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To potentially make DH very ill?

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Sleepybunny · 31/07/2016 20:37

I realise there is a similar themed thread here, must be food hygiene day.

Anyway, I cooked a chicken on Thursday afternoon. Switched the oven off when it was ready and left it in there (one of those cook in the bag ALDI special bad boys).

We went away for the weekend and I totally forgot about it until now.

AIBU to test it on DH to see if it's edible? DH things it probably is, so is sort of consenting. He's also left his bastarding socks on the floor next to the laundry basket again, for me to collect and wash presumably. As such, I feel his life is expendable at the moment.

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Thequilltosurvive · 01/08/2016 08:26

This is like an extreme version of the fat balls thread. Are husbands really this stupid? Actually, mine is.

BoGrainger · 01/08/2016 08:33

Yeah, it's not like she was egging him on. He's not a hen-pecked husband by the sound of it.

Glamourgates · 01/08/2016 08:44

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ShutTheFuckUpBarbara · 01/08/2016 08:47

Genuinely worried for the OP's DH now even though he's a stupid idiot

PotatoesPastaAndBread · 01/08/2016 08:51

Eating the chicken was a bad idea.
But piling in on the OP is not fair.
DH is a grown man who fed himself knowing the situation and against OP's advice.
Not her fault whatever happens. Why are wives considered responsible for caring for husbands as if they were children?

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Sleepybunny · 01/08/2016 09:00

Sorry for the delay. The bastard lives.
I'm half relieved that a) he's not dead and b) I'm not dealing with a vomiting man child.

Slightly disappointing though as I feel a lesson should be learned here. Suppose there's still time....

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ChatEnOeuf · 01/08/2016 09:01

Oh my...! If it had been a normal chicken, in the fridge, then cooked again, I'd eat it. This is off the scale lunacy.

Hope he's okay. And second the no Immodium advice - better out than in if he gets sick.

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Sleepybunny · 01/08/2016 09:01

Actually wondering how it's possible though.

Not so much as a stinking chicken fart!

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PatMullins · 01/08/2016 09:08

Give it time...

Goingtobeawesome · 01/08/2016 09:08

We had roast chicken yesterday. I've just made roast dinner pie with the left overs. It will be cooked properly and then fed to some of my kids.

If I don't check in after tea tonight, send help.

I've made this before, I know it will be fine but, no, actually I'm not worried about it. As I'm not an idiot who eats chicken he shouldn't. Just because he's got away with it this time it doesn't mean he would again..

Excited101 · 01/08/2016 09:09

It's not a done deal yet op, there's still plenty of time for him to show the effects and remember- if he gets ill, he can pass it on to anyone else.

ExtraHotLatteToGo · 01/08/2016 09:10

Any chance he only resented to eat it so he could prove you wrong?

If not, he's got a cast iron gut, I'd on,y have had to look at it to have spent the night in the bathroom!

ExtraHotLatteToGo · 01/08/2016 09:11

Fucking iPad. PRETENDED, not resented

soupey1 · 01/08/2016 09:11

You are aware of how long food poisoning can take before the symptoms start! It is one of the reasons it can be so difficult to trace the source of an outbreak as there is a window of opportunity and you need to look at everything eaten or drunk within that time frame - although not in this case.

MrsJoeyMaynard · 01/08/2016 09:12

I hope you've thrown the rest of the chicken away. Just in case he decides it's safe to eat the rest, as he's ok so far....

EveOnline2016 · 01/08/2016 09:13

He will be ok. It's a MN mythical magical chicken.

ButtMuncher · 01/08/2016 09:20

I had a dream about this thread last night Grin Cue 4am check to OP's husband's bathroom status.

LineyReborn · 01/08/2016 09:22

Maybe he warm the rest up for his lunch.

Ellie891 · 01/08/2016 09:36

Campylobacter has an incubation time of 2-4 days, in some cases up to 11 days! (One of the most common food borne illnesses)

Salmonella has an incubation period of 12-72 hours.

He will also be at risk of clostridium which has an incubation period of 6-24 hours.

I hope he has got lucky this time, but definitely playing with fire!

Keep us updated OP!

MmmCuriouSir · 01/08/2016 09:40

If he's consenting, then maybe it says something about your marriage. Ha.

randomer · 01/08/2016 09:43

eat the socks

RubbleBubble00 · 01/08/2016 09:48

He's going to be like my dh. Could eat any bacterial laden left overs and not so much as a grumble. I'd be yacking for britain

Satishouse · 01/08/2016 09:49

When I had food poisoning from chicken, I started to feel ill about 36 hours later. I had flu like symptoms for 2 days and just as I stopped sweating and shivering, the D and V kicked in. I had a 12 week old baby at the time who I was breast feeding, I had to stop because I didn't have the strength to hold him amd because I stopped producing milk through dehydration. Despite the fact I had just given birth to my first child, I distinctly remember wanting to die. I have never been so ill in my life. Your husband is dumb (sorry).

LuluJakey1 · 01/08/2016 09:52

There is still plenty of time for the chicken to wreak havoc.

If you have any plans I would cancel them and start preparations for hosing him down. I think you will have lots of it to do.

We have friends who spent their honeymoon in a bathroom in the West Indies somewhere taking turns on the loo, with a vomitting bowl and in the shower. There was a hurricane and they literally spent days in this bathroom hosing each other down.

LuluJakey1 · 01/08/2016 09:52

Should just say they had food poisoning - it wasn't a honeymon activity of choice.

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