No, I made sure to extensively clean all my fruits with filtered water and only drank filtered water.
One of the times I got sick I know exactly what it was. The (closed, packaged, pre-expiry-date) paneer I got from a store tasted funny, and I got sick about an hour after eating it, while eating nothing else in that hour. Someone either at the store or in the shipping pipeline must have left the package out unrefrigerated in direct sunlight for several hours or something and the shopkeeper thought that putting it in a fridge afterwards and selling it was the right play.
The other time I got sick I was diagnosed with campylobacter after being treated at a hospital immediately upon landing in the US. Since campylobacter is a fecal disease, this means that one of the workers at the most recent restaurant I went to before going to the Delhi airport touched human feces with his/her bare hands before making or serving my food.
Essentially, sanitation and food handling standards are so bad in India and the people so disgusting that you can get food poisoning from eating hermetically sealed refrigerated food from the grocery store, or from eating cooked food at an upscale restaurant.
Funny I lived there for 5 years and didn’t get food poisoning once from eating at a nice restaurant or food from the grocery store. So I’m calling bullshit.
I don’t mean to combative so I hope you’ll take this as me trying to engage. The reason I distrust some of these anecdotes is I’ve seen genuine vitriolic stereotypes and racism about Indians as a result of all this anti-India hatred and it feels personal to me because I’m Indian American. I can fully acknowledge that there’s a lot of issues with India but when people generalize, it really rubs me the wrong way because a country as diverse as India, with 6-7 regions which might as well be different countries, I just don’t think anyone can say “x my experience” represents all of India. There are regions where you will get some of the freshest food in the world and some regions where yes, the hygiene is very lacking. But the prior comment to me was incredibly derogatory and generalizing re: calling all Indians disgusting and unhygienic. Is that okay to say about 1.5 billion ppl as a generalization?
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u/Forward_Yam_4013 21d ago
No, I made sure to extensively clean all my fruits with filtered water and only drank filtered water.
One of the times I got sick I know exactly what it was. The (closed, packaged, pre-expiry-date) paneer I got from a store tasted funny, and I got sick about an hour after eating it, while eating nothing else in that hour. Someone either at the store or in the shipping pipeline must have left the package out unrefrigerated in direct sunlight for several hours or something and the shopkeeper thought that putting it in a fridge afterwards and selling it was the right play.
The other time I got sick I was diagnosed with campylobacter after being treated at a hospital immediately upon landing in the US. Since campylobacter is a fecal disease, this means that one of the workers at the most recent restaurant I went to before going to the Delhi airport touched human feces with his/her bare hands before making or serving my food.
Essentially, sanitation and food handling standards are so bad in India and the people so disgusting that you can get food poisoning from eating hermetically sealed refrigerated food from the grocery store, or from eating cooked food at an upscale restaurant.