{"id":35576,"date":"2022-01-12T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=35576"},"modified":"2021-12-26T01:11:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T06:11:17","slug":"is-it-better-to-get-food-poisoning-at-a-women-owned-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/12\/is-it-better-to-get-food-poisoning-at-a-women-owned-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it better to get food poisoning at a women-owned restaurant?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Because I refused to pollute the sacred temple that is my body with a 947th slice of pizza in one month, while the kids and Senior Management had a strip mall pizza on the way to the Tampa Zoo, I went next door to a “bowl” restaurant<\/a>. Here’s my Google Maps review:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news is that I now know why Chipotle meals always come out too hot to eat. On 12\/22 around 5 pm I ordered a Mediterranean Meze bowl. The chicken was not too hot to eat. By 1:30 am I was camped out in the bathroom. The vomiting began at 2:30 am and I was afraid that I was going to die. By 9:00 am, having been up all night in and out of the bathroom, I was afraid that I wasn’t going to die. It has been 48 hours and I’m still dizzy and lightheaded. I’m guessing Clostridium perfringens is the culprit, based on the Mayo Clinic web site<\/a>: “Commonly spread when serving dishes don’t keep food hot enough or food is chilled too slowly.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

After submitting this, I noticed the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How should learning “identifies as women-owned” change how I feel about the worst food poisoning that I can remember despite having traveled to some moderately out-of-the-way places<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the same strip mall:<\/p>\n\n\n\n