Fast Food HORROR Stories

[Pete Wrigley]

This past weekend, a thread was made in Reddit by fast food workers providing recommendations on what to avoid and various horror stories. Has anyone here worked at some fast food joints/restaurants? What are some things we should avoid?


Reddit Link: Fast food workers of Reddit, what is the one menu option at your employment that you would recommend people never eat? (Because of cooking safety, cleanliness, unhealthy, etc) : AskReddit

KFC

KFC: The Coleslaw

I'm sure it's fine, but after seeing how it's made I have no desire to eat it. You grab a big bucket. Dump in the bag of lettuce and whatever else. Then dump in the bag of "I have no idea what this yellow goo is, but it kind of looks like snot". Make sure you squeeze out any left in the bag. Put on some gloves and mix it all up.

I can't eat the coleslaw without thinking about that goo bag.

Edit: Just to be clear, the goo bag wasn't mayo. It was... something other than mayo. I'm sure it's perfectly healthy it just didn't look very appetizing.

Arby's

I worked at Arby's for a summer. During a particularly slow day I decided to read the nutrition facts chart that they have. Out of curiosity I decided to see which menu item had the greatest amount of sodium content.

A large 6-piece mozzarella sticks.

Those 6 fukkers collectively have over 2000mg of sodium. That's not milligrams anymore, that's just fukking grams.

McDonald's

The McRib. After working 2 years at a McDonalds, I can say that one should really never eat a McRib. Here's why:

The McRib is cooked just like any other Mcd's sandwich. We set the grill for "McRib", lay the meat on the grill, and it gets pressed down for probably about 2 minutes and is finished cooking. The difference, however, is that the next step isn't like the rest.

Instead of putting it in the heating trays like the other meats, so it stays fresh and the time of freshness is tracked by our nifty little timer for each heating tray slot, it goes directly into a small vat of barbecue sauce.

And sits there.

No timer, no way of monitoring how long its been in there. Nothing. We pick em out with our tongs, slap it on a bun, and send it out. When we assume we're low in the vat, we put more in there. In other words, you could easily get a McRib patty that has been sitting in BBQ sauce for over an hour, underneath all the new-ish pattys.

 

[Patriarch]

During the poultry slaughter process, 95% of chickens become infected with E. coli, which is spread through fecal contamination. up to 75% of chickens in retail are still infected.Between 70% to 90% are infected with campylobacter

Journalist Scott Bronstein conducted interviews with nearly 100 Usda poultry inspectors from 37 plants. “Every week,” he reports, “millions of chickens leaking yellow pus, stained by green feces, contaminated by harmful bacteria, or marred by lung and heart infections, cancerous tumors or skin conditions are shipped for sale to consumers.”

Read "Eating Animals" by Jonathon Safran Foer , and I promise you , you'll never be the same.

KFC

KFC insists it is ‘committed to the well-being and humane treatment of chickens.’ How trustworthy are these words? At a slaughterhouse in West Virginia that supplies KFC, workers were documented tearing the heads off live birds, spitting tobacco into their eyes, spray-painting their faces, and violently stomping on them. These acts were witnessed dozens of times. This slaughterhouse was not a ‘bad apple,’ but a ‘Supplier of the Year.’

 

[Nick Barnes]

Read "Eating Animals" by Jonathon Safran Foer , and I promise you , you'll never be the same.

KFC

you fukked me up breh, that is just....

edit: just seen that kfc quote and damn this world is fukked, spittin in chickens eyes?

 

[Sierra Mist]

gross. this is why I don't eat anymore.

 

[GSR]

Yea I heard of that KFC shyt before....thats why I stay away from them. But really, all fast food joints probably got some shyt like that going on........The only fast food places I somewhat trust are Wendy's, Popeye's, Subway and sometimes jack in the crack......

 

[MidniteJay]

I worked at Arby's for a summer. During a particularly slow day I decided to read the nutrition facts chart that they have. Out of curiosity I decided to see which menu item had the greatest amount of sodium content.

A large 6-piece mozzarella sticks.

Those 6 fukkers collectively have over 2000mg of sodium. That's not milligrams anymore, that's just fukking grams.

I bet this shyt right here could kill my mother in one sitting.

 

[Patriarch]

you fukked me up breh, that is just....

edit: just seen that kfc quote and damn this world is fukked, spittin in chickens eyes?

gross. this is why I don't eat anymore.

An investigation at one large Tyson facility found that some workers regularly ripped off the heads of fully conscious birds (with explicit permission from their supervisor), urinated in the live-hang area (including on a conveyer belt carrying birds), and let shoddy automated slaughter equipment that cut birds’ bodies rather than their necks go repaired indefinitely. At a KFC “Supplier of the Ear,” Pilgrim’s Pride, fully conscious birds were kicked, stomped, slammed into walls, had chewing tobacco spit in their eyes, literally had the shyt squeezed out of them, and had their beaks ripped off. And Tyson and Pilgrim’s Pride not only supplied KFC; at the time of writing they were the two largest chicken processors in the nation, killing nearly five billion birds per year between them.

Tyson got the chicken game on lock

Yea I heard of that KFC shyt before....thats why I stay away from them. But really, all fast food joints probably got some shyt like that going on........The only fast food places I somewhat trust are Wendy's, Popeye's, Subway and sometimes jack in the crack......

99% of the chick you eat today is factory farmed. Tyson is the worlds largest meat producer. Factory farmed chickens are comprised of two groups : broilers and layers. Broiler chickens , the ones used for meat , are raised and slaughtered in under 6 weeks. These chickens are genetically engineered to be huge , and are often born deformed and sick. They are all fed growth hormone and antimicrobial's. This is 99% ! Just think about it , they go from chicks , to the huge chicken breasts they sell in stores in under 6 weeks.

 

[Ashley Banks]

Glad I don't eat coleslaw, that shyt sounds horrible.

 

[atlbound]

damn @ the mcrib

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

2012

eating fast food

 

[GSR]

Tyson got the chicken game on lock



99% of the chick you eat today is factory farmed. Tyson is the worlds largest meat producer in the world. Factory farmed chickens are comprised of two groups : broilers and layers. Broiler chickens , the ones used for meat , are raised and slaughtered in under 6 weeks. These chickens are genetically engineered to be huge , and are often born deformed and sick. They are all fed growth hormone and antimicrobial's. This is 99% ! Just think about it , they go from chicks , to the huge chicken breasts they sell in stores in under 6 weeks.

Gotdamn. At least we got chick-fillet?

 

[Patriarch]

Gotdamn. At least we got chick-fillet?

You got chick Fil-A , I'm a vegetarian

 

[Killer Instinct]

Yeah, I worked at McDonalds for a few months during HS. The thing about the McRib is dead on. You'd also be surprised at how many people make your food without wearing any type of gloves.

 

[DallasTxRep]

I bet this shyt right here could kill my mother in one sitting.

 

[DallasTxRep]

I'm turning vegan