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17 April 2006

The most expensive pukefest of my life →[More:] Last night me and pips decided to enjoy a meal at the Mesa Grill (celebrity chef Bobby Flay's New York outpost) as a second honeymoon/reward for all the crap we put up with. The food was exquisite: tuna tartare, goat cheese fondue, ceviche, pan eared venison, washed down with Cactus Pear margaritas and 18 year old scotch...everything was uniformly wonderful. However once I got home my stomach decided to rebel and I spend almost all of last night barfing up rougly $130 worth of the first gourmet meal I've had in NYC. Now my head hurts, my joints ache and I'm sweating. Pips is fine, because she didn't have the venison. Food poisoning sux.

post by: jonmc at: 12:57 | 31 comments

Sorry to hear it, jon!

maybe it was the tequila + scotch combo? Never treats me well...

posted by small_ruminant 17 April | 13:04

naw, I only had 4 drinks total, and this didn't feel like a booze puke. This was something else entirely.

posted by jonmc 17 April | 13:05

Maybe it was the eared venison. I don't think you're supposed to eat the ears.

posted by mullacc 17 April | 13:08

Gam zeh ya'avor

posted by Capn 17 April | 13:12

your body's not used to expensive shit? : >

(i bet something wasn't cooked enough--the popular celeb chef places are not the most careful)

posted by amberglow 17 April | 13:21

mercury poisioning from the fish?
cronic wasting disease from the deer?

on the real(?) tip... other than meat, a likely suspect is usually the desserts... with the eggs and dairy things

whoa wait hold on. cerviche? well, there you go, genius. lol

posted by Wedge 17 April | 13:37

the ceviche was seafood, actually.

posted by jonmc 17 April | 13:38

ceviche, yes. you don't think raw fish is... risky?

posted by Wedge 17 April | 13:41

A lot of times it has to do with how the food is handled, and the differences between high-end (hoity-toity) and low-end (bodega grease) are surprisingly slight. Chances are good that none of the items you ate were rotten, or rancid, or whatever. It's more likely that you picked up some fecal bacteria or something from the food's handlers (kitchen help/waitstaff). Do you have a fever?

I'm not a doctor, but I've had some pretty vicious flora and fauna in my gut.

posted by Hugh Janus 17 April | 13:42

Cheeze, fish, venison, booze...and no bread to cut it down? Dude. The fish might've been fine, but the dairy was probably overkill. With the ceviche, Cactus Pear and scotch atop of the fondue, you might as well have been chugging White Russians all night!

posted by Smart Dalek 17 April | 13:49

Sounds like 24 hour gout. Drink some seltzer. As I explained to you and pipsamillieonit the other day you can also sometimes head off food poisoning, roman orgy syndrome and general toomuchrichgrubitis with a judicious half pint of cognac applied in the nick of time. This is an advanced move and requires dash and verve (and Remy!)!!

posted by Divine_Wino 17 April | 13:51

Also did you get to see Bobby Flay and if so did you kick him in the chest and say "That was from Divine_Wino you coked up oompaloompa!"?

posted by Divine_Wino 17 April | 13:53

Also -- food poisoning usually isn't immediate in its onset. It's likely that it wasn't your most recent meal that made you sick, but the meal before that one. Sucks that you puked up that expensive meal, though.

posted by Miko 17 April | 13:55

If you keep a fever go to the doc. I spent 8 days in the hospital once with what turned out to be paratyphoid fever (pretty nasty type of salmonella food poisoning.)

posted by bunnyfire 17 April | 13:56

Bad advice and threats to that little jug-eared skullery schmuck aside, if you aren't feeling better after tonight go to the doctor 'cause regular food poisoning shouldn't last more than 16-24 hours. I usually man it down in about 4 to 6 hours but one of my only super powers is garbage gut.

posted by Divine_Wino 17 April | 13:57

I second the cornyay (that's how we Januses say "cognac"). My dysentary was finally cured a couple weeks after embarking on the special diet (carrots & potatoes, mostly) by half a bottle of scotch and six hours of cribbage. What doctors and their "theories" couldn't conquer was quickly vaporized by Demon Liquor.

posted by Hugh Janus 17 April | 13:57

Don't take my advice, jonmc. It could lead you down the garden path to a painful tomorrow of pissing hot blood out of your ass.

