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It never happened to me on a plane, but a friend of mine had this experience on a flight from Zurich to Hong Kong with Cathay Pacific. All the passengers who chose the chicken-meal got sick. Imagine, a Jumbo full of sick people, huge qeues in front of the lavatories. She said it was a nightmare!

Not really food poisoning for me, but on my very first flight (Delta, AMS.CIN in 1993) it was the first time - and the very LAST - I ate broccoli  :grin:

Some foods tastes different in flight and they may not be as fresh as the ones we normally eat.  Also, keep in mind that the food in flight may have been prepared a few days before the flight (even though they're kept in freezing temperatures to maintain freshness).

Yes, about 10 years ago with Aeropostal on their Georgetown - Caracas route.
They served a soft cheese and I remember thinking at the time that it looked like it would make a good culture medium.
Unfortunately I was right.

YES!!! Some sort of pasta dish. Alaska Airlines. Very sick for hours after getting home. It tasted fine but has a defrosted appearance that I have now come to associate with food that has spoiled. I didn't do anything about it at the time - I don't know why, I was certainly miserable!

My wife and I just flew Air France from New York to Paris. We always request the vegetarian meal under the theory that it will be "specially" prepared. It was special all right...my wife felt queasy about an our after eating the mushroom and asparagus stuff and got up to go to the lavatory. They were occupied and she fainted in the aisle and was out cold for about a minute. With the assistance of a couple of attendants I got her in her seat and she was instantly but discretely ill and then went to the lavatory and was ill some more. I would have written it off as stress or altitude or the glass of wine but shortly after another woman fainted in the aisle as well. She was really out and they wound up carrying her to the exit row where she power vomited for about an hour.  They had to have an ambulance meet the plane and haul her off so I suppose  my wife and I got off lucky. I rarely eat on planes and so had skipped most of the vegetables and stuck with the roll but even so I got ill. It really took the fun out of our week in paris where we had intended to eat our way accross the town and the kicker came on the return flight where 3 attendants scolded us for refusing our "special" meals in favor of the food that we brought with us. They were incredibly persistent and ignored us from that point on. We had to get up and get our own drinks because they wouldn't talk to us.

Me too: in 1994 on an Air Algérie flight from Algiers to Ouagadougou. I guess it was a suspect yellow colored lemonade (?). Anyway I spent the whole flight on the toilets (also during landing).

Cyrille Roche wrote:

Härzlich willkommä im Forum! Isch ja unglaublich, dassi so lang dä einzig Schwiizer xi bin :-)

that was wonderful.... LOL

Grützli!!!

billl142 wrote:

I don't know what that says and the google translater won't translate it so I'll have a go myself

Welcome to the forum. Its been along time being the only suisse member

How close am I?

Great Jon! It's nearly perfect! unglaublich means incredibel, so it means: It's incredible, I've been the only swiss so long.

alatoo_ch wrote:

Merci fürd willkommensgrüess! Bisch du bislang würkli dä oder die (sorry, cyrillE isch doch wiiblich, oder?) Einzig da gsi?

billll142: try this one too. I'll give the translation tomorrow

dä (trotz em e)

Aber jetzt wo du miich zum natänkä aaregsch, stimmt nöd ganz, miär hand emal en Basler gha, aber dä hät sich scho längär verabschidet und es ex-SR-FA isch au ab und zuä da. Und dänn s'hät en nette Öschtriicher da das zellemer doch au scho fascht zu ois (mached ja zämä d'EM)

Ok Jon, even more work for you :-) You will be able to impress all your australian friends by telling them you speak swiss german :-)

souringstraight1 wrote:

I recently did, i was on a southwest airlines flight from Baltimore  to San Antonio Texas. They served a Snack box which contained a cheese dip and sticks, sausage stick from tombstone, chips ahoy cookies ,  and they gave a tiny bag of peanuts to go with.  I thought this was the first time i have ever seen sausage( looked like a thin beef jerky stick) on plane with cheese stick snack pak. about a 45 minutes later i felt a very swift cold sweet, i felt very wierd almost instantly weak, lethargic and truly my stomach has a very funny feeling to it.. i tried to get up and get pass the other two passengers  sitting next to me and i thought i was going to Faint. In all my life i had never experienced anything like this before. I ended up going a second time only 10 minute after the first  but this time i almost collapsed into the middle isle from being so instantly week and so ill i felt i had no controll over my own body, this time i was very afraid, it was almost as if what ever this was, pretty much knocked me off my feet.

Could this have been food poisoning? 

I am a very strong person and i have a pretty strong immune system.  I was not ill prior to flying and i do not have any prior medical conditions I am in my early 30s. I hope that no ever experiences what i did.  honestly, i think i almost ended up in the hospital.

Usually there are a lot of quality controls over items - whether they are prepared or repacked - but - I would check the expiration dates on packaged items...

The other thing I would definitely do is check with your Doctor's just for the heck of it...

I experienced food poisoning only twice in my life, luckily not in the air. I feel very sorry for anyone who gets problems of this kind while on board. However, while travelling from Tokyo to Amsterdam on KLM my companion got sick after having a few cups of orange juice with her meal. (I don´t take such risks as I am in the habit of drinking only alcoholic beverages before the flight .... during the flight ... and also after the flight.)
We informed the purser and he tried to find out whether the orange juice would contain any agents possibly causing allergy but to no avail as the supply was loaded in Narita and the information on the brick was only in japanese. So he only filed a report and that was it. In the meantime my companion fell into heavy coma and did not awake from it until breakfast was served short of Schiphol. Fully rested and refreshed after a day-long longhaul - sometimes it´s simply amazing what restorative powers slumber in elderly ladies. I am a healthy man 20 yrs her junior and felt completely devastated because i can seldom sleep in airline seats, however reclinable they might be.