can you get food poisoning from a bad apple?

[JohnCU]

i got a banana and apple this morning for breakfast but it was kind of soft/not too good so i ate part and threw it away and that was at 7. by 12:15 i had chills so bad that i had the heat on high and was still shivering with fever and i threw up 4 times, mostly dry heaves. but it's gone now..?

 

[Twista]

well ya.. if your sick now than you already know the answer.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: Twista
well ya.. if your sick now than you already know the answer.

coulda been something else but i don't know if it was stomach virus or food poisoning

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Twista
well ya.. if your sick now than you already know the answer.

*chuckle* Yeah, duh.

But...what did u eat for dinner last night? Maybe that was bad? You did get up early today and maybe dinner wasn't done w/you yet?

 

[alien42]

waiting for the "sorry dude, you are going to die now" response...

 

[dullard]

Definately. Many of the biggest food posoning outbreaks that I can remember are from unpasturized apple juice.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: Twista
well ya.. if your sick now than you already know the answer.

*chuckle* Yeah, duh.

But...what did u eat for dinner last night? Maybe that was bad? You did get up early today and maybe dinner wasn't done w/you yet?

i had chicken from wendy's and fries

 

[FoBoT]

wendy's is the more likely culprit, sometimes it takes some time to get you

 

[Scarpozzi]

I'm sure if someone in the apple orchard wiped their @ss with the apple, you could get sick from it. Actually, that's probably how it happened. Cheers!

 

[DivideBYZero]

I don't know, but it will spoil the whole damn bunch.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

It's highly unlikely the fruit you ate before you felt sick gave you a food borne illness. The VAST majority of food borne illnesses take from 7 to 11 hours to present. There are exceptions but, most of those are the more deadly kind. The soft/spoiled parts won't get you but the peel will.

The long and the short of it is you have a food borne illness from the day before, you have some other type of illness or, Dude, your going to die.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

E colo, the most fatal of all food poisoning, has been known to be carried in apples that are picked up off the ground, rather than being picked from a tree, because they can fall onto ground fertilized with manure. This is how the Odwalla juice company ended up causing a severe E Coli outbreak that killed two children IIRC.

 

[MysticLlama]

Duh... didn't you see Snow White?

 

[imported_LoKe]

Remember that sushi you ate three years ago? Yeah? Well, it's back.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

E. Coli is a possibility if the apple had fallen to the ground and landed in animal (dear, raccoon) feces. This is probably very rare tho...

 

[NatePo717]

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
E. Coli is a possibility if the apple had fallen to the ground and landed in animal (dear, raccoon) feces. This is probably very rare tho...

I was thinking the same thing. Did you wash the fruit before eating it?