Ocado oyster food poisoning - they deleted my review!

meer53

OP, you didn't really have "food poisoning" did you ?

Most intelligent people don't need to be made aware that there can be risks when eating shellfish, we already know. I'm with Ocado on this one. If you have proof it was the oysters, contact them. If not, shut up.

lucy03

binary0110 wrote: »

It was both myself and my partner. As I have already said, there is no way of proving that any food product can cause food poisoning but it is likely. Particularly as because two people got ill and that was the only raw food item both of us ate at the same time. If you like, I can edit it to say that "we ate these oysters and then we got food poisoning". Would that make you feel better?

IMO Ocado are right to remove such a ridiculous review and I know that TripAdvisor also have been known to delete similar reviews for restaurants.

If you can't prove a link between eating a food product and an illness then there IMO shouldn't be any reference to it in the review at all and it's certainly entirely fair for the retailer to remove it. Two people being ill at the same time might have been anything whether it was a different food product or an airborne virus.

Personally although no doubt most will disagree I think it verges on malicious to make an allegation like this without evidence. And your proposed changing the words is no better as it's still trying to allege that the two statements are linked.

LilElvis

I'm with the OP on this - we need large warnings plastering across the packaging alerting consumers of the dangers of eating raw oysters!

The OP isn't going far enough though!

What about the following!

Eggs and chicken - HUGE salmonella warnings needed

Unpasteurized cheese - risk of listeria

All fish and shellfish - to warn the foolhardy who might make sushi or ceviche

Beef - in case anyone fancies turning it into carpaccio or steak tartare without knowing about the risk of e-coli

Seriously though - the most ridiculous claim the OP has made is about the extremely high risk of contracting food poisoning from eating raw oysters. If her "statistics" were true then Milton Keynes General Hospital would be on red alert the first weekend of every September when nearby Woburn hosts its annual Oyster Festival (now, stupidly, renamed as a family festival) where countless hundreds congregate over 3 days with the primary purpose of consuming thousands of oysters. Surprisingly I have never heard of the A&E department having to close its doors due to being inundated with hundreds of vomiting revellers.

wealdroam

LilElvis wrote: »

Surprisingly I have never heard of the A&E department having to close its doors due to being inundated with hundreds of vomiting revellers.

Happens every Friday and Saturday night round here.

Might not be due to oysters though.