Was that actually food poisoning?

Hm, I'm Manny, I'm Noah. This is Devin, and welcome to no such thing, the show where we settle our dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research. This week I attempt fate by asking, does food poisoning actually exist? I?

No, there's no no such thing. No touch, thank touch, thank touch, thank touch, Thank so.

This is a very old many no Devin discussion. Yeah, we've all heard the stories. Someone goes out to eat, then they're running to the bathroom, they're calling out of work sick. They say they have a bad case of food poisoning. Must have been the nachos, bad fish. Yeah, this has never happened to me. But now let me be clear, I don't have a particularly strong constitution. I'm also not very selective or picky where I eat. I'm

Were you're you're saying, we hear, we hear about food poisoning more often than it happens.

I think, so I would.

Agree with because people, if you're going to call out of work.

It's the easiest excuse I have food poison You don't have to fake being sick beforehand to lead up to lying about it.

Yeah, and you don't. You probably don't need to go to a doctor.

No, probably because they're not going to do anything.

No.

No, Yeah, it's one day. You can come back the next day.

So let's talk about actually being sick. What are your experiences. We don't need to get into details, but.

Now we can get into details because this is what makes me so upset about saying I've had food poisoning two to three times.

Okay, that's not a fact.

No, or you know, you know, I feel he's going to be.

There always, maybe every eight weeks. No, No, it's like, what are you doing now?

Well?

What makes me upset about you saying it's not real is that food poisoning is probably the worst sickness you can have, you know what, A feeling like I want to die, Yeah all the time, because I've gotten food poisoning. Sometimes when you're sick, it's like, oh I get to relax, Yeah, home watching It's just miserable. You have like the shakes. Yeah, I hate throwing up. It's the worst thing in the world throwing up.

Oh wait, wait, we got to talk about this real quick. Growing up.

I don't know what the hell this is about.

Set it up.

Growing up.

As kids, sometimes you get sick and you gotta throw up. Yeah, man, when we throw out, what do we do? We get up and you go throw up? What are you throwing up?

In the toilet?

Okay, in the toilet, right, not in the sink. We're not getting things we cook with to throw up into. Some people get bowls or or pots. These are these are things that that they to hold.

The vomit, yes, and then they put it in the toilet.

Would be I don't know what they do with it.

This is what it would be like. Let me speak for my probably eating it later. It would be like, okay, I have I have a tummy. Yeah, I'm six years old. Okay, I'm I'm I'm getting ready for bed, and then yeah, I'm gonna take the plastic bowl and that's gonna be my case. I might not make it to the bathroom. These are basically storage bowls.

Okay, So let's break it down for these.

Aren't like, it's not like a cereal bull.

Okay, what is it?

It's like a plastic What are you putting in it when you're not throwing up into it?

Pretty much nothing? Honestly, other bowls like it's.

So, this is the thing I've learned, but over the last couple of years is that in the white community, they throw up into containers that they event.

It's not just it's a community.

Yeah, they have like they're like, that's the that's the pot that we would throw up in and then also cook our stupid.

It's interesting that the bull thing bothers you so much because it's like, you don't think it's you don't think someone can wash the ball, like you don't trust and I know that.

People could wash the ball. I understand that.

You people don't even wash their bodies.

I know you can sanitize things. To me, it's just like there are other did you not have trash cans in your home?

My mom would beat my ass if I throw up in a bowl. But I can understand this from the perspective of like it's easier to I'm gonna wake up and I'm about to throw up, and I need to turn okay, but not putting something.

Near the garbage cans. He's admitted to garbage cans, and it's the bull is not the only container.

It is easier. It's it's a bowl, so it's easy. There's more. Yeah, I think I'm a I'm a baby basically. I think you a fifteen doing.

Just think it's disgusting to throw up into a pot. That's crazy. It's like the fact, this is the cleanup of it.

And then you, you know, wash it with lisol and other stuff. It's just like anything else at that point. There's disgusting leftover food all the time.

