The Food Poisoning Scene

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I'm not a scientist, but I assume that the violent diarrhea has to take hold once they're in the bridal store, for comedic effect.

what about the fat one skittering in the sink ? *beep* that.

Completely irrelevant. You understood the point: they were sick, that is all you need to know. If it makes you feel better, imagine that it was actually something else.

b.t.w. I have also been sick within an hour of eating bacteria ... but it is still completely irrelevant.

I'm not sure just how soon after eating they got sick. The Brazilian restaurant is in a remote part of the city. It looks like Waukegan, which is maybe an hour or two north of Chicago, depending on how one gets there. This is plausible as it's about midway between Chicago and Milwaukee. The bridal shop is in the city proper, on or near North Michigan Avenue, the Magnificent Mile. The women could easily have arrived there in the AM for a brunch and then have spent 2 or more hours at lunch, drinking, gabbing, being silly. It could easily have taken them another 2 hours to get to the bridal shop, and they might even have wandered around downtown some first. So it's very plausible that there's a 4-5 hour gap between the ingestion of the food and the onset of vomiting and diarrhea.

Is that enough for the onset of food poisoning? Yes. In college, we had an outbreak of food poisoning, 60+ people. We know where it was (in just one dorm) since all who got sick had eaten there for dinner (though not all who ate there had gotten sick), and there was no other place where all 60+ people had eaten in the previous week. I at at 6 PM and started feeling queasy at 8. I vomited for the first time at 8:45 and then again at 11. Severe diarrhea started around midnight and both continues for much of the rest of the night. The next day, many of us compared symptoms and onset times, and we were all surprised that they varied somewhat. I got sick rather earlier than most others, but I wasn't the only one who was affected within 2.75 hours.

I really don't care because this scene is the reason I will NEVER watch this movie. I have a sensitive stomach and don't care to watch people getting sick in a movie. That is suppose to be entertaining?

There are two sorts - one is caused by living bacteria, the other by the poisons they make when they reproduce. The latter hits almost immediately, 30 minutes to an hour after eating, and produces very violent nausea and vomiting. The former may only cause diarrhea and cramping and is longer lasting, and not as horrible for the awful few hours until the poison has been expelled from your stomach.

Generally speaking, people get one of two sorts of food poisoning, staph (poison type) or salmonella (bacteria type). However, most cases of suspected food poisoning are actually caused by viruses and go under the name "acute gastroenteritis".

-drl

Oh come on, it's a movie, a comedy at that. The scene was effing hilarious, I for one was not going to care as I was laughing my butt off whether or not they had time to process the food that made them sick. For more serious, Oscar-worthy movies yes, having things be realistic is a bit more important, but in a silly comedy like this, so not necessary.