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

My MIL ate something similar once and was sick, however she realised afterwards she had eaten raw chicken so probably panicked which made it worse. She was OK after vomiting of course

They've been sold like this in vast quantities in every supermarket for 50 years at a minimum, honestly, have you really never noticed?

Absolutely no idea
i ate a meal on a Wednesday, and was unwell by the Saturday. Campylobacter and the hospital said it was perfect timing as it can take longer
it started with a very high temp too, I thought it was covid TBH, and then the diarrhoea every 30 mins started. It’s not 24hrs either, I was unwell for nearly 2 weeks

Of course they haven’t been sold for 50 years. Why do you keep saying such weird things?

People also seem to think that a risk of food poisoning means like a 90% chance rather than the reality which is more like 2-3%. It's just that if it was a 2-3% chance every time you ate that would be awful with people being ill about once every couple of weeks!

So yes, a raised ~2% chance isn't good but it doesn't mean you'll definitely get ill from a one off mistake.

Because they have. Do you think this is something new? Chilled or frozen coated uncooked chicken or fish?
They've been sold as long as I can remember.

It's not raw chicken. You're just hearing it up. I think she is unlikely to be sick but they couldn't have tasted very nice. They clearly are the type that aren't ready to eat. Your grandparents are stupid.

They have been selling flash fried raw chicken tenders with flavoured breadcrumbed coatings in supermarkets since 1975?!

really? Just think about that for a second. It’s clearly not true.

They didn't call them "chicken tenders" but yes. And probably not "flavoured" breadcrumb coatings. But uncooked chicken with breadcrumb coatings that "looked cooked" since 1975, yes, I would think so. Certainly since the 1980s when I would have started shopping for myself.

According to Google, the packaging states do not eat raw.

however I’m quite invested in this debate and going to pick up a packed when in Aldi later and look!

Please read more of the thread before posting.

I think they do make precooked versions too, @AquaPeer, but I assume the main reason for only flash frying is quality (and cost). They would dry out during reheating if they were fully so you would probably have to add something to stop that.

Well I worked in a Tesco’s from 15 whilst at school and they didn’t sell them. that was in 1996.

Yes that a good point they would dry out more i guess

If your daughter told them they needed cooking and they didn’t listen to her why did she go ahead and eat them when she knew they hadn’t been cooked?

Frozen Breaded chicken products have been available to buy in supermarkets since the 1970s so yes 50 years.

Well I’ve learned something new today! I’ve never seen partially cooked chicken tenders for sale before, but the photo a PP kindly posted upthread shows the batter was probably cream coloured, the chicken cooked a quarter of the way through, and he’s probably with 15mins or so more baking they’d look like the picture. I couldn’t understand how a thick batter wouldn’t just slide off floppy raw chicken. What’s odd is that the Aldi link shows the item inside the packaging fully cooked, not partially cooked per the pp’s photo…

Because I’m guessing she was hungry and trusting what the adults were saying? Don’t try and blame a child for an adult making stupid mistakes and being too lazy to check the packaging.

I honestly despair at some people's stupidity...I just don't know how they manage to keep themselves alive. I'd be very pissed off.

this isn’t a frozen product. That’s the whole point, and why it’s caused confusion on this thread.

Products have not been available like this- cooked on the outside and raw inside. Cooked breaded frozen chicken products you reheat have been available for a long time, yes.

I am very pissed off - more pissed off by the minute if I’m being completely honest! Especially seeing as when I told them about it being raw - they laughed it off as “oh, silly old me, making silly mistakes” - if DD does come down unwell because of it, they really will feel my wrath!

They probably did but you thought they were cooked.

Yes, yes they have. Stop with the "cooked on the outside". That's cosmetic.

Of course they have, however considering you are the same poster who insisted that birds don't nest in hedges I reckon you live in some kind of parallel universe.

The poster who explained how they are made has stated they are flash fried.

are you saying they’re wrong?