That's food.

It's not my throw up. Well, I don't want to see my throw up in any container.

Something to come around.

I mean, your your your vomits, Your vomit is your food with like a little bit of a mile I guess sometime food plus.

Okay, But y'all are acting like you don't have other options. No, I know in that versus on my bed. Sure, I'll throw up in that.

Is essentially that's what we're saying.

You have one bowl that you would use, right, It's not even like they're rotating the containers that.

Worse, wouldn't that be worse for you. If now there's twenty bowls that are thrown up, I think is worse by your argument you have a dedicated bowl, Yes.

You should have a dedicated bowl that you're not cooking it.

Okay, I basically said that.

No, but the people I'm not talking about you.

Specifically, Okay, well, you're attacking me.

But there are other whites on the internet saying this is the pot or bowl that we would throw up into and also make super whatever with.

Look, I think I don't think. I think we're talking in circles at this point. I want to hear from I want to hear from the listeners.

If you had yeah, if your family had sick, did.

You have a dedicated vomit container.

Bowl that you also made food in?

Okay, that you also used.

Not just like a bucket or or a bucket, have a bucket in your.

Home, use a bucket?

All right, all right, I think we're done.

You said you've had food poisoning two to three times times.

Do you have an idea of the culprit?

So one time it was it was a bowl place, it was a Mediterranean bowl.

I don't even know.

It may have been like a cavo or something got sponsor.

It was one of and it's this was before it was crazy.

It was too crazy.

Yeah, it's a little nutty.

So it was like it wasn't even something I considered to be risky.

Yeah, and once again, this is what I think gave it to me, because you know, the classic food poisoning thing is you get food posoning and you go through all the day until you ate. Recently, you're like, that's the no one, that's norm When that was out of the ordinary, Yeah, exactly.

Only a year ago.

On my way back from LA I landed at like eleven or midnight, but I was really hungry, and I went to a bodego on my way home and got like a buffalo chicken saying, which is like a hero, and ate it probably thirty to forty five minutes later. Yeah, that is when I was like Kevin, it was coming right out of me. I was on the toilet forever. I had like a cold sweat and shivers and stuff.

Yeah.

But here's the interesting part. The next day, I was shocked at how I could have gotten so sick from that so quickly.

That's what I was going to say, Man, I didn't want to call you out, but that seems a little too fast. Thirty forty five minutes, I asked my doctor, even in your body yet she was saying.

That the culprit could be anything you've eaten in the last ten days. I think we are so attuned to thinking that it's something I just ate that got me sick.

I'm sorry, I don't believe that.

So I wonder, like, all right, maybe you have a regular sickness and you just finished eating and then you thought it was that thing.

I can see the last I'll give you two. I'm not getting food boys nine days ago.

That is out. It came out already.

If we're going to say that, then there was one time in Toronto, I ate a pizza with eggplant on it. Sure something was going on with it. It was one of the things where I was as I was eating it, I was like something, Oh, this feels like I like eggplant, but this is this is not something is up. Went in the bathroom at the pizza place. I'm still there, threw up. So that's you talk about thirty forty five minutes about mid eating.

Well you use zero minutes if you didn't eat anything in that moment. You probably would have went to the bathroom and threw up.

No.

No, I was eating the pizza. The pizza made me feel sick, and then I threw up. It was and it was a response to.

The Okay, but I know what happened after you ate the pizza. But maybe there's something in something that's inside of you before the pizza. The pizza is just kind of pushing it. Three doctors right here, you know, and that's just spring it. You're blaming the pizza the new pizza, but maybe it was the old thing.

The pizza made me feel.

You're saying that's how you feel, that's what you think.

The fact.

Now you're telling me how I facts.

Don't care about your feelings.

Yeah, exactly, as I was eating the pizza, I was like, oh my god, this pizza is making me feel naice.

Because and then it's interacting with what say okay, it was the trigger.

I would put the pizza.

Down and say, okay, I'm not I'm gonna not touch it, and I felt Okay.

