Food poisoning can pass on its own. In fact, most cases of foodborne illnesses pass on their own. However, in the meantime, they suck to have. They typically present as vomiting and diarrhea for a couple of days. Stool can remain looser than normal for up to a week after it passes. In some more serious cases, you might get a fever and the joys that come with that - hot flashes, chills, ...
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There is only one strain of food poisoning bacteria that is known to cause harm to unborn babies. This is the Listeria bacterium. You can be infected with Listeria when you eat unpasteurized cheese or have undercooked or raw food. All the other kinds of food poisoning that are often caught typically leave you dehydrated if the symptoms persist for longer than a couple of days - especially if ...
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One of the most popular foods in Canada is the Canadian version of pastrami - a concoction called Montreal smoked meat. The most basic explanation of this is that it is meat that was smoked in Montreal - hence the inclusion of Montreal in the name of the dish. Typically, it is considered to be a kosher-style meat, but whether or not it is actually kosher is up for debate.
Smoking is ...
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Although it is hard to pinpoint an exact dish that would garner fame above all dishes in American history it is easy to pick out a few things that are obviously amongst the top picks for the greatest foods in American history. One of the greatest meals for Americans is Thanksgiving dinner. This usually includes a plethora of different sides accompanying a customary main course of turkey and ...
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Hamburgers are a favorite food in America. There’s something to be said about just how much we, as Americans, love hamburgers. They’re part of our 4th of July celebrations, along with hot dogs, and it is nearly impossible to be more than two hundred miles away from a fast food place that sells hamburgers. This is because there is a McDonald’s every one hundred and twenty ...
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One of the most famous dishes from Spain, and one of the most popular, is called paella. This particular dish has roots going back to ancient Spain, back when the Roman empire stretched the expanse of Europe. However, modern paella as we know it comes from around the 19th century.
It’s known in Spain as a dish from Valencia, and in Valencia, it’s considered a dish that ...
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One of the most popular dishes in France is a beef stewed in red wine. It’s called boeuf bourguignon, in France at least. However, for those new to France, anything you can try in France will be the best. The French have a reputation of being picky about how fresh their food is. So, they often have fresh baked bread every day and people go out and buy it everyday. Their produce is ...
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They have a lot of favorite foods, and it’s not the stereotypical idea of cheese that is seen in all the cartoons. That’s a rumor that isn’t true. Oddly enough, they love bacon. That’s not all they love, but it’s something a lot of people have on hand. Other common foods they will love include peanut butter, cereal, meat of any kind, and fruits and vegetables. By ...
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This is a difficult question to answer for a couple of reasons. The first reason is simply that I don’t know you. It could be mac and cheese, or you could be lactose intolerant and therefore be unable to enjoy mac and cheese often. You could enjoy almonds, or have a deadly nut allergy. I simply don’t know.
Secondly, favorite foods change all the time. If I were to say ...
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The most popular food of all time would have to be alcoholic beverages. These drinks came around in the medieval times in Europe because the water was so polluted that it was actually safer for one’s health to drink alcohol. It helped to purify what was in the brew because the yeast would kill off any kind of bacteria with their CO2 emissions. Today, they are still drunk all over the ...
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