Minor Puzzle - What Made Me Toss?
 

Slightly gross but possibly interesting, to me anyway -

After waking up at 7AM this Sat morning, I made myself breakfast. Less than 20 minutes later, I got that queasy feeling and threw up. What was the most likely cause?

Breakfast was

- one omelette (2 eggs cooked runny, a pinch of herbes de provence, salt, oil, butter). The eggs had been brought back from a car camping trip a week ago, although they'd been in a cooler there and the refrigerator here, they are of indeterminate age (1-2 weeks?)

- Sliced and seared skin-on salmon (bought from grocery yesterday and refrigerated, was 6 oz of filet, sliced into 1/2" sticks and seared, skin-down, for 1 minute. Still mostly raw).

- Orange juice (about 6 oz, from refrigerated carton, sell-by date 9/10/10)

And you couldn't tell that anything was "off" in any of it?

My guesses in order of likelihood

1 eggs
2 salmon

Hangover ?

You may be allergic to one of the ingredients ? ...or the combinations... sounds like a nice breakfast to me though.

I'd hurl too if I ate runny eggs and raw salmon for breakfast!!














Just kidding, sort of.

My guess is you got a 'bad egg.' or "Salmonella." BA domp bomp thank you thank you.

All came on way too fast for any bacterial cause. His gut just rejected it...good question, why? Possibly slightly spoiled egg or fish could be the reason.

Sounds like you may have turned on the Sat morning TV political talk shows.

Pregnant?

Not allergic - I eat this stuff all the time.

Nothing seemed "off". I ate 6 oz of the salmon as sashimi (completely raw) last night, it wasn't as tasty as I'd have liked but I didn't feel ill. I'm thinking that rules out the salmon. So my suspicion is the eggs or the orange juice. I'm pouring out the OJ and will hard-boil the remaining eggs, no more runny omelettes with this batch.

I felt fine an hour afterwards. In fact, I just popped over to the farmers' market and got some oysters, which I have just consumed (raw w/ vinegar & onions) for lunch.

Possibly due to a microaneurism involving your prelimbic amygdala or medullary cortex. Or worse, a queasy stomach.

OMG....raw oysters ! I love them except that a year ago February a few of us went to an 'oyster tasting at a local fish market. There were about ten varieties from different sources. One source had several that 'just didn't taste the same'...kinda a sour taste. Cut to the chase, I was sick for nearly a week and so were 15 other people. I mean REALLY sick. Turns out the bay where these were raised is surrounded by dairy grazing land and in winter..which it was...rain washes the fecal matter into the bay so everyone got a nasty e coli infection. That company is not supposed to sell in winter...but they did.

Did/do not mean to hijack this tread...just a side story with some relevance

Just what I was thinking. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo...s/pukeface.gif

Food poisoning is when you're afraid you're going to die, but terrified you won't. Then you get better, like a miracle; never, ever to eat oysters or drink Tequila again. Ever. Never.

Yeah, Bob...that's about how I felt. Took me to urgent care and poured in two liters of fluids and lots of phenergan. My liver enzymes were sky high too but that's too soon for hepatitis to show up. OK now.

The pan in which you cooked this probably wasn't hot enough. ;)

Very funny. I was trying your method, smoking hot pan and omelette done in 40 seconds. That's probably what got me tossy.

I know exactly what happened. As usual you saw Obama once again on the television and your stomach did what comes naturally...

Don't count out the butter or the oil either. I hurt myself once with some olive oil that sat in the cupboard for waaaaay too long.