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Tretyakovskii
Joined: 14 Aug 2009
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Location: Cancun, Mexico
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 Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 11:55 am Post subject: It's all relative.... |
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Although most of us feel quite safe to be in Mexico, some don't, if their posts are any indication. But it's all relative.
In the last two weeks a U.S. citizen, foreign teacher, was shot and killed in Iraq- and another, yesterday, in Yemen.
Being short listed by terrorists is not among our risks, here. We're at greater risk of choking on a taco. |
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DebMer
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Location: Southern California
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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Mexican parasites tried to kill me once.  I emerged victorious!  |
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BadBeagleBad
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| DebMer wrote: |
| Mexican parasites tried to kill me once. I emerged victorious! |
Gotta love that street food. I think people do get sick, though, and it is something to be careful with. I think after living in a place for a while the bacteria that live in your intestines changes and you can eat different things without getting an upset tummy. That is totally different from serious things like Salmonella and E Coli. I get E Coli poisoning when I lived in Guatemala, and there were times I really thought I was going to die. I love street food, but I do have specific places where I go, and not usually add a new place without someone I know recommending it. |
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DebMer
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Mexican parasites tried to kill me once. I emerged victorious! |
Gotta love that street food. I think people do get sick, though, and it is something to be careful with. I think after living in a place for a while the bacteria that live in your intestines changes and you can eat different things without getting an upset tummy. That is totally different from serious things like Salmonella and E Coli. I get E Coli poisoning when I lived in Guatemala, and there were times I really thought I was going to die. I love street food, but I do have specific places where I go, and not usually add a new place without someone I know recommending it. |
Let's just say I was very indiscriminate, even to the degree of occasionally drinking tap water. |
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Isla Guapa
Joined: 19 Apr 2010
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Location: Mexico City o sea La Gran Manzana Mexicana
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| You can get food poisoning anywhere. Some years ago, I was visiting my aunt in Philadelphia. She served me crab cakes for dinner which had been in her freezer far too long. Boy, did I get sick! My parents came to take me home and they put a plastic trash can in the back of the car with me in case the medicine I took didn't work. Luckily, it was all over in 24 hours. I've never had anything remotely as bad as that happen to me all the times I've been in Mexico. |
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Tretyakovskii
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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| 've never had anything remotely as bad as that happen to me all the times I've been in Mexico. |
Exactly, Isla. When I lived in the states, I frequently had bouts of something, following restaurant meals. Here in Mexico, in three years, nothing. |
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spiral78
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I have continuing problems with North American food, likely due to a sensitivity to genetically-modified grains. No bread for me while on this side of the pond!  Did you know that roughly 70% of the stuff in a North American supermarket contains something genetically modified??? |
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DebMer
Joined: 02 Jan 2012
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Location: Southern California
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Isla Guapa wrote: |
| You can get food poisoning anywhere. Some years ago, I was visiting my aunt in Philadelphia. She served me crab cakes for dinner which had been in her freezer far too long. Boy, did I get sick! My parents came to take me home and they put a plastic trash can in the back of the car with me in case the medicine I took didn't work. Luckily, it was all over in 24 hours. I've never had anything remotely as bad as that happen to me all the times I've been in Mexico. |
I've had food poisoning as well, but this not food poisoning, but major parasitic infestation that had grown over time while I was in blissful ignorance. My protruding belly and gaunt frame made me look like a poster child for World Vision. And I won't go into visual detail about what happened after I took the purgante. |
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DebMer
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| spiral78 wrote: |
| I have continuing problems with North American food, likely due to a sensitivity to genetically-modified grains. No bread for me while on this side of the pond! Did you know that roughly 70% of the stuff in a North American supermarket contains something genetically modified??? |
