Bagging raw chicken with other food

[Anonymous]

Why do the grocery clerks always ask if you’d like them to bag the raw chicken separately from the rest of the food?
Should it even be a question? The answer is always yes.

[Anonymous]

Because not everyone is freaked out by raw meat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do the grocery clerks always ask if you’d like them to bag the raw chicken separately from the rest of the food?
Should it even be a question? The answer is always yes.

Not true. I throw everything in the same bag. I hate carrying multiple bags. I rarely buy raw chicken, but when I do, it’s in the same bad as everything else.

[Anonymous]

I also put it all in the same bag. The chicken is sealed in plastic!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also put it all in the same bag. The chicken is sealed in plastic!

Which often leaks or has been leaked on. All over your fresh strawberries

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also put it all in the same bag. The chicken is sealed in plastic!

Which often leaks or has been leaked on. All over your fresh strawberries

That's why I put it into another plastic bag at the meat case. And then it goes into the same shopping bag as everything else. I've been doing this for decades, and nothing has leaked all over my fresh strawberries yet.

[Anonymous]

I haven't died yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also put it all in the same bag. The chicken is sealed in plastic!

+1 You know your ancestors survived a lot worse. You’re much more likely to die driving home from the grocery store or from an obesity related disease related to too much fried chicken. Chill out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also put it all in the same bag. The chicken is sealed in plastic!

Which often leaks or has been leaked on. All over your fresh strawberries

If you get it from Harris Teeter they seal it in a plastic bag and then they wrap it in brown paper. It never, ever leaks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also put it all in the same bag. The chicken is sealed in plastic!

+1 You know your ancestors survived a lot worse. You’re much more likely to die driving home from the grocery store or from an obesity related disease related to too much fried chicken. Chill out.

My ancestors didn’t eat factory farmed poultry contaminated with ecoli. I’ll put it in a separate bag to be safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also put it all in the same bag. The chicken is sealed in plastic!

Which often leaks or has been leaked on. All over your fresh strawberries

That's why I put it into another plastic bag at the meat case. And then it goes into the same shopping bag as everything else. I've been doing this for decades, and nothing has leaked all over my fresh strawberries yet.

+1

[Anonymous]

I thought everyone separated raw meat into its own bag! Okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I also put it all in the same bag. The chicken is sealed in plastic!

+1 You know your ancestors survived a lot worse. You’re much more likely to die driving home from the grocery store or from an obesity related disease related to too much fried chicken. Chill out.

And yet if I can avoid a bout with e. Coli or salmonella, I’m going to do so. I find their symptomatically similar friend norovirus to be bad enough. I’m pretty relaxed about some food safety things, but raw meat? I am careful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought everyone separated raw meat into its own bag! Okay.

This is relatively recent. Growing up in the late 80s/early 90s, I remember grocery shopping with mom and clerks never asked - raw meat went with the other goods in the same bag. Unlikely that it went with the strawberries, as the cold foods traveled together so it was likely with the frozen goods. I feel
like people got a lot more aware and careful of everything right when hand sanitizer became commercially popular and people starting thinking about germs.

[Anonymous]

Does it matter if you are going to eat kabobs?