I'd Rather Have Food Poisoning

I'd Rather Have Food Poisoning

Pick the day you want to be sick. This tells you what to eat, and when.

This is a joke, and it is also real data. The numbers come from . Nothing here is advice to poison yourself or anyone else — it is an argument, told backwards, for why food safety rules exist. If you actually think you have food poisoning, call a doctor, and report it to your local health department so it ends up in data like this.

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Every incubation period, to scale

How long between the meal and the first symptom. Log scale — each gridline is a big jump. Tap a row to open that illness on its own.