The German will return to his former club on Sunday in the west London derby, with Fulham desperate for an upturn in form after a disappointing start to the season.
Speaking ahead of the game, the forward spoke about how his Chelsea career came to an abrupt end, with a dodgy piece of chicken leaving his suffering from salmonella just three months before the 'Blues' sold him to Wolfsburg for £22m.
Schurrle's 2014/15 season had started well, with Moruinho fielding him from the off in four of Chelsea's first seven games of the season. However, chicken-gate then struck while he was in Poland on international duty for a European Championship qualifier in October 2014, with the powerful attacker starting just one more league game out of 15 for his club side before returning to his homeland.
"In my first year I was really happy," he explained. "I started half the games or a little bit more. I had quite good stats, I scored important goals. Confidence from the manager too. Then the second year in the first half it was very difficult. I had bad salmonella. It was with the national team, in Poland. The next day we flew back and I was gone.
It was initially thought that Schurrle was suffering from a bad bout of flu, only for the diagnosis to come back much worse.
"We didn’t find out for a week so I was just at home being sick and really feeling like I couldn’t get out of bed," he revealed. "Then we found out it was salmonella.
"I was getting really weak. You see how skinny I am, so to lose three, four, five kilos … I did not have any strength and it took a long time to get the strength back. I never got the chance to prove myself being back 100 per cent. That was when I got the opportunity to go back to Germany and he let me go. I’ve never eaten chicken since."