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Original poster

To have eaten the prawns?

141 replies

IamfromBarcelona · 11/01/2022 18:51

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 Smile

Do you think I need to be worried?

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

OP posts:
grey12 · 12/01/2022 10:12

@EarringsandLipstick

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.

You're forgetting the horrible poisons they used to add to perishable foods in the victorian times ConfusedConfused
EerieSilence · 12/01/2022 10:23

@EarringsandLipstick - I know but I would risk it with cooked prawns if the kitchen was cold.
I'm certainly not one to advise to eat just about anything but the obsession with putting everything into the fridge is one I don't get. I've seen people putting tins into the fridge or immediately putting hot food into the fridge and that's just plain wrong. We've never had a case of food poisoning at home because we are using common sense.

TheVolturi · 12/01/2022 10:38

@Staryflight445

Same with rice isn’t it *@BitcherOfBlakivenr* the amount of people who leave it out and reheat so willy nilly really surprises me.
My mum regularly makes chicken fried rice, in a big wok, and she leaves it on the cooker top and reheats each time someone wants some, I'm surprised no ones died yet. I just politely decline unless she's actually just made it.
Staryflight445 · 12/01/2022 10:51

@TheVolturi it’s just a matter of time until that makes someone unwell 🙃

Original poster
IamfromBarcelona · 12/01/2022 10:51

Well- so far I’m okay!
Looks like I may have got away with it, but I won’t be doing it again! More to the point I will put my shopping away more promptly in future Smile.

Thanks everyone for rooting for me!

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Devonmaid7292 · 12/01/2022 10:59

@IamfromBarcelona

Well- so far I’m okay! Looks like I may have got away with it, but I won’t be doing it again! More to the point I will put my shopping away more promptly in future Smile.

Thanks everyone for rooting for me!

Phew!! That's great news 😀
KiloWhat · 12/01/2022 11:03

@IamfromBarcelona

Well- so far I’m okay! Looks like I may have got away with it, but I won’t be doing it again! More to the point I will put my shopping away more promptly in future Smile.

Thanks everyone for rooting for me!

Horrrray!
TheVolturi · 12/01/2022 11:24

Yay!!

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 12/01/2022 12:18

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"?

As pp have said, they managed in a variety of different ways and there's no great mystery involved. It's certainly not because we're all fragile snowflakes and they weren't - they frequently got sick. I thought all this was fairly common knowledge, even my 10yo could probably enlighten you Confused

spellingtest · 12/01/2022 12:23

@IamfromBarcelona

Well- so far I’m okay! Looks like I may have got away with it, but I won’t be doing it again! More to the point I will put my shopping away more promptly in future Smile.

Thanks everyone for rooting for me!

Phew!
Starlightstarbright1 · 12/01/2022 20:59

@IamfromBarcelona

Well- so far I’m okay! Looks like I may have got away with it, but I won’t be doing it again! More to the point I will put my shopping away more promptly in future Smile.

Thanks everyone for rooting for me!

Glad your ok..
JabNotInArm · 12/01/2022 22:52

Phew!

NYnewstart · 13/01/2022 00:55

Still ok?

NigellaLawdaughter · 13/01/2022 05:14

Thanks for the update, @OP!

I had a feeling you'd be OK. 👍😃

Flowersandhearts · 14/01/2022 17:26

Hi OP,

Are you still okay? (Although I don't think anyone should use this to justify eating food that's past its best, it might help people like me with OCD or anxiety to realise that things like this work out okay 80% of the time!)

Original poster
IamfromBarcelona · 14/01/2022 18:29

@Flowersandhearts

Hi OP,

Are you still okay? (Although I don't think anyone should use this to justify eating food that's past its best, it might help people like me with OCD or anxiety to realise that things like this work out okay 80% of the time!)

Hi @Flowersandhearts yes, I hope it helps you to know that I’m still absolutely fine Smile.

Also, although I said my kitchen was cool, it was nowhere near 8 degrees. Probably more like 15.

I won’t do it again! But just because the risk goes up doesn't mean guaranteed food poisoning. I was lucky this time Smile

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