To have eaten the prawns?

[IamfromBarcelona]

Purchased said prawns from Tesco on Saturday evening at around 7pm. The sealed packet was left in the bottom of the shopping bag in a cool kitchen until around 7am Sunday morning, when they went into the fridge.

Today I ate them all (cold) in a salad for dinner.
Tasted fine

Do you think I need to be worried?

YABU- I’ll probably be fine.
YANBU- Prepare to be ill.

Dr Google says 4 -48 hours!

Good luck op 🍀

I don’t have anxiety.

I’m a Microbiology student, who’s midway through a year long module on Public Health, food poisoning is 50% of the module.

Heating them to piping doesn’t help because the toxins that are released by some bacteria aren’t killed by heat.

As I said, if you get to to 48 hours without being violently ill, I will be surprised.

I am pretty lax when it comes to eating "out of date" food but there's no way I'd have chanced prawns set at room temp for 12 hours!

Best of luck.

Good luck rooting for you!!

I do this all the time with mest/ fish and as long as it smells OK you'll be fine
Think you'd notice taste wise in any case. Yanbu.

@RedHelenB

I do this all the time with mest/ fish and as long as it smells OK you'll be fine Think you'd notice taste wise in any case. Yanbu.

You’re wrong.

Food doesn’t smell or taste bad as soon as there’s enough bacteria to harm you, if it did then things would be far simpler.

No one ever gets food poisoning on these threads! Everyone hovers excitedly waiting for the explosions to begin and then the person returns three days later to say they're fine and everyone slopes off until the next one.

@Maskless

Can someone, ANYONE, please tell me what human did for the millions of years up to very recently when we started having refridgerators and "use by dates"?

Even our grandparents, great-grandparents lived their whole lives without these things!

I'm in my 60s and when I was growing up there were no sell by dates on meat, cheese, eggs, milk, shellfish, and yet we all managed!

Shellfish (and pork) are banned in the Old Testament for precisely this reason. It's dangerous to eat when you can't store it properly.

@Maskless

Can someone, ANYONE, please tell me what human did for the millions of years up to very recently when we started having refridgerators and "use by dates"?

Even our grandparents, great-grandparents lived their whole lives without these things!

I'm in my 60s and when I was growing up there were no sell by dates on meat, cheese, eggs, milk, shellfish, and yet we all managed!

They had less variety of ingredients for one, and they generally ate the food quicker rather than doing a weekly shop of fresh stuff as it wouldn’t have lasted as long, so daily markets were more popular. Also people’s guts were different!

So are you ok, OP? Or too incapacitated to update? I hope you're fine and have just forgotten the thread now X

(Don't do it again, though ...)

Fingers crossed that you'll be fine OP.

It's definitely not advisable and I wouldn't do it again but you might get away with it.

I have OCD and wouldn't dream about doing this but over Christmas we discovered our (holiday rental) fridge was operating well above 8 degrees. I chucked some stuff but had to keep the turkey and sausages- luckily no-one got ill.

I'd have eaten them, and would be just fine.
But, I wouldn't allow my DH to eat them.

It just depends on the indivudual tolerance.

Let us know the result, @OP!

I am clearly very invested in this thread as I woke up thinking about it and came to see if there was an update. I am now questioning my whole life.

But please update us, OP

@Flowersandhearts

Fingers crossed that you'll be fine OP.

It's definitely not advisable and I wouldn't do it again but you might get away with it.

I have OCD and wouldn't dream about doing this but over Christmas we discovered our (holiday rental) fridge was operating well above 8 degrees. I chucked some stuff but had to keep the turkey and sausages- luckily no-one got ill.

I've got ocd too and one of my themes is somehow cooking something that could make someone poorly.

@Aphrodite31

So are you ok, OP? Or too incapacitated to update? I hope you're fine and have just forgotten the thread now X

(Don't do it again, though ...)

She posted at 10pm saying she was going to bed, I think expecting an update at 1am is a bit much!

@Maskless

Can someone, ANYONE, please tell me what human did for the millions of years up to very recently when we started having refridgerators and "use by dates"?

Even our grandparents, great-grandparents lived their whole lives without these things!

I'm in my 60s and when I was growing up there were no sell by dates on meat, cheese, eggs, milk, shellfish, and yet we all managed!

Many people died or became very I'll with food poisoning. There's a reason why our life expectancy has increased so much in recent years!

@IamfromBarcelona
Any updates hahaha

OP is currently nursing a stinging arsehole I bet

OP. Please tell us you are ok!

Where art thou OP?

Same with rice isn’t it @BitcherOfBlakivenr the amount of people who leave it out and reheat so willy nilly really surprises me.

@Magnited

No, you are going to die. Eventually.

😂

Can someone, ANYONE, please tell me what human did for the millions of years up to very recently when we started having refridgerators and "use by dates"?

Do you really need an answer to this?

They ate a much narrower range of food. Depending on where they lived, they either shopped mostly daily or close to that for fresh produce, or used their own. My dad grew up on a farm, they ate bacon & cabbage every day, bar Friday when they had fish (Catholic Ireland!). Occasionally, they had a roast dinner on Sunday - eg lamb in spring when available, but not in October for example. Fresh meat was essentially unknown for them, in rural Ireland, beyond what they had immediately available via their farm. The fish on Fridays was pretty horrible stuff, dried / cured something or other usually. Sometimes freshly caught by themselves but not often.

People living in less rural areas shopped nearby every day for fresh produce, which was sourced locally. There was no sense of transporting produce over great distances like today.

I'm pretty sure you will be OK. My kitchen is very cold (very big and North facing) and when I cook food, I would leave it overnight or out for one day and we have never had any issues.
I'm pretty sure some doomsayers here would be horrified at the idea of how people stored their food before the fridges and freezers came to existence but unless those prawns were in a warm kitchen, you will be OK, especially if they smelled and tasted fine.
We are cheerfully eating salami and sausage my DM sent over and the parcel travelled for about two weeks in circumstances unknown to us. Tastes fine, smells fine, I'm in.

@EerieSilence
I agree with you but just to say salami and sausage are very different as they are cured meats so not comparable to eg prawns.