Point of pedantry (food safety tip of the day): Salmonella can take from 6 to 72 to make you sick. The average is somewhere around 24 hours. If you ate something and got sick immediately, it wasn't that meal that caused it, or it wasn't Salmonella. Symptoms include headache, abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, and sometimes vomiting. Fever is usually present.And now back to your regularly scheduled program...