Poisoned by a dodgy kebab

[User00047]

Had a kebab last night …lamb shish and doner meat with chilli sauce.
Woke up today feeling a bit ill. Never mind, go to work. Gradually feel more ill.
Now being sick. Hurrah for the Turkish professional food preparation people.
I cook for myself all the time without poisoning myself. I leave it to a “professional” for a change and what do I get? Fecking sick as a dog.

 

[angel eyes]

I feel, my dog will eat anything,I bought my first kebab years ago , I took one biteI gave it to my dog, he looked at me, WTF is this, give me a bacon n egg butty anytime

 

[IBD]

I don’t eat it much but most takeaways I have witnessed pretty crap hygiene . Worst was picking up raw chicken breast and then touching a pitta.

If I have to takeaway I go fish and chips or hate to say it Macdonalds or Burger King where with there rules and training is hope it would be hard to poison me.

 

[enfieldspares]

Or you may have opened the shop door and picked up germs from an earlier shopper?

 

[IBD]

Worst hygiene I see is the rare occasion I visit the grot holes of cities and go down the African streets with all the shops selling various products and dried meats like jungle food. Disgusting really but different cultures like different things .

 

[Pedro]

Hard to pinpoint it down to the kebab maybe. A kebab is mostly, in this country something you indulge in after quite a few beverages and there's a lot going on there that could result in a bit of tummy troubles. "fresh" vegetables, chilli sauce as well as the meat.

I'd be reluctant to see all kebab houses tarred with the same brush, but there are those staffed with illegal immigrants who live above the shop like sardines and have rudimentary washing facilities and maybe habits. But the same could be said for some Chinese and Indian food outlets too.

And, of course, some deer meat preparation is done in a field or wood. Just saying....

 

[User00047]

Or you may have opened the shop door and picked up germs from an earlier shopper?

Haha! Germs from a shopper? Who are you? Boris Johnson?
I have 2 kids aged 3 and 5….I live in an invisible sea of filth thanks to them and yet I don’t get ill until I eat a kebab.

 

[User00047]

Hard to pinpoint it down to the kebab maybe.

Oooh, I’d say it’s pretty obvious that it was the kebab that dunnit.
I haven’t tasted an alcoholic beverage at all this year so perhaps I’m missing a trick……the usual amount %abv kills all the germs ?

 

[biffo]

Worst hygiene I see is the rare occasion I visit the grot holes of cities and go down the African streets with all the shops selling various products and dried meats like jungle food. Disgusting really but different cultures like different things .

But you live in Surrey!

 

[IBD]

But you live in Surrey!

Not any more and was a nice rural part

 

[Koenig]

Always avoided the ‘Elephant’s Leg’ reheated/cooled/reheated - no thanks.

However, a chicken kebab is chicken and salad in a bit of bread. Nothing wrong with that if hygiene rules are applied.

 

[Malxwal]

Food poisoning happens, really not fair to tar any particular group.
I've eaten kebabs for thirty years plus, both very sober during the daytime, and absolutely hammered of an early morning and never once had dodgy guts I could attribute to anything other than over indulgence.
Long live the large doner with salad and sauce !

 

[landkeeper]

It too will.pass lol
One way or the other

 

[User00047]

Don’t forget to vote chaps.
It’s level peggins right now!

 

[Pedro]

Oooh, I’d say it’s pretty obvious that it was the kebab that dunnit.
I haven’t tasted an alcoholic beverage at all this year so perhaps I’m missing a trick……the usual amount %abv kills all the germs ?

Except if the feller preparing your slice of tomato or cucumber had been scratching his arse...

 

[The Singing Stalker]

Mmmmmm kaaaaba bbb. I loves kabab. Haven’t had one in ages now.

 

[Bluebarrels]

yep its always the kebab never the beer

 

[Cootmeurer]

I’ve eaten all manner of things and only had food poisoning once - it was a salad! Since then I’ve always considered raw vegetables to much more worrisome than anything else.

But your kebabahobia does remind me of a time in Saudi Arabia. Finally permitted to go off base and into a nearby town with a bazaar. I could smell the most delicious aroma of shawarma so we started that way looking for the source. From about 50 feet away we saw this wonderful spit of meat with a beautiful brown/black crust. As we got closer a local stepped up and ordered one. The vendor took his knife and waved it rapidly around the spit and most of the beautiful brown/black crust was disturbed and flew away.

We waited until back on base to get a regular old American hamburger, cooked to American food hygiene standards.

 

[shakey jake]

have you reported it to the eho, donner is very safe shish the same. my money would be on the salad or secondary source.
i gave my self food poisoning twice from the same cured meat. tasted lovely good job i finished it or would of been 3 times

 

[rem284]

The worst case of food poisoning we had was when we had oysters for the first and last time. We were going to be passing a famous oyster eatery when my now ex said "do you fancy trying some oysters". I replied "no". Well after several rounds of "do you fancy trying some oysters" it was time to throw the towel in. Oh boy, we both paid the price by throwing up and shtting for a week. I reckon we were lucky that we were both you and fit. I do think it might have been too much for an elderly person to survive