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He deserves it for ordering a prime rib cooked medium.
I once heard someone in a pretty decent steak house order a filet mignon cooked well-done. I think I cried a little.
No kidding. Took my mom out for her birthday last year and she ordered her sirloin well-done. She wasn't as amused as I was when the waiter came by to check on us halfway through the meal and said, "Soooooo...how's that hockey puck treatin' ya?"
A little off topic, but how does one order prime rib, ideally? Especially if you aren't familiar with local customs vis-a-vis what "medium" means?
I mean, I know how I like the cuts of steak I most often order, but what I ask for seems to have only slight influence on how the meat comes back. Where I grew up (Ohio), the only way there would be juice in the meat was if you ordered it medium to rare. Where I live now (Massachusetts) ordering something medium-rare often results in something they merely waved over a skillet. On a recent trip to Colorado I asked for a fillet medium and it was cooked through and a touch dry...
Oh - and my nasty story:
Wendy's in Framingham about 4 years ago. It was late and my fiancee and I wanted something quick, so we went through the drive through. On the way home I took a bite out of a fry and had to spit it out instantly. Tasted like they used road salt or water softener salt or something. Dried out all the moisture in my mouth and I had to use half my drink rinsing and spitting at the side of the road.
Actually, it was late winter - wonder if some bastard used the stuff for the parking lot on the fries. I knew it was inedible the second I got some on my tongue, and I didn't swallow any of it, but wouldn't that be like, really bad if it was ice melter and I had?
Framingham is kind of sketch. I used to work out at Sudbury, and went down to Framingham when I needed to register my car. It wouldn't surprise me if you caught a little road salt.
I've not really noticed the meat being much rarer out here than in DC or New Mexico or Texas. Maybe a little, and the restaurants don't really seem to sweat it if you ask them to go easy on the cooking. I generally ask for my steaks as rare as they feel comfortable serving them.
yeah with steaks, i usually just describe what i want instead of using medium or rare and stuff, i just go " charred on the outsdie, pink on the inside and red in the core"
A little off topic, but how does one order prime rib, ideally? Especially if you aren't familiar with local customs vis-a-vis what "medium" means?
Ideally, a prime rib should be rare or medium-rare. (I go for the latter - rare is a little too mooing for my tastes in most places.) Generally, you need to be familiar with how a place cooks its meat, but I've never ordered something medium and had it be inedible, unless the cook just plain fucked up. If I've ordered from a place before, I have them cook my meat what I consider medium rare. Which is usually "medium rare", though Outbacks, apparently, undercook the shit out of their meat, which I actually learned from an Outback manager when I ordered a steak medium rare and had it barely even qualifying as "rare". If you order rare, they basically just sear it.
But yeah, in my experience, medium will never be rare, and it will always have at least some pink to it.
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He deserves it for ordering a prime rib cooked medium.
I once heard someone in a pretty decent steak house order a filet mignon cooked well-done. I think I cried a little.
No kidding. Took my mom out for her birthday last year and she ordered her sirloin well-done. She wasn't as amused as I was when the waiter came by to check on us halfway through the meal and said, "Soooooo...how's that hockey puck treatin' ya?"
that would have instantly knocked off 5-10% of his tip on the spot. gtfo of my face and fill up this bread basket you servant.
Well, I hear that theater hot dogs are made from hot dogs. That there is enough reason for me to avoid them.
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I have this friend who told me he used to work with this guy who thought it would be funny to chop off his dick and slap it on a bun and serve it to some dude.
True story.
How's that?
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I have this friend who told me he used to work with this guy who thought it would be funny to chop off his dick and slap it on a bun and serve it to some dude.
True story.
How's that?
Oh man, the previous butcher I had at work was really, really weird. And supposedly my boss had a lot of weird/messed up butchers working for her in the past.
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I have this friend who told me he used to work with this guy who thought it would be funny to chop off his dick and slap it on a bun and serve it to some dude.
