I dunno about that. I believe the French have a saying along the lines of “lovers of good food just accept they will get very sick once or twice a year.” I got MEGA sick from some oysters in Japan once 20yrs ago. Like… coming from both ends and out of commission for 48hrs. And I don’t think I even gave having oysters again a second’s hesitation like a couple weeks later.

Edit: I might be misremembering an Anthony Bourdain quote: “Good food and good eating are about risk. Every once in a while an oyster, for instance, will make you sick to your stomach. Does this mean you should stop eating oysters? No way.”

Yep. Totally true. I lived in usa for like 6 years. Got used to the water and food there. Whenever id comeback home it would be a full on feast mode. No care in the world what i am eating as long as i am eating. Every fricking time i got food poisoning. Diarehha was constant. You know how would respond. "Yayyyyy, i can eat more!!!"

yeah another little story is i used to have a 3 dollar movie theater near me or maybe it was 4 anyways real cheap it even had date night discounts but they had these hotdogs for $1 they were great and delicious but every time you ate one you'd get stomach problems like actual stomach aches every time without fail and even the runs at times but it was so cheap and tasty and you were at the movies me and several friends said fuck it most of the time.

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Oh wow that's exactly like my late Father-in-law. I suspect it was from him growing up on a farm without always having food.

Most food poisoning claims are BS. Quite often it’s just that your stomach didn’t quite agree with what you ate at a certain time. Protein powder sometimes wrecks me too, some others I digest it just fine. Bananas and almonds were awful for my stomach for the longest time, now I’m 150% fine with them. Not everything’s a bloody allergy or food poisoning.

I got bad lettuce at Taco Bell... IDK if it counts because I avoid that one, but still eat Taco Bell in general

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Yeah, it was tamales with me. I can't even look at them anymore and the smell is revolting. So no, it wasn't the rice or beer. It was the tamales, no question.

I got food poisoning in India. Didn’t stop me from eating street food the day after I recovered

Its worse having the sense of humor of a middle schooler. The only thing that feels worse than shitting and throwing up at the same time is laughing while you do it

I had a strange experience with, of all things, Planter's Dry Roasted Peanuts (a common thing in the U.S.). I had bought a jar to munch on but a few hours after I'd had my first handful I got pretty bad diarrhea. I didn't associate it with the peanuts but a few days later when I had another handful the same thing happened. I still couldn't believe it was due to the peanuts, but I hadn't had anything else that day that was remotely unusual so I kind of laid off them for a couple weeks.

Then one night before bedtime I was really hurting for a snack and I just couldn't believe a jar of dry-roasted peanuts could really cause food poisoning so I had a couple more handfuls. Woke up in the middle of the night the sickest I've ever been - sat on the toilet for ten minutes, when I got up the room was spinning and I just wrapped myself in my bathrobe and curled up on the bathroom tile floor hoping either it would end or I would die. I thought I'd had food poisoning before but those were just a few bouts of diarrhea - I've never experienced something like this. So anyway yeah, I don't touch the dry roasted peanuts anymore.

Lol I'm aware of what I'm allergic to/causes me to get poisoned and eat it anyway lol

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My father routinely, and proudly eats expired food. He has the worst stomach issues of anyone I know.

I tried to help him clear out the expired and very clearly bad food, and he started eating it in front of me like a deranged old man.

He shat himself later that day.

I only avoid the specific foods that got me sick. Anything else is still fair game.

A few weeks into living on my own for the first time, I dropped and smashed a jar of jam. Being excessively thrifty, I tried to recover as much of the jam as I could.

Given it was crunchier than before, and I had a sore throat afterwards, I conclude that this as not a great idea.

I can say the same thing about my roommate who had scabies once and is now constantly paranoid about getting it again lmao

Clearly you’ve never worked in a kitchen.

Nah I’ve got food poisoning three times from three completely different scenarios. Guess I can’t escape it. 😭

Once I had food poisoning and my then boyfriend said yea… you ate fried chicken out of a plastic bag… from a convenience store… in a laundromat.

He had a point.

Just be careful what you eat to begin with and don't get food poisoning

Hmm I don't know.. I had food poisoning from ice cream once and I still eat any ice cream given to me even though I'm lactose intolerant

I hit a serious plateau in achieving my weight loss goal. I might try food poisoning at this point. Hell, I might lick the floor of a rest stop bathroom.