Comments | prog: oh jesus

prog

oh jesus

Nov 29, 2006 23:52

i just got fuckin food poisoning from Alex Pizza. I think. In a serious serial barf-mode. Poor Zarf had to listen twice, and then I made him get me from stomachey things I remembered from last year's poisoning, back when I had a health care plan with a dial-a-nurse option. (That was from some cheapie Thai place, I can't even remember which now ( Read more... )

food, illness, health

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radiotelescope November 30 2006, 16:46:23 UTC

If you really want (and while you're sick, you probably don't have the energy) I have a recipe for making actual ginger soda out of actual ginger. Not that it's complicated -- chop up ginger root and boil it in sugar water for a while. With cloves. Refrigerate, then add to seltzer and drink.

(2 inches of ginger root, diced. 400 grams sugar. Lime or lemon juice. A couple of cloves. Add 2 liters boiling water, stir, let cool. Add one drop of almond extract. When you use it, let the ginger bits sit at the bottom of the bucket; they're tough.)

leighjen November 30 2006, 18:08:54 UTC

We do something like that, except that we add it to tonic water (lemon and lime already added). We have tried to add cloves but had never thought of the almond extract. I will have to make sure my husband, the cook, see this.

katre50 December 1 2006, 01:51:40 UTC

I just go for ginger tea, myself. Same idea: chop up a bit of ginger, toss it in a teacup with hot water, start sipping. It's nice and fresh and you can keep adding hot water for two or three cups' worth.

jtroutman November 30 2006, 16:53:44 UTC

meerkitty showed me how to make a wicked good ginger tea simply out of boiling a whole bunch of cut up ginger root, straining into a mug, and adding honey as you desire.

Food poisoning sucks. I had a horrible time at Pop!Tech last month, because I was sick still from a bad case of food poisoning.

doctor_atomic November 30 2006, 23:08:59 UTC

You might just have bug. Just sayin.

prog December 1 2006, 02:13:21 UTC

I might, but this is following the same pattern as an illness that struck me last July, which the Dial-A-Nurse said was almost definitely food poisoning. So that's what I'm calling it. (That, and the fact that I got sick within minutes of wolfing down the pizza & beer in question.)