About two weks ago, after having lunch with the wife, son and daughter-in-law, I became seriously ill later that night. I was shooting water out of both portals, roughly every half hour. This kept up all night long until around 10:00 in the morning. Thought it might have been the deep fried dill pickle.

My wife called the DR's office the following Monday; I was still feeling pretty bad. She was told that a voilent viral stomach flu was going around and I most likely didn't have food poisoning. The sad part is that about a half hour after calling the DR's office, my wife soon followed suit with the same symptoms. It actually hit her harder.

My point is, maybe it wasn't something you ate.

From reading all the posts in this thread, I can conclude with a pretty high degree of confidence that your illness was caused by the Burger King Fish Sandwich purchased at McDonalds and smothered in rancid Tartar sauce.

I hghly recommend you switch your future fish sandwich selections to a nice homemade Eel Sandwich

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Swedish Eel Sandwich
1 person

1 smoked eel fillet (30-40g)
1 egg
1 dessert spoon of single cream
salt and pepper
slice of dark bread

First make scrambled eggs by whisking the egg and cream together and then placing the mixture in a saucepan on a low heat. Keep moving the mixture until the correct consistency is reached. Place the scrambled eggs on a buttered slice of dark bread. Cut the eel fillet into 2-3 pieces and place on top of the scrambled eggs. Garnish with chives or dill and eat while the scrambled eggs are still warm.

NOTE: You probably should not handle the contents of this recipe after heavy drinking. Something about the consistancy of the Eel...

The proper sequence is: kneel-hurl-sit-squirt. If it's attempted any other way, it doesn't work; because if you sit-hurl-kneel-squirt, you've made a very nasty mess that you're in no condition to clean up otherwise.




Hey man- always good to see a fellow Iowan on the boards. I live in the Des Moines area now but I was raised in one of the many backroads towns that populate the countryside around here. If you're ever back in Iowa shoot me a PM- I've got a teener I can sell ya



"Deep fried dill pickle" is a class all its own... and it references something I can't even say, but you all know what it is-

There's only one thing fast food joints are good for- hangovers. I used to eat FF all the time- ALL the time- didn't have much choice when I was an over the road truck driver- and when I finally got out of that job I didn't eat FF for years. Now I can only stand to eat it if I have a hangover- the nasty, greasy, make-you-choke deliciousness seems to contain some magical cure for hangovers.

But it's ability to make you sick totally depends on the standards of the place serving it. Even if there's no chance for bacteria to survive in flash freezing and then boiling oil (which isn't necessarily the case as scientists have recently discovered micro-organisms that can survive in even the most extreme environments), if the fish isn't cooked all the way internally, it will still make you sick. Fish is one of those tricky foods that has to be all the cooked or not cooked at all- anything in-between just doesn't work.

Besides- I agree with John Grier here when he said that if you wanted fish, why did you go to a burger joint?

In short, I hope you're feeling better.

Oh, and by the way, take the free meal and give it to a friend- reccommend the fish.

Underthetire,

Was that you driving out of Discovery Bay Blvd yesterday around 5:15pm in a White Teener??

Damn,

Burger King has really gone downhill.

Back when they started, they were pretty much only in Miami. When you went, they took your order at a register and then you stood in line at a glass window where you could watch somebody place your burger patty and the bun on a linked conveyor. As you moved along, the fire shot out of the conveyor, the flame broiled your burger, and toasted your bun. At the end of the conveyor you watched as your hot fresh burger was combined with the bun, slathered up with condiments, wrapped , and shoved it in a bag,and placed in your hand. Mmmm hot and ready to eat.....

Whaddaya get now? Crap from trays that has been sitting for awhile.... Like a fish sandwich......

Heck, I even remember walking into an Arbys in Miami and seeing a huge hunk of fresh roasted meat hanging in chains to cool a little before they sliced it hot for your sandwitch. Now they use the scum you find on a pot of boiling beef, skim the scum off, and press the scum into a slab of "meat-like" crap......

Change, it's not always for the best...

Ken

Ken,
Arbys uses the same meat. They do not use scum, that is an urban myth.

Well, I can attest to three (3) incidents of "firing from both ends" for 12 hours after eating at my local Arby's. True, I don't learn me lesson very well.

They were the most horrible incidents I've encountered. Failed to make the connection after the first. Made the connection after the second, but still did it again. Probably lost a total of 40 pounds from it. Thought about suing, and went for a fourth time to the same store - nothing! Dissapointed, but won't test The Fates again! Could it have been the horsey sauce?
Pat

My first job as a 16 year old was at Mc Donald's and in 1969 they started selling roast beef there too, at least in Cleveland at that time. It was actually very good, we sliced it right there and it was real, excellent beef we piled so high you couldn't get the wrapper around it. We probably killed any profitability chances if it was a test market kind of thing. Arby's has always given me the feeling I'm eating rubber bands soaked in beef broth.

Much more scary is the poultry industry. I avoid any FF place that sells the 'Pieces/parts' made chicken. Two things that always come to my mind is first, this kind of a 'chicken press' squashing chickens into patties and second the idea of beaks and feet and eating them.

How about this: The name of MD's meat supplier is 100% Beef. Its not necessarily what they sell....just a name.

That was me in the L80E. Only white teener in the area I know of.

I'm sure those cars are rust free too

Born in DM but lived in Colfax for the early years, then a divorce an off to Fort Dodge with mom (she grew up there, parents met there), then back to Colfax with my dad in my early teens, then we moved to Dayton (near FD and where my dad more or less grew up), etc. Small town livin' - Dayton is less than a 1000 people. Moved to SoCal my senior year of high school and that was eye opening/culture shock to say the least

I still have relatives in Colfax, Dayton and other various towns. Sounds like I need to get back for some Taco Johns! hahahaha

damn it ...i got a case of the runs too