Aargh! Just eaten raw chicken -what to do?

[Tolleshunt]

Just started a lovely lunch in a Japanese restaurant with some delicious chicken gyoza.

As I was about to finish off the last one, I happened to glance at the chicken inside, and to my horror it was pink and pretty raw looking. I have no idea if the preceding three were in a similar state.

I really really cannot afford to be ill for days - am sole parent of a small DD.

What am I best to do - make myself sick?

Nope. Too late, nothing you can do. Food poisoning is rare, most likely you'll have an episode of the shits but shouldn't be too bad.

Did you tell the restaurant?

Any chance it had minced prawn in it? Did you show the restaurant?

There is nothing you can do, just have to wait it out. More than likely your be fine anyway

Maybe it is chicken thigh meat - that can look pinkish even when cooked.

Nothing you can dom but are you sure it was raw?
Chicken thigh can look v different from breast.
I've literally just finished stripping a whole chicken and the different parts look v different, and it was definitely cooked.

Thanks for your replies.

It was definitely raw, the bits round the outside were done, but the middle was raw.

I told them and they were very apologetic and waived the whole bill.

I have had a tactical chunder, but pretty sure I didn’t get it all up.

Feeing nauseous now, but pretty sure it’s psychosomatic at this stage.

Wish me luck. Just hoping it isn’t contaminated with ecoli or campylobacter.

Have a swig of neat vodka to kill off any germs . That's what my DH always advises me to do in such situations.

Neat vodka, just a swig!

I’ve had chicken like that from a restaurant before, I had been a bit iffy (feeling sickly and belly ache) afterwards but it didn’t develop into full food poisoning so fingers crossed

Ha ha, my grandma would have sworn by a large measure of whisky! I don’t think I have any spirits in, I may have to settle for a bottle of Estrella or some wine.

I swear a mix of vodka with black pepper kills 99% of bugs!

Are you still ok??

Still ok......

Try a can of coke? It kills off a lot of things, not great for your insides but worth a try.

Omg!! I havnt heard the phrase 'tactical chunder' since my uni days.... ah, the good old days!

Sorry, I know you're worrying but that gave me a chuckle!

Most raw chicken is fine and wont harm you, it's unlikely anything will happen

I'd have a swig or two of a neat spirt. Vodka or Brandy etc. Hopefully that will kill off any bacteria.

Sorry to say this, but I ate raw chicken (top layer was fine). Only one slice. 72 hours layerr, I got the worst pains in my stomach. A bit like Labour pains, rolling down from under my breasts downwards. Don't do what I did. I took imodiam. I'm my defence I was on holiday in a small Greek island with no hospital and just thought I had holiday tummy.

Three weeks later, I was still "going" eight to nine times a day.

Fortunately, a course of antibiotics (rarely prescribed for good poisoning) sorted me out.

It was the longest four weeks of my life, and I'll just skip over the four hour flight home. It's for the best.

Good luck, it may not be so bad

You’ll be fine. My DS ate a whole raw chicken breast out the fridge as a toddler. No ill effects at all.

I´ve eaten raw chicken by mistake a couple of times. Nothing has happened. I wouldn't worry about it if I were you. Most likely nothing will happen to you either, and if it does, then there is no point worrying about it now.

Stock up on toilet roll and Disney DVDs?

The coke is a fair idea, after all, if it can dissolve limescale off a toilet bowl, or should give listeria a run for its money!

User that sounds horrendous! Poor you. I’m fervently crossing my fingers that isn’t soon to be my lot.

TheInvestigator we used that term at uni too, usually deployed by the lads in preparation to continue sinking a pint from each tap in the bar, or to drink their own bodyweight in lurid fluorescent ‘cocktails’ that had been mixed in buckets. It felt apt.

How are you OP?

I wondered that too!!

Hello, thanks for asking I’m absolutely fine!!

DD, on the other hand, vomited in the early hours of Friday, and has had the squirts since, having not partaken of the offending chicken....

Such are the ironies of life, I guess!