Sup redditors,

Thursday evening I went to my local COOP to buy a couple of Betty Bossi ready-to-eat salads (containing some sliced ham, cheese and boiled egg), 4 Landjäger sausage and a large tray of strawberries (which I didn’t wash before eating).

Next day I woke up with nasty cramping, and later got worse with fever, chills, nausea and diarrhea.

I did panic a bit, after the recent E.coli outbreak caused by Buittoni brand pizzas.

I still have one salad left and some Landjäger sausage, should I throw them away or was this more likely provoked by the unwashed strawberries? According to this article: [Fruits and vegetables poison more Americans than beef and chicken](https://www.vox.com/2015/3/6/8158289/food-poisoning)

The thought of buying from my local COOP again just gives me anxiety now.

8 comments

  1. >The thought of buying from my local COOP again just gives me anxiety now.

    Maybe start washing your fruit vegetables then? Especially if it’s not bio, I wouldn’t want to eat the residue of pesticides.

  2. I hate to waste food, but if I were you, I’d throw away everything. You won’t find out what the culprit was, unless you have some petri dishes and some knowledge in biology. As I said, it could be everything. The least probable to have caused it, is the Landjäger (cured meat contains nitrates and/or nitrites [E249,250,251,252] to preserve and kill harmful microorganisms), while both strawberries and packaged salads are a breeding ground for bacteria and mold. So, avoid buying packaged salad, wash your other produce before eating it and never forget to wash your hands before you eat. Many times we forget how dirty everything really is… Or better how many microorganisms are around us.

  3. As someone who has worked on a farm picking strawberries as a side hustle during college, for the love of all that is holy I ask you to please wash them before eating. They are not washed, and even if they have not been sprayed with pesticide (which I’m 99% sure they were), they’re picked straight from the plant by bare hands of pickers who touch everything else in the process. You really don’t want to eat these without a thorough wash.

  4. Abdominal Influenza is around atm, I hear from many folks. I had it myself, was really bad (same symptoms as you). My brother living in the same flat and eating the same stuff was not impacted, so my first guess would be just normal sickness and not actual food poisoning, but hey

  6. Honestly, I don’t get how someone people don’t wash their food. You know that you can get fox tapeworm and other nasty things by not washing your berries?
    Might be worth it to research food safety rules

  7. Landjäger Sausage is probably not the culprit.

    For the salad: you bought it on Thursday, really check the date before you eat it, they usually don’t keep well if they are already pre-washed. If they are not: wash it! The same goes for the strawberries.

    Also: think about Covid, it presents with abdominal symptoms in a relevant part of patients (especially if you also have fever).

  8. You got poisoned by the strawberries… Who the F doesn’t clean vegetables and fruits ? You don’t imagine how many persons touched them before you put it in your mouth… You’ve got less chance getting sick by licking the toilets.

    However, I’d also avoid eating ready-to-eat food from shops like Migros and Coop… It’s really not healthy…

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