I’ve never had a problem eating food from a gas station.  Just two weeks ago, I ate a couple of hot dogs purchased from a gas station.  They were delicious.  That’s not the first time I’ve eaten gas station food, and I doubt it will be the last.  There’s nothing like a fun food novelty.  However, I might make sure to microwave my food a little longer than normal after hearing about one unlucky woman in California.  Lavinia Kelly, 33, is now paralyzed after eating gas station nachos.

The nachos were purchased at the Valley Oak Food and Fuel in Walnut Grove, California.  She’s one of five people who have been made sick by the food at that gas station, with four other probable cases waiting to be determined.  Amazingly, food-borne botulism is rare in the United States; only 15 cases of the 161 cases in 2014 was caused by food.

That’s small comfort for Lavinia and her family.  She’s in intensive care, paralyzed, unable to speak or breathe on her own.  All because she added cheese to a bag of Doritos on April 21.

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