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Originally Posted by Hoagie
I guess it could have been the taco bell, but most foodborne illness takes wayyyyy longer than an hour or 2 to show symptoms.
Nope.
Food poisoning basically comes in two flavors, if you ignore the possibility of some sort of chemical contamination (say bleach or cleaning material) which would really be more of a toxic exposure sort of thing.
If you eat food harboring a bug that's going to colonize you and make you sick, that's gonna be a days-week or two thing, in rare cases longer - it's a new neighborhood moving in, and it takes a while to unpack and set up housekeeping.
OTOH, if you're dealing with a toxin excreting bug, onset is a lot shorter. The bug has already produced and excreted the stuff, and it's ready to rumble. Toxin secreting staph can give symptoms within an hour or so, and scromboid can hit within minutes.
MM MD