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

[Whereisthechicken]

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)?

I really hope he's ok.

Is this Darwinism at work? Seriously, food poisoning is not just an upset stomach. It can be life-threatening.

Just posting to see what happens!

If it had been in my car boot for 2 days I would say it would be OK (not UK and temperature has not exceeded zero C) - but in the UK ..... errr no

I hope you will have a suitable lack of sympathy if he suffers the self-inflicted illness

Its not just the bacteria that are poisonous, its the toxins they excrete. Cooking kills bacteria but doesn't eliminate them.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_toxin

Yeah....extended time on the toilet awaits him I'm afraid. What a fool.

The real question is, if/when he's really ill, will he learn his lesson and stop this idiotic point scoring all the time?

There's a reason that women live longer than men

I've had campylobacter. I lost 11lbs in 5 days and my MIL had to come and take the children away as I basically lived in the bathroom. It was utterly foul and completely put me off children in general. I rarely eat it now.

I bet he will be fine also. I hope so, although he does deserve an exemplary case of the runs (hopefully nothing worse).

reminds me when we had a NYE party, and on Jan 3rd DH found an Iceland Prawn Ring in the microwave he had defrosted. We had a bang down fight about him eating it and in the end I screamed; 'GO ON... EAT IT THEN.... AND YOU'D BETTER DIE!!!!!!'

(He didn't).

[edited to add] if he eats it he is nuts. And dicing with death.

Glad you are not eating it.

What an idiot.

He can't back down because it was his fault the chicken was left in the car
I'd be more annoyed at the whole kitchen being contaminated

You have more than one bathroom I hope?

God he is a fool!!!

It's disturbing how interested I am in this thread

How insured is he? Can you take life insurance out over the internet?

@flouncyfanny CHICKEN. It put me off chicken.

The children are ok I suppose. I reckon they'd be stringy though 🤷‍♀️

One of my exes (who was a fucking pig, obsessed with free food - as everything was at mine, because I paid for it), insisted upon scarfing a tub of prawn cocktail, despite my saying it wasn't safe to eat because it had been left out overnight past the use by date. He laughed in my face that he had all the prawns and I was too daft to share them. Prick

We went shopping shortly after and, just as we were getting to the till, he started feeling unwell - his entire face bloated up, went bright red and his tongue was swelling up. By the time I'd trotted back to the till with a packet of antihistamines, he was wheezing and coughing, then went and threw up. Apparently, prawns and fish that go off cause scombroid poisoning, which can't be tasted.

Served the greedy, manky bastard right. He got precisely zero sympathy - my position was that he should be fucking grateful that I reacted appropriately to his symptoms and got a suitable treatment for him, not expecting me to be fussing over him like he'd accidentally caught something that wasn't entirely his own pigheaded, stupid, I'm-Cleverer-Than-A-Mere-Female, greedy fault.

He listened to me about food hygiene after that, though - right up to when I dumped him, anyway. He'd have been one like your DH had he left something he saw as being paid for by himself.

I suppose it saves you from having to murder him for being such an annoying twat.

Did no-one notice that Christmas dinner was missing?

Haven't you looked in your fridge over the last few days and wondered where your chicken was?

Sod him and the horse he rode in on. Just take it out of the oven and throw it into the bin. NOW!

Stupid man.

Reminds me of the Mumsnetter who started a thread to say that her husband drank a glass of manky dishwasher water to prove it wasn’t dirty (you know when a glass upends in the dishwasher and finishes the cycle full of water?). Guess what? He was sick!

i was gonna say did u think the chiceknw as already in the fr4eezer or something-been very mild here in the se-i woldnt have touched it

There's no way I would risk it but then I suppose I'm women enough to admit my mistakes. He obviously man enough to soldier through his. Let's hope the results are unpleasant but don't involve a trip to hospital.