Raw Oysters
Health experts believe that raw oysters are probably the riskiest option found on restaurant menus. According to a food safety advocate, Candess Zona-Mendolla, raw oysters are often carriers of two extremely dangerous foodborne illnesses, namely Vibrio and Norovirus.
If they have been cooked, there’s no need to worry, but if not, stay away from this menu item. People with vibriosis (that’s how the condition caused by Vibrio is called) could experience vomiting, abdominal cramping, diarrhea, fever, and chills.
Vibrio bacteria are found in coastal waters, and if you’ve exposed a wound to contaminated water, this could translate to Vibrio infection of the skin.
You’d have to be a bit of a basket case to do this last one…..
16 thoughts on “11 Foods You Should NEVER Order at a Restaurant”
Disgusting! Thank you for publishing things that we have to know.
Thank you very much. An eye opener with common sense. I stopped going to restaurants for quite some time know this doesn’t mean I’ll never go to one again just not making a habit of going to one and then I pay attention of what they have and remember your good points in healthy nutrition !!
Shalom
Wooo good recommend
This is a wonderful article that makes us aware of good choices when dining at a favorite restaurant.
Never knew we were eating so much crap, THANK YOU
Actually, ordering a popular menu item is safer, since it’s a fast mover and NOT sitting around in the kitchen. Ordering a non-popular item…cook’s will say things like “finally getting rid of that ” ….”it’s about time, that’s finally gone”…”was going to toss that if it didn’t sell tonight”.
Stick with the items that sell the most.
Not so. Ever worked in a restaurant? Didn’t think so….
Thank You I don’t eat most of those items listed. I don’t trust restaurant food . UGH !!!
One thing that really needs to be emphasized are Kobe and Piedmontese beef. It’s gotten better because there is now a ratings system, but there isn’t a USDA mandate on the actual amount of either that is listed on a menu or a retail sale. It could contain 5% Piedmontese and the rest is something else, but it doesn’t have to be declared.
I think the real answer is to make your meals at home and probably grow your own food. The world has become a very unclean place and we are now experiencing the consequences of that.
And yet the life expectancy of humans has grown 2.5 times in 100 years!
ICE was left off list- I’ve read gross stories of: unsafe tap water,moldy tubing, and multiple hands in the bin of a never cleaned device.
Interesting…I’ve had them all l believe,
Also, they seem to be the items to the
“warm-up” to the anticipation of a great meal to come…😋😛
good information, will definitely reconsider how I order, I am a foodie
Did you notice how many of these illnesses were based on meat/seafood? Yet another reason to go plant based.
I’m 60, been eating at Restaurants forever. almost every Meal. Eat what I want, never have been sick, from Resturant food. maybe its built up my Immune system? Im a Horrible Cook. I have been sick off my own Cooking. just another side to this Subject.