To be really worried (and absolutely livid!!!)

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SIL let DS lick raw cake mixture from a bowl today - turns out the eggs used were 6 WEEKS out of date and stunk to high heaven!!!

Apart from being furious at her fucking stupidity, how long will it be before I can feel safe that DS has avoided what would likely be a pretty violent case of food poisoning??

I am what MN would describe as old, so licking the raw cake mixture in the bowl was one of the fondest memories of my childhood. And in the same prehistoric era, we did not even have sell by dates. Somehow we survived, by using our own judgement.

I think it's a bit rich of the OP to call her SIL 'stupid' when the OP herself doesn't know what a rotten egg looks like or is able to phone 111 for advices on ingestion of non rotten eggs.

Borderline hysteria.

I think you just don't like her very much and are looking for reasons to. I never bother with the best before dates on eggs and they're always fine, the smell of rotten eggs would make you throw up or gag and no child would want to lick it

This^

This is nonsense. If they had "smelt to high heaven" and you had been in the room then I don't understand why you let you DC lick the bowl. You, DS and SIL would have all been too busy gagging to lick any bowls.

Don't talk bollocks.

If your DS licked the bowl and the eggs were out of date (but clearly not rotten) then chances are he will be fine unless he has an illness that makes him vulnerable to infection.

Maybe have a think about the shitty attitude you have towards your SIL though. And start taking responsibility for you DS when you are present.

I’m sure he’ll be fine op. I’ve no idea why you’re getting so much flak. Ignore.

We have chickens, and a few years ago, husband took some eggs into work to sell. He had one box left, so popped it in his desk drawer, and at the end of the day, locked the drawer, forgetting the eggs were in there.
He was then off sick for 6 months, and got a text from one of his team. They'd noticed a bad smell in the office, but it took them a while to locate it, and found it was coming from DH's desk drawer. They had to break into it, and then found the box of very stinky eggs.

Took him a while to live that down!

OP, I'm sure your son will be fine.

They last far longer not in the fridge, and they shouldn't be kept there.

This is not true.

They last longest if stored at a constant temperature below 15 degrees Celsius. It’s recommended that they’re kept at the back of a fridge shelf (not in the fridge door, where there’s more temp fluctuation).

I never look at use by date for eggs, they last ages. You'd have smelled a bad egg from the other side of the road, it's so rank. And no child would eat anything made with bad eggs. I regularly let my DD lick a raw cake mixture. Raw egg yolks with sugar used to be my treat when I was a child and we weren't looking at use by dates either. Not sure where you live, heard it's different in the US but in Europe we don't wash the eggs before they're sold so they still keep the protective coating that prevents bacteria from going through the shell.
You come across as slightly hysterical and OTT. TBH if I were your child I would probably have a stomach ache from it more than from eating a raw egg containing cake mixture.

GayAllen and everyone else who has simply answered my question - thank you. DS is fine so far and hopefully that’ll be the end of it.

Others who have dissected my OP and concluded I’m hysterical/a liar/a neglectful parent/lazy/stupid - I have no words really and think I’ll just leave it there.

Maybe the milk in the mix was off and that's what caused the funny smell?

I love the way people try to out-nasty each other as the thread moves on 😁