Thailand is in the top ten

[BigDUSA 71]

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/the-results-are-in-the-countries-where-youre-119447773957.html

 

Food poisoning has always been a concern to me. When I look at the lack of sanitation practices with food carts. I refuse to eat from them.

Edited May 21, 2015 by BigDUSA

[firth1974 2,659]

Most people are more likely to get food poisoning from eating in restaurants in their own country!!!

 

Most cases of "food poisoning"(if you want to call it that), are not actually food poisoning cases as we know it. More to do with the spices and "exotic" ingredients used that we are not used to.

[RhinoTusk 4,901]

I've gotten food poisoning twice in Thailand (in more than 10 years), both times from seafood at hotel restaurants.

[BigDUSA 71]

UK has many foreign theme restaurants with spices and exotic ingredients. The UK didn't make the top 10. Clean water and sanitation inspections go a long way to reduce illness.

[firth1974 2,659]

UK has many foreign theme restaurants with spices and exotic ingredients. The UK didn't make the top 10. Clean water and sanitation inspections go a long way to reduce illness.

 

Yes and all very true, but trust me, you eat in a Thai restaurant in the UK, and it doesnt taste anything like what you get in Thailand. All spices and other things are to an extent "watered down" for the western palate.

 

And your still more likely to get food poisoning from eating in your own country than being in S.E Asia.

Edited May 21, 2015 by firth1974

[MM 6,562]

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/the-results-are-in-the-countries-where-youre-119447773957.html

 

Food poisoning has always been a concern to me. When I look at the lack of sanitation practices with food carts. I refuse to eat from them.

You're living in a country that made the top ten, and where food poisoning is at a higher rate than Thailand!

[teelack 9,646]

I only ever got food poisoning one and it was dreadful and it was also from a top quality restaurant but not in Thailand. Bali.

[MM 6,562]

I'm not sure I'd give this report much credence at all. BigD is just using it to disparage Thailand, and ignores the higher rating given to many first world countries.

 

My main issue with the report is that there's no fucking country named "America".

 

If they can't even get that right, what point is there in repeating the results?

 

[LBJ 533]

Been eating off carts since 1986 in Thailand and never gotten food poisoning.

[rb 20]

Been eating off carts since 1986 in Thailand and never gotten food poisoning.

Ya but have you ever eatin the food or just the vendors?

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rb

[LBJ 533]

Ya but have you ever eatin the food or just the vendors?

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rb

Are you sure you're drug and alcohol free?

[nus01 305]

Most people are more likely to get food poisoning from eating in restaurants in their own country!!!

 

 

Considering that the average person spends between 90-100% of their time in their own country its stand to reason that they would be morel ikley to have any event happen to them there then elswhere

[graymatter 153]

The report is based on a survey from "British publication Express" which I have no doubt will involve 2000 Brits who get sick while overseas. If we took the same survey using 2000 "Americans" then I'm sure the survey will be different . I would expect that Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean would be in their top 10. Not because these are places where they serve bad food but simply because more Americans travel to these countries.

 

I met a guy in Soi 23 in Bangkok who was starting a "Fusion" restaurant where you could enter his shop and stand at a counter while his staff prepared the food in full view of the diners. His food was very good and the presentation excellent. It would attract the yuppie diners in any city in the world and the prices looked very reasonable. I ordered and sat on plastic stools on the sidewalk and enjoyed Thai food that I had never seen before. The owner came out to have a chat and survey his customers. Turns out he had lived in Melbourne for a few years and thought he could combine both cultures.

 

We talked about a few things and I congratulated him on maintaining the Thai influence. Its one of the principle things that Westerners love about Thailand. No point serving Western food that we can get in our hotel. The biggest criticism I had was that there was no barrier between the diners waiting in the shop and the people preparing the food. You can have the cleanest kitchen in the world but you can't control your customers. A simple Perspex barrier would go along way to addressing the problem.

 

I love street food and eat from carts 75% of the time. The only two times I have been sick in Thailand has been eating Western dishes. One time I had a steak from a hotel in Soi Dianna and the other time I ate pork from a buffet in a Gogo bar.

