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Nastiest moments in fast food.
Something Witty
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Yeah so this thread is inspired by Dominoe's pizza and countless other nast incidents involving food that we eat.
What are the sickest moments you've heard of or encountered at a resturaunt? Whether it be fingers in your chile, mouse dung in your burgers, or spit in your fries. And who could forget the timeless classic, the roach?
So name what you've experienced off, no matter how utterly disgusting and traumatising, and then, just maybe, the healing can begin.
I confess that the nastiest thing that has ever happened to me personally would involve Taco Bell. I was hungry and my family got back with the food, the piece of fake mexican food I ordered was Nachos Belle Grande. At first I wondered why the sour cream tased funny but I disregarded it. About halfway through the thing I noticed thick, curly hairs sticking out of it. Yeah, there were pubes in my Nachos Belle Grande, I don't really want to think about how they got there, but I imagine it had something to do with the unfortunate taste of the sour cream....I don't want to say anything further...
So what's your story?
What are the sickest moments you've heard of or encountered at a resturaunt? Whether it be fingers in your chile, mouse dung in your burgers, or spit in your fries. And who could forget the timeless classic, the roach?
So name what you've experienced off, no matter how utterly disgusting and traumatising, and then, just maybe, the healing can begin.
I confess that the nastiest thing that has ever happened to me personally would involve Taco Bell. I was hungry and my family got back with the food, the piece of fake mexican food I ordered was Nachos Belle Grande. At first I wondered why the sour cream tased funny but I disregarded it. About halfway through the thing I noticed thick, curly hairs sticking out of it. Yeah, there were pubes in my Nachos Belle Grande, I don't really want to think about how they got there, but I imagine it had something to do with the unfortunate taste of the sour cream....I don't want to say anything further...
So what's your story?
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Just out of curiosity, what did you do after you discovered the pubes?
My nastiest moment would probably be finding a fairly long hair in a burger from Chillies. I noticed it hanging from my mouth after taking the first bite.
He's not going to do something like that again. Well, he won't have a job to do something like that again anyways, but I'm pretty sure he's a much more considerate person now.
At McDonalds you put the cooked patties in a long plastic tray with sides about 4 inches high. You then put these trays in a warmer that keeps the meat and grease at 160 degrees. When you are done with a tray you are supposed to drain the grease out of the tray and then stack the trays on teh top of the warming unit. Later some poor sap comes by, grabs the trays and goes and washes them. Well I was working when one poor sap grabbed a rather large stack that had not had the grease drained off. My poor friend was covered in hot grease from hair to feet. That was nasty.
I began wretching, and I tossed what was left in the garbage. But mostly I just remember feeling tottaly disgusted with almost no appeteit for the next week or so.
Well, not quite full of chicken. There was also a dead mouse in it. Apparently the poor little guy got into the oven somewhere, and the workers just scooped him out along with all the chicken pieces afterward.
Since then, we have never had KFC ever again.
Someones hair has ruined taco star burritos for me
I used to work the graveyard shift at a job I used to have a while back. One night I had the bright idea to have a sandwich from the vending machine. I did manage to get paid 15 dollars for vomiting for a little over an hour...
That or the franchise I work for is the best in the country, which I know it isn't.
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My other brother found a human fingernail (not a clipping, the whole fingernail) in his banana pudding at Cracker Barrel. They offered him another one to replace the fingernail one.
I've heard similar stories at other restaurants. Some of my friends worked at a Pizza Hut in high school. Now, when you make a Pizza Hut pizza, various toppings and cheese can miss the pizza or fall off onto the work table. These are brushed off into a "scrap bin". My friends would wait a few days for the scrap bin to fill up, then make a "scrap pizza," cook it, and set it out on the buffet.
I don't eat at Pizza Hut anymore.
i was making about $2.35/hr at the time because I worked on delivery tips. obviously I wasn't making tips then. should have walked out then and there.