True story.
How's that?
I believe it, for I too think it would be funny to chop off my dick and slap it on a bun and serve it to some dude.
I have this friend who told me he used to work with this guy who thought it would be funny to chop off his dick and slap it on a bun and serve it to some dude.
True story.
How's that?
I believe it, for I too think it would be funny to chop off my dick and slap it on a bun and serve it to some dude.
Ive worked in food for 6 years, in about as many places, Ive met hundreds of cooks, served over a thousand pizzas, several hundred sandwiches, and a couple hundred burgers. Not once has anyone found anything in food I made. I only serve food I would eat myself, and I adhere to this code. I swear all of my stories are true, I could tell you about the more mundane shenanigans we did, but that wouldn't be interesting. Anything that comes from my personal account, I can verify as true, if you go to PAX, I will tell you just the same, I can show you where I was cut with a microwave. If you don't want to believe me that is fine, if you want to make up stupid stories to discount other peoples stories, great, you are just ruining the thread for everyone else.
Oh, lighten up. I was making a joke in response to mcdermott's comment about waiting to hear stories about ill-fated theater wieners.
And like I said before, I'm not calling anyone in particular a liar. I'm just pointing out how my own experiences are a far sight different from what I always seem to encounter on the 'net.
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I have this friend who told me he used to work with this guy who thought it would be funny to chop off his dick and slap it on a bun and serve it to some dude.
True story.
How's that?
I believe it, for I too think it would be funny to chop off my dick and slap it on a bun and serve it to some dude.
Ive worked in food for 6 years, in about as many places, Ive met hundreds of cooks, served over a thousand pizzas, several hundred sandwiches, and a couple hundred burgers. Not once has anyone found anything in food I made. I only serve food I would eat myself, and I adhere to this code. I swear all of my stories are true, I could tell you about the more mundane shenanigans we did, but that wouldn't be interesting. Anything that comes from my personal account, I can verify as true, if you go to PAX, I will tell you just the same, I can show you where I was cut with a microwave. If you don't want to believe me that is fine, if you want to make up stupid stories to discount other peoples stories, great, you are just ruining the thread for everyone else.
You got cut by a microwave? Weird...... well... I did get cut by a hose at work.
You got cut by a microwave? Weird...... well... I did get cut by a hose at work.
I cut myself on bread once.
I kinda wish I was kidding.
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You got cut by a microwave? Weird...... well... I did get cut by a hose at work.
it was my first week at a different subway, one of the other girls slammed the door behind her while I was putting bacon in it, it caught me with latch right at the wrist, I bled pretty bad.
You got cut by a microwave? Weird...... well... I did get cut by a hose at work.
I cut myself on bread once.
I kinda wish I was kidding.
Umm I think I can see how it happened, was it a small cut or did it draw blood?
It was stale. The crust sliced through the webbing 'tween my thumb and forefinger, and it bled noticeably. It was the stupidest injury I've ever suffered.
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You would think most of the serious injuries in a meat department would be from knives, the slicer, the saw, or anything dangerous we use during the day.
My boss seriously cut her hand up, needing stitches by trying to replace a flourecent bulb, while a older butcher cut his arm badly from cleaning the front counter.
A little off topic, but how does one order prime rib, ideally? Especially if you aren't familiar with local customs vis-a-vis what "medium" means?
Ideally, a prime rib should be rare or medium-rare. (I go for the latter - rare is a little too mooing for my tastes in most places.) Generally, you need to be familiar with how a place cooks its meat, but I've never ordered something medium and had it be inedible, unless the cook just plain fucked up. If I've ordered from a place before, I have them cook my meat what I consider medium rare. Which is usually "medium rare", though Outbacks, apparently, undercook the shit out of their meat, which I actually learned from an Outback manager when I ordered a steak medium rare and had it barely even qualifying as "rare". If you order rare, they basically just sear it.
But yeah, in my experience, medium will never be rare, and it will always have at least some pink to it.
