4 year old eaten raw pastry in restaurant.

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Just a quick question. In a chain restaurant, my son has eaten a quater of a small pizza which when I noticed, was raw pastry.
I know there are risks of stomach bugs from eating raw pastry, the restaurant did replace it, but would you ask them to note it somewhere in case he does get unwell?

are you in the USA?

www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2019/flour-05-19/index.html#recalls

I'm afraid my first thought was 'so?'

Wouldn’t bother me.

The restaurant will already have a record of your returned meal for their stocktaking and accounting purposes.
If he became ill you'd have to prove it was caused by the raw dough. This would require analysis of stool or vomit samples and is unlikely to happen.
FWIW my best friend contracted salmonella and never got to the bottom of whether it was caused by the chicken she'd been served in a restaurant (perfectly cooked) or eggs in the raw cake mix she'd tasted at home earlier in the day, and Public Health or whatever they're called, were involved in that one.

I don't think you have anything to worry about.

I wouldn’t think anything of it tbh.

Maybe you should sue them.

are you planning on suing?

I love raw pastry. I haven't been sick from it yet.

Really?

would you ask them to note it somewhere in case he does get unwell
Perhaps you could ask them to log it with 101

I used to eat raw pastry all the time as a child - offcuts of pastry making. What on earth are the risks?

Has common sense just gone out the window? This website really makes me wonder 🤔...

One quarter of a small pizza? And the top of the dough was cooked but not the bottom?
I wouldn’t give it a second thought (beyond “another reason I wouldn’t eat in F&Bs!”) regarding him being ill
But then we are a family of bowl lickers when cake etc is being made. I even sometimes taste a bit of raw dough when we make pizzas and bread - to check I put salt in!

I spent my childhood eating the raw mix from my mums cake mixes, that’s a double whammy raw flour and raw eggs! My 45 year old dsis spent her childhood munching away on mud pies! Your ds will be fine.

I don't think I have ever heard of anyone having food poisoning from raw dough but I see there was an outbreak in the US a while ago. I really don't think I could get het up about it though.

Do stop being so potentially bloody litigious. It was a bit of raw dough. Hasn't harmed the dc or me and neither has cake mix with egg in.

DD2 eats raw pizza dough in chunks when we make pizza!
OP have your children never eaten uncooked cake batter or anything like that?

That simply will not make him or anyone else ill. In the nicest possible way, please stop fretting. I used to love raw dough as a child & never got sick. These days my dogs hover looking for spare bits.

If that's the worst thing he ever eats you can think yourself very lucky!

Farrow and Ball sell pizzas?

No I don't have anxiety. Nor am I anxious (not sure which you were implying).

I am a HCP who has seen what e.coli and salmonella can do to the more vunerable (under 5's, pregnant women, the elderly and those with underlying conditions) though.

I am food safety concious for myself and my family, so no we wouldn't eat raw dough, or cake mix, the same as we wouldn't eat rice that had been sitting out or undercooked chicken. I try to follow safety guidelines for most things. You can't get rid of risk, but you can try to avoid them surely?

Definitely sue them and make a massive deal about it in front of your child. It's the only reaction to slightly undercooked flour and water and the only way to make sure your child doesn't grow up with anxiety.

I can't believe some of you eat raw flour! Yes it is a risk. I have studied food safety intensely (Environmental health student) Bacillus cereus is a bigger risk than e coli but as risks go it is low. OP just keep an eye out.
I used to eat raw cake mix as a child. I never had any adverse effects. I wouldn't nowadays. Which is a shame because it was bloody lovely.

ah I wouldn't worry.
they will be fine.