Could you have eaten this?

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So ils did a massive turkey Xmas day and a ham joint Boxing Day. We visited for a few days from Boxing Day onwards, on Boxing Day we had the turkey reheated along with the ham. For the remainder of our visit the turkey and the ham came out at every breakfast and lunch and sat on the table for an hour or so with everyone (approx 10 adults and children) touching it. We also had a turkey and ham carbonara one evening.
On the 29th of December fil bagged the remaining meat up and froze it.
We got invited to Sunday dinner yesterday and guess what we had? Turkey and ham pie!

I really didn't want to eat the pie as imo they had waited too long to freeze the meat, it had spent too much time sat at room temperature, everyone had fingered it and it had been reheated at least once possibly twice already.

Dh said I am being ridiculous what do you think?

I would eat it.

I'd say freezing the end bits of 2 large meat joints 3-4 days later isn't that bad, is it? The meat he froze was at the bottom so it would not have been fingered or touched by anyone as those bits would have already been eaten.
As long as the meat smelled fine when it was defrosted (not in a microwave), and then fully heated in the pie (probably takes about an hour doesn't it?)- then I would be fine with eating it tbh. I would be bored silly with turkey and ham anything though, and would probably rather they cooked something totally different!

How big was this turkey that it fed several people for several days? Was it emu sized?

Veganuary is your perfect excuse! Take along your own nutroast. You have to be careful about meat, and as a fit healthy adult its probably fine, but i wouldn't risk it for children. This is useful https://www.foodstandards.gov.scot/consumers/food-safety/at-home/turkey-cooking-guide#6

I wouldn't have eaten it.

Don't get me started

I'm not eating any turkey that has been mass fingered.

Please do get started! 😁

I'm with you though, wouldn't have wanted to eat it!

If they have a colder kitchen I'd probably have eaten it.. but I do have a sturdy stomach..

Mind you, that's assuming the once or twice re-heated (ie. it was put on the table cold each time)

The ham I wouldn't worry about at all - that's part of the point of salting it after all, the turkey, as long as it was well cooked the first time, and it stayed fairly cool, I wouldn't be too concerned.

Much more confused about why your family is touching meat they're not going to eat TBH

It was huge ! Breakfast was ham, turkey, hard boiled eggs and toast lunch was meats, cheeses, sandwiches

Yuck!!! Giving me a stomach ache just thinking about it.
Also Turkey & ham carbonara sounds rough 😂

Remember everyone, it was mumnet Turkey. It would have fed the village twice over.

I would have eaten it.

Get started… 👹

This reminds me of a friend who used to dread visiting her PILs, who used to cook joints every day or two on their ancient Aga in a giant kitchen (minor stately home), and then leave the joints around unrefrigerated on plates on tables and counters, occasionally snaffled by passing dogs, and serve them up apparently randomly for meals. She would try to remember which joints were closest to the Aga, as they were 'freshest'. Her DH was used to it, but she used to bring a bag of snacks and eat them in her bedroom...

Yes I would have eaten it

Not a chance I'd have eaten that. To be honest I wouldn't have continued eating it for the several days after when they kept bringing it back out.

If they wanted to freeze some then they should have done that straight away.

Bit weird bringing it all out each time. Surely you just bring portions out each time. And 4 days is my max before freezing

But that is even more meals! I was working on the assumption that the turkey fed ten people for five days, which would make 50 portions, but if you're saying it was eaten at breakfast and lunch as well, and enough to freeze for a pie, just how big was the turkey? Even by Mumsnet portion sizes, it must have been a truly gargantuan monster! It must surely be worthy of an entry in the Guinness Book of Records.

And yes, I would have eaten the pie.

eugh no way! One reheat, no more and coming in and out the fridge for 3 days before freezing- no flipping way!

I'd be pretty sick of turkey and ham combinations by now anyway if I was you!

I think I'd have avoided that. It would probably be OK but the repeated reheating then sitting at room temperature sounds a bit minging.

We use plastic gloves, I buy them by the box.

Also the standard approach to Christmas in this house ...

(Remembers the tin foil package of turkey she has in the freezer!)

It's not the piddly penis hand FIL is it? 😳

I wouldn’t want it either. I can’t stomach having meat at every meal and definitely wouldn’t if it’s been frozen and unfrozen, left out, then frozen again. I would think that would change the texture. No amount of sauce can disguise a texture change for me.

phoenixrosehere 100% agree