They sell packets containing said countries bacteria so you can adjust at home. They have them for India, Mexico, etc. It basically gives you the squirts in the comfort of your own home, rather than an alley in Mumbai. Once your body adapts enough to handle it, you can explore carefree!
They sell packets containing said countries bacteria so you can adjust at home. They have them for India, Mexico, etc. It basically gives you the squirts in the comfort of your own home, rather than an alley in Mumbai. Once your body adapts enough to handle it, you can explore carefree!
Without seeing the actualy study and results themselves, it's hard to say just how dumb it is, but it looks pretty dumb based on the excerpts published by Yahoo and The Express...
This is probably my favorite quote out of the bunch: "Sixty-two per cent of people asked claimed they didn't always understand what they were ordering." What the hell does that have to do with food poisoning?
This is probably my favorite quote out of the bunch: "Sixty-two per cent of people asked claimed they didn't always understand what they were ordering." What the hell does that have to do with food poisoning?
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I don't even get shots when I go back to Mumbai anymore. Of course, I only eat at hotels and high quality high volume restaurants, and use bottled water for everything.
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America makes sense - because businesses will do anything to make a quick buck; like when we were told that cow anuses, hooves and eye lids are "beef".
Cow anus, is beef... Beef is simply meat from a cow, bull or ox for consumption.
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feralkid
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Userious?
How it is cooked (or if it is served raw), what ingredients are in it (some ingredients carry a higher risk) and where it is from, for starters.
None of that has anything to do whether or not it will cause food poisoning, nor does a person understanding that have any remote issue. The only cases would be in consuming potentially dangerous food (raw meat / eggs / etc).
Which, is important, because I am going to bet 90% of the "America people" that reported a food born illness are full of shit. Eating Taco Bell and it exploding your butthole isn't food poisoning.
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The only cases would be in consuming potentially dangerous food (raw meat / eggs / etc).
Yeah, that's... pretty much what I just posted.
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Very few restaurants even in the UK - excepting of course uber-trendy hipster joints and some high-end fine dining places - list that sort of detail on menus in the first place. If you must know that much about your food when eating out, you probably shouldn't be eating out in the first place. If you can't tell the difference between raw eggs and meat and cooked when it's on a plate in front of you, you deserve whatever you get. And lastly, if you go to a foreign country and want to understand what's on the menu, you should probably take a little trouble to learn something of the native language - something UK (and US, though they weren't surveyed here) tourists in particular excel at not doing. Unsurprisingly, shouting in English at a menu and expecting an intelligible response would be even less helpful than shouting at a native, albeit somewhat more humorous.:whiste:
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I wouldn't eat ground meat from the grocery store at less than medium, nor would I trust the surface of steaks that come from the big slaughter houses. But one of my favorite restaurants grinds their hamburger fresh daily from meat it gets from a local butcher. I can't count the number pink burgers I've happily eaten with little concern that it could make me sick.
No offense, but don't give up your day job to become a lawyer on the Interwebs.
Much (much) more likely is that state or local health laws or regs allow them to serve it that way when ordered by the consumer who has been informed at the time of the potential risk.
When the first wave of anti-rare-hamburger laws were passed, many of them did require many foods to be cooked to specified minimum internal temperatures with no exceptions, but consumer backlash caused some (many?) places to reconsider and allow consumers to choose their own poison, so to speak, as long as they are warned of the potential danger. (See, for example, http://www.achd.net/food/rawfood.html.)
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I have no intention of, but I know of no other industry where a business can put a customer at excessive risk, especially not where a non-professional consumer asks for it.No offense, but don't give up your day job to become a lawyer on the Interwebs.
Plenty of other industries do that. Ever buy a car? Because, while they (manufacturer and retailer) don't recommend you drive at excessive speeds, they certainly don't prohibit your from it. Alcohol industry certainly recommends you not drink in excess or while pregnant, but they certainly don't stop you.
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"hey Jimmy, I'm a first time gun buyer but I've played a lot of Counterstrike. How much is that DEagle and is it good for concealed carry?"
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I was down in middle Georgia last weekend and walked into a Longhorn restaurant where they were smiling at their 77 health rating. I ordered everything well-done, including the water.
Well, for starters, and keeping it in the family, so to speak, there's the raw meat industry, which ships the product in the first place knowing full well it contains at least some number of potentially deadly bacteria. And which fights tooth and nail against every new regulatory measure aimed at requiring them to do anything to minimize the risk, and which, just for icing on the cake, has so far gotten away with heading off even record-keeping requirements sufficient to trace their product back to its source when the inevitable outbreaks do in fact occur. If they can get away with all that, why should "retailers" be prevented from giving a consumer what they want and specifically ask for, when they've got big, scary-looking signs at the point of sale warning them of the potential risk?
And why is just limited to ground beef? What about requiring that no restaurant serve eggs fried sunny-side up, over easy, lightly poached, or soft-scrambled?
And then there are: the tobacco industry. There is absolutely no amount of (addictive) tobacco that can be "safely" smoked at any age, and probably little, if any, that can be safely chewed. The liquor industry. Manufacturers and retailers of acetaminophen. Which has a surprisingly low acute toxicity level for something so often taken by millions of people every day. Admittedly, the FDA is trying to do something about that by, get this, limiting the size of containers that consumers can buy, though they obviously can't stop people from buying multiple containers unless they make it prescription-only. The electrical appliance industry, which isn't legally required to obtain safety ratings for their products, and well, you get the idea..
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Yabbut everyone seems to be forgetting that they surveyed British tourists who travel to these places, not the natives who live there.
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