What to Blame for Your Stomach Bug? Not Always the Last Thing You Ate
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Re: What to Blame for Your Stomach Bug? Not Always the Last Thing You Ate
#2And if your goal is to be productive as a programmer: any faint headache will make you feel as if you are not motivated. These barely noticeable headaches may come from bad water, bad food, no water, no food, you stayed in wind, you are about to get sick, you stayed in hot sun, you didn't rest well (too cold, too hot, not enough sleep) and so on.
Re: What to Blame for Your Stomach Bug? Not Always the Last Thing You Ate
#3As a restauranteur, I (very occasionally!) get calls from people accusing us of making them ill, threatening bad reviews and demanding vouchers or refunds.
The majority of the time it's someone who tries the same scam on every restaurant. Fortunately, around here at least, independent restaurant owners and managers keep in contact with each other and keep a track of these things. I did hear about one scammer recently who called every restaurant in town saying they had made him ill on the same day - the chain places pretty much all gave a cash refund for what he said he'd spent.
Other times it's someone who has actually eaten with you but forgotten that they had seven beers with their steak.
Whatever the situation appears to be, the best way is to always take accusations super seriously, ask for a doctor's letter, a sample for testing, contact environmental health etc. This is the point where everyone backs down, scamming or just hung over.
Never had a genuine food poisoning case at anywhere I've worked or failed an inspection or anything of that sort...we know what we're doing better than you do at home after all
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#4As a restauranteur, I (very occasionally!) get calls from people accusing us of making them ill, threatening bad reviews and demanding vouchers or refunds. The majority of the time it's someone who tries the same scam on every restaurant. Fortunately, around here at least, independent restaurant owners and managers keep in contact with each other and keep a track of these things. I did hear about one scammer recently…
It's hard to prove. Meal is gone. Should I save my throw up?
I have had 18 gauge wire in my buritto, but figured it was just an accident.
I have worked in restaurants. Some are filthy. Some workers could care less about food handling, especially the restaurants that hire the cheapest help, which is most. It's pretty easy to pass a health inspection. Just keep the meat on the bottom shelf, and keep the coolers at the right temp.
My remedy--don't eat out as much. It's unhealthy. And it's increasingly expensive.
(It's practically impossible to prove food poisoning. If I owned a restaurant, I would hire the best, and put cameras everywhere.)
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#5In my younger days, I used to get my normal share of cold and flu and gastric upsets.
Since instigating a few basic precautionary behaviors and no-gos, I haven't had a sick day for more than ten years.
I never stick fingers in my mouth or nose, and I only rub my eyes when reasonably satisfied that it is safe to do so.
I take care not uncritically to touch exposed things and surfaces in public areas. And only use trolleys or baskets in supermarkets if absolutely forced to. I'm aware that anything conveyed by the check-out conveyoer belt is potentially contaminated.
I wash my hands, of course, though I am by no means fanatical about it.
Re: What to Blame for Your Stomach Bug? Not Always the Last Thing You Ate
#6It surprises me that the article doesn't mention the idea that intentional maintainence and nourishment of ones own intestinal flora is one way to help defend against unpleasant intestinal events.
Re: What to Blame for Your Stomach Bug? Not Always the Last Thing You Ate
#7This strikes me as an interesting case if the credit assignment problem from reinforcement learning[0] (Think of the reward in this case being negative, you get sick)
[0] http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Reinforcement_learning#....
Re: What to Blame for Your Stomach Bug? Not Always the Last Thing You Ate
#8As a restauranteur, I (very occasionally!) get calls from people accusing us of making them ill, threatening bad reviews and demanding vouchers or refunds. The majority of the time it's someone who tries the same scam on every restaurant. Fortunately, around here at least, independent restaurant owners and managers keep in contact with each other and keep a track of these things. I did hear about one scammer recently…
From a customer's perspective, it's really hard to prove, so I have rarely done anything when I have gotten ill.
Most of the cases it's been rather mild symptoms and I have suspected the canteen at work for serving leftovers that probably hadn't been chilled fast enough. I've simply stopped eating things that I recognize from the past...
I have also gotten sick from moules marinières where I suspect that they used the same tools for fresh and cooked mussels as it must have been some kind of virus that knocked out both me and my friend with a high fever and rather alarming symptoms for 24 hours. I just decided to never go there again...
However, I once called the health and sanity inspectors when I was served a incorrectly cooked Escolar served as "butterfish" at a lunch restaurant, which led to an interesting night for everyone in the same company. The restaurant offered a free meal but I just wanted them to stop serving shit they didn't know how to cook.
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#9As a restauranteur, I (very occasionally!) get calls from people accusing us of making them ill, threatening bad reviews and demanding vouchers or refunds. The majority of the time it's someone who tries the same scam on every restaurant. Fortunately, around here at least, independent restaurant owners and managers keep in contact with each other and keep a track of these things. I did hear about one scammer recently…
From a customer's perspective, it's really hard to prove, so I have rarely done anything when I have gotten ill. Most of the cases it's been rather mild symptoms and I have suspected the canteen at work for serving leftovers that probably hadn't been chilled fast enough. I've simply stopped eating things that I recognize from the past... I have also gotten sick from moules marinières where I suspect that they used th…
There is no correct way to cook escolar aka butterfish aka olestrafish. It's banned for sale in some places, should be banned everywhere.
Re: What to Blame for Your Stomach Bug? Not Always the Last Thing You Ate
#10In my younger days, I used to get my normal share of cold and flu and gastric upsets. Since instigating a few basic precautionary behaviors and no-gos, I haven't had a sick day for more than ten years. I never stick fingers in my mouth or nose, and I only rub my eyes when reasonably satisfied that it is safe to do so. I take care not uncritically to touch exposed things and surfaces in public areas. And only use trol…
Curiously, I do all those things without a second thought -- as well as my daily habit of picking up at least one piece of trash from the street and putting it in a trash can, putting my bare hands on subway poles and in dirt when gardening -- and have also not had a sick day in as long as I can remember, at least a decade.