Lounge Alert! Olive Garden REALLY makes 250 people sick in Indiana

[kwassa]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061215/ts_nm/olivegarden_illness_dc

More than 250 people have reported becoming sick after eating at an Olive Garden restaurant in Indianapolis, Indiana, a county health official said on Friday, a day after an outbreak of E.coli at Taco Bell restaurants was declared over.

The news makes Olive Garden at least the third U.S. restaurant chain this month to be linked to widespread customer illnesses.

Some customers who ate at the Olive Garden restaurant in northeast Indianapolis between December 9 and December 13 have reported nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and in some cases fever, said John Althardt, a spokesman for the Marion County Health Department.

Three of those people have been hospitalized.

Tests of the sick peoples' stool and leftovers they took home from the restaurant will be conducted later today or Monday, Althardt said. He added that the tests would take about 48 hours.

A spokesman for Olive Garden parent Darden Restaurants Inc. was not immediately available for comment.

[Westegg]

1. Yet they seem so HAPPY in the commercials!

... I guess a stool-check's gonna take that giddiness right out of ya, huh?

[Deja Q]

2. Yeah, but it takes an hour before the germs infect the place...

:hurts:

[lies and propaganda]

3. something tells me it wasnt the green onions.

Dont have a lot of need for them in fake Italian cuisine.

[usaftmo]

4. You got that right!

Fake Italian cuisine is precise. I lived in Italy for 2 years, and transferred back to the States this summer. I can say for sure that Olive Garden is definitely fake Italian food!

[Omphaloskepsis]

6. And it should replicate real Italian food for 7$ per plate...

Gotcha..

[hippywife]

8. Not so hard to do, actually.

All good, genuine ethnic food is peasant food.

[Omphaloskepsis]

5. Do you think anyone is stupid enough to expect real Italian cuisine?

I don't expect a good taco at Taco Bell. It's cheap and fills me up. What is your favorite beer/wine?

[lies and propaganda]

7. holy crap, did i call anyone stupid?

Maybe you heard me say oversensitive, but surely not stupid.

I teased about a restaurant having crappy food, Im sorry that offends you so.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

9. It goes like this

cheap crapfood overpriced crap food
Fazoli’s = Olive Garden
Taco Bell = Chi-chi’s