[Ditter]

You reminded me of something that I had hoped to forget. In about 1965 we lived in a small Texas town. We went to an event that almost the whole town attended, BBQ. About 2am I woke up sick, about an hour later my husband was sick.

We were in so much pain I was sure we would die before dawn. Then I remember thinking, ‘OMG the whole town feels like this”.

When I was able I called a few people that were there and guess what , it was just us, no one else was sick. LOL!

[yarddog]

We had a staff of around 430 back then. I would guess that 90% got sick. Just about everyone. Fortunately this happened before the guests had arrived.

At the time Morrisons was contracted for food service. The food was really good but you always feared in the back of your mind what might happen again.

I believe our cooks who were all Black btw came up in the Summer from Florida State where they worked the rest of the year.