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I can't speak for the entire franchise but the Dominoe's buildings that I've seen always seemd kind of filthy. And the whole rat thing DID happen, no joke, but other than that the nastiest thing that comes out of Dominoes is the food, rather than the stories. I just find that it's a remarkably nasty resturaunt, and other than the one story about the rat (seriously, do you know how many places have rats? It's nothing new) the ones I've seen did seem a bit grimey. Now I should point out that I've only been inside roughly 4 different Dominoes, (eaten from more though) but they always tasted equally bad, so I assume they all have similar conditions. Which is grossly unfair I guess, but whatever.
And franchises that have an overall bad standard for cleanliness are nothing new. IE Golden Corral, Ryans, Fire Mountain grill, which usually have some problem or the other with pests. Personally I dont care about a pest problem in a resturaunt until it spills over in to what you're eating. Because most resturaunts seem to have a problem with pests or some type of cleanliness issue at one point in there lives, as long as I dont know about it and it doesnt get in the food then whatever.
Delicious cheap food though.
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How was he sure it was urine? I mean, unless he asked the register jockey, and he said, "Yeah, I pissed on your sandwich." A lot of things can smell like a lot of other things, is all I'm saying. Both cleaning supplies and pee tend to smell of ammonia, for example.
Then again, I guess that's really not so unfortunate. Fried chicken is sorta gross.
Yeah I asked him the same thing, and he said he was just sure, so take that as you will. He had the sandwich in his freezer for a while and was going to send it to a lab for analysis but I guess eventually decided he didn't care enough.
He still eats at Subway, which is a poor choice in the first place even without a specific tainting experience. Not the one in Harlem though, apparently.
doubtful. humans can be pretty debase but pissing on a sandwich is simply beneath the worst of the worst. and if you were convinced it was urine you would never eat there again.
case dismissed.
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But yeah my brother is a little broken regardless.
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Its true in my years in the food industry I have some stories
Firstly, Back when I was a kid, someone at Heavy Duty had extinguished a cigarette on our pizza, before sending it out. Sketchy assholes.
I have, on 2 occasions been violently ill because of the food I ate at McDonald's, I know this as its the only food I ate that day, and I was the only one in my family that got sick.
When I used to work at subway, I have watched my boss pick tomato tops out of the garbage as well as lettuce that had gotten rotten, he would brush them off and put them in the cold tray.
I had a buddy that had worked for a company that would go around and clean out the deep fryers of all the little diners in and around the resorts in BC, one he went in, hadn't been properly cleaned in 2 owner cycles, they would just empty the oil and put new oil in. Upon inspection of the bottom, there were 4 rat skeletons down there. Who knows how long they've been there.
Wanna know what goes into home made soup? rotting vegetables.
When I was walking to my hotel last time I was in Montreal, I had walked down one of those ally streets, a kitchen door was open, inside there was a cook that was mixing a soup. He was also smoking and petting a dog that happened to be there.
I knew a dude that used to work in a greasy spoon with a closed kitchen, they would smoke in there and drink from the cooking wine, they would also do hot knives of hash off of the stove while making breakfasts. everything had mysterious black flecks in it.
Often times, fresh vegetables means vegetables that the farms couldn't sell to stores so restaurants cut the rot out of them and serve them with out anyone knowing the difference.
If something falls on the floor and know one sees it, throw it in the deep fryer, its better to get the food out fast and hot, then deal with pissed off customers that won't know the difference.
Hair, in cooked food is the least of your worries.
EDIT: Oh, before I started working there, I also really sick from Subway sandwiches, along with my whole family.
When we went to Darian lake, we had asked for Italian dressing on our subs, they poured vegetable oil on it, now that is fucking gross.
Another time, the sliced turkey had a big copper packing staple in it.
i could have done without reading that.
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Im actually about to leave to go get some takeout. This shit doesn't even phase me anymore.
When I get back, Ill tell you the tales of my good friend Mark and his exploits in fine dining.
Im actually about to leave to go get some takeout. This shit doesn't even phase me anymore.
When I get back, Ill tell you the tales of my good friend Mark and his exploits in fine dining.[/QUOTE]
i've requested that a mod perma-ban you for reason of being gross.