The reason I'm telling that story is I didn't think it was food what it was.

I thought you were trying to say it was You don't think I had a reaction.

To the pizza. But it's not food poisoning, So.

You wouldn't call that food poison no, because how was it poison It didn't give it didn't have the time to poison me.

So what do you think that is?

I just had some sort of reaction to the ingredient, like allergy, maybe an allergy.

I'll be honest, Like, I know when you get a cold, what makes you sick? Like you're getting like if it's like an infection in some way or like a bug. I don't know what food poisoning? How you get sick from that?

Is it?

Like, like what undercooked food that's causing your body to react badly?

That's what I want to find out.

I think it could be undercooked, right, I think it could be prepared in a not a good way, so cross contamination.

Yeah, So I mean, I'll say this. I know I'm a skeptic, but like I I'm a big fan of Gordon Ramsey. I've watched many of his shows, hundreds of hours of his reporting, and watching that, I am like, there's some funky stuff going on in kitchens. Oh yeah, around the world.

Frankly, raw meat next to the vegetables next to.

So, I mean, I understand how this can happen. Yeah, if it happens, If.

It were to happen, I want to believe what you like, if I did it.

Food prep obviously the source farms, Yeah yeah, I've seen some videos from these farms. Doesn't seem that clean.

No, remember when Chipotle had the big was it salmonella outbreak? To me, that's food poisoning, Like you consume that and then you get sick from it. Yeah, but that's not happening as often as people are saying they get food poisoned for recalls that stuff.

Yeah, that's a different thing. That's like a recall that someone messed up a whole batch of.

Yeah, yeah, see that. I think that's where things are complicate, because of course we're like boris Head last year. Yes, there's these things where there's nationwide recalls and all this stuff, and you then it's like, okay, they're tracing this back to the source and they know this is it contamination. And then there's other stuff where it's like okay, me and my buddy go to the socco place, Yeah we get the same thing. He's having a problem, and I'm not why is that.

Because not everyone.

This is also the thing with food poisoning is that two people could get the same exact meal and have different reactions to it.

Yeah, clearly. One more question, do you guys wash your chicken?

No?

I hate the same as on camera, but I don't because I notice is controversial and in the black community.

Yeah so sometimes.

Yeah, but you're not supposed to wash your chicken because if there is something on it, you're just spreading it, you're not actually cleaning it.

Let's say I used to do it because that's the way I was taught.

So you get vinegar and lemon juice, and you like kind of give it like a little bath in the bowl.

As far as black community misconceptions go, that one's up there with we don't need to wear sunscreen. Yes, got my ass fried a couple of times by following that advice.

We don't need to wash the chicken, y'all. I know we're gonna get the emails. It is okay, I haven't been washing chicken for years. I have not gotten food poisoning.

So I want to find out what is food poisoning?

Well, first of all, is it real?

That's my second question? How common is it? Okay, why don't I get it? How can we stay safe?

What if thing's so void?

Yeah, and we'll find out after the break. Okay, we're back.

I'm Manny, I'm Noah Devin.

So we're talking about food poisoning. I'm skeptical of how common it is. I feel like it's used to liberally, and I'm wondering why I don't get it personally. So I did some research. I had some perfect phone calls with some experts in the field. First up, I spoke to doctor Ben Chapman.

I'm a professor and food safety extension specialist and department head at North Carolina State University, and the area that I focus on is food born illness and food safety, especially around restaurants, retail stores, and consumer homes.

And more importantly arguably, he has his own podcast called Food Safety Talk. So this is the guy to.

Talk to him.

Hey, yeah, So first up, I asked him to explain what food poisoning actually is.

Food poisoning technically is like one slice where someone eats something and there's a toxin in it and you get really sick, really quickly, like within six or eight hours.

You know.

Back in the seventies, or eighties where a whole bunch of people went to a wedding and the next day everybody showed up at the emergency room or at their primary carreer doctor and then started talking like, oh, what did you have the chicken?

