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!

eeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm gagging .This forum will def keep your mind off eating.  I  just watched Fast food nation ugh that will keep you from eating fast food or non organic inhumane meat ever again worked on me. Now I have to read the book I hear its even worse

RAZ:

If I had gone into the place you worked on that particular day you switched the decaff to regular coffee, and I ordered it...You would have had to call 911 because I would not be able to breathe. I am on beta- blockers from an enlarged heart, and I can not even have .1g of caffiene or else my heart will stop. Since you typed that, I am very hesitant about ordering anything decaff. From now on, I will make my own tea and coffee at home.

My school's got a new summer reading program, so that addition to the two books each grade already has to read, the whole school is reading the same book.

Freshman and sophomores (I'll be a sophomore) have to read Chew On This, and juniors and seniors have to read Fastfood Nation.

*wrinkles nose*

I found a pube in a crab and corn dish at a Chinese buffet.  Almost puked.  Couldn't touch anything for the rest of my meal.

My brother found a looooong hair in the coffee he ordered from Starbucks. But he still drinks there so.. :P

I used to work at this bakery and thankfully most of things were kept very clean. Cleaned everywhere at least once a day and w/e fell on the floor went straight to garbage can. Except the basement where there were roaches and all.... *shudders*

-Lemon Jello

Ew, the tortilla sweat rag and used bandaid are the grossest stories on here. You just gotta almost laugh at the nastiness.

this isnt really gross but i thought i would add it. one time i went to subway and ordered a sub. i sat down to eat it and noticed the bun was really hard and stale. i mean, when i went to bit it, it crumbled into tiny pieces. well i went to go tell the person that it was stale and he didnt say anything. i then added that i would like a new one with fresh bread and the look on his face was unbeleieveable. its like he expected that i eat it anyways.

When I was in the 5th grade a friend of mine found a rag between the chicken patty and bun in the school cafiteria. Good thing she was putting manaise on it or that would have been really grose to bite into.

OMG!! I cannot stop laughing at archesophos post, lmao!! The broom on the grill.. man that's too funny. Disgusting, yes, but still too funny.

I went to Subway about a week ago and I saw an employee dumping a small waste basket into a larger trash can with his gloves on!! I can assure you he didn't remove & replace them or sanitize his hands. My mom questioned me as to why I didn't say anything.. I literally have no clue.

I went the Jack in The Box awhile ago. I was standing there I saw the employee who took my order.. handled my money; brush some straw wrappers and dropped peanuts off the counter, with bare hands, throw them into the trash and proceed to make someone's mint shake. I just looked in disbelief. Like 'HELLO, WASH YOUR HANDS!!'.

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Actually jack in the box is one of the very best in food safety. (After that entire killing people thing they had a while back heh heh)

I think people are getting a little crazy with the "clean" food stuff. Its to a point where anyone touching your food is unclean. Germs and colds travel through the air! Skin flakes off all the time and we constantly breath eachothers in. There are a HUGE number of different organisms that go in and out of us all day long... and all these things dont hurt us.

There is also a HUGE range of things that go on "back stage" that we arent aware of (and the only way to avoid this is to simply not eat out). The thing to worry about are things that will A) kill you or B) make you sick... simply "someone touched it" isnt a problem, that wont harm you.

Lorik i'm sure it was just this one. The kitchen was insanely small and it looked as if there were at least a dozen + workers in there. No lie. Need I mention poor service.  haha okaaay, i'll stop. :]

i've only had a bad experience with elementary school food when i was little, and it wasn't anything too horrible. my mom usually made me take my own lunch to school everyday and eating the school food was like a treat. well, i went to get my food one day, and chicken nuggets happened to be what they were serving. i ate about 3 and when i picked the fourth one up a freaking spider crawled out from the pile of nuggets! no wonder i've never been a huge fan of chicken nuggets from anywhere LOL. that school was really dirty though, i remember hearing stories about cockroaches being in the cafeteria (my elementary school had this thing where they'd pick about 8 or so students to help out in the cafeteria every week), i remember being really cautious and watchful for any sort of bugs >_<.

man, i was starving before reading this post rofl! totally have no appetite after reading some of your guys' stories haha.

The very same day they caught a guy in this restaurant spewing his um well baby sperms all over a pizza pie. I had gone to this restuarant that very same day so needless to say i puked up most of the pizza I ate. I didnt catch him doing it to mine but who knows if he did or not the customer that caught him actually seen him in the act how dumb was that doing it right out in the open. what weirdos yikes........

oMg which restaurant is this? that's just plain stupid!

Awful. Just awful.

I worked in a sandwich shop once (at college) and the sandwiches all came with a precut pickle which we were supposed to dip our hands (no gloves) into a big pickle can filled with juice to extract. I hate pickles so insisted on using tongs to avoid the pickle juice but I was the only one. Everyone else's hands went into the juice.

