The Forbidden American Egg

[yellowdogintexas]

6. as a dedicated sampler of raw cookie dough and cake batter

I can tell you the number of times I have acquired salmonella as a result.

Z E R O

I also put raw eggs in dairy based smoothies from time to time and eat my scrambled eggs loose. Fried, poached or soft boiled - they have to be runny.

I have been food poisoned by a Thanksgiving turkey though. (Leftovers to be technical about it.)
My then mother in law warmed up the whole damn leftover turkey for one sandwich for her husband, then left it in the oven all afternoon at 200 degrees.

Come suppertime, my sister in law and I made this gigantic batch of turkey and dumplings. Which we devoured. The dogs and cats had a field day with various bits of turkey. It was delicious .....however.......

Around 3 am we started hearing our cats going insane in their litter boxes....like every 5 minutes... then the dogs started demanding to get outside right the hell now...
then it hit us ! 4 adults and one bathroom..

It was a long long night, which included my husband going outside and making use of a bucket which was in the yard. Across town, his sister and her husband were taking turns with the toilet and the tub.

Fortunately it was not the food poisoning that makes you hurt from head to toe, gives you fever and makes you hurl your guts out. We actually were fairly chipper the next day all things considered.