Did you have the fish? Whatever?

Right, Like, that's kind of the common look at poisoning. Food born illness is a little more nuanced. We see outbreaks now that might be like as few as three or four people, and they might be in four different states or in two different countries, And that has I would say, broadened the view of food born illness because

The timing here makes a lot more sense. I know, Manny before it's talking about his doctor's telling me what ten days.

Yeah, she was saying, like it could have been anything in the past ten days.

Six to eight hours. That feels like the perfect times. That's when I get food poisoning. That's the time table to start settling in. Yeah, for dinner, and then the middle of the night you're like, what's going on?

I mean, even lasteria can incubate for seventy days, which is really crazy. It's not as easy as just going like, what's the last thing you ate, which is obviously what most people would do instinctively. We want to be something you had literally months ago. Yeah, so I asked, what's actually happening in the body during food poisoning. That's him to go Osmosa Jones mode.

Yes, we start with the pathogenic KEY coli, and the one that we worry about the.

Most is E. Coli on seven seven.

So essentially, what's happening is someone eats food that has the pathogen in it. The pathogen passes through the stomach and ends up getting to the intestines and that's the right place for infection for that put to bacteria, and the intestines are a really good environment for E. Coli because we have nonpathogenic E. Coli in our body at all times. Without having E. Coli in our intestines, we would.

Not digest food correctly. So we have this like kind.

Of rogue type of bacteria that's there that lives amongst all the other E. Coli can then move in and out of cells pretty easy, infects as it grows. A byproduct of its growth, it's essentially the waste from the bacteria, and so that toxin ends up going to the kidneys and then damages kidney cells or ends up in the bloodstream in the eyes and can create blood clots because the body is trying to attack this toxin, and can lead to blindness.

I asked how common this is, Going back to my question, people throw this around all the time. I had food poisoning, this that whatever.

We estimate that they're around forty eight to fifty million cases of food borne illness in the US. If you went across the population and ask people whether they had an irregular bowel movement or if they felt nauseous, how many times a year that might happen, you might see the population might say three or four times a year. I have that, but did not equate it to anything. It's just I had the twenty four hour flu. And what we don't know is how much of that is food.

Born and how much is not.

On average, somewhere in between one and six and one in five people are going to get food borne illness a year in the US, and the vast majority won't equate it to something that they've eaten or maybe never will be able to solve that down outbreak. It was just something they were exposed to in the food supply.

It's pretty common.

This might be the earliest and in the episode's playtime where the host has been wrong, I.

You know, I'm not gonna you know, I can't play too long.

I'll say too like I've had food poisoning, but I've never gone to the doctor for it.

So yeah, I'm unreported.

I'm assuming these numbers are more than just from the hospital surveys and in real studies. But yeah, it's like you could easily even if you were surveyed, you still might. You wouldn't say necessarily you had food poisoning or food born illness. Yeah, you might just be like, yeah, the stomach bug or whatever.

Yeah.

My biggest question personally, well am I not getting it?

So?

Genetics is one how bacteria and viruses kind of attack our body. There's lots of different ways. It really could come down to the shape of the receptors on a specific cell in my body is different from yours, and that that virus only wants to unlock that receptor. We could be eating the same food in genetics wise, I'm more predisposed to it than you are.

Then there's a.

Whole other area of how much and what kind of bacteria or virus is there. There aren't a lot of foods that we eat that I would say are evenly homogeneous, the exact same amount of the same thing all over it, Like every episode of tastes the same because it's the same all through. But we don't eat a lot of foods that are like that. Every bite is a little bit different. And where bacteria and viruses go is also not homogeneous, so they could be concentrated in certain areas.

And there's some really really.

Good historical data on this, like people who grew up on dairy farms, for instance, are way way, way less susceptible to EQUALIE contamination because they lived in an environment that where there was equali all the time, and maybe they got sick and exposed when they were two or three years old and they have immunity to it because of that.

