Was that actually food poisoning?
NO SUCH THING
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🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Why do some people seem to suffer the ills of foodborne illness at an alarming frequency, while others cruise through rare steaks unimpeded? In this episode, we bravely (or foolishly) ask: does food poisoning actually exist? This week, we talk to food safety experts to find out what food poisoning actually is, where it comes from, and what you can do to avoid it. Also discussed: Did your family have a dedicated bowl to vomit in? Will leftover rice kill you? And do you have to wash your chicken?
Our guests this week are Dr. Ben Chapman, Extension Food Safety Specialist at North Carolina State University, and food safety lawyer Bill Marler.
Check out Ben’s podcast Food Safety Talk.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Annie. I'm Noah. This is Devin. And welcome to No Such Thing, the show where we settle our dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research. This week, I tempt fate by asking, does food poisoning actually exist? |
| 0:15.9 | There's no such thing. No such thing. No such thing. No such thing. No such thing. |
| 0:23.7 | No such thing. No such thing. No such thing. |
| 0:31.8 | So this is a very old Manny Noah Devon discussion. |
| 0:35.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.3 | We've all heard the stories. goes out to eat then they're |
| 0:40.0 | running to the bathroom they're calling out of work sick they say they have a bad case of food poisoning |
| 0:44.3 | must have been the nachos bad fish yeah this has never happened to me like that now let me be clear |
| 0:53.3 | i don't have a particularly strong constitution. I'm also not |
| 0:58.7 | very selective or picky about where I eat. I'm not checking the health ratings on the board. |
| 1:03.5 | Sure. So when I add these things up, food poisoning isn't real. Oh, my God. Or let me say, it's thrown around, it's a |
| 1:14.9 | thrown around a little too loosely for my liking. All right. If I need to be diplomatic. |
| 1:19.5 | You're saying we hear, we hear about food poisoning more often than it happens. I think so. |
| 1:24.6 | I would agree with that because people, if you're going to call out of work, that's the easiest excuse. I have food poisoning. You don't have to fake being sick beforehand to lead up to lying about it. And you probably don't need to go to a doctor. No, you got to doctors. You probably won't because they're not going to do anything for you. No, no. Yeah. It's one day, you can come back the next day. So let's talk about actually being sick. What are your experiences? We don't need to get into details, but. No, we can get into details because this is what makes me so upset about you saying it doesn't exist. It's so offensive. I've had food poisoning two to three times. Okay, that's not that bad. No. Or you know. You know, I feel like this. People who seems like they're always got it. Maybe every eight weeks. No, no, no, no. It's like, what are you doing now? Well, what makes me upset about you saying it's not real is that food poisoning is probably the worst sickness you can have. |
| 2:21.4 | You know what I feeling like I want to die? |
| 2:23.3 | Yeah, all the time. |
| 2:24.5 | I only know it because I've gotten food poisoning. |
| 2:28.2 | Sometimes when you're sick, it's like, oh, I get to relax, be at home, go see up, watch a movie. |
| 2:33.1 | It's just miserable. |
| 2:34.2 | You have like the shakes. Yeah. I hate throwing up. Oh, yeah. It's the worst thing in the world. Throwing up. Oh, wait, wait. What's this? We got to talk about this real quick. Growing up. Oh. I know this. I know what this is. I don't know what the hell this is about. I said it up. Growing up, as kids, sometimes you get sick and you got to throw up. Yeah. Manning, when we throw out, what do we do? We get up and you go throw up. Where are you throwing up? In the toilet. Okay. In the toilet, right? Not in the sink. we're not getting things we cook with to throw up into. |
| 3:12.7 | Some people get bowls or pots. |
| 3:15.5 | These are things that they... |
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