AIBU for wanting compensation from Morissons after getting ill from BBQ?

[TammiesBackHurts]

Had a BBQ at ours last evening. It was me, DH, our two DC, my MIL and FIL, my sister and her partner. DH popped into Morrisons at about 2:30 to get the food, including a packet of their own-brand burgers.

We started the BBQ at 6:15 and ate at about 7ish. DH was cooking while I was getting everything else ready, so I wasn’t really watching the BBQ. Luckily… it was sweltering next to it. Got my burger straight off the thing, nothing wrong with it, just that normal brown edges and that bright pink in the middle just like you get from a BBQ burger. At about 10 I started feeling really unwell and was vomiting during the night. It’s now 7pm the day after and I still feel awful. This morning I looked at the burger packet and noticed the eat by date was 14/08/26, which is the exact day we ate them.

What is making me suspicious is that it was Morrisons own-brand food, so presumably Morrisons are responsible for making sure the date printed on their packaging is correct. If the date is wrong, how are customers supposed to know whether the food is actually safe? I relied on the date when I ate it. Nobody else who ate the burgers seems to have become ill, but I don’t think that necessarily rules them out because people react differently and I may have eaten more than everyone else. I still have the packaging and the receipt from Morrisons, so I have proof of exactly what I bought and when.

I’m considering contacting Morrisons and asking them to investigate the batch and explain why I’ve become ill after eating something on the actual use-by date. I’m also wondering whether I should be asking for compensation, because if their date was incorrect then surely that’s quite a serious food safety issue? AIBU?

Ok, thank you, I never knew that was a sign of being undercooked. I mean I did, but not with BBQ’d burgers. Will check on DH’s cooking next time

Wow, I knew compensation culture was a thing but this is 🤯

You want compensation because you MAYBE got sick from eating an in date burger because your assumption is that your husband cooked it right to be BRIGHT PINK in the middle 🤢 and Morrisons must have mislabelled it.

Surely this is a reverse and it’s Morrisons legal department having a laugh!

Did you have salad with your barbecue? At least as likely to be that as the burger.

But I agree with everyone else, no burger off a barbecue should be pink in the middle.

Why do you think the cooking method makes any difference?

Like under the grill has to be thoroughly cooked but somehow on a BBQ bacteria don’t exist?

Never eat pink meat from a bbq burger. I thought everyone knew this? Clearly not!!

For reference for other people, just in case: you can safely eat steak that's pink in the middle, because the bacteria have had no way to get in there and you've cooked them all off of the outside. You can't eat burgers that are pink in the middle because the bacteria that was on the outside of the meat after it's was butchered gets mixed right through the burger when it's minced, so cooking the outside isn't enough.

Thank you so much. I regret making this post, first I’m ill, now I’m being attacked and called a fool and fake.

1.) Did you not get the loud memo about BBQs
2.) Just out of curiosity, please humour me how much compensation where you looking for?

Hope you feeling better, but if anything your hubby should be compensating you

Burgers categorically shouldn’t be pink in the middle. Steaks - fine - because that inner bit hasn’t been exposed to the air. But mince has; it needs to be cooked through. This is a you error.

You can't have pink in the middle burgers from a supermarket that is asking for trouble! Of course you can't blame the shop for undercooked food. I live in a country where you can't buy pink burgers from reasturants so the thought of pink burgers makes me queasy,

The middle was raw. If a burger needs to fully cooked in the oven it also needs to be fully cooked on the BBQ, that's just basic knowledge

BBQ, and ill afterwards, and you’re suspecting the food was out of date and the packaging was wrong? Oh come on. BBQ’s notorious for making people sick.

This was such absolute rage bait but it made me laugh

Never eat a burger, that's pink in the middle

The alerts didn't arrive until 7pm, they didn't here anyway.

Hamburgers should not be bright pink in the middle. Never heard of that before. Did your dh use a food probe to test them?

If I had meat with the 14th on it I’d still eat it on the 16th if it looked and smelled ok. It wasnt the meat itself but how it was cooked or something else you ate.

Exactly. Which is not Morrison's fault.

I know.

The OP had me in stitches earlier.

I was reading a thread from I think yesterday, where an OP was worried her child had flea bites.

The OP then asked "What is a flea?"

😂😂🍷

That's too bad, could have saved her from a bout of food poisoning

The burger was in date and no one else was ill.

You ate a burger that was undercooked in the middle. Maybe that’s why you got food poisoning.

It’s only disposable BBQs that are banned anyway

Please do complain to Morrisons, then update this thread…

Because you have to be incredibly thick and stupid to not understand that even on a BBQ food shouldn’t be pink in the middle. I mean the excuse OP is using as that she didn’t realise BBQ food also couldn’t be pink in the middle is fucking stupid

it’s not being dickhead or a knob to point this out regardless of whether it’s forceful or not.

oh the heat hasn’t gone to our heads (clearly did the OP) but i forget it’s mumnset where you have to pussyfoot around OPs and can’t actually be forcefully honest with them and must use flowery language to tell the OP the truth