On 2018-05-09 5:22 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at 4:25:59 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
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>> I never used to worry about it. My co-workers and I used to go out for
>> Chinese food frequently and never had a problem. Then we tried a place
>> we had never been to before. They had a combo dinner at a price it was
>> hard to say know to. There was something in that food that did a number
>> on our guts. It was way too fast to be food poisoning. We got back to
>> work and there was a mad rush for the one bathroom and people begging
>> others to hurry before they lost it. One of the guys was sensitive to
>> MSG and had a bad headache.
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> It's fairly obvious that MSG had no part in this horrible experience. That you got food poisoning in a Chinese restaurant is not surprising at all. Take it from me, you don't want to know what goes on back there in the kitchen. It's a risk we all take when eating pake kaukau.

I discounted food poisoning because it came on much too soon. Something
in that meal loosened everyone's bowels, and it was pretty much a one
time very large, loose movement. Then we were fine.
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