What Were You Expecting - 7/11 Taco at Midnight

GURPS

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CAMERON COUNTY, Texas (KVEO) – Gas station chain 7-Eleven is facing a lawsuit from a Texas man who claims a taco he purchased sent him to the emergency room.

According to court documents, a man visited a Stripes convenience store – owned by 7-Eleven – in South Padre Island around Feb. 7, 2020, and purchased a taco. Soon after eating the taco, the man suffered from food poisoning and had to be taken to the emergency room, according to court documents.

The plaintiff said he never altered the food in any way and Stripes’s negligence led to his medical problem, which caused medical expenses and loss of wages.

The Cameron County man is seeking up to $75,000 in the lawsuit, which was filed in Sept. 2021.


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The plaintiff said he never alter the food in any way and Stripes’s negligence led to his medical problem, which caused medical expenses and loss of wages.
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Escalade14

Escalade14

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What seems more suspicious? The taco that made him sick, or the fact that they waited a little over a year and a half after the food poisoning incident to file a lawsuit on the whole ordeal?
 
PeoplesElbow

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Escalade14 said:
What seems more suspicious? The taco that made him sick, or the fact that they waited a little over a year and a half after the food poisoning incident to file a lawsuit on the whole ordeal?
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Depends, I know someone who was in the hospital for 9 months due to food poisoning. People mistake food poisoning all the time. Getting the squirts right after eating something isnt food poisoning, it takes days for the real thing to take effect.
 
vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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Info to help you decide who to hate:

Stripes in TX typically have a Mexican hot food bar that is wildly popular and the food is usually pretty good. If this guy got sick from a tainted (heh) taco, there would have been many complaints, not just him. It's not like plucking a frozen taco out of the case, the lady at the taco bar actually assembles your food right in front of you.

HOWEVER:

Depending on what time of day he got the taco, that meat could have been sitting there for hours, which is why it's best to hit them up at lunch or another busy time of day. If he went in at, say, 3pm and got a taco, it's entirely possible for the meat to have been sitting too long.

I'm inclined to call bullshit on him, BUT it's possible that he did get food poisoning from the taco bar.
 
UglyBear

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I always thought that eating anything at 7-11 is about more than food — it’s a gamble, it’s exciting and titillating, like playing the Russian Roulette.
You takes your taco and you takes your chances!
 
Kyle

Kyle

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He should have gone with the 7-11 Burrito.

They NEVER expire.
 
gemma_rae

gemma_rae

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In MD, If you are injured and incur medical damages you want to wait until all treatments, therapies, tests, etc. are over and you are 100% recovered before you set a monetary value because you want to capture all losses. Once you file, I don't believe you can't go back and keep upping the amount.

This is not to say I have formed an opinion, just why they would wait this amount of time.
 
Monello

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On SPI there are 3 Stripes C stores. I bet I know which 1 caused this unfortunate incident. It's the middle 1 of the 3. I always avoided that one because compared to the other 2 it was the nastiest. I don't know how to write nasty in Spanish but if I knew it, that's what I would have wrote.

Those stripes also had something very Tex Mex. Like a salad bar, they had a diced fruit bar. The folks in that area are very fruit centric. Agua frescas, frozen fruit ices on a stick and limes served with everything. Sangria is served in a cup with a fork.
 
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GregV814

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A friend of mine was a commercial plumber. He recalled a hot summer day, somewhere near Camp Springs, he had a nasty large job at a Toddle House "restaurant". Anyway, about 9 am, a food wholesaler delivered 12 dozen eggs putting them on the sidewalk. My friend told the staff the eggs were there and the sun was shining on them. He completed his job about 2pm, stepping over the egg cartons about a dozen times. When he left, they were still there. He said the restaurant was crusty and filthy enough, but he would never eat at one once he saw how they disregarded foods.
 
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DaSDGuy

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Monello said:
On SPI there are 3 Stripes C stores. I bet I know which 1 caused this unfortunate incident. It's the middle 1 of the 3. I always avoided that one because compared to the other 2 it was the nastiest. I don't know how to write nasty in Spanish but if I knew it, that's what I would have wrote.

Those stripes also had something very Tex Mex. Like a salad bar, they had a diced fruit bar. The folks in that area are very fruit centric. Agua frescas, frozen fruit ices on a stick and limes served with everything. Sangria is served in a cup with a fork.
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It's spelled Kamala.
 
Merlin99

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GregV814 said:
A friend of mine was a commercial plumber. He recalled a hot summer day, somewhere near Camp Springs, he had a nasty large job at a Toddle House "restaurant". Anyway, about 9 am, a food wholesaler delivered 12 dozen eggs putting them on the sidewalk. My friend told the staff the eggs were there and the sun was shining on them. He completed his job about 2pm, stepping over the egg cartons about a dozen times. When he left, they were still there. He said the restaurant was crusty and filthy enough, but he would never eat at one once he saw how they disregarded foods.
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Go anywhere else in the world or even into the country here and you’ll never see eggs in a refrigerator.
 
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