Top tip: if you are in a restaurant on a baking hot day and your child asks very nicely for sausage and chips and the waitress brings it to your table 1 minute later ...

[fisil]

... do not let them eat it

unless of course you like vomit.

Don't know why I didn't figure that one out at the time.

quoi?

had someone been sick on that plate fisil? i'm feeling queasy...

had it been sitting on the hot plate all day as no one wanted a hot meal

Well, I don't know what gave them the tummy bug, but dp and I aren't feeling sick, and the only thing the boys ate that we didn't was the sausages. And in retrospect, hot cooked food turning up after 1 minute in hot weather is not a good thing

oh sorry. A large glass of red wine on an empty stomach and a hot day resulted in me thinking the waitress had tried to hand you a plate with someone's bits of vomit on. Bleugh. I used to work in a restaurant and if it was busy then we really could get stuff like that out very quickly, so it could just be a bug, but whatever - hope your boys feel better soon.

I have phoned the restaurant and the manager said she would investigate. She printed out my receipt so she knows exactly what we had and when. But I made a point of saying that the sausages came so quickly, as I'm pretty sure that's what it was.

peanutbutter! I usually go for the tummy bug theory, but it was amazing the way that both boys came home, slept for three hours, both had the runs (too tired to attempt to spell it!) and then both threw up a lot!

phew, glad i hadn't offended you, i'm now drinking a big glass of water. I tend to find, though, that food poisoning hits very quickly - quite often within 15 mins or so you start with sweats, then stomach cramping & bloatedness. It's still possible though, but it could be that the boys picked a bug up from a door handle / a toy / that kind of thing. Let us know what the manager says - it's good she promised to investigate rather than brushing you off with a "our food prep meets the highest standards" type line of crap

(((think i'd better add here - there are types of food poisoning which don't present any symptoms until as much as 24 or more hours after eating the meal.)))

3 hours is fairly typical for food poisioning, particularly with pork, if they did get food poisioning from the sausages (and I agree with pbutter, it could be from lot's of different things) they better get checked out by gp.
I hope they are ok, it's a horrible thing

Yeah but whats the odds assuming it was a bug of them both vomiting in the same night? Surely not!!! I would definitely put it down to the dodgy food without a doubt and I would put in a complaint.

It does sound dodgy! Hope your boys are better soon.

peanut butter is right... there are certain bacteria that dont do anything for over 24 hours!

And another top tip. If you ring NHS Direct next morning because they still can't keep anything down and the call handler, going through the checklist, asks whether they've had a head injury in the past 3 days, don't go there. I was told to take him to A&E immediately, and when I explained that the head injury was exactly 3 days before the vomiting started and he'd been fine since, and also if the vomiting was related to the head injury then how come his brother started vomiting at exactly the same time? When I explained all that she said "right, I'll put you down as refused advice, please hold."

Just to say I had both my boys sick with a tummy bug on the same night a few weeks ago, it has been rampaging around our school - so may not necessarily be food poisoning - dd got it a few days later, dh escaped but I felt queasy for a few days (but didn't get sick)