Gross Fast Food Stories

Mine is when I was at a Mcdonalds and saw a worker drop a patty on the ground, pick it up, put it on a bun, and hand it out the drive thru window. You can bet I called the customer service hotline on that dimwit!

Ok, this IS a gross one....

A newspaper here in the UK reported a woman catching SYPHYLLIS through eating a Big Mac...apparently a McDonalds chef had "relieved" himself onto her burger and served it to her...

I'll try to find the link but it was a looooong time ago!

There's this really nasty Chinese place in the little college town where I live.

Inside it's really run down; there is always a bucket somewhere in the restaurant collecting brown water dripping from the ceiling.  Sometimes a ceiling tile or two will be disintegrated and collapsed from absorbing all that moisture from wherever it drips.

They rent a few apartments upstairs and a friend went to look at one; in one of the bedrooms there were like, cat carriers stacked everywhere and the woman showing the room was like, "Don't worry, we have these out of here real soon."

So I went in there a few months ago with a friend who wanted to order some food (against my advice) and it was late at night, maybe 10.  You could see them starting to clean for the night.  They had one of those wheeled yellow mop buckets (absolutely black with filth) and a wide firm-bristled broom for scrubbing the floors.  Well, I watched the guy pick the broom off the floor, dip it into the mop water, and then throw the broom up onto the grilltop and start scrubbing.  I almost threw up.

AND, to top all of that off, just last weekend, a friend's roommate got some takeout from that place, and he found MAGGOTS in his broccoli and chicken.  So freaking disgusting.

They've had so many food violation reports filed against them, and yet they're still in business.  I don't know how.  It's so gross.

And I swear I'm not making this up.

I went to Subway and the guy working there must have been a mechanic by day because his fingernails were black! He had a 5 o'clock shadow and took the knife to cut the bread and sliced his dirty finger. As the blood came dripping out he stuck the bloody finger in his mouth and sucked the blood off!!! Than he continued to make my sandwich. I thought I was on Candid camera!! I left without the sandwich ewwwwwww!!!!!! Bad memories!

The former owner of a DQ in my home town used to require his employees to dig through the trash, take out all of the plastic forks/spoons/etc that people had used, rinse them off, and then re-stock them to be used again.  I didn't believe this when I first heard it as a rumor, but then one day when I was in there I actually saw one of the employees rinsing off a bunch of plastic silverware . . . .needless, to say, I left immediately (after breaking my plastic silverware into many little pieces) and didn't return until new ownership took over.

Old Country Buffet, Finger nail in my apple cobler ice cream sunday!! Yes a freakin big ass yellow baked fingernail... I went nuts!

okay.. .so I have a girlfriend who used to work at Dennys as a server and there was this other server whom everyone else called "Greasy Reecie" Why you ask.. well... She would eat food off people plates before it went out to the table, and if they didnt finish it all, SHE WOULD! She would take it to the kitchen, and instead of scraping the plate like all servers do, she would eat it!!!!!!! UGH, talk about gross!

Nasty!

Well, I'm late to join in, but I can't resist.  What do you think of ordering a cone of Ben & Jerry's and finding human hair, animal hair, and sawdust all over it?   A friend of mine used to have sanitation issues.  I mean, he lived in a cabin in the woods with no running water, never showered.  He was always covered in sawdust since he cut his own wood for his stove.  His dog's long hairs were everywhere.  His long hairs were everywhere too!  He was really a mess.  He worked at a Ben & Jerry's.  He was high most of the time.  He served many people ice cream with dog hairs, his hairs, and sawdust mixed in.  Not everyone complained either which totally baffles me.  He was eventually fired....

(And if you're wondering, he's now a clean-cut successful architect living in a big city - talk about change!)

this was along time ago but its still gross my mom use to work at this seafood place and everytime someone droped some fish or shrimp or anything on the floor then would pick it up and throw it in the clam chowder

after i heard that i cant eat clam chowder without almost throwing up

That's it, it will be a looonnnngggg time before I go out to eat again. I am so grossed out!! OMG, a fingernail in your cobbler???!!!

The story above with the man wiping his sweat with the tortilla is the single grossest thing on this thread. That's freaking nasty yet so funny I really have to laugh.

I ate at a grubby NYC diner in Times Square with my parents recently after a show. It was gross but my parents are from a very different generation where they aren't maybe as high maintenance as me so I just agreed to do. Anyway, we ordered and while we waited for our food a GIANT water bug/coakroach fell from the ceiling into the middle of our table. The waiters scampered over and were extremely apologetic. As I screamed my parents just laughed and refused to leave. It still gives me chills and makes me ill to think about.

OH MY GOD I can't believe this stuff! This makes me never want to eat out again! EVER!

*face turning ten shades of green...stomach is churning, the four pieces of pizza (homemade) that I shouldn't have eaten are trying to decide whether to stay down or not...hmmm...headache coming on, (definitely never eating fast food again...was already pretty short on it) the two beer tonight didn't help...I think I'll just go to bed.* I wish I was bulimic.

