AIBU for wanting compensation from Morissons after getting ill from BBQ?

Of course it's a joke post, but plenty of people seem to be taking it very seriously. No idea why.

Cook your food properly (not pink)
Wash your hands
Bleach the toilet after each diarrhoea and drink a small glass of water (so you don’t dehydrate)

You know that BBQ'd chicken shouldn't be pink in the middle too, right?

FML...

I'm hoping you didn't BBQ chicken OP

Its not meant to be pink at all. That just means it cooked quickly outside and didnt have enough time to cook inside.

is this a joke post? Surely everyone knows a burger should be cooked through. You must always cook mince/burgers until all brown. This is the problem you’ve made yourself I’ll not Morrisons

Op it’s very surprising anyone can get to adult hood and not know that pink in the middle of a burger is raw meat. This can make you very unwell.m

either others were cooked correctly or they were and they didn’t get ill as it didn’t contain the same amount of germs in the undercooked bit

when you bbq burgers or chicken it needs to be fully cooked throughout. No pink, only steak is thr safer option if you wish pink.

General good advice is to do most of the cooking in your oven and only finish them off on a barbecue for the outside bits. I'm sure that's sacrilege to some, but avoids this kind of problem.

Invest in a digital food thermometer. They’re inexpensive and very easy to use and usually come with instructions about safe temperatures for different meats.

You ate a raw burger but it’s somehow Morrisons fault?

Yeah that will happen when you eat raw meat.

FYI for the future, burgers aren’t supposed to be eaten rare because of the chance of bacteria present in the middle of the burger. A slab of steak is all one continuous slab of meat, the only bacteria present (unless it’s rotten) will be on the outside and that will be killed with cooking. When you make a burger, it’s made from mince meat which has the potential to harbour bacteria on every strand and will also likely from different cows. When it’s pressed together that bacteria is present throughout the whole burger - hence why you should cook it all the way through to make sure it’s killed off.

Its not Morrisons fault, your husband can’t cook.

You are always supposed to cook burgers made with minced meat all the way through-they are not a steak! The outside of a steak contains ecoli so when mixed as an ground, you need to ensure it is fully cooked

There are extremely strict hygiene measures in food manufacture including on use by dates and storage. It is orders of magnitude more likely that the problem is you and not Morrisons

How long did you have the barbecue pit for?not long enough if your burger is raw in the middle

If they were short dated surely they should have been in the reduced section? Why didn't your husband check the use by date? Also if no one else got ill how do you know it was definitely the burgers?

I misunderstood your description as what it looked like raw which is clearly very dodgy but dodgier still that it really was of a cooked burger! Hope you feel better soon!

I have voted YANBU assuming this is a wind up and no one is really dumb enough to eat raw burgers

Does Morrisons really use the words ' eat by ' ?
rather than ' use by ' and ' best before ' .

With it being that day's date, I am surprised the burgers were not ' reduced ' maybe Morrisons start their reductions later in the day.

Almost 20 years ago my DB was then still married to a French woman, she had a PhD from Pasteur, they were visiting my grandparents in Paisley, where they went food shopping. She was shocked to see (it was July) a cold meat counter server slice and handle food with her bare hands, she could not stop talking about it - she kept saying 'somebody will die, somebody will die in this heat. She immediately complained to the store manager, and even (!!!!) wrote to their head office. Everybody told her not to be silly 'we have a clean hands policy' - and sure enough, several people died, I remember seeing it on the news, but I don't remember if it was Morrisons or Safeway. She was shocked by our cold meat counters and butcher counters.

Burgers should not be pink in the middle. Where did you get that idea from?

Burgers are absolutely fine to be pink in the middle if you've minced the beef and made the burgers yourself within the last 12hours.

Absolutely not normal to eat supermarket burgers pink!

That's because lots of people don't cook food properly on a barbecue.

Even without the raw burger, that’s a massive load of overthinking about the date.

No way would I eat a pink burger. I say that as someone who is happy having a bloody steak.

Why did you keep the packaging? Do you think it could be from handling that?