Will she get sick from eating this and AIBU for being a little pissed off?

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I had a hospital appointment yesterday and couldn’t take DD with me (she has autism and doesn’t cope in hospital environments).

I left her at home, with my grandparents (early 70’s, still fit and active, etc) and my sister (28 years old). She is quite easy to look after, as she just goes off and does her own thing and only really needs supervising.

I spoke to my grandparents today who said that she was complaining that the chicken in the fridge was spicy yesterday when she was eating it. I then realised that these (linked below) were what she was talking about and that all 3 of them have let DD eat it raw!

I did get a little bit pissed off because firstly, it’s obviously a packet of chicken that needs cooking and it says it right on the front. Secondly, DD kept telling them that it needed cooking and they just ignored her and thought they knew better.

Will this make her sick and unwell? She ate I would say maybe a small filet of it? And AIBU for being pissed off at all 3 of them for making such a stupid mistake and not checking properly?

https://www.aldi.co.uk/product/roosters-hot-spicy-chicken-tenders-000000000580751002

I would be surprised if it didn’t make her unwell to be honest, but it doesn’t sound like she ate that much. Annoyed on your behalf!

It's not ideal to put it mildly, but chicken tenders are not a major source of salmonella poisoning. This tends to lurk closer to the bone. With luck, your DD will be OK.

However, your family should have made sure she didn't eat it, and they should have checked the packet. They do look as though they are cooked, but it only takes a minute to check.

That’s not good and I would also of been annoyed. I think the effects of eating something like uncooked chicken would normally be pretty instantaneous and if she’s not had any food poisoning symptoms yet or general ill effects, she may have had a lucky / highly surprising escape? Might be worth a 111 call to double check. How old is your DD?

Bloody idiots. I hope they at least ruddy learn from this. Are they apologetic?

If she ate it yesterday she would probably be sick by now if she was going to be sick, food poisoning happens quickly usually.
I would be annoyed though yes but I guess it was a genuine mistake, hopefully they have apologised to you and your DD.
If they ever look after her again make sure there is a lunchbox ready prepared

i would have expected her to have had diarrhea last night soon after eating it, has she been fine?

You may find that the spice upsets her stomach if she's not used to it anyway. It's quite sad that they ignored the fact she told them it needed to be cooked as well as that she was finding the food too spicy. Surely they could have got her something else?

I'd say it's probably a cooked product that you put in the oven just to crisp up. I doubt very much it's actually raw chicken beneath the coating. I can't imagine she'd get ill and I think she would've been by now. These sorts of battered or breadcrumbed chicken type things are rarely (if ever) raw.

The chicken itself is cooked. You really only put it in the oven to warm and crisp it. It won't poison her.

Salmonella symptoms usually start at about 6 hours but campylobacter can take 1-2 days to show up - hopefully your daughter will be fine but stay alert . Your relatives are idiots , it’s obvious that needed cooking , even if you can’t see/ read it’s like a chicken goujon although I would expect it to be spicy as it says it’s hot on the pack .

I dont think the chicken is cooked. Aldi sells raw hot and spicy chicken too. It would say 'ready to eat' if it was cooked already.

Likelihood is she'll be fine.
Firstly, I'd be amazed if they are raw chicken, they look like a standard reheat product.

Second, they are from a reputable supplier.
The meat will have stayed in the chill chain from killing through processing, transport, to display, limiting the chances for bacterial growth (plus other factors - it's called the hurdle effect if anyone's interested!).

If anything makes her ill it may well be the spicy coating upsetting her stomach if she's not used to it.

But yeah, I'd be raising my eyebrows if my kids grandparents were letting my kid help themselves to meat products out the fridge & telling her it was fine to do so.

They chickens already cooked isn’t it? They shouldn’t have let her eat it but I think she will be fine, she would probably be ill by now if she had food poisoning.

I think it won't have been totally raw but yes it's not great to eat things like that without the reheating because of the risk of bacteria of any sort. I would agree with others that if she hasn't begun to feel ill now them hopefully she has got away with it and been lucky. Even if you eat raw or undercooked meat it wouldn't always result in food poisoning.

It looks like the kind of product that would have lots of preservatives in it (I can't find an ingredients list though) so she will probably be OK.

To get ill from eating raw meat, the meat has to be contaminated in the first place. It's not raw chicken that makes you ill, it's bacteria in it that have multiplied while it's been stored and have not been killed by cooking at high temperature.

The chances are she will be OK but I would suggest drinking plenty of water so as to be well hydrated in case she does get an attack of D&V.

Is it actually raw? Or is heating it just a serving suggestion?

God knows where people make these assumptions from. All posters saying the meat is precooked are wrong. These are raw, albeit very processed and require cooking. It doesn’t mean it will definitely be carrying salmonella so hopefully your daughter will be fine.

I'm sure it's a raw product. I have seen them instore with the other raw chicken

DM fed my children barely cooked big fat chicken drumsticks. They had 2 each. It was slighy cooked on the outside, but raw inside. Awful. They were fine. Fingers crossed for your daughter!

Did none of the adults eat any themselves and realise it was raw?

The label clearly says 'cooks in 18 minutes' in big letters on the front, you don't even have to read the small print. It's obviously raw.

If she ate it yesterday and it was going to make her ill she would be displaying symptoms by now. She will probably be ok but just keep an eye on her.

Well, they were doing you a favour looking after her. Find another baby sitter if you’re not happy.

This particular product IS raw, it isn't the type you just heat up.

But even if it was, it is disgustingly lazy that 3 adults couldn't get your daughter food she would enjoy (or heat/cook this chicken). It doesn't matter that they thought it was precooked.

She was clearly hungry, poor thing. Also being ignored when she TOLD them it was raw? Do they think autistic children are stupid and shouldn't be listened to??? (sorry this is a sore topic for me).

Even if she doesn't get sick I would be really angry and not think them fit to care for her.

Can take up to 24-48 hours for food poisoning to show. I’d be furious, it doesn’t take 5 seconds to read a packet.