Hitler published Mein Kampf. According to Godwin’s Law, I’ve already lost this introduction. Let’s just do the friday5.org Friday Five.

1. What was the last meal that caused you to be ill?
I can’t remember exactly when, but it was probably something I ate out that I thought was vegetarian but really wasn’t. This is why I don’t eat out that often any longer.

2. Are there any places you never dine anymore because of a bad experience hours after the meal?
Well, I avoided Big Boy for a long time because of a case of food poisoning I got there in high school, but I recently went to a Big Boy in Monroe to talk to a couple of ex-students of mine.

3. What’s your prescription for dealing with a food-caused illness?
Rest in bed. That’s what always helped me whenever I got food poisoning, anyway.

4. When friends tell you about coming down with food-caused illnesses, do you avoid the places they name, or do you figure it’s a dice-roll wherever you go?
I figure it’s a dice-roll, but again, I don’t go out to eat that much any longer.

5. After numerous citations, a very, very popular restaurant that you’re quite fond of is shut down by the health department until it can get everything up to code. When the health department gives the restaurant the o.k. to reopen, do you go?
Probably not, given that I know of a lot of scuzzy restaurants here in Toledo that haven’t been shut down despite some of the most blatant health code violations you can imagine.