[Fatboyfat 361]

I was once advised by a "real" doctor that much of the "so called" food poisoning with respect to the Brit tourist can be attributed to drinking beer at a far, far colder temperature than they are used to. Even the chilled lagers in UK do not reach the icy lows needed to make Thai beers palatable, and the stomach takes time to attune to that.

[keyman 1,417]

I was once advised by a "real" doctor that much of the "so called" food poisoning with respect to the Brit tourist can be attributed to drinking beer at a far, far colder temperature than they are used to. Even the chilled lagers in UK do not reach the icy lows needed to make Thai beers palatable, and the stomach takes time to attune to that.

 

 

He sounds like a 'doctor' I wouldn't go to. The temperature of beer in Thailand is not massively different from UK beers and for it to affect the stomach in the way you have described would intimate to me that you would need to drink large amounts (as in huge gulps) very quickly as it will be warmed by your 'internals' on the way down. If it was so uncomfortably cold to drink, you'd pause your drinking for a few minutes, right? Personally I've never come across any beer in Patts that is as cold as you describe. Not saying it doesn't happen, but I found more often than not, the beer isn't cold enough.

 

 

KM

[jacko 8,825]

I get frequent mild cases during the hot-hot season.

Rather difficult for her with these local markets in this heat.

Since Thailand is in the company in that list of USA (I guess) and India where I have never and definitely had food poisoning respectively I wonder if there is any basis to it. I practice caution but still get it.....

[atlas2 4,329]

Ditto along with key man re cold beer?
Stupid notion!……..

I always question these surveys.
Around Easter there's often a survey which claims eating chocolate has beneficial effects on the heart.... Do tell!

Just recently a medical survey came the conclusion that it was healthier to be fat as more thin people die....
They included people dying of HIV and cancer TB etc in their survey. ????

Edited May 22, 2015 by atlas2

[cbrib 354]

The only time i have ever gotten sick from food in Thailand was from a stall at the Mor Chit bus station. Two weeks later the Bangkok Post had an article that half of the food stalls there were closed due to the lack of cleanliness of the food. I eat from food carts and made to order stands at least 3 times a week and never a problem in 12 years of living here. We buy most of our food from outdoor market near by on the day, again never a problem

[rb 20]

Are you sure you're drug and alcohol free?

long lasting residual affects!!

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rb

[BeerBelly 1,026]

I think there are people who get food poison and don't realize that's what it is. They might call it "stomach flu", which doesn't exist, or they might get the runs and not attribute it to the food they ate.

 

The last time I had serious food poisoning was on Phi Phi Island last year from what I think was dodgy chicken kebab. I was vomiting and had diarrhea for nearly 24 hours straight. It was so bad that I was considering going to the hospital for an IV because I was getting so dehydrated. But nearly as soon as I was able to keep my first glass of water down, I started feeling better and could drink more.

[harro1 256]

Had it bad twice. Both times was from eating chicken dishes at the hole in the wall place on Soi Bukaow near LK Metro. Firing from both ends. Never again.

[Parkwahn 61]

Considering that the average person spends between 90-100% of their time in their own country its stand to reason that they would be morel ikley to have any event happen to them there then elswhere

Lol...

[Patna 3,802]

I'm not sure I'd give this report much credence at all

 

 

Sounds like a totally ridiculous "study"

 

"The research comes from travel specialists at the British law firm Slater and Gordon, who asked 2,000 vacationers to report their bathroom experiences abroad, according to the British publication Express. The firm originally funded the study because they noticed that there was a rise in the number of people requesting their services after falling ill while traveling."

 

It would make sense if they would ask 2000 tourist that visited EACH of those countries which is of course quite impossible. Given the fact that Spain is the number one travel destination for British tourists, the results of this funny "analysis" is not surprising.

[9cisco999 107]

Considering that the average person spends between 90-100% of their time in their own country its stand to reason that they would be morel ikley to have any event happen to them there then elswhere

 

 

 

Right on nus01.

 

Same as with a person is most likely to have an automobile accident within a short distance of where he or she lives.

[9cisco999 107]

 

 

I'm not sure I'd give this report much credence at all. BigD is just using it to disparage Thailand, and ignores the higher rating given to many first world countries.

 

My main issue with the report is that there's no fucking country named "America".

 

If they can't even get that right, what point is there in repeating the results?

 

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What happened to that "caps" rule? 555

Edited May 23, 2015 by 9cisco999