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Will she get sick from eating this and AIBU for being a little pissed off?

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Friends1996 · 04/05/2025 11:33

I had a hospital appointment yesterday and couldn’t take DD with me (she has autism and doesn’t cope in hospital environments).

I left her at home, with my grandparents (early 70’s, still fit and active, etc) and my sister (28 years old). She is quite easy to look after, as she just goes off and does her own thing and only really needs supervising.

I spoke to my grandparents today who said that she was complaining that the chicken in the fridge was spicy yesterday when she was eating it. I then realised that these (linked below) were what she was talking about and that all 3 of them have let DD eat it raw!

I did get a little bit pissed off because firstly, it’s obviously a packet of chicken that needs cooking and it says it right on the front. Secondly, DD kept telling them that it needed cooking and they just ignored her and thought they knew better.

Will this make her sick and unwell? She ate I would say maybe a small filet of it? And AIBU for being pissed off at all 3 of them for making such a stupid mistake and not checking properly?

https://www.aldi.co.uk/product/roosters-hot-spicy-chicken-tenders-000000000580751002

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Datafan55 · 04/05/2025 16:10

Coconutter24 · 04/05/2025 14:21

If you buy something from the raw meat section it should be obvious that it needs cooking

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Aldi has an endless shelf of chilled stuff; you have this type of thing right next to eg cooked cornish pasties ('eat hot or cold').

AthWat · 04/05/2025 16:09

AquaPeer · 04/05/2025 16:01

I mean, you could apologise for mistaking me for all the posters who said it was cooked.

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I'm so, so sorry for thinking that you said it was cooked when in fact you've just (apparently, I haven't checked) constantly argued that it was an understandable mistake to assume it wasn't cooked despite things like this having been around for 50 years and on every supermarket shelf.
Now will you apologise to me for accusing me of being weird, bullying and making things up that later a lot of people corroborated? Or is that not how it works? I don't actually care so don't bother. I'd rather you just admit that you've really ought to have known about this sooner and stop arguing that its understandable to make an idiotic mistake like this.

AquaPeer · 04/05/2025 16:01

AthWat · 04/05/2025 15:55

Yes, go on, keep crying "bully", "weird", "bizarre" just because you didn't know something that's blindingly obvious to the majority.
How come people like you always accuse other people of being worked up when they have made exactly as many posts to you as you have made to them?

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I mean, you could apologise for mistaking me for all the posters who said it was cooked.

AthWat · 04/05/2025 15:55

AquaPeer · 04/05/2025 15:13

Well it wasn’t me who said it “was obviously cooked”, go back and check.

so basically what’s happened is you’ve been wound up by a number of earlier posters, decided I was all of them and you’ve come after me all guns blazing?

what a bully. And still bizarre thing to get worked up about to this extent.

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Yes, go on, keep crying "bully", "weird", "bizarre" just because you didn't know something that's blindingly obvious to the majority.
How come people like you always accuse other people of being worked up when they have made exactly as many posts to you as you have made to them?

AthWat · 04/05/2025 15:52

Horserider5678 · 04/05/2025 15:44

It’s not! I’ve had it before, the chicken is already cooked and just takes 10 minutes to heat through!

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Jesus Christ! Read the thread!

Haribosweets · 04/05/2025 15:51

I would be so mad. I had servere coparlobator when I was about 13 from eating uncooked chicken. It took about 4 days from eating to the symptoms starting so please keep an eye this week. Hope she is OK as it was the worst thing ever, I was so unwell

Horserider5678 · 04/05/2025 15:44

FeministUnderTheCatriarchy · 04/05/2025 12:27

This particular product IS raw, it isn't the type you just heat up.

But even if it was, it is disgustingly lazy that 3 adults couldn't get your daughter food she would enjoy (or heat/cook this chicken). It doesn't matter that they thought it was precooked.

She was clearly hungry, poor thing. Also being ignored when she TOLD them it was raw? Do they think autistic children are stupid and shouldn't be listened to??? (sorry this is a sore topic for me).

Even if she doesn't get sick I would be really angry and not think them fit to care for her.

It’s not! I’ve had it before, the chicken is already cooked and just takes 10 minutes to heat through!

AquaPeer · 04/05/2025 15:33

KnickerFolder · 04/05/2025 15:17

Frozen chicken nuggets and fishfingers that are flash fried and raw inside have been around since the 1960s.

M&S introduced its first chilled ready meal in the 1970s - Chicken Kievs. Uncooked chilled breaded chicken and fish has definitely been around since the late 70s, @AquaPeer. I suspect they may have used coloured “golden orange breadcrumbs” rather than flash frying though.

ah, ok yes obviously a frozen fish finger is raw inside…although this situation wouldn’t arise as you’d obviously know it needed cooking and has no comparable ready to eat product. It’s just unexpected I guess, it looks like a ready to eat product. It’s easier to see why the grandparents were confused when so many here are.

although, this is obviously excepting the whole story which is that the child told them it needed cooking, which in normal life would’ve led you to cut it open and check at the very least.

Boreded · 04/05/2025 15:26

Friends1996 · 04/05/2025 13:33

Thank you for letting me know about this as I didn’t have any left to check!

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It’s irrelevant though because that isn’t what she ate 🫣

dementedpixie · 04/05/2025 15:26

Boreded · 04/05/2025 15:25

She isn’t taking about the picture on the pack. She is talking about the picture on the website which is of the chicken in the packet. It is 💯 cooked chicken. You can eat it cold or you can eat it reheated.

she would not have been able to eat it if it were raw chicken

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It's not cooked, it's raw. It's in the chill with other uncooked chicken products

Boreded · 04/05/2025 15:25

Friends1996 · 04/05/2025 13:23

Of course it’s going to be cooked in the photo on the pack - they’re not going to advertise raw chicken on the pack as an appealing photo are they?

