After a small bout this weekend, I want to hear what your horrible food poisoning stories are! Embarrassing? Thrilling? Was it a kitchen ignoring safety protocols or did you trust something that was a little iffy out of the fridge? Let me hear it! I’ll post my own below.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    42·
    1 month ago

    When I was a kid, working in a mall, there was this french fry place across from us that made AMAZING french fries, with this house made dijon sauce. Just phenomenal.

    You could buy a POUND of fries, so the other guys and me on the shift would get a pound and split it.

    Except I’d get sick from eating them. Only me, the other guys were fine.

    OK, process of elimination…

    Fries by themselves? Fine.
    Fries w/ ketchup? Fine.
    Fries w/ dijon sauce? Horribly sick, puking, the whole bit.

    Now, you might already know, dijon sauce is made with white wine.

    Ok, maybe it’s the alcohol? I don’t drink so… let’s test the theory…

    Had A beer. One. Within 30 to 45 minutes I was throwing up everything I had eaten since I was 12. Was sick for 3 days.

    Turns out, my liver doesn’t have the enzymes to correctly process alcohol.

    Alcohol -> Enzymes -> Acetaldehyde
    I have those, Acetaldehyde is what makes you sick when you’re hung over. Cousin to formaldehyde.

    Acetaldehyde -> Enzymes -> Sugar and water.
    Those I’m missing. :(

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6875787/