I had the same experience at outback, my medium rare was damn near blinking and mooing at me. I usually go medium well these days. I've found in Canada (the Yukon at least) that they are on the undercooked side more often than not as well. It really comes down to the cook and how his scale of rare to done is.
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I had the same experience at outback, my medium rare was damn near blinking and mooing at me. I usually go medium well these days. I've found in Canada (the Yukon at least) that they are on the undercooked side more often than not as well. It really comes down to the cook and how his scale of rare to done is.
When I worked at a steak restaurant, the manager said he refused to hire cooks who ate their steaks well done. The rationale was that while someone who prefers rare meat might find a well-done steak a waste, someone who prefers a well-done steak finds a rare steak disgusting and has a difficult time assessing when it's at the desired state.
I remember there was a huge expose` on Lone Star steak restaurants over here. It was all over the news.
Several people contracted oral herpes, and one thing they had in common, was they ate at this Lone Star steak house within the week.
Some dude jacked off in their steak sauce.
Lone Star eventually closed down, not because of the steak incident, but because of their policy on shelled peanuts. They used to have a big barrel of shelled peanuts, you could go and get as many as you wanted, you could de-shell them, and just throw the shells on the floor. They even encouraged this, as it contributed to the "western" atmosphere.
Some woman slipped on some peanut shells and broke her back. She sued for a fuckton of money, hence Lone Star is dead.
I remember there was a huge expose` on Lone Star steak restaurants over here. It was all over the news.
Several people contracted oral herpes, and one thing they had in common, was they ate at this Lone Star steak house within the week.
Some dude jacked off in their steak sauce.
Lone Star eventually closed down, not because of the steak incident, but because of their policy on shelled peanuts. They used to have a big barrel of shelled peanuts, you could go and get as many as you wanted, you could de-shell them, and just throw the shells on the floor. They even encouraged this, as it contributed to the "western" atmosphere.
Some woman slipped on some peanut shells and broke her back. She sued for a fuckton of money, hence Lone Star is dead.
To the first story: D:D:D:D:D:D:
To the second: All of the Lone Stars around here are like that, or is it Texas Road House?
Anyway, a couple of stories, first off, where I'm from originally (small town in Ohio), there is a restaurant that serves these amaaaazing sandwiches (which are prepped in plain view, thank god), which are like sloppy joes without the barbecue stuff, and marinated with beer. They taste amazing. Anyway, main point of the story (and I guess this isn't terribly gross), but the outer walls of the restaurant are absolutely caked with chewing gum. It is a local tradition to stick gum that you have been chewing on the wall before entering, or while in line at the drive-thru. Some of that gum has been there since the 50s.
Another couple of stories involve me working at Wendy's in high school. Once a guy was being a total dick to my friend who was running the cash register. She's a very sweet girl and certainly wasn't doing anything to deserve the way this guy was talking to her, so a bunch of us (I was running the grill) made up his double without the meat touching the grill even once. We even left the paper seperating the patties on there. Needless to say he didn't get very far before coming back, and we noticed that he had indeed not been paying attention until he bit into it. We all got quite a talking to from the manager, but seeing as how the girl at the drive thru register was her daughter and said manager also heard dickface on the intercom, she didn't do much to us.
Another involves going through the drive thru that I worked at one night, and the guys running the late shift mistook me for another guy that worked there who was notorious for liking nothing but ketchup on his stuff, absolutely basted everything I ordered with ketchup. They were a little shocked when I was not this guy, but still gave me my food. I noticed the ketchup dripping out of the wrapping as I was driving out of the parking lot, and turned around, called them dickheads, and got my food replaced. They had already made it up for me, knowing I'd be back.
