Aircrew food
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The reason is that I have been there and it is no laughing matter. Salmonella from raw tuna fish, which had been left in the galley for 4 hours at 30°C because of a delay due to weather. It kicked in 6 hours after consumption. I lost 8 kilos in two weeks and I thought I would die. At the time I wanted to die. Since then I have not touched anything raw.
Avoid imitations
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I agree, the only time I ever consumed a raw oyster was at a barbeque in a hot country in the tropics. The seafood was on ice but I think the sun had got to it. I was very violently ill and a few days later my skin turned very, very yellow! I couldn't blame the beer for that.
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We used to fairly regularly get Libyan Airlines CRJs passing through on delivery, before leaving again for Tripoli. One day a collegue came back to the office and very excitedly shouted 'look what I got off the Libyan! A huge platter of fresh sea food, tuck in!'. Not a single person took him up on that offer, and he couldn't understand why claiming the food was perfectly fine. We all took great pleasure in seeing him run to and from the toilet for the next 4 hours 
