Over 160 sickened after eating at Olive Garden

[chequita guevara]

Re: Re: Over 160 sickened after eating at Olive Garden

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Illegal immigrants from SoCal not washing their hands.

It's not a joke. They have quotas they have to meet, and if they stop to use the bathroom, they lose their jobs. So they go to the bathroom and wipe themselves off right in the fields. The law requires that farm laborers get breaks, but without a union, it isn't enforced.

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by Odin


I fear that the whole E. coli thing is turning into another "Summer of the Sharks" incident, with the media creating a major emergency where there is none.

I think this is spot on. A Barbequeue joint here in Syracuse had a major outbreak of the norovirus and sickened more than 900 people who ate there, but because it wasn't a national chain the major media never picked up the story.

Last Update: 12/7/2006 10:03:06 PM

Syracuse (WSYR-TV) - The Onondaga County Health Department says test results indicate that the roughly 960 people who got sick after visiting the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant at the end of November fell ill from a norovirus.
The health department says noroviruses cause gastroenteritis (stomach flu), and are very contagious.

They are not transmitted by coughing or sneezing.

The health department says it received more than 1,160 phone calls following the illness outbreak, which is believed to have started the last weekend in November.

From Monday, December 4th, 2006:

Syracuse (WSYR-TV) - Dinosaur-Bar-B-Que reopened this morning after being closed the past three days. The restaurant agreed to shut-down after hundreds of customers and some of the business’ employees got sick.

This afternoon, the Onondaga County Health Department said they have reports of more than 900 people getting sick and more than 1,100 phone calls.

Crews spent the weekend sanitizing the restaurant and throwing away all prepared foods, and the health department says that an inspection did not find the sources of the illnesses.

The health department says multiple studies have shown the illnesses are not caused by bacteria. They are still waiting for results from viral studies, which take longer and are expected later in the week.

Most of the ill were at the restaurant on November 24th and 25th, according to the health department, but no specific foods are associated with the cases. The restaurant passed a health inspection last Monday.

The health department has received calls from people who did not eat at the restaurant, but were in close contact with people who did, and are sick. There are also some cases of people who got sick without any contact at all.

The restaurant’s owner, John Stage, said some employees who came to work on November 24th reported they were ill, and were sent home. He estimates about 1,000 people ate at the restaurant that day.

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My wife, who works in an ER, says this sort of thing has been happening all along, its just never gotten this much attention before.


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[Ned]

The first time I ever ate at an Olive Garden, circa 1980, I got food poisoning. I have never entered another Olive Garden establishment since.

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Q, I don't know about you sometimes, dude.
How does it make who a terrorist?

Sloww, frankly, I think you're far too easily convinced that anything bad must equate to some form of terrorism.

Maybe I'm missing something in your message here, but what I gleaned from your comments is that you're saying is that because someone wants more stringent restrictions and safety certifications for restaurants, that attitude makes them a terrorist?

That's where my "WTF" is coming from.

Furthermore, while sure, the possibility exists that it's terrorism. There's also the possibility that some dumb **** didn't do his job. Frankly, the latter's more likely.

If anything, if people are being terrorized here, it's because the media is doing what it always does, which is blow everything out of ****ing proportion--and people like you, who seem to see an America-hating leftist or liberal towelhead under every rock, aren't helping much at all. You're scaring more people, turning them into security-obsessed liberty-hating cowards by proverbially crying wolf every time you see a four-legged shadow, or screaming fire in that crowded theater every time you see a little flickering light.

The attitudes expressed here are exactly of the lax nature that used to reflect air travel.

Frankly, some of the changes have been good, in air travel. The majority have not. The No-Fly list, for example, is a mockery and retarded beyond belief. So is the anti-liquid policy. So is having the X-Ray machines in visible view at the terminal.

If you people are SO ****ING scared of flying, TAKE THE GODDAMN ****ING trains. For goodness sakes, we don't need your chicken**** behavior demanding ridiculous things from airline companies making things more difficult for that industry right now, and for ****'s sake, Amtrak could really use the business.

You can criticize the concern as much as you want, but it's a logical thing to do, for a terrorist. Water and food.

Nobody's arguing that. I'm arguing that there's no reason to automatically assume that's the cause for this ****.

If you're so goddamn scared of terrorism, you're ****ing letting them get to you. You're letting them win by making every single goddamn thought in your mind tainted by what they want. Fear. They want you chasing your tail, every mirage, so that in the end, you're too ****ing tired to hunt them.

And you're letting them. You're letting them.

If that's really the case with you, GET A ****ING helmet, find yourself a ****ING bunker, and leave my GODDAMN rights and liberties ****ING alone.

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by Ned
The first time I ever ate at an Olive Garden, circa 1980, I got food poisoning. I have never entered another Olive Garden establishment since.

For ****'s sake, this is the proper reaction.

It's. ****ING. Olive. ****ING. Garden.

If you ****ing eat there, you're taking a crapshoot with your life anyway. Only this time, it's a bacteria instead.

[DinoDoc]

Re: Re: Re: Over 160 sickened after eating at Olive Garden

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
It's not a joke.

So you're for enforcement of immigration laws now?

[SlowwHand]

Q, it's a fact that food service signed on to bioterrorism.
That's not me.

I said, food and water supply contamination is a real threat. It is. It's the way I'd do it.

[Q Classic]

I know that the foodservice industry decided to keep an eye on terrorism. I don't mind that.

I just think it's ****ing ridiculous that just because some people got sick at an Olive Garden, that somehow it's an automatic logical link to think it's terror-related, when it's far more likely that it's simply because it's Olive Garden, which is half a dwarf baby step above Taco Bell, and most of that is because the kitchen is hidden behind swinging double doors.

[chequita guevara]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Over 160 sickened after eating at Olive Garden

Originally posted by DinoDoc
So you're for enforcement of immigration laws now?

How about labor laws. The status of the migrant worker doesn't matter since they aren't allowed to take a break to use the bathroom and wash themselves.

[Dis]

comparing Olive Garden to taco bell? come on!

Olive Garden is good food. Why pay twice as much to eat at some snooty place?

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by Dis
comparing Olive Garden to taco bell? come on!

Olive Garden is good food. Why pay twice as much to eat at some snooty place?

I'm sorry.

I like my tastebuds.

Also, I don't want to be vomiting or feeling like I'm going to be sick after eating food from Taco Bell Olive Garden.

And this is without factoring in the ****ty service or any pathogens.