Ration Disasters

[Vaino]

All in all....it's surprising that so few people in the US get sick from food....regulations must have something to do w/ it.

Have eaten distasteful food but personally never got sick from any food.

Got the runs in basic training but that was my fault....was at the back of the line for washing the mess gear and when my turn came up the water was cold, no evidence of soap and a greasy scum was on the surface.

Was never first in line when in the Army for anything, but after the above incident, was always near the head of the line for washing mess gear.....Fred

 

[gearheart]

The journals of Lewis and Clark are full of instances where the camp could not move because they were laid up with dysentery.

 

[coloradoclyde]

All in all....it's surprising that so few people in the US get sick from food....regulations must have something to do w/ it.

Estimates of Foodborne Illness in the United States. CDC estimates 48 million people get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die from foodborne diseases each year in the United States.Aug 19, 2016

Remember Chipotle?.....

 

[Loyalist Dave]

All in all....it's surprising that so few people in the US get sick from food....regulations must have something to do w/ it.

I'm not so sure..., I think a lot of the "24 hour viruses" that some people get are actually mild food problems. It's been a long time since I got something bad, and that coincided with fastidious hand washing, and using a paper towel to open the toilet or privy door when leaving.

LD

 

[satx78247]

100% CORRECT, according to one of my Army sawbones friends of years ago, who ran 10th Med Lab in USAREUR.
(Paul's guess was 75% of "viruses" are food-borne illnesses.)

yours, satx

 

[Black Hand]

Gastroenteritis (it's what's for after dinner) - Please don't call it the "stomach flu"...

 

[Vaino]

Have never been sick from eating bad or tainted food and all my friends' experiences are the same....perhaps we're just lucky?......Fred

 

[coloradoclyde]

Yep!....Like I said "some people seem to be immune"

Mexicans don't get sick when they drink the water... But most Americans do....:haha:

Remember Mary Mallon?

 

[Black Hand]

"Typhoid Mary" - carrier, but not affected herself...

 

[coloradoclyde]

Yep...and she was a cook.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Now that's IRONY, and bad karma for her employers...

I've got a scrubbing brush with a single row of bristles on the back meant for getting under the finger nails when washing the hands. It's part of my kitchen box, along with good soap and a special cup I use for hand washing. I don't need to ruin anybody's event by my food handling..., :shocked2:

Another reason why I like boiled foods on the trail (AND I suppose why the British Army preferred them in the AWI for the private men), as boiling helps a lot in cutting down on micro organisms, and for soldiers in the 18th century, the added fluid would be good for hydration....as along as they changed the water a couple of times when boiling the salt pork before making the stew.

I swear some of the folks back then lived long because they were already partially embalmed.
(OK yes I know high sodium levels not a good idea..., if I was good at making jokes I'd be doing stand-up in Vegas. :wink: )

LD

 

[Black Hand]

Considering the water wasn't fit to drink and beer was the drink of the day (for adults and children)...

 

[coloradoclyde]

A fellow let us camp on his land overlooking buffalo river in Arkansas. Said we could have a calf that he had to put down and we could have us a roast. We were thinking it had to be put down over an injury. It had been lighting strike,found by the rancher the next day,four days before our event. Contrary to myth about the Middle Ages pepper will not make tainted meat taste ok. :shake:

William Buckland, known for eating every animal he could, opined that mole meat tastes vile.

Just a fun piece of trivia.... :haha:

 

[nhmoose]

"Best to drink whiskey without polluting it with (frozen) water..."




There is simple knowledge. Thanks :hatsoff:

 

[tenngun]

Yep!....Like I said "some people seem to be immune"

Mexicans don't get sick when they drink the water... But most Americans do....:haha:

Remember Mary Mallon?[/quote



When I was in the navy went in to Mexico a lot, and was in Philippines several times. I ate a lot off of street vendors never got sick. Drank out of lots of creeks,only got sick once. Now I use water pills in the woods,and eat the sat potlucks at events. You never know where the little bad bug is hiding. Even fresh food can get you.

 

[Black Hand]

Of all the odd things I've eaten in this hobby, Muskrat was probably the tastiest. Of course this was during a Trapping Scout on the Jefferson in February - I was handed a Muskrat one the guys had caught and had to figure out on the spot how to cook it with limited supplies. The first one tasted so good that Muskrat became the hoped-for result. I was ready to improvise cooking a Beaver, but it wasn't to happen. Still curious to cook a Beaver one day.

Snake isn't all that great roasted, but I look forwards to making the next one into soup. It would avoid the effort of gnawing around all the bones.

I haven't had Mole, but wouldn't be against trying it...

 

[Bo T]

I just talked with my rodent control officer and he said the head was the only part of a mole or mouse (for that matter) worth eating. He suggested leaving the rest for the dog.

 

[Black Hand]

Wasn't there a story about someone in Alaska studying wolves who ate what he saw them eating? I remember he ate mice whole - gutting them reduced their nutritional value.

 

[nhmoose]

Like Molasses are not sweet spread on hot biscuits!!

 

[sidelock]

I hate potlucks. A few years ago my Wife and I attended one and an old gentleman in the line ahead of us had a nose dribble in every thing close to him. We skipped dinner.