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To get irate at mil's bbq hygiene?

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FleurDelacoeur · 26/05/2018 13:50

BBQ planned for later today. Prawns and chicken sitting out on the worktop as there's no room for them in the fridge.

Fridge full of new potatoes and corn on the cob.

Chicken and prawns now in fridge and veg on worktop. MIL not impressed. It's going to be a king afternoon.

OP posts:
ScrubTheDecks · 27/05/2018 10:38

“Meat needs to be at room temperature before it is cooked. Your MIL is right.”

Not for prawns or small joints / fillets of chicken.

DameDoom · 27/05/2018 10:41

Do not eat any of that. Can you become an impromptu vegetarian for the afternoon? I have been hospitalised due to dodgy prawns and it was fuckin' awful.
Has she got any warm mayonnaise on the go?
Looks like you'll be stuck with refrigerated potatoes but as long as you have wine on tap you will get through this. Good luck OP.

user1487194234 · 27/05/2018 10:43

As pp said you were correct but it depends on how you handled it
As it was your MIL I am sure you were polite and tactful so all should be well
Personally I would have left it to my DH as I always leave anything even slightly tricky to him to sort with his parents which may be why I get on really well with themSmile

Juells · 27/05/2018 10:54

@ScrubTheDecks

A few hours in the warm can definitely affect prawns. My Mum’s friend poisoned practically every guest at her Dd’s Wedding by leaving the prawn vol au vents in the marquee: ‘they’re in the shade’

Am I a very bad person to have laughed aloud when I read that post? 😨

My exMiL used to drive me crazy, defrosting turkeys and chickens on the drainer, then slopping out cups and saucers and putting them on the same drainer as 'washed'. Things came to a head when she was staying with us when FiL was in nursing home after a stroke, she started bringing home his pyjamas and hand-washing them in the sink. When I asked her not to do either of those things (dishwasher and washing machine RIGHT THERE!) she said "You lecturing anyone about hygiene, that's rich!". I'm very untidy, and she could never see the difference between untidiness and not understanding hygiene :(

jetSTAR · 27/05/2018 10:58

Are you well today OP?

DameDoom · 27/05/2018 11:35

A few hours in the warm can definitely affect prawns. My Mum’s friend poisoned practically every guest at her Dd’s Wedding by leaving the prawn vol au vents in the marquee: ‘they’re in the shade’

Am I a very bad person to have laughed aloud when I read that post? 😨
We'll let you off Juells on account of it's so Mumsnet you couldn't make it up. This is why I love MN... most of the time

bluerunningshoes · 27/05/2018 11:44

eurgh.
I can't eat at bbq
the amount of blatant basic food hygiene violations turns my stomach
salads made with mayo left out for hours
tongs used for raw and cooked meat
plates used for raw and cooked meat
raw/undercooked meat served
...

DameDoom · 27/05/2018 11:58

Has FleurDelacoeur been back? Has MIL finished her off with mingy prawns and room-temp mayo?
Should we be worried?

Original poster
FleurDelacoeur · 27/05/2018 12:38

We're all fine :-)

Chicken was thoroughly cooked after being brought out of fridge. Didn't have prawns but dh did and is fine. Least said about the cheap and dreadful Richmond irish sausages the better.

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FowlisWester · 27/05/2018 12:46

Years ago I watched my fil slop a plate of uncooked chicken breasts and their juice into a bowl of salad accidentally. He picked the chicken out and him and mil took offense at me saying the salad needed binned. So I just warned dh and my sil and let them get on with it.
I have had food poisoning from my mil before. Awful.

pinkyredrose · 27/05/2018 12:51

whatwouldkeithRichardsdo2. He flung the pizza in a field? Say what? What was wrong with the bin?

DameDoom · 27/05/2018 12:51

Am all ears about the Richmond sausages OP. Did they tootle off and cook themselves?
Glad you are all alive, you had us worried. Laughing but worried.

Original poster
FleurDelacoeur · 27/05/2018 13:55

FIL thinks that bright pink Richmond sausages are the tastiest, highest quality bangers around. He's wrong.

OP posts:
ScrubTheDecks · 27/05/2018 13:59

All’s well that ends well, OPSmile

My other BBQ horror was watching a friend cut chicken into chunks for a kebab on a board, give Board and knife a quick wipe with a dishcloth, cut salad on board with knife, then wipe down the worktop with the dishcloth (without washing it out) and lay all the unwrapped bread out on the worktop.

BEWARE! The salad can be not as it seems.....

She used to be full of tales about this and that that upset her stomach as she was ‘sensitive ‘ and after that I just thought ‘not sensitive: mucky’.

DameDoom · 27/05/2018 13:59

He is a discerning gent. They must be pencil slim at the very least... what with all the salmonella.

Aeroflotgirl · 27/05/2018 14:03

Oh god Fowlis, were your inlaws ok? Were they ill, as they probably ate it. My mum would have eaten it too? My mum who is in her 80s, went to put something in the food waste bucket, she saw left over pizza there and decided to help herself, as it is a waste. I caught her in the act, and told her off. Is it that wartiem generation who were bought up on rationing, who don't like waste.

FowlisWester · 27/05/2018 19:22

They never get anything... hence the not bothering. I and dh on the other hand.... wiped out😁

Aeroflotgirl · 27/05/2018 19:32

They must have cast iron stomachs. My 83 year old mum lives on her own, I suspect her hygiene is very bad. Another gem, she once fished out 4 day old tuna mayo from my bin when staying over and ate it, as it is waste, I was Shock, but she was fine.

extinctspecies · 28/05/2018 08:52

Those Richmond sausages are rank. I remember when DS was at nursery the manager telling me they did not buy cheap sausages to feed the kids but the posh "Richmond" ones. Bleeergh.

KERALA1 · 28/05/2018 09:01

The blasé ones have never had food poisoning. I got my only food poisoning even having travelled round India at a bloody Jamie Oliver's restaurant! Mussels did tell the restaurant they didn't give a shit. Friend of a friend in another city also got it from mussels at Jamie Oliver's at the same time. Not sad loads shutting tbh.

reddington · 28/05/2018 09:03

Richmond have such little meat they’re not allowed to call them pork sausages. Says it all really, cheap horrible muck.

Sprinklesinmyelbow · 28/05/2018 10:53

Eh?

To get irate at mil's bbq hygiene?
To get irate at mil's bbq hygiene?
ladymabel · 28/05/2018 11:15

Emetophobe here. I only eat veggie stuff if I go to a bbq - I’ll take my own quorn burgers and try and keep an eye on how they’re cooked (or offer to cook those and other things myself) I won’t touch mayo but I do sometimes take little sachets of mayo to use. In fact , they make me feel too anxious to enjoy them properly food wise unless I’m the organiser (I did quite a lot of food hygiene courses on my twenties)

karyatide · 28/05/2018 11:46

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ALongHardWinter · 28/05/2018 16:51

Why have new potatoes and corn on the cob got priority over chicken and prawns for fridge space?!Confused Reminds me of the time my DMum took my chicken out of the fridge and left it sitting on the work top in a warm kitchen,so that she could fit a bloody loaf of bread in the fridge! I was not amused.

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