For the first time in my life, I was a victim of food poisoning. This happened to me early dawn of Saturday when I suddenly woke up with painful cramps on my tummy (like labor pains), vomiting and diarrhea. Indeed, I was too weak and too dazed that I could not even get myself to go to the toilet. I was thinking of the events of the night before when I went to the gym and had a KFC chicken fillet sandwich for dinner. But the culprit turned out to be the tahong (mussels) I ate 16 hours before which also downed more than a dozen people in our office. Apparently, someone was being promoted to an officer position and felt gracious enough to stuff us with contaminated tahong ~ ugh!
This food poisoning incident reminded me of our Christmas party two years ago when many of my officemates were downed by the chocolate mousse served by this ailing hotel in the metro. That poisoning spared me then as I did not taste the spoiled mousse, contrary to my penchant to get “a little of everything” on the buffet table..lol.
Luckily, I recovered easily from my food poisoning episode. My doctor, thinking that it was some form of intestinal flu, told me to take Kremil-S and Decolgen. And after asking him “why Decolgen?” he told me not to be smarter than the doctor and just take it. True enough, I felt better. Even though I was weak still, I persisted on attending a luncheon in a Chinese restaurant, a meeting , my Rotary Club induction and my weekend graveyard duty at work. The same could not be said of the others who had to lie in a hospital in a dextrose.
Will the incident stop me from being a foodie? No. But am probably not touching tahong in a thousand years. Sabaw ng tahong na ginisa sa luya, ang sarap pa naman.
My eldest son, who’s 15, also had a bout of vomiting when we had tahong a few months ago. I thought it was because I bought the fresh one that was just sitting on ice, who knows for how long. The next time I bought tahong, I took the frozen one. But he also threw up. We have not had tahong since then.
It’s good that you’re feeling better now. Take care.
Thanks for the greeting, Irene.
The incident has taught me that seashells should really be handled with care. They have to be bought in season and should be procured from reliable sources. A month ago, a friend also vomited b-l-o-o-d from eating contaminated oysters. Oh well..
Unless the food smells spoilt, is there a way of knowing that it’s “poisonous”? Nakakatakot na palang kumain ng tahong, ano?
Sorry to hear about that.
As much as possible, I keep away from seafood. They are easily spoiled and there is no way by which you can check whether they are poisonous or not.
Get well soon.
Good to read that you feel better now. I’m a seafood addict pero thank god that I never experienced food poisoning. Kawawa rin yung nagprepare, I’m sure he/she feels so guilty about it.
Yikes! I hope you feel better now!
ajay, hope you shake it off…i know it must be particularly painful, for a foodie to experience foodie poisoning, fave food pa mandin.
(now what do i do w/ my frozen NZ mussels? :p)
it seems like such a gamble, when it should be just an instinctive act (to pop a morsel in your mouth…)
ingats.
Abaniko, a dish may look good and not smell at all but as experience taught me, it’s poisonous still. be warned;)
Cat, the problem is I love seafood ~ but am staying away from mussels, clams and oysters from now. However, I just ate alimango for dinner as we speak;)lol
Hope “it” never happens to you Tin. Que terrible! And yes, the culprit already apologized.
Thanks for dropping by Stel. Mataas naman siguro ang quality control ng frozen foods and sold products dyan sa Boston. It seems you described the foodie experience well: popping morsels into your mouth should be an instinctive act, haha!