I think I may never eat at a restaurant ever again. Or for that matter at any place where I haven’t personally cooked the food.
I am slowly coming out of my 4th lifetime food poisoning episode. I suspect the food poisoning episode is due to the breakfast I ate at a local Mexican restaurant on 13th and Ellsworth. I couldn’t sleep last night because I was in incredible pain. After throwing up and nearly collapsing from weakness I was finally able to sleep. But I still felt weak all day today.
I began thinking about how much trust I put into strangers to ensure that I can consume food safely.
For example, I made ketchup yesterday (recipe found here). After purchasing several pounds of pesticide free tomatoes I first washed them in water with a few drops of vinegar. In fact I wash every vegetable I eat with a vinegar solution. I began to wonder if the workers who work for mega corps that package the fruit and veggies I buy at the supermarket take the precautions I do. Do they wash their hands as well as I do? Do they look at each leaf of lettuce to see that there are no bugs hanging around? When I observe food service workers, they don’t treat food with the respect I think food ought to be given. So I would assume that, no, workers who work for Goya or Heinz don’t take that much care. So I think I am on the road to stop relying so much on outside entities to ensure that I have safe food.
