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

there are 2 separate issues here:

• if you are worried about your daughter then seek medical help. If you can’t wait until your GP opens tomorrow, call 111 today. If anything, it may provide some reassurance.

• review whether you trust them to look after her unattended in future. If not, make alternative childcare arrangements. I appreciate this may be a significant change but ultimately from what you have said they haven’t been particularly apologetic or concerned so it’s unlikely they would change their approach.

Yes it's definitely not her fault - she tried to say and nobody would listen; she simply trusted that the adults knew best.

It's still very likely that she will be fine (fingers crossed!) but I totally understand why you're angry and their reactions would have made me livid too.

ah so you’re just making things up in the persuit of some kind of call out?

it’s not the flex you think it is, in your rush to join in you thought we were talking about frozen products. Take the time to rearm next time

No, but they are not "part cooked", they are a raw product, and always have been a raw product, despite the coating appearing cooked. They have existed for many years and I never realised anyone ever looked at them and thought they were anythnig other than raw product that needed cooking. Raw chicken products with cooked-looking coating are not some special recent innovation of "part-cooked chicken" sitting in between raw chicken and cooked chicken.

Seriously? So you think anyone who looks after your children is enttiled to ignore them and feed them raw chicken cos they're doing you a favour! Absolutely ridiculous statement.

Seriously, you've managed to miss for many, many years the existence of these kinds of chilled chicken products that need cooking, that have been sitting there on the supermarket shelves staring at you every time you go in. Perhaps it's not the people who find it surprising you've done this that need to think about themselves.

Flash frying is cooking.

the coating doesn’t appear cooked, it is cooked. It is flash fried

are we really debating what flash frying is?

No, I am saying its irrelevant, and you are stuck to that one point as it's the only thing that you think saves you from looking completely ignorant. Happy to help.

You are bizarrely hysterical about this product, whilst everyone else is just discussing what may or may not have been the confusion.

Why are you being such a drama llama? There is no need to make things up, tell people what they should to shouldn’t have seen and try to connect a random product with sensibility or intelligence. You’re being weird, not others.

I think an NT child would have done what they were told in that circumstance!

I wouldn’t call any form of medical care and talk to them. it would be wasting everyone’s time.

i can imagine my gran being the same OP, and it was part laziness part thinking childcare doesn’t involve that much and just getting on with her own stuff

I wonder if your 28 years old sister and grandparents need supervision of their own... shocking...

No, a few of you who asserted that it was obviously cooked are trying now to suggest reasons that you are not staggeringly ignorant not to have known all along that things like this are very often, if not normally, uncooked and have been for many many years. You're trying to create a scenario where this is some kind of new, confusing product. Carry on though. I'm sure it's working.

Bollocks to that. If you've agreed to look after somebody then you look after them. You don't fail to look after them. You say I'm not going to look after them what I'm going to feed them something they could potentially give them food poisoning and then you decide.

you are not there in real life though, you don’t know if her child is showing signs of being unwell. Ultimately it’s OP’s call, having observed her child in person.

Well it wasn’t me who said it “was obviously cooked”, go back and check.

so basically what’s happened is you’ve been wound up by a number of earlier posters, decided I was all of them and you’ve come after me all guns blazing?

what a bully. And still bizarre thing to get worked up about to this extent.

i mean, it’s fairly obvious you get medical help if your child is showing signs of needing it, I didn’t think that was what you were suggesting….

Frozen chicken nuggets and fishfingers that are flash fried and raw inside have been around since the 1960s.

M&S introduced its first chilled ready meal in the 1970s - Chicken Kievs. Uncooked chilled breaded chicken and fish has definitely been around since the late 70s, @AquaPeer. I suspect they may have used coloured “golden orange breadcrumbs” rather than flash frying though.

I think if she was gunna be ill she would be within 24 hours of eating raw chicken tbh !
And the grandparents need a telling off !

Unfortunately it's often not that quickly

Tenders - ooo I'd quite forgotten that name used in the US for them

A friend of mine got campylobacter food poisoning from a similar product. It took 48 hours for the symptoms to appear. I hope your daughter is ok, op.

Well perhaps just don’t comment if your post is not helpful or if you have made incorrect assumptions then?

As you admit, it is fairly obvious to get medical help if your child needs it. I merely posted generic advice to that effect based on OP being worried about her child. You’re the one pushing back on that.

She isn’t taking about the picture on the pack. She is talking about the picture on the website which is of the chicken in the packet. It is 💯 cooked chicken. You can eat it cold or you can eat it reheated.

she would not have been able to eat it if it were raw chicken

It's not cooked, it's raw. It's in the chill with other uncooked chicken products