Yes. It's so depressing. |
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BadBeagleBad
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| DebMer wrote: |
| BadBeagleBad wrote: |
| DebMer wrote: |
| Mexican parasites tried to kill me once. I emerged victorious! |
Gotta love that street food. I think people do get sick, though, and it is something to be careful with. I think after living in a place for a while the bacteria that live in your intestines changes and you can eat different things without getting an upset tummy. That is totally different from serious things like Salmonella and E Coli. I get E Coli poisoning when I lived in Guatemala, and there were times I really thought I was going to die. I love street food, but I do have specific places where I go, and not usually add a new place without someone I know recommending it. |
Let's just say I was very indiscriminate, even to the degree of occasionally drinking tap water. |
I drink tap water all the time and have never had a problem, but I wouldn't have done so, say, 10 years ago. |
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DebMer
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:36 am Post subject: |
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| BadBeagleBad wrote: |
| DebMer wrote: |
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| DebMer wrote: |
| Mexican parasites tried to kill me once. I emerged victorious! |
Gotta love that street food. I think people do get sick, though, and it is something to be careful with. I think after living in a place for a while the bacteria that live in your intestines changes and you can eat different things without getting an upset tummy. That is totally different from serious things like Salmonella and E Coli. I get E Coli poisoning when I lived in Guatemala, and there were times I really thought I was going to die. I love street food, but I do have specific places where I go, and not usually add a new place without someone I know recommending it. |
Let's just say I was very indiscriminate, even to the degree of occasionally drinking tap water. |
I drink tap water all the time and have never had a problem, but I wouldn't have done so, say, 10 years ago. |
Your gut must be healthier than mine was. I was a mess, and in terrible pain. |
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Tretyakovskii
Joined: 14 Aug 2009
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Location: Cancun, Mexico
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| I drink tap water all the time and have never had a problem.... |
Nearly everywhere we've lived through the years, the U.S. Embassy tested the tap water and pronounced it safe. Still, through an abundance of caution, we have persisted in drinking bottled water. Now, the PCBs or whatever it is you get from the plastics are probably going to do us in!
I have a friend here who says he has drunk the tap water for years, with no ill effects; yet, most Mexicans who can afford it drink bottled water. Go figure.... |
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Phil_K
Joined: 25 Jan 2007
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Location: A World of my Own
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| I have a friend here who says he has drunk the tap water for years, with no ill effects; yet, most Mexicans who can afford it drink bottled water. Go figure.... |
Proves nothing. There are a lot of myths about health circulating in Mexico which persist from generation to generation. I, too, drink tap water, which actually tastes better than that purified water, and have had no ill effects in over 10 years in Mexico. |
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Tretyakovskii
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Good for you, Phil, it looks like you've followed the science, and not gotten caught up in the sophisticated advertising used to sell bottled beverages- which has convinced just about everybody, "not to drink the water".
I was just reflecting the other day how much it costs just to quench your thirst, if you buy prepackaged beverages. Ridiculous. The originators of Coca Cola were geniuses of marketing: I'm paying nearly a dollar US for colored water when I drink one. |
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DebMer
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| I drink tap water all the time and have never had a problem.... |
Nearly everywhere we've lived through the years, the U.S. Embassy tested the tap water and pronounced it safe. Still, through an abundance of caution, we have persisted in drinking bottled water. Now, the PCBs or whatever it is you get from the plastics are probably going to do us in!
I have a friend here who says he has drunk the tap water for years, with no ill effects; yet, most Mexicans who can afford it drink bottled water. Go figure.... |
I've never been in a Mexican home where they didn't drink bottled water from the garrafon, although if microbes are the problem rather than chemicals, I don't see why boiling wouldn't suffice.
As to the U.S. declaring water safe, apparently what they consider safe is a cocktail of over 300 known pollutants: http://www.ewg.org/tap-water/reportfindings My own county is one of the worst: http://www.ewg.org/tap-water/whatsinyourwater/CA/Eastern-Municipal-Water-District/3310009/ I think they define safe by "what kills you slowly over time rather than within 48 hours." |
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