Well I have 3 short bad food stories.. The first one Is at Ponderosa, For those of you who don't have that restaurant it is like a buffet style place. Someone at my table said the ice cream was slimy, and shortly after I took a bite of my ice cream, I felt sick and could barely hold my puke in before I got to the bathroom. Second, I went to subway, and was enjoying a sweet onion chicken sub, and it felt like a small piece of glass was stuck in my tongue and stayed there for a few days. I guess I swallowed it eventually. Then (this is the most recent) I went to Mc Donalds to get the new SOUTHWEST SALAD... I brought it home, and sat down and started eating away. Just by some strange luck, I looked down at my salad only to find half of a fly staring back at me on my dressing drenched lettuce. Yum!!! where's the other half??? I stopped eating and drove right back to the restaurant, and i showed the manager what I had found. He gave me two free sandwich cards and my money back... He was like NEXT TIME YOU HAVE ONE OF OUR SALADS....I was like sorry, I don't think there is going to be a next time.

I have heard of one really really gross story.  I don't know if this is true or not as a friend told me this one.  Apparently someone ordered a chicken sandwich and upon taking a bite of it found it covered it "mayonaise"  She told the server that she didn't order it with mayonaise.  Upon closer inspection it turned out the chicken had a large tumor and the may was actually the bursted tumor that had been biten into.  Also I've heard of one of my friends in high school telling me how the cooks at a Steak place would spit in the cooking pans and watch their spit boil away when they weren't busy. 

Apparently two people who worked in a McDonald's are getting sued for spitting on a burger http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276958,00.html 

my friend used to work at taco bell.

the guys she worked with PEED in the cheese.

GROSS!!!

I had to chime in on this:

First Stlgirl people were I used to work (Unos) ALWAYS eat off your plates after clearing tables, as soon as they take your plates, if your not taking it home, most of the time, they take it to the back, and eat around the edges.....it is the grossesest,,,,,thing I have EVER seen in my life, I dont care how hungry you are, I dont like to eat off my sons plate, let alone, some strangers....

Second::: NEVER,,,I MEAN NEVER!!!!!!!! ORDER FISH IN A RESTURANT ON MONDAYS...It is not fresh. It is left over from Friday. Almost all fish markets are closed on Modays, so the fish is left over from Fridays, that is why they have really great specials on fish on Mondays. I would wait till probl. Wen, and even then, I would only order fish if I know for SURE thst it is fresh...

Third: Watch out for "SPECIALS" like youv heard here,,,it just like is at home, its a way for the cheif to clean out the walkin..LOL

And just a quick story...While working at Uno's, I had a cust order a drink...one of those fru fru mixy things....came in a martini gls...Well I brought it to her, and she as I walk away, and she called me backwith ughhhhh dearyyyyyy....when I came back,,,she pointed to the bottom of her glass, there was tiny shards of tooth picks all through her drink!!!!! I totaly freaked out, took the drink back to the bar to show the ars, who I couldnt stand to begin with, he acted like the customer must of done it...."uhgggg...I have know idea how tooth pick shards could have gotten in there????" ...Humm Could it be from the blender being right below the tooth pick holder????dugh????

Well, I got the manager to comp her drink, and her dates.....

There are lots of others things that go on in the kitchen, But for the most part, I think you will find that you have at least 2 or 3 that speak up and keep the ones who try to sabatage your food in line, what you have to watch out for are few who have a chip on their sholder....

Happy eatting..lol

NEVER EAT THE CHILI AT A WENDY'S!!!!!!! I worked there part time in high school and found out first hand how it is made. You ever wonder where all the burnt, old, and dropped-on-floor burgers go? Thats right!!! IN THE CHILI!!! I've even watched the manager scrape the meat chunks out of the grease traps and put it in the chili. When I asked him about it he said,and I quote, "It's OK the customers don't see us make it and it probably tastes th same anyway." Needless to say I did'nt work there long!!

I found a staple in a box of Enteman's coffe cake once. They were real cool about it and sent a letter apologizing and a bunch of free coupons.

And I havent eaten in a mall food court since I saw cockroaches crawling around on the tables in broad daylight at one of DC's more upscale malls.

But personally, I think that if you're going to eat something someone else prepared in a location you cannot see, then you're kind of at the mercy of the cooks and cant really complain.

So what can you do these days except just make everything for yourself?

I love Wendy's chili, too bad I can't eat it anymore now :P

As for my stories, we went to McD's a few years ago and my aunt found a used bandaid in her salad, the manager apologized but didn't do anything about it!

Someone earlier said something about people having sex in the walk-in freezer.  I used to work at an Ice Cream shop where whenever my manager was working, the owner came in two or three times a week and would to go into the walk-in and spend lots of time "doing the order."  (none of us believed that, as the order was only due once every other week, but we were all to afraid of what we'd see if we actually walked in there lol)


I officially have no appetite after reading your horror stories!