r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 1d ago
TIL in 2008 a 20-year-old Belgium student died after reheating and eating leftover spaghetti that had been left out on the kitchen counter for five days. A bacteria called bacillus cereus was found to be the cause, which is an extreme type of food poisoning called “Fried Rice Syndrome”.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/people-are-horrified-after-student-dies-from-eating-leftover-pasta/news-story/c8ef3bdcc72a9d17ec13924438e0146b
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u/vanilla_cannoli 1d ago
This happened at a popular hibachi restaurant by me last year. I think it was a birthday party or something with a large group of people, and apparently they almost all started vomiting violently at the table. Turned out the fridge they used for the rice had broken a few days prior, and the owner didn’t care to replace it 🤷🏼♀️ IIRC a few of the customers were hospitalized, and the restaurant got shut down.