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Fox News
01-08-2025
- General
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Husband refuses to eat chicken left in hot car for hours, sparking food safety debate: 'Not thrilled'
One man risked dinner – and domestic peace – when he refused to eat sun-warmed poultry that his wife was planning to prepare, according to a viral social media post. Writing on Reddit's 24-million-member "Am I the A--hole" forum on July 26, the man said the spat began after his wife decided to try a new recipe for dinner. "It's a one-pot chicken thing with orzo," he wrote. "She ordered the groceries online this morning and then went to collect them around 11 a.m. She got back home around midday and unloaded everything from the car." But around 5:30 p.m., his wife suddenly asked where the chicken went – and found that it had been sitting in the trunk of their car all afternoon. "The chicken wasn't a frozen chicken," the man clarified. "The chicken was a whole, fresh, raw chicken, in a sealed bag." "Although it wasn't a particularly warm day, we still had a high of [60 degrees Fahrenheit] and our car was sitting out in the sunshine all afternoon." The wife said that the chicken was still "cool to the touch," which the man hesitantly agreed with – it wasn't warm, he said, but he wouldn't call it "overly cold." "It's safe to say it was somewhere between fridge temperature and room temperature," he wrote. The Redditor quickly told his wife he wasn't interested in eating the chicken. "She tells me we're [still] going to eat the chicken," he recalled. "I go back to the couch and start Googling how long you can leave a chicken in the car." Despite going back-and-forth, the wife continued preparing the chicken – until the husband had an idea. "I pitch the idea that she can have the chicken and I can just make something simple for my dinner," he said. "She's not thrilled because she wanted to make this meal for me." The man said he told her that he was "not going to eat it" and felt as if he was "being made to eat a chicken against my will." She then got into the car and left "in search of another chicken from the store." But the man admitted that he felt "like a bit of an a--hole about it." "I also feel like we may have wasted a perfectly good chicken," he said. But most of the comments posted on the thread — which attracted over 2,000 responses — affirmed his fears. "You know what's worse than throwing out a chicken? Food poisoning," the top comment read. "I would not have eaten that chicken either." "I have a realllllllyyy loose attitude toward food safety and I wouldn't eat that chicken," another person chimed in. One user who attested to working in restaurants for two decades, however, had a different take. "I would've eaten it," the commenter wrote in part. "Still cool to the touch and getting cooked fully? It's fine." "It's not worth the risk. A single chicken is not that expensive compared to the food poisoning you could experience." Another wrote, "You're about to cook it. It's not had time to rot, especially if it's cool to the touch. Everyone in these comments is overreacting." Bryan Quoc Le, Ph.D., a food scientist with Mendocino Food Consulting in California, told Fox News Digital the risk in the Reddit situation is "very high." "It has been several hours-plus inside a car, which will be at a much higher temperature than the surrounding air," he said. "Bacteria grow very fast every 10 degrees higher than refrigeration temperature, exponentially so every 20 minutes. They are right that it is not safe to eat." Le added that, hypothetically, one could try cooking the chicken — which would destroy pathogenic bacteria. But that doesn't solve the issue, he said. "It's the toxins they leave behind that can be a problem, which tend to be heat-resistant," the expert said. "It's not worth the risk. A single chicken is not that expensive compared to the food poisoning you could experience."
Fox News
12-07-2025
- General
- Fox News
Fed-up woman refuses to be breakfast chef for sister's children: 'Go ask your mom'
A woman recently vented her frustrations over a food-related family conflict to millions of people on the internet, leading to a flurry of reactions. On Reddit's 24 million-strong "Am I the a--hole" community, a woman shared an incident involving her sister in a post that received some 16,000 upvotes. The woman said her sister moved in with her after experiencing a difficult break-up. She brought along her two children, ages 7 and 4. "When my sister moved in, I realized quickly that she liked to sleep in," the Redditor said. "Some days she was up as late as 1 p.m. … I gave her the benefit of the doubt since I knew how hard her break-up was for her." An issue arose, however, when the snoozing sister neglected to feed her own children – leaving the burden to the Reddit poster. "I got into a routine with my niece and nephew that basically whatever I cooked myself for breakfast, I'd make enough for them as well — until the other morning," she said. "I woke up and had an urge to make huevos rancheros. The kids immediately started complaining that they didn't want that and wanted something different." She added, "I was nice and ended up making them pancakes since it's not their fault their mom is really struggling." The next day, the children complained that they didn't want to eat breakfast potatoes and eggs and demanded a new dish, according to the woman's post. They complained yet again the next day — finally pushing the woman to her limits. "Finally, after three mornings of my unwanted food critics getting a separate meal, I finally told them, 'I'm no longer cooking two different meals for breakfast,'' the Reddit user wrote. "She got quiet after that and is still giving me the cold shoulder." "'If you don't like what I'm making, go ask your mom to get up and do it,'" she said she told them. Even after the children woke up their sleeping mom that morning, she didn't come downstairs until 1 p.m. – leading to even more complaints from the children. The sister was angry, the poster said. "She started in about how they need to be fed by a certain time and a bunch of other things that she said to try and intentionally hurt me." The Redditor admitted that she "snapped" and told her sister to "wake up and take care of your f---ing kids instead of expecting me to do it." The user concluded, "She got quiet after that and is still giving me the cold shoulder, but I know she's expecting me to apologize." Most of the comments posted about the situation were supportive of the poster. "The responses are on the right track. There are numerous profound issues at play here." "Sleeping till 1 p.m. means she's missing their breakfast AND lunch," the top comment read. "[Kids at] ages 7 and 4 are still pretty dependent on an adult for balanced meals. Your sister is lame." Said another person, "I'm assuming she is not paying rent or helping you with any expenses - she is just lying around sleeping? You should have a serious sit-down with her and stop all of this crap right now." Fox News Digital spoke with Texas-based etiquette expert Pat Durham for insights into the Reddit thread. "The poster was very gracious in extending the degree of hospitality that was extended," Durham noted. The civility consultant added that the situation "goes way beyond etiquette." She called it a boundary issue. "The mother needs medical intervention, at the very least," Durham advised. "Counseling is desperately needed." "The responses are on the right track," she added. "There are numerous profound issues at play here."
