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'd have eaten it for the date, but if people start touching food, I can't eat it.

I haven't read the full thread cos I'm still too busy sniggering at everyone fingering the meat 🤭

Sorry, I'll close the door on my way out...

Greatly intrigued by the mention of a FIL with a 'piddly penis hand' - surely this must be a Classics dweller, but what is the title of the thread? Pretty please.

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

I like meat, but the thought of all that meat at every meal, and particularly Turkey for breakfast 🤢. I would not have wanted to eat the ham and turkey pie.

yes, it has been frozen,
and reheated in a pie.

Cooked meat should be good for 4-5 days in the fridge, and it can be frozen after that assuming you're going to cook it again after thawing. I'd have been happier if it'd spent more time in the fridge and less on the table - but you'd have noticed by the 29th if it was getting dodgy.

All the fingering's a bit off-putting! Again, though, cooking would've blasted the finger-germs. I'd eat the pie. Must be pretty boring over Christmas, though, having the same bloody food every day.

I would have eaten it. I have a cast iron stomach though.

I'm funny about Xmas meat. My other half leaves it for days then claims Branston pickle kills all germs😖

I would have picked at the pastry and hidden the meat under a bit of veg, I think.

Branston pickle kills all germs 😂

In my house ten adults and children would’ve finished all the meat on the day it was cooked! Sometimes there is a teeny bit left over but that would last until the next day at the very most!

I'd eat it. If it's been frozen then baked in a pie, realistically no bugs are going to survive.

@Fannyfiggs Me too!!! And the piddly penis. 😄

must have been really small portions of meat. I had a 30lb turkey that fed 8 on the day and then 3 of us for two days after. And we had a ham that didn’t see the end of Boxing Day.

I wouldn't have eaten it. It was cooked on the 25th and frozen on the 29th after being presumably left on the table unrefrigerated for prolonged periods of time with it being served up for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Why on earth did they buy a bird that size? Who wants to eat endless leftovers?

I shouldn’t have chuckled so loudly at your last line.

Your welcome

I’ve always done much the same with leftover turkey- frozen what’s left on around 28th/29th to use later - and in decades nobody’s ever been ill.

I agree with your dh - assuming that the turkey was properly cooked in the first place, a case of over-fussiness - sadly not uncommon on MN.

Would you have preferred your FiL to bin what was left?

I think mil said the turkey was 20lb. It fed 6 Xmas day and10 Boxing Day (along side the ham) the breakfasts and lunch and carbonara there was 10 one day and 6 the next. There were 4 of us for pie. I don't think many touched it at breakfast and lunch as it never seemed to go down.

But also who invites people for dinner and offers old frozen meat up?

Absolutely not and I would have serious issues about eating anything in their house ever again. Food poisoning is no joke and can be fatal or at least mess up your system for a very long time.

There are certain foods that I would avoid if it had been treated in this way - the obvious one being rice, bacillus cereus is a real bastard to kill.

Ugh! No chance! I couldn’t eat that and honestly I Would have no qualms at all about saying so. In fact I would have said Boxing Day is the last day for that meat to be edible by me. I would be sneezing and Ill from the amount of histamine triggered by old meat.

That is the one.

Sorry, I am with you OP, I wouldn't really want to have eaten it. I think the leftovers were sadly better off going out for the local cats or the bin.

I am gobsmacked at how many people would be happy to eat this! And I consider myself to have standards in the gutter when it comes to food safety 😂 but I wouldn’t touch this with a barge pole honestly.

I can't honestly remember the title, but it was something to do with non hand washing after peeing and a downstairs loo with a glass door!

and a FIL obvs