Posted on 11/17/2014 12:30:43 AM PST by WhiskeyX
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A lawsuit is blaming a restaurant's bad meatloaf for the deaths of a former West Virginia state lawmaker and her husband.
Former Delegate Virginia Starcher's family filed the lawsuit last month against New Albany, Ohio-based Bob Evans Farms in Jackson County Circuit Court.
Bob Evans spokeswoman Hinda Mitchell said Friday the chain will vigorously defend itself in the matter.
Starcher and her husband, Harold, ate part of their meatloaf meals from a Bob Evans in Ripley in October 2012. Their takeout dishes included meatloaf, mashed potatoes and gravy, broccoli and a roll, the lawsuit says.
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How anyone eats at Bob Evan’s is beyond me... I know people must, but their food and service have always been completely sub par... about the only chain worst in that niche that I can think of is Cracker Barrel, who has slightly better food/service but is completely overpriced.
Bubba Evans we call it.
That’s a pretty serious charge that will,IMO,be very difficult to prove...at least to intelligent people,particularly those with scientific training.
Anyone remember the name of the TV news show which criticized Bob Evans for allegedly using downer cattle as a source for their beef?
E. coli food poisoning is lethal more often in cases where the patient is immune-compromised by other health issues such as age, diabetes, cardiac problems, etc.
“it was the salmon mousse”
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I like Meatloaf alright. It’s Jim Steinman’s overwrought lyrics that make me sick.
Both the Bob Evans and the Cracker Barrel in my city are packed. Both have good food at resonable prices and I have never had bad service in either.
Very true. And e. coli food poisoning is much more common than folks know. Thankfully it is usually not very sever and the body passes it out (literally) very quickly.
For most it is a case of the "squirts," stomach discomfort and maybe a brief fever and that's all. But for some with a compromised immune system or other pre-existing health concerns, it can hit pretty hard.
E. coli liked to kill me after getting some food poisoning at an unidentified restaurant one weekend. Some 48 to 72 hours later my whole body puffed up badly with edema. It became impossible to urinate. The urinary pain was near intolerable. One ear swelled large enough so a hand had difficulty covering it, and the skin threatened to crack open. The legs, ankle, and feet were very badly swollen. The other symptoms were also very very serious. Antibiotics and other medication brought a great deal of relief within 24 to 48 hours of beginning the medicines. It is definitely not something an older and/or ill person who ma be immune-compromised needs to endure.
Well for me I need to know the voter registration prior to forming an opinion.........
We are being exposed with strains of e coli that we are not used to seeing; our bodies have no resistance and people get sick. Some die. Now where in the world could those foreign strains come from?
Hard to believe they are the only ones to get ill if the food was bad.
. . . also called "hershey-squirts" which might be from salmonella, or lactose-intolerance (?), or an Ebola-like virus? (eccchhh)
You’d think there would have been more people who were sickened, yes. After over two years, I don’t know how anyone could prove it one way or the other without exhuming their bodies and not really sure even then. Would evidence of e coli infection still exist at this point? Absent some sort of hard evidence to the contrary, defense could claim it was murder-suicide for all we know.
“Hard to believe they are the only ones to get ill if the food was bad.”
We never discovered which restaurant we visited that weekend was the one responsible for dosing me with E. coli food poisoning, so there was no telling how many other people did or did not become ill from the same source of E. coli which nearly killed me. Also, my spouse did not become ill from E. coli, and we ate nearly the same restaurant foods those days.
Likewise in the instance of these two people. It may be they were only two people who were served the portion of the food that was contaminated with enough E. coli to cause more than some mild diarrhea in an adult who was also not immune-compromised.
There was another occasion when both of us were subjected to food poisoning, and we knew exactly when, where, and how we were poisoned. After work one day, we went to the movie theater. neither of us had eaten anything since breakfast, so we were both too hungry to wait for dinner after the movie. Instead, we bought a large bucket of popcorn to share and some drinks. The only thing we had to drink or eat in common since early the day before was the bucket of popcorn. We sat down and started to eat the popcorn. About thirty minutes into the movie, we were both became extremely ill with some of the most painfully explosive diarrhea imaginable. We missed the rest of the movie and part of the next movie in our respective rest rooms dealing with the ugly consequences of this violent food poisoning.
Once we were able to settle down enough to leave the movie theater, we stopped to complain to the employees and then the manager about the food poisoning from the popcorn. They were completely uncooperative and even insulting, suggesting we were making up the whole affair. We tried to warn the Health Department, but could not reach them until after the weekend. They refused to even take a report of the incident or conduct any investigation whatsoever. So, the public remained completely unprotected regardless of whether or not anyone else had the presence of mind to report the food poisoning as we did.
We never returned to that movie theater again.
Just because these two people were the only people to claim food poisoning, does not in anyway mean they were the only two people to be exposed to the E. coli or may not have actually been the only two people to have been served food with a sufficient E. coli contamination.
*cue muszak*
"promises..promises" or
"read 'em & weep".
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