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When I eat a burger out, I get it pretty well done. I would not trust meats from a pub. At home I buy grassfed and organic meats and cook them more on a medium to med rare side and they are fine. You probably will be fine, but a lesson learned maybe...
Look on the positive side. If you do get very sick, you'll be able to pinpoint the reason when you see your doctor. No guesswork needed to treat you.
I don't think you have anything to worry about, but it's your choice to worry or not. Some people enjoy worrying about things. I'm not one of them. Are you? If yes, stop it!
I was at an Irish pub type place (wings, beer, sandwiches, etc) a couple of hours ago and ordered a cheeseburger medium rare. I understand the risks, but this place is very clean and specializes in sandwiches, salads, stuff like that. However, when I got the burger, it was even rarer than I had expected, but I decided to eat it anyway because it didn't look that terrible and certainly tasted fine to me. This was definitely the rarest burger I have ever eaten, and pieces of the pink meat were literally falling onto my plate when I picked it up. It was one of those instances where I don't think I should have done what I did, but it's too late now. I have been worried ever since we got the check, but so far I feel nothing, however it's only been about 3 hours. When I told my grandfather and asked him what he thought, he looked really concerned and said, "You're in for it later tonight." I have no idea whether this place grinds their own meat, but I wouldn't imagine so. I also didn't see a disclaimer written on the menu, but being that the menu was a few pages long, it could have been somewhere else besides underneath the burger section. So my main question is how long will it take before I know that I am home free? Also, are the odds really greatly in the favor of me getting dangerously ill, like to the point of hugging the toilet and requiring hospitalization? I'm really just looking for answers to the questions and not for people to tell me I did a stupid thing. If it helps, this place is not a fancy restaurant, but not a dump or a chain either. Just a run-of-the-mill Irish pub.
That is the best way to eat a burger. Rare all the way. Yum!
For over 65 years I've had em clean the hooves and wolfed er down.
Now, rare chicken is 100% hospital and rare pork is worms under your skin or tapeworms.
You have more chances of Ecoli from vegetables.
IMHO it's a sin to serve beef well done.
In a modern state, it is very unlikely you will have any ill effects from eating commercially marketed meat that was handles professionally, even if completely raw. The risk is vanishingly close to zero.
Thats what Im thinking. They wouldnt serve it if it wasnt safe.
Not to mention if they regularly served bad rare burgers, they would have been shut down by now if someone got ill and filed a lawsuit.
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