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She isn’t taking about the picture on the pack. She is talking about the picture on the website which is of the chicken in the packet. It is 💯 cooked chicken. You can eat it cold or you can eat it reheated.

she would not have been able to eat it if it were raw chicken

Changeyourlifes · 04/05/2025 15:24

AquaPeer · 04/05/2025 15:14

i mean, it’s fairly obvious you get medical help if your child is showing signs of needing it, I didn’t think that was what you were suggesting….

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Well perhaps just don’t comment if your post is not helpful or if you have made incorrect assumptions then?

As you admit, it is fairly obvious to get medical help if your child needs it. I merely posted generic advice to that effect based on OP being worried about her child. You’re the one pushing back on that.

janeandmarysmum · 04/05/2025 15:24

A friend of mine got campylobacter food poisoning from a similar product. It took 48 hours for the symptoms to appear. I hope your daughter is ok, op.

Intranslation · 04/05/2025 15:22

WhatsTheStorey · 04/05/2025 11:40

That’s not good and I would also of been annoyed. I think the effects of eating something like uncooked chicken would normally be pretty instantaneous and if she’s not had any food poisoning symptoms yet or general ill effects, she may have had a lucky / highly surprising escape? Might be worth a 111 call to double check. How old is your DD?

Tenders - ooo I'd quite forgotten that name used in the US for them

OneDenimQuoter · 04/05/2025 15:21

Londontown12 · 04/05/2025 15:19

I think if she was gunna be ill she would be within 24 hours of eating raw chicken tbh !
And the grandparents need a telling off !

Unfortunately it's often not that quickly

Londontown12 · 04/05/2025 15:19

I think if she was gunna be ill she would be within 24 hours of eating raw chicken tbh !
And the grandparents need a telling off !

KnickerFolder · 04/05/2025 15:17

Frozen chicken nuggets and fishfingers that are flash fried and raw inside have been around since the 1960s.

M&S introduced its first chilled ready meal in the 1970s - Chicken Kievs. Uncooked chilled breaded chicken and fish has definitely been around since the late 70s, @AquaPeer. I suspect they may have used coloured “golden orange breadcrumbs” rather than flash frying though.

AquaPeer · 04/05/2025 15:14

Changeyourlifes · 04/05/2025 15:11

you are not there in real life though, you don’t know if her child is showing signs of being unwell. Ultimately it’s OP’s call, having observed her child in person.

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i mean, it’s fairly obvious you get medical help if your child is showing signs of needing it, I didn’t think that was what you were suggesting….

AquaPeer · 04/05/2025 15:13

AthWat · 04/05/2025 15:10

No, a few of you who asserted that it was obviously cooked are trying now to suggest reasons that you are not staggeringly ignorant not to have known all along that things like this are very often, if not normally, uncooked and have been for many many years. You're trying to create a scenario where this is some kind of new, confusing product. Carry on though. I'm sure it's working.

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Well it wasn’t me who said it “was obviously cooked”, go back and check.

so basically what’s happened is you’ve been wound up by a number of earlier posters, decided I was all of them and you’ve come after me all guns blazing?

what a bully. And still bizarre thing to get worked up about to this extent.

Changeyourlifes · 04/05/2025 15:11

AquaPeer · 04/05/2025 15:07

I wouldn’t call any form of medical care and talk to them. it would be wasting everyone’s time.

i can imagine my gran being the same OP, and it was part laziness part thinking childcare doesn’t involve that much and just getting on with her own stuff

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you are not there in real life though, you don’t know if her child is showing signs of being unwell. Ultimately it’s OP’s call, having observed her child in person.

Middleagedstriker · 04/05/2025 15:10

Bollocks to that. If you've agreed to look after somebody then you look after them. You don't fail to look after them. You say I'm not going to look after them what I'm going to feed them something they could potentially give them food poisoning and then you decide.

AthWat · 04/05/2025 15:10

AquaPeer · 04/05/2025 15:05

You are bizarrely hysterical about this product, whilst everyone else is just discussing what may or may not have been the confusion.

Why are you being such a drama llama? There is no need to make things up, tell people what they should to shouldn’t have seen and try to connect a random product with sensibility or intelligence. You’re being weird, not others.

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No, a few of you who asserted that it was obviously cooked are trying now to suggest reasons that you are not staggeringly ignorant not to have known all along that things like this are very often, if not normally, uncooked and have been for many many years. You're trying to create a scenario where this is some kind of new, confusing product. Carry on though. I'm sure it's working.

Animatic · 04/05/2025 15:09

I wonder if your 28 years old sister and grandparents need supervision of their own... shocking...

AquaPeer · 04/05/2025 15:07

Changeyourlifes · 04/05/2025 14:56

there are 2 separate issues here:

  • if you are worried about your daughter then seek medical help. If you can’t wait until your GP opens tomorrow, call 111 today. If anything, it may provide some reassurance.
  • review whether you trust them to look after her unattended in future. If not, make alternative childcare arrangements. I appreciate this may be a significant change but ultimately from what you have said they haven’t been particularly apologetic or concerned so it’s unlikely they would change their approach.
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I wouldn’t call any form of medical care and talk to them. it would be wasting everyone’s time.

i can imagine my gran being the same OP, and it was part laziness part thinking childcare doesn’t involve that much and just getting on with her own stuff

Nanny0gg · 04/05/2025 15:07

Friends1996 · 04/05/2025 13:25

Because she’s autistic and is constantly being told it’s fine by adults she trusts? Don’t compare NT and ND children

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I think an NT child would have done what they were told in that circumstance!