One last one, but not really gross, but an example of screwing with our customers in a more friendly way, was seeing what words or phrases we could fit into our standard greetings on the drive-thru intercom without the customer noticing, or at least reacting. Basically a variation of the 'Meow' game of Super Troopers fame. We did manage to get "Welcome to Wendy's, would you like to try an emancipation proclamation?" by once, but didn't manage a "Welcome to the People's Republic of Guam, would you like to try a combo today?". Ah, high school. We were so easily entertained.
Other than that, our Wendy's was rated the 3rd best in overall in Ohio one of the years I worked there. So not really anything terribly gross went down.
Don't order hot dogs from a movie theater. Just don't.
Care to elaborate? I know never to eat the ones from "down below," but at my local theater they're almost always fresh off the little roller thing. Is there something nasty about theater hot dogs in general?
Down below should generally be avoided. My warning can be downgraded to "always check to see that the hot dog looks fresh". For the past year I worked at a movie theater. In the morning, as part of starting up, we'd put hot dogs on the grill. When they were done, we'd prepare them (put them in a bun and then in the small foil bag) and put them in the warmers. If it's during the week, it's generally kind of slow, so they might not sell very fast. Meaning that they'll be sitting in there all afternoon. When the night shift comes in around 5 o'clock, people usually check to see what they need to stock, including hot dogs. My friends, I have seen so many green hot dogs when coming in that I will never buy another theater dog. Many times we'd just throw them away right then and there and start a new batch for the night. That didn't always happen, and some of those dogs were sold. There were several times when people checked their food and asked for a new one or traded it in for something else. Those were the smart ones. They were also in the minority. Far more people just took their hot dogs into the dark theater and started eating them, not fully aware of just how disgusting those things can be.
Another problem with them is that when it is busy, like in the summer months and during big opening weekends, those fuckers sell fast. Every concessionist is praying that they do not run out. If we do, we either have to tell them to try again in 20 minutes or we ring them up for the hot dogs and they wait around or come back with a receipt to claim their food. The problem with hot dogs is that they take a long time to cook and prepare. They first have to be put on the grill until they reach 120 degrees (or 140, I forget), then we have to warm up the buns, prepare the paper trays and foils, assemble everything, and then put them away. That's why we don't just keep them on the grills. I don't know how other places operate. But if we had run out and people were waiting on their hot dogs, we would pull them off the grill prematurely, package them up, and out they'd go. It sucks, but people want their damn hot dogs. Also, the hot dogs were kept in boxes in the freezer. If whoever was stocking was doing a bad job or it was just particularly hectic, there would be no hot dogs defrosted and ready to put on the grill, so we'd have to put them in the sink and run water over them until they were ready to go. That's what was normally done anyway, but if there was a demand and we were falling behind, those hot dogs were not always fully defrosted when they were put on the grill.
I don't think I can give any stories that can come close to some of the ones posted here, but I've got a couple of stories nonetheless.
One time, my parents bought a picnic meal from the local supermarket for a 4th of July dinner (no one wanted to cook for the holiday, so they just bought a pre-made meal). My mother spoons out some cole slaw for herself, then my father takes the tub and spoons out an inverted latex glove for himself. They took the meal back, and got a free six course meal from the market, completely comped.
I went to another supermarket for a salad at lunch and brought it back to my office. I open the box and find a live caterpillar crawling around in the salad.
I ordered a pizza from a non-chain restaurant for delivery (at least I think it was non-chain, as I had not heard of it before; it was recommended by a friend). The pizza arrives, and upon opening the box find that the pizza has been stapled to the box.
I heard a talk radio show many years ago where people called in to tell stories either of things that had been done to their food or workers is the food service industry who did things to peoples food. I'm not sure how many of the stories were actually true, but one story was of a guy who worked at Taco Bell. A woman complain to him that there wasn't enough cheese on her taco. The guy apparently had a cold at the time, so he took the taco back and put some more "cheese" on the taco, then gave it back to her and watched her eat it and enjoy it. The lesson for this story: Be nice to people who handle your food.