Take care of yourself, and feel better, bro. Anything I can do, ask.

posted by Hugh Janus 17 April | 14:01

The meal sounds pretty damned tasty, until the wheels came off.

posted by I Love Tacos 17 April | 14:03

but... but... the sign in the bathroom said "employees MUST wash hands before returning to work!"

when i had food poisoning, i puked, shat, and shat puke for 3 days straight. is it too early to smoke a bowl? anyway, take it easy. hope youre feeling better soon

posted by Wedge 17 April | 14:03

I've ruined many a romantic evening by overdoing it with the fancy foods. Creme brulee is my delicious nemesis. So good, but it kicks my ass....from the inside.

Hope you're feeling better soon.

posted by jrossi4r 17 April | 14:05

Feel better you.

posted by dame 17 April | 14:15

From my experience, and what others have told me about their own experiences, it doesn't sound bad enough to have been food poisoning. Seriously. I wanted to call a hospital for a while but I could not have made it to the phone due to my stomach cramping so hard that I was just certain something had burst or some such. Although I guess not all cases are as bad as the ones I have heard about?

Anyway, it sounds like it probably came on too fast as well. You probably just have a virus like I had a few weeks back and the timing made you think food. I ALWAYS blame what I last ate when I get a virus that makes me puke my guts up. This great chicken place here, A.Q. Chicken House (made a bit more famous by Bill Clinton repeatedly eating there while President) was on my shitlist for years after I got sick as a dog after eating there. I know for a fact it was a virus and I still had some subconcious connection so everytime I thought about eating there, I decided against it. *shrug*

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 17 April | 14:16

Hope you feel better soon.

Second that it's probably not food poisoning (onset is too quick) and more likely a staph toxin or some other such thing that comes on more rapidly. unwashed hands and all.

Keep those fluids up!

posted by gaspode 17 April | 14:17

Like I said, it didn't hit me till after the cab ride home. And pips feels fine. The venison was also very rare. And the pukes...I usually have a garbage gut myself, but this shit wanted out of me. When we took my temperature last night it was normal, but just now it was 101.4. I managed to eat some turkey with mayo a few minutes ago. Also my joints are achy and my skin feels alternately hot and chilly.

I think it's Saturday Night Fever.

posted by jonmc 17 April | 15:43

Many samonella-y/e coli-y things don't come on till 24-48 hours after ingestion. Most people don't realise that and call food poisoning when it isn't. After the cab ride home is WAY too quick for food poisoning.

posted by gaspode 17 April | 16:29

Well, let's not worry so much about when he got it and start considering whether going to a doc is a good idea.

Mine was rapid onset. Felt better in the morning, slowly felt worse as the day progressed-lather rinse repeat for days. When I started pooping blood people finally paid attention. (Apparently the sharp stomach pains that felt I was being stabbed in the gut were not worthy-the doc's answering service got ripped a new one by the doc on that as they had refused to forward my call.)

posted by bunnyfire 17 April | 17:09

That's a damn shame jonboy. My theory is you're allergic to gourmet shit. Now is an appropriate time to tell everybody about how I can eat whatever I like and never suffer any ill-effects. So confident am I in this ability that I'm not even afraid of jinxing myself. Drinking, on the other hand ... that frequently leads to copious spewing.

posted by nomis 17 April | 18:07

My money's on something jonmc ate the day before, actually. The only thing that hits in 2 hours is preformed staph exotoxin from something that's been sitting out and rotting for hours, and that doesn't give you a fever.

It still sucks, though. Lots of dilute juices, antiinflammatories, bed rest; feel better.

posted by ikkyu2 17 April | 21:54

yeah. that, or BIRD FLU

posted by Wedge 17 April | 23:14

This sounds like the flu. My chiropractor in LA told me to take Sambucol--you can find it at Whole Foods or the like. Maybe some fresh ginger tea? Chop it up and steep it in boiling water.

Feel better!

posted by brujita 17 April | 23:45

Oh man, that sucks big time, jon. Hope you're feeling better today!

posted by deborah 18 April | 15:09

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