There was a lot in there. But it did answer one of my burning questions, which was, you know, if Devin and I split a burrito, is it possible that he could get food poisoning from it and I couldn't. And the answers yes, it seems like, yeah.

So it could be because you got lucky with your bites or simply you're built different. Yeah, which seems to be my life. But yeah, yeah, I think so safe to say. So. Now, I did ask about when people do react immediately, because he said, you know, most of these have incubation periods that are at least a few hours, if not days or weeks or months. So I asked, you know, what is it when people do react immediately like you mentioned with your egg plant pizza.

To be fair, I said, I did not think it was.

Yeah, let's let me be clear, but you said you were eating it and you were like, this feels allthing right right before you even had a.

Reaction, yes, right, and my mouth felt weird.

Probably the number one misconception is that the last thing I ate is what made me sick, right, And you kind of hear it all the time in conversations where it's like, I'm not going to eat at X restaurant again because man, I was terrible. I went home and all night I you know, I had diarrhea or vomit

That's like usually the case. So if it was a toxin or a chemical. Yeah, it could be very quick.

So Devin innocent, vindicated, but not for the reason we thought.

Yeah.

Yeah, and you know, it's food poisoning in a sense, just not your yeah plastic, you.

Got poisoned from food, but yeah, not necessarily bacterial.

So now I want to take a step back. We've kind of gone deep inside the food poisoning process. Yeah, but now I want to see how it spreads on the larger spectrum, how these outbreaks occur. So after the break, we find out where food borne illness comes from and talk to a lawyer who took on a fast food giant to change the game as we know it.

Mmmm.

Health officials say people infected with the E. Coli bacteria maybe unknowingly infecting others. More than one hundred and fifty people have become ill after eating tainted hamburger meat a Jack in the Box restaurant in Idaho and Washington State.

One child has died.

My name is Bill Marler. I'm a food safety attorney based on Bambridge Island, Washington, which is a ferry ride away from Seattle. By the time the Jack the Marx case was over, I knew more about food safety litigation. I knew more about E. Coli than you know any lawyer in the world.

To sum it up very briefly, Jack in the Box restaurants were linked to an equal lay outbreak in early in nineteen ninety three, the largest outbreak ever documented in the US at the time.

Ultimately, there were over six hundred and fifty people sick, and four children died. About seventy five suffered acute kidney failure. Hundreds and hundreds of people were hospitalized. In many respects, you could liken the Seattle area were like a war zone. You know, there were more kids in the hospital than there were dialysis machines.

It turns out Jack in the Box wasn't consistently cooking their hamburgers to the recommended internal temperature. There was a major investigation, and Bill Marler's lawsuit on behalf of the victims secured what was at the time the largest ever settlement related to food borne illness, over fifty million dollars. It also led to a few major food safety outcomes.

So I spend a lot of my time doing the epidemiology of figuring out an outbreak. I think I may be the only lawyer in the world who has an epidemiologist, and I actually have three on my staff. I kind of look at ourselves as a health department with a prosecuting attorney attached to it. We figure out can we connect up this person, and then can we connect it up to a product, And then my job is to go after that company and make sure that they do

We heard how the cole I and ground beef has basically become a non issue now after the Jack in the Box lawsuit. But there's a lot of frustration now we haven't had the same level of action on other issues, like salmonella in chicken, which is a common one you hear about. Yeah, so here's Bill talking about that.

I've repeatedly been beating my head against the wall for twenty years to try to get some movement there, but you know, it's completely completely legal to sell salmonil attained chicken. It's the rationale. Well, the housewives or the house husbands nowadays are responsible for handling the product, like you know, it's a nuclear weapon. Over half of salmonella cases in the United States are caused by chicken. That's one point three million Americans every are sickened by salmonilla.

It's crazy.

How does the U stock up against Europe or elsewhere in the world.

