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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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GinBunny · 01/08/2016 23:19

Well, as this thread is still running I've told DH about it, who is very laid back about food dates etc and he's asked if he's dead yet.

I hope he's not too ill OP, for your sake not his!

TimeforaNNChange · 01/08/2016 23:22

quite, lougle.

Again, without wishing to be a food safety bore - cooking kills the majority, not all, of the bugs. Food is safe to eat after it has been cooked as long as it has been kept in a way that prevents bugs re-multiplying. Cold (below 8C) or hot (above 63c) both minimise the rate at which bacteria multiply.

Between those temps, in a warm, damp environment, bacteria replicate, and either cause illness by producing toxins in the food, or through replication in the gut after being eaten.

paxillin · 01/08/2016 23:30

Be a bungee jumping parent-fine. Make baby bungee jump- wrong.

Smoke outside as a parent- if you must. Smoke in the nursery- wrong.

Eat 2 lb of prunes for the shits- well, only your arse hurts. Eat a campylobacter chicken to try and kill baby with the bug- I'd frankly take the kid and go.

Bogeyface · 01/08/2016 23:57

I think that the OP has it spot on that a "bunch of fucking women on the internet" said he is a dick for eating it has pissed him off so he did it to prove a point.

If he does get very ill and tries to pin it on the Thai food then that is a really shitty (sorry) thing to do as the manufacturer/restaurant will have to be fully investigated which could seriously affect their business, when it is blindingly obvious was the cause is.

I agree that he is not a buffoon or a bit of a silly billy, but a complete arsehole.

omri · 02/08/2016 00:22

Status update please OP... Hope your dh is ok...
I also learnt on this thread that you can catch food poisoning... Ugh!

SuckingEggs · 02/08/2016 00:29

He sounds fucking mad. He'll be grateful for antibiotics soon, trust me.

SuckingEggs · 02/08/2016 00:30

I've had campylobacter and it was horrendous. If your kids and/or you catch it, well, I'd be beyond furious. He's irresponsible.

paxillin · 02/08/2016 00:33

Bogeyface you are right. Should he prove knobbish enough to try and destroy the thai business to cover up his idiocy, I hope OP will speak up.

In the meantime, protect your young children. This can be seriously dangerous to babies and toddlers.

TaraCarter · 02/08/2016 00:35

OP, did you realise that he shouldn't put it in the fridge? I've reread the thread, and it doesn't look like anyone thought to mention it prior to the Event.

Brokenbiscuit · 02/08/2016 00:36

I'm ashamed to say that I never knew you could "catch" food poisoning. Shock

OP, I hope you're all ok.

DietCockBreak · 02/08/2016 00:51

Woohoo!

Offer him a chicken sandwich.

Absofrigginlootly · 02/08/2016 03:42

I'm reading this thread with a Shock face (and Hmm because I'm not convinced it's real... No one is that stupid are they?!)

If this is real then OP a couple of points.

Your DH is clinically stupid. And monumentally irresponsible. OP you write as though you too think this is all 'good japes'..... It's not.

Your DH has not only potentially endangered the lives of his children through cross contamination (that is absolutely NOT being over dramatic, FFS fully grown otherwise healthy ADULTS die of food poisoning - how do you think babies and toddlers fare?!) he could potentially also cost an already very stretched NHS more money if he ends up having to be treated.

I completely fail to see the 'funny' side in this. All I see is a mysoginist total fucking douchebag who will at best case put his wife through worry and all the extra work of having to throw out the contents of the fridge and sterilize the inside (PLEASE tell me you are doing this!!!!!!!) and having to clean the bathroom repeatedly, whilst having to care for the children singlehandedly (he should NOT prep food/feed them or change their nappies for at least 48 hours after the diarrhoea stops).

At worst he could endanger their lives and cost the NHS thousands.

All for a laugh or to prove a point...?? Hmm

On the other hand, maybe 'natural selection' ain't such a bad idea.

Absofrigginlootly · 02/08/2016 03:52

www.iccservices.org.uk/pdf/Food_Poisoning_Facts.pdf

DailyMailPenisPieces · 02/08/2016 03:52
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Absofrigginlootly · 02/08/2016 03:55

OP and anyone else who still thinks this is a joke please read the first paragraph of this link from the World Health Organization

www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs399/en/

Chinnychinnychin · 02/08/2016 05:42

I'm not place marking either.

BarbequeBetty · 02/08/2016 06:20

I am learning a lot about food poisoning from this. I had no idea it could be contactable. Although my feeling is, no-one would voluntarily use a bathroom after someone had had food poisoning in it...

Gabilan · 02/08/2016 06:47

I can view an event with black humour whilst seeing it as serious. It's how I'm dealing with Brexit.

snowgirl29 · 02/08/2016 06:48

no one would voluntarily use a bathroom after someone had had food poisoning in it.

I agree but moat people dont know beforehand do they, that's how things spread, OP knows and will avoid, and probably end up cleaning up after him because he'll be too poorly to do it himself.

Kids at Nursery, use the loo after a kid with the trots, come out and don't wash their hands properly, then go and have their milk and fruit and it spreads like wild fire. My DS once caught gastroenteritis from school and he quite literally, puked, peed and pooed (he was still in nappies at the time which made it slightly easier) where he lay for an entire week he was really poorly & nearly admitted.
Same with adults who go into work etc with a dodgy tummy, next thing half the office has come down with it, because neither group has said anything.

OP, I agree with PPs too, if he does get poorlier, I hope not because it will be you nursing him over the toilet bowl whilst still looking after the lo!, it would be a shitty thing for him to blame the Thai place.

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Sleepybunny · 02/08/2016 06:50

Well another uneventful night I'm afraid. He went to bed feeling better and slept without incident.

He's now off to work. Unfortunately endangering children and bringing the Thai cuisine industry to its knees will have to wait until another day.

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snowgirl29 · 02/08/2016 06:52

Also, OP, I've got OCD, but my Ex, who is Nigerian, has always been very lax about all food things. "No such thing as sell by dates back home and I've not died yet" is his favourite line. He'd eat practically anything, things left out overnight etc, even he wouldn't have touched that chicken with a bargepole whilst wearing a hazmat suit.

Poptart27 · 02/08/2016 07:08

Don't be dramatic.

Four different types of food poisoning are contagious. NOT all types.

#emetophobic

Footle · 02/08/2016 07:43

Don't even think about letting him get away with complaining officially about the restaurant.

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Sleepybunny · 02/08/2016 08:17
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GirlWithTheLionHeart · 02/08/2016 08:26

He's now off to work. Unfortunately endangering children and bringing the Thai cuisine industry to its knees will have to wait until another day.

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