Link wrote:
> So yesterday I went to a Radiohead concert in Mansfield, MA, and me
> and my friends had a grille to cook chicken and hot dogs. The chicken
> was purchased at around 5 pm. We cooked and ate some of it before the
> show began.
>
> After the show, which got out around 11, we decided to cook more
> chicken in the parking lot because it would be another hour before we
> could exit and we were hungry. Is it bad that the chicken was sitting
> in his car for 6-ish hours before we cooked it? It wasn't sittting in
> the sun or anything, but this just doesn't seem safe.
>
> Also, I ate a peice that was very cooked, but there was a little spot
> that was undercooked and squishy.
>
> Is there a chance I might get sick?

Food poisoning usually strikes within 4-6 hours of eating the tainted
food. Consider yourself lucky to have got away with it. Believe me, if
you had ever had food poisoning before you would have been reluctant to
eat chicken that had been left unrefrigerated for that long. The time I
had a good does of it I was puking and retching for more than 5 hours.
After the initial upchuck there is no food left to puke, but you keep
retching and retching until you think your insides are going to come up.
It is a horrible experience, not the sort of thing you want to repeat.