It's not like Europe has not had some significant outbreaks, but you know, for salmonella, they just said, we just won't have salmonella or camflo bacter, which is generally also found with chicken. What they do in Europe is if there's a flock of birds that have salmonella, they'll eradicate that flock. It's not like we don't do that here. We eradicate flocks all the time, but it's usually for bird flu ye. But in you know, EU, UK they

It's like the world's going to fall. Oh my god, it's terrible. It's terrible.

You know, it's consumers, they should deal with it. And you know, it all worked out. There are tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, and probably now by now millions of people who did not get sick because of ecola as an adulterate and increased cook temperatures on red meat. It's crazy that you wouldn't sit that, sit back and look at it and go, huh, maybe we should do that too. But there's just so much inertia on the part of industry, so much inertia on the part of

Yeah, it's such an uphill battle, I think when you're trying to convince like a population to do something, but your proof is that something won't happen if you do it right, like he will, like they want to pass better protections on this, on this kind of stuff, but like you know, the proof would be that you didn't get sick, and then you're just someone could be like, well, I wasn't gonna get sick anyway. We're just lucky that people don't really want raw or like rare chick the way we do.

With a steak or something.

If someone goes to a restaurant at a steak or a burger, like I know Noah enjoys a medium rare even rare.

Yeah, but the meat it's fine, hamburg the ground beach is not really an issue so much. And then I do ask kind of rapid fire to kind of go through a bunch of these things because I was like, I was scared to ask these guys if it's okay for me to order our rare stick. We're gonna take a quick break, and when we're back, we conclude our

Sushi.

How big of a risk is that restaurants are required to do parasite destruction in raw fish, specifically if it's gonna be served raw, so that means that it's got to be frozen usually or some other mechanism before consumption, and parasites are the issue with sushi.

Next, like beef tartar or even just a very rare steak or burger.

So beef tartar is just ground up meat, I would say that's one of the most riskiest things you can eat, and especially tartar, which if it was ground beef that was sold in the US, that has a testing regime associated with it to make sure before it's released that there aren't pathogens in it. Tartar doesn't go through that. You're starting with like a whole muscle and you're cutting it up or grinding it and making it. Moving to the next one that you mentioned, was like a rare steak.

Next, I asked about oysters, because you know, once in a while I see a story and it's like oysters the most dangerous thing you can eat. Yeah, people just died. Yeah, And I'm like, okay, well, I see oysters all the time from places that I don't think frankly should be serving oysters. That's all year round, all this stuff. So I was like, all right, I need I need this, gotta tell me what's up.

Raw oysters are among the riskiest things that we have. Many of the cases that we see when it comes to oyster illnesses or things like the pathogens called vibrio. Often people are predisposed to bibrial illnesses if they are aging, if they are heavy drinkers, and they have liver issues, and weirdly that is a factor for people getting sick from raw oysters. Is someone who consumes a lot of alcohol and then is exposing themselves to these pathogens.

So I have to style getting oysters, is what he's telling me.

I think overall, you're okay, especially if you're not predisposed per se on that aging And yeah, and if you're I guess maybe the advice would be trying to find oysters that are actually local and not shipped across the country or something like that, so hopefully they're fresh. So yeah, I wanted to ask about leftover rice. There's another one where I was like, this one's just is crazy because

I haere yesterday.

Yeah, yeah, I think it's a really big social media issue.

Yeah.

The entire leftover rice controversy or issues come from an actual true story where someone got sick from eating leftover rice. This the illness was associated with something called basill is serious. The bacteria survives as a spore with dry rice, and so most of our rice has basilli.

Is serious in it.

The spore wakes up during cooking, which is counterintuitive, right. It has to be heat treated to essentially shock it awake. And then if rice is stored incorrectly after cooking, it can grow. And in fact, that is really the issue with leftover rice. It has nothing to do with leftovers.

Well, they ate leftover rice.

It's like true, they did, but the leftover wasn't the factor that it was post cooking leaving it on the countertop.

Yes, And so essentially yeah.

