If Jack White of The White Stripes and The Raconteurs ever delivers you some fine Detroit cuisine before a gig, you may want to pass. Gasoline magazine reports Jesse Hughes, frontman for the Eagles of Death Metal, was forced to perform in Toronto after getting food poisoning from some spoiled pierogi that was exported by White from his hometown:
Dude, I had botulism, Hughes said. Jack White bought pierogies in Detroit and brought them to the gig, and I ended up eating one far too long after it had expired. I ended up contracting mild botulism and sweating out of every hole, so to speak, for 12 hours. It was the worst f#cking experience Ive ever had. But you cant call in sick to rock & roll. I believe this with my whole heart. How do you do that?
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