TAKING two bites of his McChicken burger, Adelaide man James Parsons knew there was something seriously “gross.”

    Parsons, 26, ordered the burger for lunch from Reynella McDonalds drive-thru Monday.

    “He got the burger, took the first bite and thought ‘this isn’t warm,’” his wife Philippa told Daily Mail Australia. “He was starving and on the run so he took the second bite and looked down and the whole patty was raw.”

    Parson’s immediate reaction to his shocking find was to pull over his car and call the McDonalds restaurant to advise them about his discovery.

    “They told him to bring the burger back and they would replace it and he said: ‘That’s not good enough,’” she said.

    “I said we need to do something about this — we need to make people be careful. I’m 30 weeks pregnant and if that happened to me it could have killed the baby,” she said.

    After Parsons came home Philippa took some images and sent them in an email to South Australia McDonalds head office and was told the incident would be investigated and someone would get back to her.

    Philippa said she was surprised her husband had not been seriously ill from eating what he believes was raw chicken.

    A spokesman for McDonalds yesterday told Daily Mail Australia: “We are disappointed that this has happened.

    “We take food safety very seriously and have strict processes and systems in place. We are currently investigating this with the restaurant and liaising with the customer directly.”

    After Philippa took the photos of the burger, she posted the images of the patty on her personal Facebook page. “People were disgusted and they shared the photo,” she said.

    (SD-Agencies)