The thing that really freaks me out is crunchy stuff - I hate stuff that crunches in my food (stuff that shouldn't be crunchy, that is). I was pretty upset when I bit into something I'm sure was a toenail in a Big Mac, but even a piece of eggshell in an egg-salad sandwich puts me off my appetite.
Now, hair? That doesn't bother me. I'll just pull it out and keep eating. Stories about unsanitary conditions don't bother me too much, either - anything that doesn't make me outright sick is fine by me.
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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.
No no no you are not saying anything bad about Lick's their burgers are delicious don't let me read this goddammit you asshole nooooooo
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The thing that really freaks me out is crunchy stuff - I hate stuff that crunches in my food (stuff that shouldn't be crunchy, that is). I was pretty upset when I bit into something I'm sure was a toenail in a Big Mac, but even a piece of eggshell in an egg-salad sandwich puts me off my appetite.
Now, hair? That doesn't bother me. I'll just pull it out and keep eating. Stories about unsanitary conditions don't bother me too much, either - anything that doesn't make me outright sick is fine by me.
Yeah hair doesn't put me off too much either. Then again, I live with a dog who sheds a ton, so my yearly intake of hair could very likely literally be measured in pounds.
So basically, does no one else check their food before they eat it? Whenever I eat out somewhere, especially fast food, I make sure there's nothing wrong before I bite in. My family has called me obsessive for opening up sandwiches before biting in, but it's saved me from ever experiencing anything like this.
Though, last winter, when Denver was snowed in for days, we helped a neighbor move snow to get up their driveway. They made us brownies and gave a card, and my mom cut into it and found a hair. We just threw it out, nothing big really.
Ever since I read Fast Food Nation, everything about fast food has been grossing me out.
The only thing I can eat is chicken strips from jack in the box, and that is only when im too drunk to care.
Wow that reminds me of the worst one of these stories ever. People have actually died eating there because of undercooked food having E coli. Although it wasn't done on purpose, it's still a lot worse than having someone spit in your burger. I refuse to even try their food.
Ever since I read Fast Food Nation, everything about fast food has been grossing me out.
The only thing I can eat is chicken strips from jack in the box, and that is only when im too drunk to care.
Wow that reminds me of the worst one of these stories ever. People have actually died eating there because of undercooked food having E coli. Although it wasn't done on purpose, it's still a lot worse than having someone spit in your burger. I refuse to even try their food.
Hmmm, the only thing that book did was make me hungry.
Actually, the E. Coli case was quite a long time ago, and Jack in the Box instituted the strictest cleanliness standards since then in response. This was both good and bad. Now, while the food is much cleaner and far less likely to have contamination (nothing is ever certain), the food does taste rather sterile compared to other fast food. I guess that, like gin, the contaminants are what give fast food their character.
Beside, E. Coli contamination is not just in the meat. There's been the recent incident where green onions were suspected of being contaminated with E. Coli. There was the whole contamination of bagged spinach a little while ago. You can't really get away from it.
Speaking of tastes in fast food, has anyone else tried Taco Bell since they stopped using transfats (I still don't think they're using green onions are the scare)? I did notice a very slight change in the taste and texture, but I find it hard to describe.
Wow that reminds me of the worst one of these stories ever. People have actually died eating there because of undercooked food having E coli. Although it wasn't done on purpose, it's still a lot worse than having someone spit in your burger. I refuse to even try their food.
Hmmm, the only thing that book did was make me hungry.
Actually, the E. Coli case was quite a long time ago, and Jack in the Box instituted the strictest cleanliness standards since then in response. This was both good and bad. Now, while the food is much cleaner and far less likely to have contamination (nothing is ever certain), the food does taste rather sterile compared to other fast food. I guess that, like gin, the contaminants are what give fast food their character.
Beside, E. Coli contamination is not just in the meat. There's been the recent incident where green onions were suspected of being contaminated with E. Coli. There was the whole contamination of bagged spinach a little while ago. You can't really get away from it.
