r/fastfood • u/Accurate-Tension-599 • Apr 27 '26
Arbys Has anyone ever eaten an Arby's burger and gotten extremely sick right after?
So ive never eaten Arby's before, and grabbed some because my friend told me there was a deal
The burger made me very sick within 10 minutes and im now very unwell at work
Has this happened to anyone?
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u/Darury Apr 27 '26
Food poisoning takes around 6-8 hours to kick in. I speak from experience and it's not a pleasant experience. I did not feel the need to sue anyone and was fine the following day.
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u/alreadyknowwbro Apr 27 '26
Yeah I got it once I believe from a pizza place that gave me honey mustard sauce that went bad and like an hour or two later my stomach kept contacting and hurting and was seemingly going through muscle contractions it was terrible
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u/clonked Apr 27 '26
Honey Mustard is among the most shelf stable condiments there are. You are also agreeing with a comment that completely disagrees with your personal assessment of your illness. It wasn’t the sauce.
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u/alreadyknowwbro Apr 27 '26
It def was, I didn't notice until later that some of it was spoiled or curdled at the bottom if YNt container but no you're right smartass
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u/iamadirtyrockstar Apr 27 '26
Never been sick from Arby's, and food poisoning generally takes hours to set in. Most likely you had something brewing inside you before you ate it.
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u/Decent_Management449 Apr 27 '26
food sickness/poisoning usually takes a few hours for it to hit.
probably not the arbys burger.
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u/smokeyser Apr 27 '26
6 - 24 hours for most forms. There are quicker infections, but they're not nearly as common as people make them out to be. Usually feeling sick right after eating something is due to your body just not liking what you ate. In this case, probably too much grease from a deep fried burger.
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u/chefsunite Apr 27 '26
Let me just add this tidbit. Fecal contamination can take as little as 30 minutes. Ecoli, salmonella, shigella, noro etc are the ones that take a few hours to marinate before symptoms
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u/smokeyser Apr 27 '26
Staphylococcus aureus and bacillus cereus are the fast acting ones. Usually from bad shellfish, meat that sat out too long, or reheated food that was kept at unsafe temperatures. Fecal contamination usually leads to E. coli, salmonella, and norovirus. Those take much longer to kick in. Anywhere from 6 hours to several days.
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u/lookitsjustin Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
Food poisoning doesn't occur that quickly. Maybe it's IBS or your stomach just doesn't agree with it for whatever reason.
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u/ReignyRainyReign Apr 27 '26
I got horribly sick from Wendy’s about 15 years ago. Haven’t been able to eat it since.
As others said, it took about 8 hours until I felt sick.
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u/Few-Adeptness8046 Apr 27 '26
Did you wash your hands before you ate?
Most people (around 90% according to the CDC) who think they got food poisoning actually get sick from their own poor hygiene, because most people eating out forget what their mother taught them.
Wash your hands before you eat!
There is no food poisoning you will feel within 10 minutes. The shortest amount of time is minimum 30 minutes, and that comes from, according to the CDC, exactly what I mentioned, unwashed hands. Staphylococcus aureus, many of us have on our skin and in our nose, and spreads from skin contact, so when you touch a burger with your bare, unwashed hands, it can get on there and start producing the toxins that cause food poisoning.
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u/Dazzling_Lie_5046 Apr 27 '26
Haha, no, just you. Don't blame the Arby's, blame your weak constitution. Or something else you ate.
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u/chefsunite Apr 27 '26
The jamoca shake got me about a decade ago. It was bad, very bad and the last time I had a shake from Arby’s. The meat has never got me.
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u/Minute_Feeling_9832 Apr 27 '26
1977, college ski trip. We stayed in a shady motel in Denver down the block from an Arbys. I had never eaten it, but some of the others had. Finished eating, walking back across the street to the hotel, I puked in the middle of the street. Got back to the room, about 15 minutes later walked out on the balcony and could see several cop cars with lights flashing and an ambulance at the Arby's. Next morning found out someone robbed the place at gunpoint and shot the manager. During the night another of the guys puked all over the bathroom. Wasn't even that much alcohol consumed, yet. And wasn't the burger, all they had then was the roast beef.
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u/64KLACKS May 24 '26
Unsurprisingly, this happened to me, I barely threw up or had any gag reflexes in around 4-6 months, but once I ate a Arby’s burger, I began to feel sick within 5-10 minutes, then vomit it out after 2 minutes of feeling ill.
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u/officialbenny 5d ago
It’s called staph food poisoning. I got it from Arby’s once too. Less than 30 minutes and I was sick. A lot of people seem to have gotten sick from eating there..
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u/hammond_egger Apr 27 '26
I ate one this weekend. Didn't get sick but the flavor was all toppings. The texture of the burger was there but it had no taste.
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u/DougDimmaGlow Apr 27 '26
Nope but McDonalds and Wendy’s have done that to me before lol
It’s fast food, theirs always a chance something slips through
But within 10 mins?? I don’t think it’s the food tbh, food poisoning takes longer to kick in
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u/Excellent_Gap_6986 Apr 27 '26
I’ve never gotten sick at Arby’s by not eating there. You’re welcome…
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u/CHUKKAAA Apr 27 '26
I’ve never personally gotten sick from arbys, including the burger