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

Colorants are just colour. That breadcrumb / batter is a solid structure and looks deep fried.

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

A chilled chicken pie most certainly says it can be eaten hot or cold, if it can be.

I don't know exactly how they make the batter look cooked, I have never been interested enough to find out, as they have been doing it all the 50 years I have been alive and I never realised so many people were assuming the chicken inside was also cooked if it didnt look like raw batter outside.

I'm going to look like a numpty next time I'm in store inspecting all the chicken packets and not buying any!

Can't get my head round how it can be safe to partially heat chicken like that. Maybe someone in the know will come and enlighten us as to the process.

I'm craving southern fried chicken now!

How did she manage to chew and swallow a packet of it raw? It must have tasted weird.

Why do so many people think food poisoning is immediate/quick to show up? Salmonella has an incubation period of up to 6 days, so it’s certainly not the case that if you’re ok the next morning you’re fine.

A chicken pie also doesn’t say it can be eaten hot or cold 🤣

I’m not saying the food in question isn’t at least in part raw, but there are also people on here saying the crumb looks cooked because it’s been coloured to look that way 🙄 when clearly the outer part is cooked.

Why is the main argument here about whether a chicken product is partially cooked/cooked or raw instead of why three grown adults let a child eat meat straight out of the fridge? That's absolutely lazy fucking neglect. Even if the chicken had been cooked, it's common sense for an adult to heat up some food for a child if they ask. And put it on a plate with cutlery, served with a beverage etc. Especially if they're in her house and the main job is to take care of her. It's disgusting to think they gave so little of a shit that they let a little girl eat meat out of a packet from the fridge.

Is it a stretch for you to think that the billions of pounds the big companies pour into food science could come up with a raw batter coating that is attractive and looks "cooked", in an age where we have put men on the moon?

Crikey, how could they not find the taste and texture too weird to eat?!
I'd be surprised if there wasn't some stomach ache and maybe diarrhea.
That does seem pretty bad. I hope they'll be alright x

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What the f are you going on about? There is a lot of talk about what these are by people who don't actually eat them. I do and I'm setting it straight lol

What, without cooking them?

And they are definitely packed full of preservatives and stabilisers, even if they are partially cooked as well. We all eat chilled or frozen raw chicken products.

Did I read somewhere that typically, the salmonella risk in the national flock is about 5%. So 95% of chicken from UK sources is fine anyway. Obviously food poisoning does happen, food hygiene, storage etc is still important, but the likelihood is it's OK.

Yes it's partially cooked. I have eaten these

It's raw. She knows it's raw because it's raw. It doesn't say it needs to be heated by the way, it says it needs to be cooked, and nowhere says "eat hot or cold".

No it's actually partially cooked. I eat these

It's not the colouring, it's the batter itself. But to be fair it could just be how it looks in photos.

Its packed full of agents to preserve and stabilise it.

She doesn’t know it’s raw. She thinks it’s raw because it says it needs to be heated. You have to heat a chicken pie for 35 mins, but it’s not full of raw meat.

@AquaPeer that's exactly what I'm thinking. It's clearly been part cooked to set the coating. The only thing I could think of is flash freezing after to immediately cool it down. But that doesn't seem safe to me either. Maybe they use some other chemical reaction (for want of a better term - my brain is not braining as I am unwell) that doesn't involve heat?

They just make it like that. Colourants, mainly, I would assume.

That is what they were referring to, but coated, uncooked products you can't see the meat, and I honestly didnt realise so many people erroneously assumed that if you can't see the meat, it's cooked. They put food colouring in the batter to make it look brown, I would assume, because it's more attractive on the shelf. Didn't for a minute think people didn't know this.

I keep looking at the chicken in the link and wondering how on earth they got the crumb to look like that without cooking it and if they cooked it how did they keep the chicken raw?!?

Ffs I'm annoyed on your behalf too! You've enough to be dealing with without a sick child now. Fingers crossed she will be OK.

I think this is something everyone could learn from, including DD. She will learn from this mistake that she also has a responsibility to read the packet and not just make assumptions.