Ate mouldy rice 🤮

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I know nobody has a crystal ball but am I likely to get food poisoning?

I ate about 5 forkfuls of rice from a takeaway before seeing that the rice underneath was clearly mouldy.

Will not be going to that takeaway place again. A shame as it's a new, 'nice' restaurant.

Come on OP. If you seriously think you’ve been given mouldy rice by a takeaway, get it out of the bin and put it in the fridge. If you’re ill, environmental health will
take the business to task (by which I mean, haul them over the coals), and won’t you want the hospital that treats you to know what it is you have eaten? You’re currently making wild claims but at the same time being really blase.

Well I'm not making wild claims. I'm pretty sure it was mould but I can hardly haul a business over the coals when I'm not ill (yet).

Something about this doesn't ring true.

If this really did happen, why didn't you get a photo? Why didn't you complain to the restaurant? Why didn't you report it?

Seems to me like you're trying to make every excuse not to do the above... 🤨

Why would I do anything like that when I'm not 100% sure that it was mould. Why would I want to ruin a new business when im not 100% sure.

Also, rice is dirt cheap. Any sort of food business might keep and reheat a meat sauce/ curry, but rice is probably the one thing that they’d always cook from fresh every night even if they were really hard up. It’s so cheap, why wouldn’t you? Not least because bacillus ceres is really a nasty food poisoning as others have mentioned.

Do you still have the container? Or did it all go in the bin. There might be some residue on the container

Then surely you'd go a retrieve the takeaway to BE sure and stop making excuses as to why you can't do this. But, I'm pretty sure any normal person would have had a proper look when they first noticed that it looked suspect.

And surely, new business or not, you'd actually want to prevent dozens of other people getting ill and therefore would want to report it.

As I said, I'm not buying this, OP. 🧐

Well you will soon know no doubt!!!! Won't be pleasant and yes you can get very unwell.

I couldn't care less whether you buy it or not. I've got no reason to lie about something like this but I genuinely couldn't care less if you believe it or not. I did properly look and I'm not expert on rice mould. No environmental health inspector is going to come and check something like that when nobody is ill so it's a wait and see I guess.

My ex was really ill after eating rice he had not reheated properly! I hope you are okay.

Have my first OP. I smell bullshit or batshit. I enjoy neither

I think mould rice is normally black

Ok. But if you are ill, you should report it to your local council’s environmental health team. If a number of people likewise report the same business, they will investigate. If you genuinely think - as you claim - that you have been served mouldy rice, you’d want them to at least be investigate, yes? If you have kept the container of rice that you are concerned about in your fridge, then the environmental health team have actually got some evidence they can test.

You are the one that has come on MN and claimed that you’ve eaten “mouldy rice”.
if you genuinely think there’s a good chance that’s what’s happened, then put the container of rice (you said you’d only eaten 5 spoonfuls) in the fridge as it could be vital evidence in the evident that malpractice has occurred. Sheesh!

No need to reply if you don't believe it. Funnily enough, my life is slightly more exciting than making up stories about mouldy rice. Believe what you want.

Good to know. Thank you.

I'll cross that bridge if I get ill. Sheesh.

Yep. Something is off here and I am not convinced it's the rice.

See you then.

If the rice has visible mould then you’ll definitely be unwell soon. Rice is extremely dangerous. Even just left out at room temp for too long it grows a thin, dangerous film of mould that isn’t visible to the eye. So for it to be so bad it’s visible will make you very poorly.

I agree with other posters in that anyone with any common sense would have taken a photo at the very least, or complained, or kept the rice as evidence.

You also say you can’t complain because your aren’t ill, yet? But you still are pretty certain you had mould in your food.. poorly or not that’s ground for a complaint and a report.

this just seems a bit of a off post from your subsequent replies.

The brown colour could be the underside of the rice when it's scooped from the pan/rice cooker. Sometimes it burns a bit on the bottom. Could it be that? Mouldy rice would taste off and it takes days for mould to form in a visible way.

And as I have explained several times, I'm not even 100% sure it was mould. It wasn't like mould on bread or fruit where it's obvious. I honestly don't care if people believe it or not. Nobody needs to reply if they don't feel it's true.

Yeah it could be from the bottom of the pan. That would make sense. Thank you. That makes me feel a bit better. It definitely didn't taste funny.

But if you suspect it is mould you need to report it. Better to be safe and wrong than risk other people potentially dying?

Are you okay? Ring the nhs line for advice? Next time mouldy or not take a photo and report it. Sometimes you don’t have to take the photo but if you report it to the food agency they’ll contact them and inspect them.

If it was bacillus ceres - the food poisoning you get commonly from rice - it makes no difference whether the pre-cooked rice was cold, warm or piping hot. Bacillus ceres comes about from a toxin that blooms when cooked rice is not quickly cooled, and it’s this toxin that makes us sick. Reheating the rice - even till piping hot - doesn’t help as there’s no bacteria to kill as with many causes of food poisoning. bacillus ceres isn’t a bacteria it’s a toxin. Toxins aren’t killed by hot temperatures.