Family Gets Food Poisoning After Dinner Celebrating Recovery From Food Poisoning

A Turkish family poisoned themselves and 20 guests at a celebratory dinner party. The occasion they were celebrating? Their recovery from a bad bout of food poisoning. How extremely unfortunate.

Weeks before the mass poisoning, the family of four started suffering from severe stomach aches. Eventually, the pains became so bad that the entire family spent a week in the hospital, where doctors traced the illness back to a meal wife and mother, Asiye Erdal, had prepared for her family.

Once the family was released from hospital care, they invited all their neighbors to dinner to celebrate their good health. The family sacrificed an animal to show their gratitude to God, which Mrs. Erdal then prepared and served to her family and their 20 friends. It was from this sacrificial animal that the Erdal family and their guests got a second stint of serious food poisoning.

All party guests, as well as the Erdal family, suffered severe stomach pains and were hospitalized as a result of the meal.

Alattin Erdal, husband and father of the family, said he was confused by the family’s misfortune.

“We don’t get it. First, we were poisoned and then sacrificed an animal for God as a sign of gratitude for gaining our health back. Then we were poisoned once again, as well as the neighbors. May God save us from the worst,” he told Anadolu News Agency. “Food poisoning became our nightmare.”

Anadolu has reported that four people involved in the incident remain in intensive care in the northern Turkish province of Tekirdag.

The Erdal family, however, miraculously recovered from their second round of food poisoning. Mrs. Erdal told Anadolu News that she would be much more conscious of preserving food in the future and that the entire family has become significantly pickier after their near month of sickness. We would also imagine they won’t be throwing any dinner parties any time in the near future. Just a guess.