Food Poisoned by Tesco

brianio

I am a fit and healthy 31 year old, I havent called in sick to work for over 4 year. Yesterday evening I stopped off in Tesco express in Inchicore to buy dinner. I purchased a pizza and went home and cooked it soon after. Today i've been feeling terribly (very unusual) muscle pain, diarohea (alot) and headache. During the day I had a feeling it was something I ate as the pizza taste was coming up in my mouth. This evening I came home and checked my recylye bin. The pizza I purchased was use by April 13th. A full 5 days ago and four before I ate it.
Im absolutally livid... raging that they would sell a product so far out of date. I normally check produce dates had a quick glance when i purchased the pizza yesterday and I didnt see the date, that and the fact I was heading straight home to cook it convinced me I should be alright.

Has this ever happened to anyone? Is there anything I can do. I just can't believe a supermarket's negligence can make me so ill.

Töpher

I'd hazard a guess that it's nothing to do with the pizza being a few days out of date, unless it was prawns and oysters or something.

I mean, dough, cheese, tomato paste would all be grand. So, I'd imagine, would be dried meats like pepperoni. Maybe, maybe, if it was chicken and refrigerated rather than frozen, but even then it's all pre-cooked.

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Just re-read this, it's a troll, right?

squod

Stage a shit in pootest.

brianio

it was a tesco express so it wasnt properly frozen. it actually looked raw and reading to go. there was only sun dried tomatos and cheese on it. believe me it defo food poisoning with the cramps and trips to the topilet and surely its too much of a coincidence that I was sold and ate a raw pizza four days after the use by date....i ate nothing else controversial...

Shulgin

If it was cooked properly then it should have been fine. Even if out of date.

Maybe you just picked up a bug somewhere along the line nothing to do with the pizza.

Desire.

If you want proper advice, this is where you need to ask.

ThisRegard

ate a raw pizza four days after the use by date....i ate nothing else controversial...

Well which is it, raw or cooked, you've contradicted yourself in only two posts. There's a nasty big going around so it is most likely that if you have anything.

brianio

it was raw when i bought it (not frozen) and then i obviously cooked it...

brianio

apologies previous post wasnt clear. i'm that wrecked...

jive

You were probably made ill by something else imo. I can't imagine cheese, tomatoes and dough would have such an effect. Food poisoning from a food like that would generally have symptoms onset in 2-4 hours and be finished up within 24hrs. An overnight deal.

Having said that I wouldn't be too happy about being sold something that was 4 days out of date. At the very least go in and make a complaint to the manager

Solair

Just bare in mind that a pizza may not actually be cooked through fully as it's usually just put in a hot oven for about 10-15 mins max. That's not necessarily long enough to kill all the bugs as you wouldn't be expecting many / any to present.

fitz213

Wuss

g'em

not a Fitness issue.

metamorphosis

Fitz213 - if you're not going to add anything other than wuss, don't waste your time posting. Your troll attempt wasn't even funny, smart, thought provoking or intelligent in the slightest so less of it please.