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One of these jobs was checking the food in the fryers had reached "cooked" temperature. This involves taking a little battery powered temperature probe, fishing something out the fryer, sticking the probe in it, and if it reads over 82 degrees, putting it in the warmer. It's very dull, and very repetitive if you're doing a large batch of something.
So he was plodding away: scoop, stick, dump, scoop, stick, dump, when he dropped the temperature probe. Into the fryer. Guess what his reflex reaction was?
To plunge his hand into the fryer. Up to the wrist.
Me and my boss had to tackle him to the floor to keep him from running it under the tap.
This is why I eat at home so much. That and it saves money. The worst I have ever experienced was one time this lady was bringing us our food at a nice italian place and she had a cold and was coughing a little bit. I didn't think it was a big deal but the people I was with raised hell. It makes me wonder where everyone gets food at.
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Needless to say, I know too much.
One day, I'll write a book. Until then, I can't say much, lest The Man come for me.
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Back at subway, we had a dude come in late at night, he said he was really hungry, I said alright, he responded by ordering a BMT, not a very healthy choice to begin with, I asked him, what type of cheese, he went for all three, and asked if he could have double meat, I told him sure, he then asked if the second set of meat could be meatballs, Why not? to top it all off he got triple bacon and extra mayo, just onions. He christened it, the "Heart Attack Special"
Everyone who works In food knows that your shoes get pretty gross, the amount of organic shit that hits the floor during a busy shift is insane, its mostly cheese, but also bits of rubber, various vegetables, dust, sauces, whatever. This is why it is important to sweep and mop after every shift. When I worked at Pizza Pizza, one slow night I was tasked with cleaning the floor of the fridge, I thought there was a worn rubber mat on the floor that was flush with the tile outside of the fridge, turns out that this black shit had collected to such a degree that it was about a cm thick at the door, and mostly mozzarella cheese.
On too my buddy Mark, he used to work at a burger chain that is just in Canada, that features singing from the cooks and staff. They would have dueling matches between cooks, where they would stick their spatula into the grill and super heat it, then chase each other with it. This one time Mark did not expect the onslaught and turned at just the wrong moment, he lost an inch by 2 inches patch of skin, that stuck right to the spatula.
On another occasion, he was working late with one of his managers, whom happened to be female, her ex boyfriend had shown up to the drivethru requesting a burger. She was real nice to him over the intercom, super nice as she ran a knife along the bottom of her shoe and put that black shit onto the bun, then covering it with the restaurant's special sauce. Super nice in handing it over to him. And extra nice as she talked to him while he ate the burger sitting at the window then he drove off.
Mark upgraded to a larger Irish Pub, where the kitchen manager also happened to deal dope out the back, well, in between lines of coke. One time the Kitchen manager had a dude ride his bike in through the kitchen door, he dumped a large quantity of pot onto the cutting board, and proceeded to chop it up with the French knives. The whole kitchen smelled like pot. He pushed all the chopped pot into a plastic bag and put it in his backpack, then payed the bike man. Then the bike man left.
Workers will throw all kinds of shit into a deep fryer so see what would happen, eggs, cheese, pickles water, pieces of paper, pieces of their uniform.
One of the Kitchen Mangers I know worked with a dude that would cover his face in fish batter and stick it in the fryer briefly.
My shift supervisor and a couple people under him particapated in what they would call urban terriorism. I was on good terms with everyone there so I got warnings like " I dont think you should drink any mocha today." I would ask why , mocha is stored in the walk in fridge so it was super thick. My shifty would walk me back,grab one of the back up mocha's and it would often have a dick print in it, like ya know someone dipped their wang in it. White mocha , I think you know what would happen with that. The same types of things happen to select pastries. Now this tainted shit would not go out to everyone , just the assholes. doesnt make it right and let me just say that I did not participate and mess with people shit , I also didnt stop it.
Also a local papa johns had some serious termite infestation and a buddy of mine got a pizza with termites on it , and not like one or two , were talking a whole bunch. He got some pics of it with his camera phone , Ill try and get em and post em up.
What the hell?