Comments on: Grazing: First Look: Parker’s on Ponce

By: derby

derby — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:45:58 +0000

Freckleface: putting a post in a public forum claiming that you were poisoned at a restaurant could potentially hurt that business and all the people employed there.

I understand that you think the other posters are being rude to you, but please consider that you are being rude to all those whose livelihood depends on Rathbun’s by making an anonymous, public claim of food poisoning.

Nonetheless, in your defense, since others have claimed that food-born illnesses take 12 or more hours to develop, I have this quote from the National Institutes of Health website (nlm.nih.gov) entry on food poisoning: “The symptoms from the most common types of food poisoning generally start within 2 to 6 hours of eating the food responsible.”

So now I’ve got two things to be angry about:
1. Anonymous, public claims of restaurant food poisoning
2. Bad medical information

I’m just an angry son of a gun.

By: S

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:04:36 +0000

No, Ginger, what they’re trying to tell you is that you did not contract fool poisoning from the meal you ate at Rathbun’s because it isn’t physically possible. A food-borne illness usually take 12-32 hours to develop. If you didn’t eat all day and gorged on rich, fatty food…well, I can see how that could upset your stomach.
Plus, in my opinion, medium is overcooked. A steak of prime quality should be served rare or medium rare. Otherwise, it doesn’t matter how tender or juicy or flavorful the meat is, if you cook the snot out of it it’s going to taste like leather. It sounds like you’re an amateur diner with poor knowledge of food safety, and I’d hazard to guess that you were the cause of your sickness. Did you happen to serve chicken at home the night before you went out to eat? Sounds like someone didn’t wash their hands and gave their husband and themselves salmonella.

By: frecklefaceredhead

frecklefaceredhead — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:19:37 +0000

Wow! I had no idea I would get such harsh criticism from commenters. We didn’t say anything to the servers that night about our steak not being the way we wanted. I’m not sure why .. . . we just didn’t. We just nicely kept our mouth shut and ate it. It wasn’t terribly bad jst not the way we would have preferred it. I have always been told never to send food back. We didn’t call up there later that night after we got so sick because we figured there was no way we could prove it was their food. Neither of us had eaten anything since breakfast and we had been fine all day. Our natural inclination was to assume something we ate there was bad since it was such a quick reaction. I was remiss in saying it was probably the steak because it could have been either of the 2 sides we had or our dessert as well. That is my error. Also, I’m sorry if my comments on this site completely tired people out from seeing them on food sites. I am new to this blogging thing so I haven’t kept up with all the hip comments on this site to know that mine was just so tired and worn on public forums. And the only way reason we go to alot of restaurants is by reviewing comments about them on forums. We like to read people’s comments and see what is generally thought about the place. So if people are so tired of reading comments about restaurants in public forums then shouldn’t this one be closed? Becuase that is what they talk about . . . experiences in restaurants. . . the good, bad and ugly. I love a steak “medium” with a warm pink center. I always order tat and always get that. But this steak was definitely more rare than that. And why would you assume I should have gone to Longhorn’s just because I got a steak I didn’t like. You don’t know me. Is there some sort of stereotypical Longhorn’s eater? How can you say I should have gone there? I think it is very hurtful to tell people they are full of it just because they express an opinion that differs from your own. Ther was nothing exaggerated or dramtic as you claim about the statement I made. I simply stated we ate there, we got sick, I presumed it was the steak. Nothing dramatic about that. I’ll admit I was wrong in presuming about food. You can admit you are wrong about knowing my character enought to tell me where I should be eating instead. I’ll be damned if I ever try to make a comment again on a blog . . .too many people that can’t debate fairly, accurately and with integrity.

By: SS

SS — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:01:22 +0000

I can only add to my agreement with the above comments by saying that at any restaurant, let alone one where the tab was $160, if your order doesn’t arrive as you ordered it then send it back.

By: DS

DS — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:09:40 +0000

As someone certified in food safety, I can tell you with certainty you did not contract food poisoning in the incident you describe. Foodborne illnesses are almost exclusively brought into the body during the digestion phase – when food is entering the instestinal tract. That process generally take 12-24 hours to occur. Unless you suffer from a severe allergic reaction, any illness would have been caused by foods eaten the night before, or possible at breakfast or lunchtime – not the meal you ate within minutes.

By: derby

derby — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:22:03 +0000

Agreed — very tired of seeing these unlikely stories of food poisoning in comments sections and message boards of various food sites.

If you genuinely suspect that you are suffered from food-poisoning via a restaurant meal, the most responsible thing to do is to notify the restaurant so that they can know of the incident and other customers can avoid the same fate.

After that, please try keep the incident between you and the restaurant and not in public forums. Gentlemen and Ladies shouldn’t puke and tell.

By: C

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:36:23 +0000

You’re so full of it. Any sort of harmful substances living on raw meat are on the outside and get killed during cooking.

Harmful bacteria generally do not penetrate the inside unless the meat is milled up like in hamburger patties.

You either got sick at the thought of the undercooked meat preference or by a substandard side. I hardly believe it was the beef. If there was something wrong with the entire piece of meat, you would have smelled it when you brought a piece to your mouth.

And no, I don’t work at RB Steaks. I’m just tired of seeing these exaggerated “dramatic” comments.

Incidentally, “medium” is a warm pink center. “Medium-well” and Longhorn’s Steakhouse are probably what you should have got and gone.

By: frecklefaceredhead

frecklefaceredhead — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:11:03 +0000

I’m looking forward to trying this. Hopfully it will be better than our last steakhouse jaunt. My husband and I ate at Rathbun steak for our birthday in August. After a $160 meal for 2 we couldn’t get home fast enough afterwards because we both became sick and hugged the toilet all night. Our steak was burnt to a crisp on the outside and almost raw on the inside (we ordered it medium) so that was probably what did it!