I was miraculously fine. I don’t think I’ve ever had it that bad before. Normally when I get it even half as bad I end up needing antibiotics or I wind up in the hospital dehydrated on a drip. But this time it just cleared up literally the next day. All pretty insane.

[Dante99]

What a lovely story.  I shall be sure to remember all the details.

[FriscoKid]

31 minutes ago, Dante99 said:

What a lovely story.  I shall be sure to remember all the details.

I can offer even more vivid details, if necessary. I can also provide photos of the scene, for a small fee, of course.

[FriscoKid]

Here is one of the photos from the scene that I posted on the link below. Needless to say, I wasn't looking my best. I didn't want to post it here. Possible compliance issues.

 

https://i.postimg.cc/cHpF1yh3/08-BD472-D-8833-4295-809-C-5970-FE4-D0721.jpg

 

[Jim Blue]

11 minutes ago, FriscoKid said:

I can offer even more vivid details if necessary. I can also provide photos of the scene, for a small fee, of course.

Frisco  your projecting !

[FriscoKid]

3 minutes ago, Jim Blue said:

Frisco  your projecting !

You want video as well? When does it end with the special requests?

[FriscoKid]

I can post this photo because it's not too graphic. This was before I was forced to change my clothes.
 

[novacova]

2 hours ago, FriscoKid said:

Between bathroom runs I was lying on the floor under my seat moaning.

How can an adult fit under an airliner passenger seat, unless they’re a baby or puppy?

[Jim Blue]

1 minute ago, novacova said:

How can an adult fit under an airliner passenger seat, unless they’re a baby or puppy?

Brilliant !

[Gandtee]

After eating oysters in a seaside restaurant next to the oyster beds. "They must be fresh. There is a Government Health and Cleanliness certificate posted." The bottom fell out of my world. The world fell out of my bottom more's the like.🤢

[blaze master]

Good thing no one else was on the plane. You did an amazing job in the toilet but I see you soiled your clothes. 

[JAG]

1 hour ago, Gandtee said:

After eating oysters in a seaside restaurant next to the oyster beds. "They must be fresh. There is a Government Health and Cleanliness certificate posted." The bottom fell out of my world. The world fell out of my bottom more's the like.🤢

My worst ever was after a Biman Bangladesh flight was delayed at Dhakka and they gave us a free meal. Within an hour I could <deleted> through the eye of a needle at 20 paces!

 

I would stay clear of oysters too! I know they are supposed to be an aphrodisiac but the last time I tried them only the first three worked!😃

[faraday]

7 minutes ago, JAG said:

My worst ever was after a Biman Bangladesh flight was delayed at Dhakka and they gave us a free meal. Within an hour I could <deleted> through the eye of a needle at 20 paces!

 

I would stay clear of oysters too! I know they are supposed to be an aphrodisiac but the last time I tried them only the first three worked!😃

 

They made something come up, but unfortunately not what was hoped.🤣

[Gsxrnz]

2 hours ago, FriscoKid said:

Here is one of the photos from the scene that I posted on the link below. Needless to say, I wasn't looking my best. I didn't want to post it here. Possible compliance issues.

 

https://i.postimg.cc/cHpF1yh3/08-BD472-D-8833-4295-809-C-5970-FE4-D0721.jpg

 

 

That's the sort of picture that winds up as a Meme.  

[mudcat]

Ceviche from a stand at Guatemala bus station in 1979.  Fortunately inbound so got to the hotel before the storm broke

[connda]

I've had four bad cases of food poisoning over the years, three times in Thailand.

No - NOT "Street Food."  I've never been sick from eating Thai food on the street or in a restaurant - ever!

I contracted food poisoning three times from well-know fast-food restaurants (which I won't identify due to Thailand Machiavellian defamation laws) and once after buying some imported Romaine lettuce from one of our local expat grocery stores (I now buy my lettuce from locals who grow hydroponic lettuce).

I'm sure this thread will bring out the "Thai Food Is Unhygienic and Dirty" Western-expat Clean-Freak crowd.

[connda]

4 hours ago, FriscoKid said:

Here is one of the photos from the scene that I posted on the link below. Needless to say, I wasn't looking my best. I didn't want to post it here. Possible compliance issues.

 

https://i.postimg.cc/cHpF1yh3/08-BD472-D-8833-4295-809-C-5970-FE4-D0721.jpg

 

🐂💩  Bunk.

Staged!

[connda]

44 minutes ago, mudcat said:

Ceviche from a stand at Guatemala bus station in 1979.  Fortunately inbound so got to the hotel before the storm broke

Commonly referred to as "Disaster Pants."  A term used in the community of people who fast to highlight the results of breaking a fast too quickly.  

