An Aussie customer has expressed his disgust of finding a raw chicken fillet in his burger from a popular fast food chain.
The man posted an image to Reddit of the meal he got from Hungry Jack’s Herston store in Brisbane on Sunday night.
The burger was cut in half to reveal the raw chicken inside the bun, which also had mayonnaise and lettuce.
‘So glad my partner and I decided to split this Hungry Jack’s fried chicken burger,’ he captioned the photo.
‘Pinker than pink. Hungry Jack’s Herston dishing out salmonella.’
The burger, which was described as ‘warm meat-flavoured jelly’, was free as part of the chain’s current UNO promotion.
‘(It) just went straight in the bin,’ the customer added.
‘On the downside, from now on I’m going to be super sketchy with all takeaway chicken burgers.’
The photo sparked shock and anger from Aussie fast food fans.
‘Please report it. Enough to kill someone,’ one pleaded.
Another one: ‘Salmonella can be a big deal for some people.’
A third wrote: ‘I was hospitalised with Salmonella poisoning as a kid. It was f**king horrible.’
Others were concerned how the incident happened in the first place.
‘It’s possible a new employee is pushing the wrong button on the fryer so when they pull it out they think it’s cooked because the outside is dark,’ one wrote.
Another added: ‘Staff probably accidentally pressed the chicken royale timer (two minutes and thirty seconds) rather than the JFC timer (nine minutes) on the fryer.’
One sarcastically quipped: ‘How could a 13-year-old chef make such a fundamental mistake?’
Another Brisbane customer claimed that she had similar food issues from the same Hungry Jack’s store.
‘Herston’s our closest location too and every single time I’ve ordered there it’s been absolute dogs**t,’ a woman said.
‘Stale chips, tough and overcooked patties, we’ve become a strictly no-HJ household,’ she said.
The man who originally shared the photo has since reported it to both Queensland Health and Hungry Jack’s
He said the restaurant’s district manager for the Brisbane store had contacted him and also believed it could be put down to a cooking button error.
‘She mentioned what a lot of people have said in this article that likely the wrong button was pressed and the chicken was cooked too quickly,’ he said.
A Hungry Jack’s spokesperson told Daily Mail that food safety was the chain’s ‘highest priority’.
‘Hungry Jack’s has rigorous quality assurance processes and appropriate training systems in place,’ they said.
‘Hungry Jack’s was made aware of the complaint late Sunday night and has contacted the customer.’
People can be infected with salmonella by eating raw or under-cooked food from infected animals, such as poultry, according to Health NSW.
Symptoms include headache, fever, stomach cramps, diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting.
Symptoms usually start six to 72 hours after exposure to the bacteria and usually last for 4-7 days.