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DH is making himself ill because he always has to be right

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Whereisthechicken · 25/12/2019 12:27

After a bit of a hunt this morning, I've just located a whole raw chicken in our car after DH obviously forgot to bring it in with the rest of the food shopping on the morning of the 23rd December (I had gone out to a different shop for a few more little bits in my car so he was left to do the unpacking from his car).

I am clearly annoyed and insisting the slightly green chicken is bad now but he is adamant it's fine as leaving the chicken in a cold car for two days is as good as leaving it in the fridge apparently. No idea on the temp here but it's been raining/a bit sunny here in Wiltshire during these last two days.

I'm certain he's just saying this because he's a stubborn person who, if I said the grass was green he'd argue that it was pink. Doesn't do it to anyone else, just me. He always has to be right. I've said the chicken is bad and so he's insisting it's perfectly fine to eat and is now cooking it. I'm pissed off knowing there's a strong possibility he's going to ruin boxing day being sat on the toilet the whole time which is just great when we have two young children. Is he bu for eating it or aibu (it is safe and I should leave him to it)?

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SittingAround1 · 25/12/2019 20:54

I once got food poisoning from chicken. It was bad.

Nanny0gg · 25/12/2019 21:00

You do realise that Murphy's Law will ensure he'll be fine, don't you?

MamaPeas · 25/12/2019 21:02

Nope Xmas Confused

newbingepisodes · 25/12/2019 21:03
Xmas Envy
PicsInRed · 25/12/2019 21:08

🤣 This thread's like the modern Colosseum.

Will he prevail?
Time will tell.

🚽💩🧻

Petrichor11 · 25/12/2019 21:22

Never have so many people waited for a man to shit with so much interest 😂

Fedupofitnow123 · 25/12/2019 21:32

I'm waiting!

Salene · 25/12/2019 21:37

Oooo I want to know what happens , so joining the thread

Minky35 · 25/12/2019 21:38

I bet the fecker has a cast iron stomach and is completely fine, whereas anyone else would be shitting through the eye of a needle by now 😂

Soen · 25/12/2019 22:05

Shamelessly on shitwatch

IvannaFuckalot · 25/12/2019 22:08

Also here for the shitwatch

Mynameisrow · 25/12/2019 22:11

I have a cast iron stomach and I didn’t escape campylobacter. Honestly, it was the absolute worst experience of my life. I know it sounds dramatic but I thought at one point I was going to die, I ended up hospitalised with it.

DukeChatsworth · 25/12/2019 22:17

This is the thing with chicken. It’s an unpredictable little bastard! One spin of the roulette wheel and he’ll get away with it. Another spin and it could be salmonella or campylobacter. Another spin and just the shits for a bit. Tricky little fucker is dodgy chicken.

RainbowAlicorn · 25/12/2019 22:20

Sorry shamlessley placemarking, for the update in the morning.

NotExactly9 · 25/12/2019 22:23

Placemarking.....!!!

Haggisfish · 25/12/2019 22:24

Code brown! Op is be lacing him with laxative.

Mumsnut · 25/12/2019 22:29

Shamelessly place marking.

ScouseQueen · 25/12/2019 22:30

Me too @Mynameisrow - also have a cast iron stomach, never sensitive to food, yet campylobacter made me seriously ill for weeks and got me taken to hospital in an ambulance. A nasty case is very, very nasty indeed.

Neverhavetoomuchglitter · 25/12/2019 22:30

What a knobhead. Feel evil for saying this but kinda hope he gets shits tonight. Wouldn't wish bad food poisoning on anyone even if it is by his own doing.

happycamper11 · 25/12/2019 22:32

I mean it will probably be ok if he cooked the life out of it but I'd not be taking the risk and I'd be bleaching the kitchen top to toe. I'd guess he'll be being smug and proving he's right though. If the first lot was fine then the sandwich meat won't be any more risk if stored correctly

Paddlinglikehell · 25/12/2019 22:36
Brew
longtimelurkerhelen · 25/12/2019 22:37

If it turns out that he is fine, your only option is to dose him with laxatives to avoid any more of his tomfoolery in the future. If you don't, you will never hear the end of it and worse, he will think he is right! Grin

TwiddleMuff · 25/12/2019 22:40

If it’s bad it probably would have smelled terrible when it was cooking (I know this from bitter experience).

But all the same, I wouldn’t have risked it. Good luck, OP’s DH...

MadeForThis · 25/12/2019 22:56

Bet he'll be lucky and be absolutely fine.

Whereisthechicken · 25/12/2019 22:59

Well, he's currently sat laughing along to The Grand Tour with still no sign of any illness! I don't think he had a lot to eat at dinner, however, he has just mentioned making a sandwich using the chicken and is obviously making sandwiches for lunch tomorrow too. In a way, it's bloody unfair, he deserves as least one bad trip to the toilet for being so silly and stubborn! I really don't want him to get ill but just one tiny symptom would suffice just so he can't say he's right about eating grey/green chicken that's been left in a car for two days. If he doesn't get food poisoning then, who knows, perhaps I should contact the WHO to give them a walking cure because eating that and not getting sick surely isn't normal. I'm convinced he'll get poorly at some point though so I'm considering making him or me a bin bag sleeping bag just in case the shit hits the fan during the night while I'm sleeping next to him.

I'm still laughing at the posters who said hide the toilet roll and to make a toilet roll banner saying 'I told you so'. 100% I will be doing that! I wonder how fast I can get a glitter bomb with 'I told you so' confetti delivered to go with the banners.

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