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A guest at a Mexico wedding reception revealed the gender-based four-course menus that left more than 100 invitees terribly ill, with 80 people being admitted to hospital.
Aranza Rodríguez attended the ceremony Saturday night in the central city of Cuernavaca and was rushed to a Red Cross hospital where she was treated for bacterial infection.
Rodríguez told Mexican newspaper Proceso that she was a guest of the groom, Fernando, whose wedding party started around 4pm with dinner set to be served at 6pm.
She recalled arriving to wedding venue between 8pm and 9pm and noticing that many of the guests were experiencing 'aggravated symptoms' that included headaches, stomach pain, vomit and diarrhea.
Despite the unsettling scene, Rodríguez placed her meal order and dined at about 10pm as ambulances started to arrive.
An ill wedding guest receives assistance from another invitee at the ceremony in Cuernavaca, Mexico on Saturday after more than 100 people got sick from eating food served by a caterer
A total of 80 wedding guests were rushed to area hospitals in the central Mexican city of Cuernavaca following Saturday's wedding in which more than 100 people fell sick from eating food provided by a hired caterer
A man holds a napkin over his head after he fell sick at a wedding in Mexico on Saturday from contaminated food
The sick wedding guests were provided IV treatment and medicine at the hospitals and were discharged within four to five hours after they were admitted
Rodríguez recalled being served wild mushrooms with goat cheese and tomato coulis as the appetizer.
For her main course dish , she was served chicken breast stuffed with spinach, tarragon and sweet potato puree as well as winter asparagus. She remembered male guests being served an unknown meat with a cream for the main course.
While she is not sure which of the meals made her sick, she remembers the wild mushrooms had the aftertaste of a 'very strong chemical'. She remembers the same smell after she was sick.
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