ME Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 We went to sunny Mersea Island today and had lunch (for the last time) at THE VICTORY AT MERSEA I ordered fish and chips and on closer inspection the fish was a bit grey and smelt like vinegar / ammonia / urine. I ate about 5 mouthfuls before I realised that there was something wrong and backed it to the waitress. (just as well I didnt smother it in Tartare like I normally do) I have done a bit of Googling and it suggests that the fish was probably about to walk out of the kitchen by itself. The fact that it was only an hour after opening and I had the last piece of fish suggests that this bit had been knocking around for a while. I am currently parked at the nearest PC we have to a throne and awaiting the worst. :blink: Anyone got any seafood horror stories or want to share some nappy wearing moments ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagsy Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Only one involving a King Prawn omelette from a Chinese in Rayleigh - it was the day before New Years eve so almost 18 years ago to the day. Never had food poisoning like it - even got taken to the docs where I thought I was going to die. Ruined my New Year big style :blink: Needless to say we won't be returning to the Victory any time soon either, bad news travels fast! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 (edited) When I was a trainee the office Xmas party was at a highly rated Italian restaurant. The office manager had the Dover Sole - she ate a bit of it and complained it tasted of amonia. She then spent the whole Xmas period on the bog and missed Xmas. I wouldn't order anything other than burger and chips from a pub because it's hard to F that up. Anything slightly exotic over the Xmas period is going to be iffy - when was it bought, how long's it been hanging around etc? Phone environmental health and get them down there - it's bang out of order. Imagine the consequences if your kids had eaten it - their taste buds are developed enough to spot "off" yet. I am going to have to buy some more jiffy bags....... it's getting busy Edited December 29, 2009 by Mungler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinFerNan Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Is this story true........... oooh sorry wrong thread, certainly don't want any proof :blink: I did have a particularly viscous attack of the squits after a suspect ****** a few years ago. I was just pleased that bath was close to the bog if you get my meaning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Elvis Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 This sounds like a daft question but bear with me,....what type of fish did you order? :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted December 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 This sounds like a daft question but bear with me,....what type of fish did you order? Fish and chips ? I didnt order "One that smells like pee-pee please..." :blink: I dunno Baz, it didnt say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Elvis Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 :blink: The reason i asked is because some unscrupulous fisherman will sell tope as rockeel, they look exactly the same, BUT tope flesh stinks to high heaven of amonia!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 When I was about 14 I went raking cockles on the sandbanks off the beach at mersea, we also picked some winkles. My mates Dad cooked the cockles for us and a few mates and myself had them for tea. I spent the next 3 or 4 days ******** through the eye of a needle. I have not touched a single cockle since. Go on Matt, fill yer boots with the touching cockle double entndres. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperfection Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Bought a Doner kebab once from a local takeaway one early sunday evening and a few hours later i had sickness & diarohea.I was off work for a week with food poisoning and that was the last kebab i ate.My weight plumetted (could probably do with another bout!) and felt terrible a week later even when the sickness/diarohea stopped. Only thing i think what might have caused it is this particular place dont open during the day on a sunday and i dont think they refridgerated the elephants foot (the block of kebab meat) from saturday night.Few years later the council closed it down due to being a filthy pigs sty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soreshoulder Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 just check you've got plenty of toilet roll before you let loose :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 my dad and i had bad oysters in blackpool many years ago. never puked so much in my life. :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyb Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Slightly OT... But I took the wag out for Lunch today... and Richard and Judy walked in... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted December 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 (edited) Slightly OT... But I took the wag out for Lunch today... and Richard and Judy walked in... Judy is enough to put anyone off their dinner, mind you I would find a use for her shakey hands :blink: Back on topic. The one and (so far) only time I have had food poisoning was as a kid as a result of a Wimpy. I shudder everytime I pass a Wimpy nowadays. Edited December 29, 2009 by ME Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev 1 Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Have some Bisto......It won't stop the squits but it will thicken it up.... :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyb Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 I've only had it the once.. Picked it up from a milkshake I bought from the KFC opposite Farringdon station. Nearly 2 weeks of campylobacter based fun...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperfection Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 I shudder everytime I pass a Wimpy nowadays. Are they still going??? I cant recall seeing one for years now and thought they'd died a death like most of the Little chefs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philm Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Had bad mussles in Cornwall last year, it took 30 minutes for them to work their magic. Don't want that again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Have some Bisto......It won't stop the squits but it will thicken it up.... :blink: LOL that's a good'un. Pampers wipes and some soothing creams - get 'em in the fridge now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibs Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Sounds like I had a lucky escape - was off there today for lunch as well but got dragged off to do something else. Fish and Chips would have been my choice as usually OK. Foods nothing special there but not bad usually either, not usually capable of killing you off!! First proper day after the long holiday bet its either been hanging around in a freezer as an "emergency supply" or has spent the best part of five days in a warm fridge!! :blink: Ate some dodgy rice salad once at work just before I was due to fly to Europe to meet my future in laws for the first time. spent two weeks pebble dashing their toilet and a buttock clenching flight. Sometimes you just need the privacy and comfort of your own white porcelain!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zapp Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 A few years ago the mother in law dragged me, the wife, my brother in law and his girlfriend to her favourite restaurant, which turned out to be a fleapit chinese in Wellingborough. Upon arriving at the dunghole restaurant, for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to have oysters in black bean sauce. Schoolboy error. We made it all the way through the meal, right until we were being driven back in the mother in law's car when the most powerful urge to vomit I have ever known hit me. I frantically told my mother in law to pull over, but being the biggest driving-mong ever, she instead slowed down a bit, then sped up a bit and so on for another 20-30 seconds, without actually stopping. What happened next I wont describe in too much detail, but if you were among the group of young lads and lasses out that night in Wellingborough highstreet who had a green peugot hatchback lurch pass you whilst a bloke projectile vomited chinese food all over your shoes, I apologise from the bottom of my heart. ZB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Ate some dodgy rice salad once at work just before I was due to fly to Europe to meet my future in laws for the first time. spent two weeks pebble dashing their toilet and a buttock clenching flight. Sometimes you just need the privacy and comfort of your own white porcelain!! I feel that - in 2000 a memorable flight back from Hong Kong after some local f-knows-what soup. Indeed, when it goes off downstairs you don't want to venture further than eye sight from your own bog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted December 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Ate some dodgy rice salad once at work just before I was due to fly to Europe to meet my future in laws for the first time. spent two weeks pebble dashing their toilet and a buttock clenching flight. Sometimes you just need the privacy and comfort of your own white porcelain!! Rice is supposed to be one of the worst offenders as a breeding ground for nasty stuff. Especially if rice gets re-heated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyr8 Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 stayed at a mates house over night after a long days shooting.his wife gave me a chicken curry for tea,they were having duck and there wasn,t enough for three.tasted ok but about 3 in the morning i thought my end had come,good job the sink was next to the lavi as i was ill in sterio.turns out her mam had made it special for my mate.he reckons she was trying to kill him,they have never got on on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro222 Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 A few years back i had a red pudding supper from a chippy ate half of it but noticed that it was cold in the middle,sick all night never ate one again.Returned to the chippy next day and told them,They said heres your money back very sorry.They closed down about 2 weeks later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted December 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 The Food Standards agency website is the place to report it - http://www.food.gov.uk/enforcement/enforce...ntial/yourarea/ :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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