"-L." > wrote in message
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> D.Currie wrote:
>> For the second time in a row, I'm ill after eating at a certain person's
>> house. And trying to figure out exactly what it is that's causing this
>> intestinal disaster. DH is also not feeling well, but isn't as miserable
>> as
>> me. Same as last time.
>>
>> Unfortunately, there's no way we can get out of eating there again in the
>> future. So I need to figure out what's making us sick so we can avoid it,
>> or
>> else plan on possibly being sick after meals there. Which isn't very
>> appealing.
>>
>> The thing is, neither of us have food allergies that we know of, and we
>> eat
>> a very diverse range of foods at home and elsewhere. No problems with
>> spicy
>> foods, the cabbage family, onions, cukes, or anything else that people
>> might
>> complain about. The food we had last night seemed to be pretty benign.
>> The
>> things we ate in common were the ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, and
>> store-bought pumpkin pie with some sort of cool-whip like substance on
>> top.
>> Bread and butter-like substance. I brought the bread, so I know what was
>> in
>> there.
>>
>> I'm thinking it may be the beans. I think there was some comment last
>> time
>> about them being "home-canned" but this person doesn't do any canning, so
>> I
>> have no idea what that comment meant. Beans tasted weird to me, but I
>> attributed it to the bacon bits or whatever it was that they were cooked
>> with.
>
> If you ate beans both times and were sick both times, I'd bet on the
> beans. However, one of the worst food poisonings I have ever had was
> from ham which I cooked myself. To this day I have no idea what
> happened - no one else got sick from it, but I did - extremely,
> go-to-the-ER-and-get-3-bags-of-IV-fluids sick. I think food poisioning
> is one of the worst feelings there is. You have my depest sympathy!
> -L.
>

Beans are the usual veggie, but the "home-canned" thing was a new twist.
They're normally frozen ones. This time, I couldn't tell you what they were.
There was an odd taste, but I'm not a big fan of bacon-fakin-bits on
anything, so I figured that was what was I was tasting.

The ham there usually isn't cooked. It's sliced from the bone and
microwaved. Never sees the oven at all. But last time it wasn't ham that did
us in because that time we had some version of meatloaf. I don't remember
what was served with it, but mashed potatoes and green beans are pretty much
standard.

Donna