[jyl]

I've had food poisoning once, and it was from a KFC. Otherwise, my tummy has behaved, despite my eating anything I can get my hands on, anywhere I can go, which parenthetically is why I post on the weight loss thread.

My theory is that exposure to dubious food is good for you. When I was a little kid, I lived in Taiwan, where my GI tract was exposed to all sorts of stuff, then we lived in Europe and my GI tract got more exposure (rural France in the 1970s didn't have an excessive amount of food hygiene), later I spent a lot of time in Baja eating and drinking the local stuff. Finally, my family didn't think refrigeration was necessary, if you were only talking about 3 or 4 days. Just leave it out on the counter. More convenient to snack later. I still do that, my family now is horrified, but I think all this exposure and abuse is good for your system.