Food Safety Question (1 Viewer)

[GroveDiesel]

If you looked into your refrigerator and saw strawberries in one of those plastic cartons sitting on top of a raw packaged roaster chicken that was inside of a plastic shopping bag, would you be willing to eat the strawberries?

If you don't like strawberries, assume a different fruit that you do like.

 

[NCCommish]

All the packaging is intact right? If so I wouldn't have a problem with it. That/s why the packaging is there after all.

 

[GroveDiesel]

All the packaging is intact right? If so I wouldn't have a problem with it. That/s why the packaging is there after all.

Yes, packaging is intact. Although the strawberry carton is one of those that has holes all over the bottom.

 

[NCCommish]

All the packaging is intact right? If so I wouldn't have a problem with it. That/s why the packaging is there after all.

Yes, packaging is intact. Although the strawberry carton is one of those that has holes all over the bottom.

Yeah but the chicken is still fully sealed right? The only concern is the fruit sitting on top of exposed chicken.

 

[Polish Hammer]

Honestly, I think this is a pretty dumb question. Packaging intact and it sounds like a bag is there too. I assume that the OP thought it was fine to eat the strawberries (it is) and is presenting it in such an unbiased light so that when the overwhelming "yes" votes come in he can show it to his significant other who thought otherwise.

I can speak from experience that it still won't change her mind.

 

[belljr]

I would eat strawberries sitting on top of the chicken if it was in the fridge

 

[jhib]

I could almost see the rationale if the plastic bag weren't there. After all, that chicken could have been sitting right under another one that had a leak in it's own packaging. It wouldn't keep me from eating the strawberries, but I could see my own wife's mind going there. But if you don't trust the packaging plus plastic bag, do you clean the fridge where it sat after you use the chicken? I doubt it.

Of course, if Polish Hammer is right, then be careful bringing up that line of reasoning. It probably won't help and might just lead to extra fridge cleaning.

 

[xulf]

Yup

 

[RUSF18]

When I hear people overanalyzing things like this, it makes me realize how much they don't think through the entire process of that food going from (and cutting a lot out of the process here) truck arriving at the grocery store to the food ending up in your house.

 

[McGarnicle]

I would have sex with the chicken.

 

[Fat Nick]

People treat raw chicken like it's covered in ebola. If it was as bad a some (i.e. my wife) treat it to be, we'd all be dead.