That being said, sushi is prepared with a lot of intimate hand/food contact with no gloves and it's yummy.

Not really as gross as all this, but I can't eat out without thinking about the movie "Fast Food Nation."  Yuck, they show how this big burger company finds poop in their burgers because the meat wasn't processed right.  But then.... they cover it up.  So now all i can think of is growth hormone and poop!  nasty.

After the movie clips I saw when I was getting my Food Service License, I will never eat at another fast food place again! Ex-employees who are on the verge of taking this job and shoving it go to the extreem at times for revenge. If you can think of the un-thinkable...you got what I mean! It's too nasty to even say on this site! Dropping a burger on the floor and then serving it is too nice! YUCK!!! It's bad folks!

I've worked in fast food for almost 8 years (its not my career - just part time whilst at highschool/uni) and I can honestly say in all that time, I haven't really witnessed anything *that* gross....

A fly flew into our chip hopper once, hit the light, died, fell into the chips, RIGHT as I was packing chips.... and I ended up emptying the entire thing and wait for a fresh batch before I packed any more. 

The grossest thing (and this happens ALL THE TIME) is when a customer coughs on their hands, then gets their money out (with the same hand!!) - or just cough all over you without covering their mouth at all... money is gross. It's no wonder I live with an almost permanent cold >:(

I saw this guy take his meal, sit down, put his head over the top and ruffle through his hair, come back and complain that there was hair in his chicken... well, that may have been fine, but it was short blonde hair, and the only people on were me (long black/blue hair) and my manager (shaved head) - yet the customer (some 15 year old guy) had short blonde hair. oh, and i saw him do it as well.

someone said they found a pube in their meal, but it was a thread from a cloth that we use to carry hot trays (they're clean clothes - not great - but they INSISTED that it was a pube... even though i showed them what it was from.)

as soon as i tell someone new where i work, they only ever ask me one question "would you eat there?" and i say yes (nutrition aside)...
however, I have  trained a few people that just have NO IDEA about hygiene.
We have a bottle of cleaner that we use to clean dining room trays, as well as use to clean surfaces in the toilets. Workers will put on gloves, carry that bottle, clean the toilets, put the bottle back out the front (to use for the trays), take off their gloves then wash their hands. Then they wonder why I yell at them for not washing the bottle as well. I'm like, "You were touching that bottle with gloves on, what else did you touch with those gloves, and now someone is going to pick up the bottle without gloves and then serve...."

even then some people still don't get it.

I have one.  this was about 12 years ago.

When my oldest son was about 24 months we went shopping and got tired.  At lunch we went to a restaurant located in the mall. This was not fast food this was a steakhouse that had been in town for years and years. 

As my son really couldn't eat much on the menu and I brought snacks for him, I decided to order a beef tortilla, which was beef stuffed into a bread pocket x 2, and we could split it.  This came with a side of salad.  I thought we could both munch on this. 

As I was eating my salad my son was munching a bit on a piece of the tortilla thing, that I gave him.  I looked over at his high chair and there were a couple of big, black hairs on it.  This was very visible as the high chair was white.  I wiped them off, irritated and figured he must of touched part of the booth, and these hairs were left behind.  A few seconds later I look up and again these huge hairs now theres more and everywhere.  I grab the tortilla and I swear to god in the middle of it was an ENORMOUS, BIG, BLACK, hairball.  I mean 2 x 3 inches.  It looked as though someone had been saving hair in a brush, for months and stuck this thing in there.  I have never again gone into the restaurant (closed last year) and never ordered anything stuffed where I can't see inside.  There was no way that was not intentional and had I not been younger and sweeter I would have raised more hell than I did.  Disgusting.  Someone in that kitchen put that in there, probably thinking it would be funny.

ok -- officially no longer hungry, just trying to keep down what I already ate.

I have trust issues as it is -- never do the drive thru anymore (why when I was only gonna have to go in so they could correct my order anyway), and watch closely as my food is being prepared in the my rare fast food visits anyway -- but now I'm thinking of giving up all restaurants... i try NOT to think about the "additives" in my food, I don't have time to prepare EVERYTHING myself.

I was at a Bloom grocery store the other day, waiting at the bakery for someone to help me get something fattening/unhealthy.  Finally a guy came out of the back with gloves on, fiddled with some stuff around the corner before I could get his attention and then finally came over (still had the gloves on).  Told him what I wanted, he turned around, got a clamshell opened up the case and reached inside -- at which stage I exclaimed --"you're not going to change your gloves???? Oh, hell no" and walked away. (I guess I should thank him).  The manager was a inexperienced person and didn't want to hear me complain.  I can't go back to the bakery -- or actually get anything prepared in house anymore.