Also adds another layer to the "truck cheese" debate...

http://www.foxnews.com/health/...on-nacho-cheese.html

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Five people have been hospitalized after eating nacho cheese from a Sacramento gas station, California officials said.

Officials have connected five botulism illness cases to Valley Oak Food and Fuel gas station in the Walnut Grove suburb, the Sacramento Bee reported.

Officials believe the culprit is nacho cheese, but the investigation is ongoing.

Sacramento health officials are also looking into four cases that may be related.

Botulism, a rare food poisoning, can lead to paralysis, breathing difficulty and sometimes death.

One of the people sickened last month has filed a lawsuit against the gas station.

Lavinia Kelly has been in the hospital for three weeks and is unable to speak. Kelly also can't keep her eyelids open, her partner, Ricky Torres said.

Officials have stripped the gas station of its permit to sell food and drinks. Employees have not responded to requests for comment.

I believe one person has died as a result.

As a general rule, for things that come from 7/11 or gas stations if it isn't vacuum sealed, I don't want it.

I've had outstanding Gas Station Sushi here in Colorado, a legit local Sushi chef, super fresh, made to order, all that. I was skeptical, too, but it was as good as any. Weird, I know.

A couple personal observations from cross country trips I've made:

1) beware ANY 'egg salad sandwich' in ANY gas station ANY where; There's a reason you've been advised to 'just drive on out of there'.......

2) specifically ponder the oxymoron of "All Night Truck Stop" and "Cut Rate All you can Eat Chinese Buffet" in one end of the building;

3) if you ever discover an actual use of gas station 'green soaked peanuts' please advise;

I ate breakfast burritos from a bowling alley once, once.

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Originally posted by GA Gator:
I ate breakfast burritos from a bowling alley once, once.

You should have cut out the middle man and just thrown the burrito in the toilet.

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Originally posted by bubbatime:

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Originally posted by GA Gator:
I ate breakfast burritos from a bowling alley once, once.

You should have cut out the middle man and just thrown the burrito in the toilet.

Now that's funny

When I was I high school the best hamburger in town was at the bowling alley. And the only late night place to eat was the bus stop/gas station, ate many a burger there in the wee hours after a night of doing what I shouldn't have been doing.

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Originally posted by logrusmaster:
As a general rule, for things that come from 7/11 or gas stations if it isn't vacuum sealed, I don't want it.

Interestingly, the bacterium that produces botulinum toxin is an anaerobic bacterium. It will only grow in a no oxygen atmosphere. If it is present in food that is vacuum sealed it will proliferate and you get botulism when you eat it.

I'm wondering if the bacteria can survive and grow in the nacho cheese because it's so thick that there would be no oxygen except on the surface.

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Originally posted by frayedends:

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Originally posted by logrusmaster:
As a general rule, for things that come from 7/11 or gas stations if it isn't vacuum sealed, I don't want it.

Interestingly, the bacterium that produces botulinum toxin is an anaerobic bacterium. It will only grow in a no oxygen atmosphere. If it is present in food that is vacuum sealed it will proliferate and you get botulism when you eat it.

I'm wondering if the bacteria can survive and grow in the nacho cheese because it's so thick that there would be no oxygen except on the surface.

Maybe the bacteria was on the filthy nozzle the cheeselike glop was extruded through, onto the delicious chips of golden corn.

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Originally posted by arfmel:
Maybe the bacteria was on the filthy nozzle the cheeselike glop was extruded through, onto the delicious chips of golden corn.

Great. Now I'm not sure whether I want to eat something or throw up.

Dammit, our gas station was slap outta egg salad sammitches this morning, I had to settle for ham and pasteurized cheese food product on white with Mayo.

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Originally posted by RichardC:
Dammit, our gas station was slap outta egg salad sammitches this morning, I had to settle for ham and pasteurized cheese food product on white with Mayo.

...."good luck".....

Errybody need a good cleanin out erry so often

I don't buy gasoline at restaurants...

There's this place Whoa Nelly Deli We made a point to stop there. Pics My avitar pic was taken near there....at Yosemite.

One of the rules among long distance motorcycle riders:

NEVER eat a Convenience store Burrito and expect to continue the ride.