STUFF that Turkey!
Just a note- perhaps even a rant- from a Former Health Inspector and survivor of more than half a century of STUFFED bird dinners: What's up with folks who don't cook stuffing in the bird??? L...
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The Dung Beetles wrote:
Having survived a rippin' case of food poisoning one Thanksgiving (many moons ago) from my favorite and beloved aunt.. I do not stuff turkeys as an adult. There were 2 bathrooms & 14 deathly ill people. You can connect the dots, but it was like a scene from a warped Monty Python movie....lol My dad said he could taste something OFF in the dressing which had been cooked IN the bird.
Don't care to EVER GO THERE AGAIN.. so.. I either oven bake my dressing or put it in the crockpot.
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Much too fast for salmonella, E.coli, and/or most other slow growers to have been a causative factor. Sounds like your basic fast-acting gastro-bacterial infection, more likely to have been caused by someone's failure to wash their hands after diapering one of the babies or going to the john...next stop: the kitchen, where they handled the rolls, raw vegetables, or whatever.
Fecal-oral contamination spread by a lack of or improper handwashing is the number one cause of the spread of foodborne illness.
Don't blame the stuffing- no matter WHAT your Dad thinks he remembers!
