About a month ago I made a trip to a petrol station to get food in the middle of the night. I have mentioned a few times I was OK eating anything but rhoo merde alors we sometimes have to retract what we say!
I eat rice all the time. White rice. If we want to be specific I eat hom mali rice (Thai jasmine rice). But if my rice will be spiced I prefer long grain or basmati. But I don’t like my rice squishy until I put a bit of gravy over (which I do all the time) but the rice on its own must be a bit dry but fluffy.
So I was eating. At one point of my meal I felt a grain of rice stuck in my throat. I kept drinking water and eating some more rice to push it down but those were unsuccessful attempts.. and I just finished eating and started drinking more water. Until! I barfed all over the entrance of the petrol station. I barfed worse than that girl we went drinking with (whose barf was orange because she had Super Ring haha!) and I kept barfing and barfing. I made two other people around the area barf too!
Anyway it was such a horrible episode. I stayed home the entire week after and felt nauseated every now and then.. but recently I went back to the petrol station to get some iced tea. I don’t have any explanation for this but I went in for 2 seconds and turned back around because I did not like the smell of the food! It just smelt nasty!! For months I had always eaten there. And it’s not cheap food! I think they keep unsold food in the fridge and then reheat for later. This is just my thought. It’s not 100% confirmed. Then yesterday while scrolling TikTok I saw some creator post about paying $400 for 2 trays of food and the photos looked so nasty! 🤢🤢🤢 I can’t find that TikTok now but I liked one comment where a person responded to one comment of course before anyone buys you say $400 can feed 200 pax later you accept the order then you say this can’t be done that can’t be done.. and I agree! Some people who run businesses without any knowledge of costing will promise you the entire universe! Then they réalisé shit does cost money and can’t fulfil the order.
So anyway. A boyfriend from a decade ago told me it’s normal to stop eating food we got sick from.. or the last food we ate before we got sick because we just don’t want to die! Haha!
But I had once eaten bad chicken rice in town and barfed all over Orchard Road but I still like and eat chicken rice so.. I guess it doesn’t apply to food we really enjoy?
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