Texas man sues 7/11. Eats a taco and is surprised by the results.

https://kdvr.com/news/texas-7-eleven-lawsuit-taco-emergency-room/

When I worked in fast food, as a member of management we had to take a food safety class done by the state. I believe they taught us that it took 24 hours or more for food poisoning to make you sick. So it is something you ate over 24 hours ago that made you sick, but that most people always blame it on the most recent thing they ate.

I've taken those food handling classes before, they are only so good for actual food representations on going bad enough to make you sick.

After having been through this a couple three times in my life, knowing full well when the last time I ate and what it was, I can tell you with little doubt that about four hours is all one needs to reap the benefits of food poisoning, with food thats not good to treat your self to.

I have a friend who eats convenience store sandwiches, grosses me out.

I drove past that place a couple weeks ago.

Hey, I had one two evening s ago

It grossed me out too!

Taco at 7-11 in TEXAS where you have so many options?

Deserves to get sick

And for the record food poisoning is not "instant"

If your body is waiting 24 hrs to let you know you’ve eaten something bad, your check engine light should be on.

Agree

This is an industry scapegoat. Most of us have proven this claim false by pushing the envelope on what we should and shouldn't be eating over a lifetime.

My last episode was when I ate some (pre frost) rabbit. I immediately felt a little off and it just didn't taste right. So I fed some to my 4 dogs sitting there. Within 1 minute all of the dogs projectile vomited.

Yes, generally it takes longer than 1 minute but I've had food poisoning enough to know its generally not even close to 24 hrs. But funny, if they extent it out to 24 hrs then nobody is to blame. Hmmmm.

"Pre frost" rabbit running around rotten?

Back in the early 1990's at a wild game dinner at the Minnesota Trappers convention, I ate something that gave me food poisoning. I ate it late in the day, and by the next morning I was really sick. I struggled to get out of my tent and pack up my booth and leave. By the time I got home I was barely strong enough to get out of the truck and get to the bedroom. By the time 24 hours had elapsed, I was in a routine of vomiting, diarrhea, and trying to get some sleep. I did nothing but beat a path from the bathroom to the bedroom for three days.

It was one of the most horrible experiences of my life.

Have you been tested for Hep A?
Sounds like Hep A.

Unless it is clinically diagnosed as "food poisoning" I'd bet a lot of what gets blamed on that is merely some sort of virus, also often incorrectly called "stomach flu".

How would he prove that the 'food poisoning' came from the taco that he purchased from the 7/11?

^^^^
Pretty hard to do unless it affected a whole bunch of customers at the same time.

A few years ago, Diane and I went to a Medieval style feast at a SCA event at a church in Urbana, Ohio. They had a chicken and barley dish, that the cooks made a few days before and did not take care of properly. We ate a little before 6:00pm and Diane was violently ill a little before 8:00pm that evening, fortunately after we got home. 80 people ate the feast and 72 got very sick. I was, fortunately for me, one of the 8 people, who didn't get sick. I wanted to take Diane to the hospital, but she didn't want to go, mainly because she would have to be away from the toilet. 16 people did go to the hospital. Most people got violently ill within a couple of hours.

It depends on what bacteria, what toxins they produce and your individual metabolism on how fast and if you will get sick from food poisoning.

Keith

Since this has turned into a sharing thread I'll share my one experience with food poisoning and a learning experience.

1987 basic training Ft Jackson.

We had a civilian contractor food service. I had the chili mac. Evidently something was hinky about it as that night I awoke well before my time to take my shift as fireguard. Awoke to severe gut pain, nausea and diarrhea. I wasn't the only one as there were several of us jockeying to puke and crap in the latrine. After I gained some semblance of composure I went to relieve the guy on duty. He took one look and said dude you are green get your arse back in your bunk and that he would pull my hour long shift. I grudgingly agreed but insisted that I go down and inform the NCO COQ.
So I went down and asked to speak to the COQ but was informed that she was asleep and not to be disturbed so I informed her runner of the change in my fire guard shift then went back to bed.
Well sometime after that the battalion COQ made his rounds and found my guy asleep. The next morning was chaos with over half the company falling out for sick call. Upon my return from the clinic I was called onto the carpet to explain why I did not pull my shift. Being green in more ways than one I clearly explained the situation and that I had attempted to tell SSG Kimbrough of the change but that she was asleep. The silence I got didn't quite register until I was asked to repeat that. More silence then an order to never discuss the events of that night with anyone.

A few weeks later on graduation day I violated that order sharing the story with an aunt who lived in Columbia just off post. She chuckled and said that all of the locals knew not to eat anything at on post events.

If you're dumb enough to eat a gas station taco, you deserve what you get.

Try eating a bag of haribo sugar free gummy bears