had uncooked meat... scared!!

[xx_hopeless_xx]

hey
i went out for dinner today at a resteraunt and ordered a
chicken and bacon panini. i was half way through it and i felt
something with a funny texture in my mouth.. so i spat it into
some tissue. im not sure weather it was chicken or bacon lol
but i do know that it was not cooked. i've felt sick all day since
then, but im not sure if thats because im worried, or because it
was uncooked.. and will give me food poisening. but now im
just wondering if its possible to get food poisening from putting
uncooked meat in your mouth, aswell as eating it. i'm really
getting scared and beginning to freak out incase i v* tonight...

thanks
xxx

[raindrop]

I don't think you can v* just from having it in your
mouth. In fact, you can swallow a little bit and not v*.
I've eaten a couple of mouthfuls of uncooked sausage before, and I was
100% fine, even though I panicked for hours!



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[harmonygirl72]

I am betting it was just some fat from the bacon! That has a nasty texture and I always spit it out, too, but it won't hurt ya! Some people eat it!


Mary

[bexcelica]

they wouldnt serve food that is uncooked. i had the same expeience with coup not too long ago, there was a peice of chicken that was pink. it was a soup so it had been cooking all day, but you know how us emets get. any sort of chicken that is not white is bad./.. even though its really not. i forced myself to eat it and i was fine. dont worry ,

[angel13]

Yeah, you'll be ok, hopeless - after all, people eat steaks so rare that they're practically still breathing [img]smileys/smilies_04.gif[/img]I think its gross, but...well, everyone has a different taste pallet. Meat just has to reach a certain temperature for us to be able to eat it - I've learnt that from working into a kitchen. It sounds like you struck a bit of bacon fat or something - don't worry!

[liriodendron]

It's been a few days now. You most likely would have had some symptoms by now.



I'd like to clear a few things up.

1.) Restaurants do often undercook food. In fact this happened about a
week ago. It was my birthday dinner and the people I was with at this
restaurant got their fish served and it was practically rare. They sent
it back and got it cooked and then they ate it. I reminded them not to
use the same silverware as they did when they cut into it the first
time.



2.) People do often eat rare meat. Steak tare tare for example. Nobody
I know would eat that but there are some people who have no hesitation
about doing so and then when they get sick, they assume they have a SV
rather than FP. Duh! But the fact is, the bacteria has to be present in
the meat. And present in sufficient quantities to make someone sick.
Due do our immune systems, there's no guarantee that someone or
everyone who eats the food will get sick from it. There's been many
advancements in the industry with
irradiating meat so that the nasties are killed before it ever gets to
market.



3.) Food can appear cooked even though it has never reached 160 degrees
F or whatever the required safe temperature is for that type of food to
kill the nasties. Similarly, Like Angel13 said, it can also reach a
safe temperate and not have the texture of food that is cooked "well
done". One thing you might do is order food that's deep fried (like
chicken tenders), grilled for long periods (like ribs) or baked for
hours in the oven (like meatloaf) or things that are cooked
before they even get to the restaurant (like crab meat) With exposure
to high temps that long, you can breathe a lot easier than things that
are pan seared or flash fried etc.. And you should make a point to tell
your server that you want your food (no matter if it's meat, chicken,
fish or whatever) cooked, "well done" or "extra well done". If you're
getting a steak, have them "butterfly" it so they can cook it well done
more quickly and thoroughly.



And cut everything open when it shows up at your table and make sure
it's done before you eat it. If not, just send it back to cook it more.


Edited by: liriodendron

[s0ccer_princess]

Chances are, it was probably a bit of gristle from the meat. As much as this sounds terribly unpleasant, meat is from what used to be a living thing, therefore it will not be entirely smooth and err uniform all of the way through. (Sorry to disgust anyone :P)

When you look at those packets of chilled pre-cooked ham slices, they have these little bits in them which are even visible to the eye. These btis are quite tough when you eat them, and while they won't harm you- they're probably just fat or something- they might just be a bit unpleasnt in your mouth because they take a bit of chewing.

[samara's on tv]

If it's been a few days I would say that you are fine. I mean I freak out when my dad cooks steak cause it's always so PINK In the middle...I had some steak a few days ago that he cooked and I was fine. I'm sure you just got a peice of fat, and even if you didn't you probably didn't eat enough of the raw meat for it to effect you. I wouldn't worry about it.


~Monica