Speaking of tastes in fast food, has anyone else tried Taco Bell since they stopped using transfats (I still don't think they're using green onions are the scare)? I did notice a very slight change in the taste and texture, but I find it hard to describe.
Yeah I know the chances of it happening again are pretty slim, but still after someone actually dying, I still can't help but be a little wary.
And I had forgotten about the recent E coli. scare actually. The one at taco bell doesn't really hit me as hard though, cause no one was actually killed. I also don't eat at taco bell, or any fast food really, anyway,
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Reading this thread makes me happy that I have an iron stomach and one is so strong that even rotten food is palpatable.
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Framingham is kind of sketch. I used to work out at Sudbury, and went down to Framingham when I needed to register my car. It wouldn't surprise me if you caught a little road salt.
I've not really noticed the meat being much rarer out here than in DC or New Mexico or Texas. Maybe a little, and the restaurants don't really seem to sweat it if you ask them to go easy on the cooking. I generally ask for my steaks as rare as they feel comfortable serving them.
You mean unintentionally?
Ideally, a prime rib should be rare or medium-rare. (I go for the latter - rare is a little too mooing for my tastes in most places.) Generally, you need to be familiar with how a place cooks its meat, but I've never ordered something medium and had it be inedible, unless the cook just plain fucked up. If I've ordered from a place before, I have them cook my meat what I consider medium rare. Which is usually "medium rare", though Outbacks, apparently, undercook the shit out of their meat, which I actually learned from an Outback manager when I ordered a steak medium rare and had it barely even qualifying as "rare". If you order rare, they basically just sear it.
But yeah, in my experience, medium will never be rare, and it will always have at least some pink to it.
that would have instantly knocked off 5-10% of his tip on the spot. gtfo of my face and fill up this bread basket you servant.
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True story.
How's that?
Oh man, the previous butcher I had at work was really, really weird. And supposedly my boss had a lot of weird/messed up butchers working for her in the past.
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Ive worked in food for 6 years, in about as many places, Ive met hundreds of cooks, served over a thousand pizzas, several hundred sandwiches, and a couple hundred burgers. Not once has anyone found anything in food I made. I only serve food I would eat myself, and I adhere to this code. I swear all of my stories are true, I could tell you about the more mundane shenanigans we did, but that wouldn't be interesting. Anything that comes from my personal account, I can verify as true, if you go to PAX, I will tell you just the same, I can show you where I was cut with a microwave. If you don't want to believe me that is fine, if you want to make up stupid stories to discount other peoples stories, great, you are just ruining the thread for everyone else.
I first read "exes" as "eyes."
Would have been a lot funnier that way :P
And like I said before, I'm not calling anyone in particular a liar. I'm just pointing out how my own experiences are a far sight different from what I always seem to encounter on the 'net.
You got cut by a microwave? Weird...... well... I did get cut by a hose at work.
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Thank fucking god.
I cut myself on bread once.
I kinda wish I was kidding.
Umm I think I can see how it happened, was it a small cut or did it draw blood?
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it was my first week at a different subway, one of the other girls slammed the door behind her while I was putting bacon in it, it caught me with latch right at the wrist, I bled pretty bad.
It was stale. The crust sliced through the webbing 'tween my thumb and forefinger, and it bled noticeably. It was the stupidest injury I've ever suffered.
My boss seriously cut her hand up, needing stitches by trying to replace a flourecent bulb, while a older butcher cut his arm badly from cleaning the front counter.
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I had the same experience at outback, my medium rare was damn near blinking and mooing at me. I usually go medium well these days. I've found in Canada (the Yukon at least) that they are on the undercooked side more often than not as well. It really comes down to the cook and how his scale of rare to done is.
When I worked at a steak restaurant, the manager said he refused to hire cooks who ate their steaks well done. The rationale was that while someone who prefers rare meat might find a well-done steak a waste, someone who prefers a well-done steak finds a rare steak disgusting and has a difficult time assessing when it's at the desired state.
