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Chances we've been food poisoned?

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Foodpoisoned · 10/06/2023 22:18

DH did the food shop earlier, didn't think to take a cool bag. It's about a 15 mins drive away, in a car with no air con so would have been roasting hot. (30 degrees here).

I thought nothing of it until we got ice creams out for pudding and they were completely melted. Even though they had been put away in the freezer once DH got home and would have spent about 30 mins in there before we got them out again.

We had just eaten salmon from the shop for dinner. Are we all going to get food poisoned? I cant imagine that fish would have been very fresh after that car ride ( and knowing DH who takes an age to do the shopping, it probably had sat in the trolley for a while before the car ride as well) .

Urgh, feel sick just thinking about it

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bloodywhitecat · 10/06/2023 23:08

TeamDH but then I survived the summer of 76 when we didn't have air con in cars, didn't take coolbags to the shops and frequently ate ice cream of dubious storage methods as our 'freezer' was nothing more than an icebox in the fridge.

RoseBucket · 10/06/2023 23:09

@Foodpoisoned just wanted to show cool bag solidarity, I do the same. I have one I bought for camping and take it with me to the supermarket.

maidmarianne · 10/06/2023 23:09

30 minutes of being a bit warm before cooking doesn't seem like a long enough time for bacteria to multiply sufficiently to make you sick. I would imagine you'd all be fine.
I do know people who've had serious food poisoning from ice cream, but they got it from a deli, presumably it had been kept at the wrong temperature a lot. My mil takes hers out of the freezer for half an hour every time she has any, it drives me mental but she never gets food poisoning. Puts mayonnaise and stuff on the table an hour before eating too and is fine. You do build up a certain amount of immunity when you're constantly exposed!

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thecatsmeows · 10/06/2023 23:12

I ate raw defrosted fish fingers that had been in the fridge at work for 2 weeks for a bet.

I was fine. I think you'll probably all live.

miniegg3 · 10/06/2023 23:16

thecatsmeows · 10/06/2023 23:12

I ate raw defrosted fish fingers that had been in the fridge at work for 2 weeks for a bet.

I was fine. I think you'll probably all live.

Omg 🤢

Remi ds me of the time my son was a toddler and ate off his high chair in the living room. A piece of of cut up fish finger mush have been tossed off his tray into his toy box without me realising. 3 days later he's playing with his toys etc and see him eating something.. it was the piece of fish finger from 3 days earlier 😳 no ill effects luckily haha

fguuh · 10/06/2023 23:19

I'd honestly not give this a second thought.

I do the same as @Myusername4321 most days in summer. I think anyone who has been ill from it has probably got if from homemade types.

Retrievemysanity · 10/06/2023 23:23

Oh gosh, I’m quite funny about food after I was really ill with salmonella years ago (someone’s homemade quiche) but this wouldn’t bother me at all and we never take cool bags to the supermarket either!

Hollyppp · 10/06/2023 23:54

You’ll be fine!

TheShellBeach · 11/06/2023 00:05

I don't know a single person who takes a cool bag to the shops.

Daffodilsandtuplips · 11/06/2023 00:06

Think We didn't have a fridge at home when I was a kid, we had a cool shelf. / marble slab in the larder and a mesh cover over the meat on the cool shelf. Shopping for food Mum got the bus into town, did her shopping and brought it home on the bus, she must have been gone two hours, no cool bags or air con in sight. She kept milk cool in buckets of cold water. The only time we had ice cream was when the ice cream van came round, in really hot weather he had a roaring trade selling bags of ice.
Mind you she shopped more than once a week and cooked what she bought that day, mostly.
I was ten when the fridge arrived, it had a little ice box in the top, game changer, we could have ice cream in tubs from the shop!
I think you’ll be ok OP.

TiredandLate · 11/06/2023 00:25

15 minutes? No I wouldn't be bothered. But I also wouldn't think hmm it's 30°, my car is roughly the temperature of a small sun, I think I'll have a drive out for ice cream and fresh fish 😂

I went shopping at 9am because the hot weather has been forecast all week and I factored it into my day. It was 5x busier than usual so obviously lots of people did the same.

bonfirebash · 11/06/2023 00:41

TiredandLate · 11/06/2023 00:25

15 minutes? No I wouldn't be bothered. But I also wouldn't think hmm it's 30°, my car is roughly the temperature of a small sun, I think I'll have a drive out for ice cream and fresh fish 😂

I went shopping at 9am because the hot weather has been forecast all week and I factored it into my day. It was 5x busier than usual so obviously lots of people did the same.

It was pretty quiet when I went but I couldn't go this morning as I was working until 2pm
Same tomorrow. So it was shop when it's hot or don't go

HoppingPavlova · 11/06/2023 00:46

I live in a hot country and even past 35degC wouldn’t cross my mind to take a cool bag to the shops. We bring home chicken and everything, stop on way back at a special bakery, another stop for take away coffees etc. no one has ever been harmed.

LibertyLily · 11/06/2023 00:46

I think you'll be fine....although I too panic about bringing cool stuff back from the supermarket as we live rurally and the best ones are 30 mins drive away. Which is why we always take cool bags when we go shopping and put a couple of ice packs in when it's hot! Ice cream we only ever get locally just in case, but as yours hadn't refrozen I'm sure it was OK....

LibertyLily · 11/06/2023 00:47

mondaytosunday · 11/06/2023 00:49

Assuming your kids didn't eat it just before you posted post 10pm. If they had food poisoning you'd know about it within an hour of eating in my experience!

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Foodpoisoned · 11/06/2023 07:22

Well, nothing to report this morning, so we lived to see another day !

@TiredandLate
hmm it's 30°, my car is roughly the temperature of a small sun, I think I'll have a drive out for ice cream and fresh fish 😂

This made me laugh! I was out with the DCs all day and that was his one job, why he decided to shop mid afternoon when the car would have been hottest is anyone's guess 😅

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MissedItByThisMuch · 11/06/2023 07:31

It will be completely fine. I lived in a part of Australia where it regularly reached 40C in summer. Supermarket food would be out of the fridge for an hour or so between shopping and home. Ice cream regularly melted. No one ever got food poisoning. Your DH is correct, this is a non-issue.

Willmafrockfit · 11/06/2023 07:35

i think you will be fine

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