Food Poisoning

Lots of people think they have food poisoning if anything goes wrong after eating food (that they didn't cook themselves). However, real food poisoning is actually kind of rare (not unheard of, just not as common as everyone makes it). It seems rather easy to get food poisoning; something touches something else it shouldn't, cook didn't wash their hands, food isn't cooked all the way, etc. However, most of the time, it's just indigestion. It happens.

This weekend, I was at a party for my husband's grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary and we had a picnic style of food where everyone brought something to share. It was all great food and lots of fun but near the end of it all, David started not feeling well. We assumed he ate too much and once we got home, he could sleep it off and everything would be fine. Well, apparently we were wrong. Once we got home, I started throwing up too (is this post too gross? I'm not trying to be graphic).

When more than one person gets sick from eating basically the same thing, it could lead to a conclusion of food poisoning. Now of course, it doesn't really matter what it was because we're okay today but I do hope that people are more careful at their own family parties. To be honest, if it was something at the party that got us sick, I believe it was what we brought since that was just about the only thing that both David and I ate (there was so much food that you could easily pick and choose without having some of everything). We had run out of time to make something (there was a more formal party for the grandparents the night before and we got home late) so we had to buy something from the grocery store deli. Kind of ironic.