Several people contracted oral herpes, and one thing they had in common, was they ate at this Lone Star steak house within the week.
Some dude jacked off in their steak sauce.
Lone Star eventually closed down, not because of the steak incident, but because of their policy on shelled peanuts. They used to have a big barrel of shelled peanuts, you could go and get as many as you wanted, you could de-shell them, and just throw the shells on the floor. They even encouraged this, as it contributed to the "western" atmosphere.
Some woman slipped on some peanut shells and broke her back. She sued for a fuckton of money, hence Lone Star is dead.
To the first story: D:D:D:D:D:D:
To the second: All of the Lone Stars around here are like that, or is it Texas Road House?
Anyway, a couple of stories, first off, where I'm from originally (small town in Ohio), there is a restaurant that serves these amaaaazing sandwiches (which are prepped in plain view, thank god), which are like sloppy joes without the barbecue stuff, and marinated with beer. They taste amazing. Anyway, main point of the story (and I guess this isn't terribly gross), but the outer walls of the restaurant are absolutely caked with chewing gum. It is a local tradition to stick gum that you have been chewing on the wall before entering, or while in line at the drive-thru. Some of that gum has been there since the 50s.
Another couple of stories involve me working at Wendy's in high school. Once a guy was being a total dick to my friend who was running the cash register. She's a very sweet girl and certainly wasn't doing anything to deserve the way this guy was talking to her, so a bunch of us (I was running the grill) made up his double without the meat touching the grill even once. We even left the paper seperating the patties on there. Needless to say he didn't get very far before coming back, and we noticed that he had indeed not been paying attention until he bit into it. We all got quite a talking to from the manager, but seeing as how the girl at the drive thru register was her daughter and said manager also heard dickface on the intercom, she didn't do much to us.
Another involves going through the drive thru that I worked at one night, and the guys running the late shift mistook me for another guy that worked there who was notorious for liking nothing but ketchup on his stuff, absolutely basted everything I ordered with ketchup. They were a little shocked when I was not this guy, but still gave me my food. I noticed the ketchup dripping out of the wrapping as I was driving out of the parking lot, and turned around, called them dickheads, and got my food replaced. They had already made it up for me, knowing I'd be back.
One last one, but not really gross, but an example of screwing with our customers in a more friendly way, was seeing what words or phrases we could fit into our standard greetings on the drive-thru intercom without the customer noticing, or at least reacting. Basically a variation of the 'Meow' game of Super Troopers fame. We did manage to get "Welcome to Wendy's, would you like to try an emancipation proclamation?" by once, but didn't manage a "Welcome to the People's Republic of Guam, would you like to try a combo today?". Ah, high school. We were so easily entertained.
Other than that, our Wendy's was rated the 3rd best in overall in Ohio one of the years I worked there. So not really anything terribly gross went down.
Down below should generally be avoided. My warning can be downgraded to "always check to see that the hot dog looks fresh". For the past year I worked at a movie theater. In the morning, as part of starting up, we'd put hot dogs on the grill. When they were done, we'd prepare them (put them in a bun and then in the small foil bag) and put them in the warmers. If it's during the week, it's generally kind of slow, so they might not sell very fast. Meaning that they'll be sitting in there all afternoon. When the night shift comes in around 5 o'clock, people usually check to see what they need to stock, including hot dogs. My friends, I have seen so many green hot dogs when coming in that I will never buy another theater dog. Many times we'd just throw them away right then and there and start a new batch for the night. That didn't always happen, and some of those dogs were sold. There were several times when people checked their food and asked for a new one or traded it in for something else. Those were the smart ones. They were also in the minority. Far more people just took their hot dogs into the dark theater and started eating them, not fully aware of just how disgusting those things can be.