In that you're you provided the perfect environment for the bacterial to grow. I eat a lot of leftover rice. I will eat it on a weekly basis. I cook rice and then I put it in the refrigerator right away, and then I might eat leftover rice for a week afterwards. So it's not a time factor once it's in my refrigerator. It's really about how quickly I get it in the drinder after I make it.

And the last one was about washing chicken.

Mmmmm.

So here's what Ben had to say about washing chicken.

We did a lot of research on this issue.

We actually brought people from the community in to prepare chicken who identified themselves as someone who washes chicken, so we better understand what happens during that process. And what we've learned is why people wash chicken is because they think that they're removing something. Some people think they're removing bacteria. Some people think they're removing slime. Yeah, all of those things are taken care of during the cooking process, and

Contaminate their sink, contaminate.

Other food that they're making along the same time, and other places within their kitchen like spice bottles. So the kind of message that's out there as don't wash your chicken, which is really not a great message because people are like, well, I wash my chicken, so why don't you tell me how to do it safely?

Yeah?

Yeah, And so it's it's more about like, if this is something that you're gonna do, making sure that you clean and sanitize your sink basin, which is the most likely place to get contaminated because we do a lot of other food related things in the sink, like rints less for in a calendar, for instance, and so bacteria that's in the basin can bounce up into that calendar, which is what we saw in our study.

Hopefully this helps. Before you get into our takeaways, I do want to recommend a documentary that both Ben and Bill are in.

Oh Wow.

It's on Netflix, and it's called Poisoned. The Dirty Truth about Your Food this is my first step in my research, and then I grabbed these guys from the documentary. It's directed by Stephanie Sucked and it's based on a book by the journalist Jeff Benedict. So I will say watching this, it took me about three minutes of hearing Bill talk before I was convinced I was pretty wrong about food poison because it opens and you know, talking about all

Yeah, fair enough. Hey, we love someone who knows when they're wrong and they can admit it.

Yeah, it's a beautiful thing about this podcast.

And also I'm not embarrassed. Yeah.

You know at the end of these episodes, when we learn like this large amount of information, I always wonder how much it's gonna change my life personally, And I think this is the first time where like, actually, yeah, I probably will. I've never really checked the temperature of the chicken. I just kind of look at it and it's like kind of looks done, and you know, I might start I do have a thermometer, I might start

Yeah, it's more just understanding what the actual risks you should be worried about our overall. I feel like, yeah, usually we talked to an expert and it's and they tell us what's wrong with something, and I was like, all right, great, thanks, I'm not gonna change let me go back, let me go back my life. But this one seems pretty important.

Yeah, this is helpful.

I would say I was, you know, as someone a food poisoning victim survivor survivor. Yes, sir, I thought your premise was ridiculous. I did think people overestimated. So the fact that it really isn't you know, like there's a lot of food poisoning.

Oh yeah yeah.

So I will say I'm going to apologize to some people out there who I said maybe.

Faking anyway, right to your Congress people, I guess about salmonella.

Yeah, let's do that's something. What are we doing?

I mean, it's crazy.

Feels similar to the Headlights episode where it's like, look what they're doing over there makes a lot of sense.

Just they just want demonstrable differences and not and like Bill says, where it's like everyone freaked out how expensive meat would be. It adjusts. It's not you know, once it's built into the thing. It's just that's what it is. I mean, over all these the factory farms and stuff. It makes me want to go, you know, avoid that more. Yeah, yeah, you know, who knows. Yeah, it's it seems pretty bad out there. Of course, the ownus just falls on us as consumers and cookers ourselves.

To do it.

Like so many other things issue too.

If no one cares until they're a victim of it.

Well yeah, exactly.

So like I'm not really thinking about Semonel if I don't have.

You know, they had this big food safety conference in Cleveland a couple of weeks ago, four thousand people in a room. And they always pick somebody once a year to be like the keynote speaker for the conference. But the guy who gave the speech, he goes. You know, one of the things that we should really do is, you know, put Bill Marler into retirement.

Is Bill Marler here.

Kills kills kills such.

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