[transam]

Phuket, beach restaurant, Lobster, pharmacy.........🤒

[Yellowtail]

 Maryland, crabs, 1979. 

[bkk6060]

OP probably ate Rat or Dog.

 

[Rimmer]

It hit me one evening whilst I was staying at the Sheraton in Karachi, suspect from some water I drank outside earlier in the day, had a flight up to Lahore in the morning, managed to dose myself up with Lomotil and made it to the hotel in Lahore where I promptly went to sleep.

 

it lasted for several weeks, the doctors in Singapore were mystified, until a few weeks later I happened into a pharmacy in Bangkok ahh yes said the pharmacist it's Giardia, very popular in Pakistan he said. 

 

He gave me three tablets made by Roch to be taken at intervals over one day, next day it was gone,  phew!   

[Yellowtail]

6 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

It hit me one evening whilst I was staying at the Sheraton in Karachi, suspect from some water I drank outside earlier in the day, had a flight up to Lahore in the morning, managed to dose myself up with Lomotil and made it to the hotel in Lahore where I promptly went to sleep.

 

it lasted for several weeks, the doctors in Singapore were mystified, until a few weeks later I happened into a pharmacy in Bangkok ahh yes said the pharmacist it's Giardia, very popular in Pakistan he said. 

 

He gave me three tablets made by Roch to be taken at intervals over one day, next day it was gone,  phew!   

Pharmacists are one of the greatest things about Thailand. I have mine's "Line" and she is great to work with. If she does not have it, she orders it. 

[doctormann]

I was in Egypt one time, long ago, and contracted what is termed as 'traveler's diarrhea'.  This was from the dodgy food on a Lake Nasser cruise boat.  The usual Imodium stuff has minimal effect on this Egyptian-style bog rot - ended up going to a local pharmacy in Luxor to buy what I can only describe as quick-setting concrete.  This enabled me to get back to the UK but the problem didn't go away.  My doc reckoned that i just had the aforementioned 'traveler's diarrhea' - Every visitor to Egypt gets it', he said.  Just to be on the safe side he gave me a little pot and a small wooden spatula and wanted a stool sample.  What a joke - have you ever tried putting a sample of brown water into a pot with a spatula!  The problem cleared up after a few days - had to keep drinking re-hydration fluid for a while.

 

I also had an encounter with green mussels from a certain french supermarket - long gone - in Pattaya.  That was an interesting 48 hours as well!

[Bumstead]

London, kfc, 1984. Yellow waterfall upstairs, brown torrent downstairs occurring concurrently.

[dingdongrb]

7 hours ago, FriscoKid said:

Mine was in Shanghai. Had just visited that big temple in the city center. Can't quite remember the name (might have been the City God Temple Complex). Anyway, right after finishing the visit, we ate at some stir fry noodle joint. It looked fine, kind of like a local fast food place. There were these little strips of pink mystery meat in the noodles and I couldn’t get a straight answer about what the meat was. It didn’t look like chicken or pork. About an hour later I headed to the airport for my flight back to Bangkok. We weren’t in the air for even half an hour before it started coming out both ends at the same time. I completely destroyed one airplane bathroom and then they had to lock it off so nobody else could use it. Then I started demolition work on a second bathroom about thirty minutes later. Between bathroom runs I was lying on the floor under my seat moaning. By the time we landed in Bangkok everything had stopped though and by the next morning I was miraculously fine. I don’t think I’ve ever had it that bad before. Normally when I get it even half as bad I end up needing antibiotics or I wind up in the hospital dehydrated on a drip. But this time it just cleared up literally the next day. All pretty insane.

 

I was informed that food poisoning doesn't occur that quickly.

[Yellowtail]

Just now, dingdongrb said:

 

I was informed that food poisoning doesn't occur that quickly.

Was it the restaurant manager that told you that? 

[dingdongrb]

1 minute ago, Yellowtail said:

Was it the restaurant manager that told you that? 

No, the Health department back in the USA when I called to report where I thought I had contracted the food poisoning.

 

AI from Google:

 

Food poisoning symptoms can appear anywhere from 30 minutes to several weeks after eating contaminated food, depending on the specific cause. Most commonly, symptoms start within 1 to 2 days. 

[actonion]

Food poisoning was in 1990's  at a Seafood Restaurant in  South Pattaya, having eaten Lobster plus, i spent 3 days in a local hospital, that restaurant is no longer there, rightly so 

[save the frogs]

12 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

OP probably ate Rat or Dog.

 

 

I had a burger once from a hole in the wall Thai place.

In retrospect, it may not have been beef at all.

Best to stick with well-known establishments for burgers.

I didn't get sick , though .. but the possibility still revolts me.