Another problem with them is that when it is busy, like in the summer months and during big opening weekends, those fuckers sell fast. Every concessionist is praying that they do not run out. If we do, we either have to tell them to try again in 20 minutes or we ring them up for the hot dogs and they wait around or come back with a receipt to claim their food. The problem with hot dogs is that they take a long time to cook and prepare. They first have to be put on the grill until they reach 120 degrees (or 140, I forget), then we have to warm up the buns, prepare the paper trays and foils, assemble everything, and then put them away. That's why we don't just keep them on the grills. I don't know how other places operate. But if we had run out and people were waiting on their hot dogs, we would pull them off the grill prematurely, package them up, and out they'd go. It sucks, but people want their damn hot dogs. Also, the hot dogs were kept in boxes in the freezer. If whoever was stocking was doing a bad job or it was just particularly hectic, there would be no hot dogs defrosted and ready to put on the grill, so we'd have to put them in the sink and run water over them until they were ready to go. That's what was normally done anyway, but if there was a demand and we were falling behind, those hot dogs were not always fully defrosted when they were put on the grill.
Do not buy movie theater hot dogs.
One time, my parents bought a picnic meal from the local supermarket for a 4th of July dinner (no one wanted to cook for the holiday, so they just bought a pre-made meal). My mother spoons out some cole slaw for herself, then my father takes the tub and spoons out an inverted latex glove for himself. They took the meal back, and got a free six course meal from the market, completely comped.
I went to another supermarket for a salad at lunch and brought it back to my office. I open the box and find a live caterpillar crawling around in the salad.
I ordered a pizza from a non-chain restaurant for delivery (at least I think it was non-chain, as I had not heard of it before; it was recommended by a friend). The pizza arrives, and upon opening the box find that the pizza has been stapled to the box.
I heard a talk radio show many years ago where people called in to tell stories either of things that had been done to their food or workers is the food service industry who did things to peoples food. I'm not sure how many of the stories were actually true, but one story was of a guy who worked at Taco Bell. A woman complain to him that there wasn't enough cheese on her taco. The guy apparently had a cold at the time, so he took the taco back and put some more "cheese" on the taco, then gave it back to her and watched her eat it and enjoy it. The lesson for this story: Be nice to people who handle your food.
Now, hair? That doesn't bother me. I'll just pull it out and keep eating. Stories about unsanitary conditions don't bother me too much, either - anything that doesn't make me outright sick is fine by me.
No no no you are not saying anything bad about Lick's their burgers are delicious don't let me read this goddammit you asshole nooooooo
Though, last winter, when Denver was snowed in for days, we helped a neighbor move snow to get up their driveway. They made us brownies and gave a card, and my mom cut into it and found a hair. We just threw it out, nothing big really.
The only thing I can eat is chicken strips from jack in the box, and that is only when im too drunk to care.
Wow that reminds me of the worst one of these stories ever. People have actually died eating there because of undercooked food having E coli. Although it wasn't done on purpose, it's still a lot worse than having someone spit in your burger. I refuse to even try their food.
Hmmm, the only thing that book did was make me hungry.
Actually, the E. Coli case was quite a long time ago, and Jack in the Box instituted the strictest cleanliness standards since then in response. This was both good and bad. Now, while the food is much cleaner and far less likely to have contamination (nothing is ever certain), the food does taste rather sterile compared to other fast food. I guess that, like gin, the contaminants are what give fast food their character.
Beside, E. Coli contamination is not just in the meat. There's been the recent incident where green onions were suspected of being contaminated with E. Coli. There was the whole contamination of bagged spinach a little while ago. You can't really get away from it.
Speaking of tastes in fast food, has anyone else tried Taco Bell since they stopped using transfats (I still don't think they're using green onions are the scare)? I did notice a very slight change in the taste and texture, but I find it hard to describe.
Yeah I know the chances of it happening again are pretty slim, but still after someone actually dying, I still can't help but be a little wary.
And I had forgotten about the recent E coli. scare actually. The one at taco bell doesn't really hit me as hard though, cause no one was actually killed. I also don't eat at taco bell, or any fast food really, anyway,