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?

"Link" > ha scritto nel messaggio
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> 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?

If you were going to, you probably already would have been, but next time,
make arrangements for keeping raw flesh chilled.

Also, how dangerous would this sickness be?

"Link" > ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Also, how dangerous would this sickness be?

Who knows? There must be thirty different ones you COULD get.

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:20:29 -0700 (PDT), 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?

It isn't great that the chicken was sat unrefigerated for so long, no.
Think, at least, Salmonella.

But as you're not ill yet, I'd guess you've got away with it this time.

I wouldn't take the risk again if I were you.

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?

Link also wrote:
>
> Also, how dangerous would this sickness be?

Too many variables to know. Next time, take a cooler with a lot of ice
to keep the chicken -- and other perishables, raw & cooked -- cold.

Sky

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On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:24:22 -0700 (PDT), Link
> wrote:

>Also, how dangerous would this sickness be?

If you *were* to get it, at the least stomach cramps, vomiting and
diarrhoea.

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.

On Aug 14, 1:56�pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> 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

Actually symptoms of food poisoning can begin up to 48 hours after
ingesting tainted food, but in most cases at around the 12 hour mark.

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/food_...article_em.htm

On Aug 14, 2:18*pm, Sheldon > wrote:
> On Aug 14, 1:56 pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > 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
>
> Actually symptoms of food poisoning can begin up to 48 hours after
> ingesting tainted food, but in most cases at around the 12 hour mark.
>
> http://www.emedicinehealth.com/food_...rticle_em.htm-

That's what I was taught too. I think there is some kind that has a
shorter incubation period but anything under 4 hours I would assume is
the flu rather than food poisening. And the health inspector agreed
with me that one time

John Kane Kingston ON Canada

Link wrote:

> Is there a chance I might get sick?

Why are you asking us now?

OK. Yes. You'll be violently ill. So ill that you won't be able
to catch your breath between upheaves, and will therefore
suffocate and die.

That what you wanted to hear, Psycho?

-sw

On Aug 14, 12:24*pm, Link > wrote:
> Also, how dangerous would this sickness be?

If you got some salmonella food poisoning (entirely possible), you
could be sick for a v-e-r-y long time - or only for a few hours. It
would depend on your system and what made you sick.

I had a friend whose husband had some potato salad that had been
sitting out in the sun too long - salmonella food poisoning (from the
eggs, I assume) that lasted for over a year. It's a wonder it didn't
kill him, he wasn't very young.

Never, never, take chances on poultry, that's my motto.

N.

On Aug 14, 12:56*pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> 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. *


My doctors have always said between 6 hours and 48 hours, usually.

N.

"Link" > wrote in message
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> Also, how dangerous would this sickness be?

It could possibly make you more retarded than you are now.


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