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!
Edited Mar 25 2007 05:11 by united2gether
Reason: trasfer to The Lounge forum
Reason: trasfer to The Lounge forum
An old teacher of mine told my class a story about McDonalds. Apparently she ordered a McChicken Sandwitch with no mayo and when she got it and took a bite it had mayo on it....when she opened it up to take it back up and get a new one...there was no mayo on it, but a white "liquid-ish" substance inside the chicken patty.....obviously that was the last time she ate there...EW
mmmm McChickeny-goodness.
When I was in Prague, we ate in a fairly expensive restaurant two evenings. We returned a third night and my boyfriend ordered a steak with pepper sauce, well-done. Instead the steak came with gravy and a rubbery looking egg, but rather than making a fuss, Kevin decided to eat it. However, when he cut it with the knife, blood started seeping out into the gravy - it wasn't just rare, it was barely even dead!!
So, we told the waitress who was very rude about it, and she eventually took it back and said she'd get him a well-done steak with pepper sauce. She returned approx 30 seconds later, and handed him the same steak, with the egg removed, but now it was smothered in pepper sauce. So there was gravy, blood and pepper sauce congealing on the plate ... lovely!
Didn't really eat too much for the rest of our stay there!!
So, we told the waitress who was very rude about it, and she eventually took it back and said she'd get him a well-done steak with pepper sauce. She returned approx 30 seconds later, and handed him the same steak, with the egg removed, but now it was smothered in pepper sauce. So there was gravy, blood and pepper sauce congealing on the plate ... lovely!
Didn't really eat too much for the rest of our stay there!!
I went to Hogi Yogi and got an oreo milkshake. The straws they put in those things are pretty wide and as I was drinking my shake something really hard hit my tooth. I pulled a metal screw out of my mouth! That could have been really nasty if I hadn't of noticed it. Also one time while eating pizza I noticed a thick black hair stuck through the crust... There's probably more but there ya go!
I had suggested this in another forum, but this seems more appropriate, so sorry if anyone is reading this for the second time.
Fatland by Greg Christer or Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. If you read either of those books, you will never eat fast food anywhere again. I actually turned to vegetarianism for two and a half years after reading those books. There are no horror stories really, just facts on what the fast food industry does not only to our culture, but our bodies, our working force and our economy.
Fatland by Greg Christer or Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. If you read either of those books, you will never eat fast food anywhere again. I actually turned to vegetarianism for two and a half years after reading those books. There are no horror stories really, just facts on what the fast food industry does not only to our culture, but our bodies, our working force and our economy.
I had a friend who told me a horror story about the McDonalds where he worked. It seems that had rats get into the buns and chewed them up. The manager made them bring the buns into the office where he personally sorted through them to see which ones were obviously rat chewed and which ones he could pass off as just crumbled around the edges.
Gotta keep those food costs down!
One of my co-workers husband is a health inspector. There's only one resturant in the entire city where he will eat. Only one that has consistantly met his standards.
Gotta keep those food costs down!
One of my co-workers husband is a health inspector. There's only one resturant in the entire city where he will eat. Only one that has consistantly met his standards.
in college a friend of mine was working in subway. Her would work in the back preparing all the vegetables. While he was standing there chopping lettuce he would be smoking and ashing in the same crisy lettuce tub! Also I saw the meat which is brought in sacks of preservative juice.
I always manage to find at least one strand of hair in my food, and it surely isn't from me. I also found a fly in one of my burgers from ARBY's. When I told the cashier about it, somebody from the back came up and said "We had another customer complain about that just an hour ago!"
Yeah... I never plan on eating at Arbys again. How do people miss these things? It's a frickin' fly. It was one of those huge ones too!
Yeah... I never plan on eating at Arbys again. How do people miss these things? It's a frickin' fly. It was one of those huge ones too!
Ooooo I also forgot what I heard about Dairy Queen. The cousin of one of my coworkers used to work at a Dairy Queen (and that worker was a friend of the manager of another Dairy Queen)... and they reused ice cream. I guess they had a trash can/bucket or bowl or something that caught the excess ice cream that they usually throw away, but they refroze and reused theirs the next day. I don't know if that's a GOOD idea, because at least they aren't wasting it, but at the same time, we never know if one of the employees don't know what they're doing and accidentally drop a scoop of ice cream on the counter/floor and then throw it away in the same bucket or something.
I went to a Burger King in late November once and the place was covered in flies. Now I live in Canada. By late November it's well below freezing and all the insects are dormant. So then I had to start thinking about where the maggots were coming from that were making these flies.....
And if you think that because you make it yourself at home it's better for you, you're probably wrong. Where do you get your food from? The grocery store. The margins in a grocery store are razer thin. They'll do anything to save a buck. For example I saw an expose on 60 minutes where they had a ring with the date on it and they went to a grocery store and picked up all the meat, being sure to press the ring into the foam tray. They went back a month later and checked. Sure enough, they managed to find several trays with the impression from their ring in it, but each ahd had the plaster saran wrapper replaced and a new "packaged on" date.
And that's only what they caught. After that roast has been out there long enough it gets chopped into steaks. When the steaks have languished long enough they get ground up into hamburger meat. If the hamburger meat starts to turn grey they have a little trick. they take it back, poke a hole in the plastic wrap and inject in pure oxygen. The oxygen reacts with the meat and turns it red again. Then they just put a sticker over the hole that they made in the wrap.
Have you ever wondered why when you break open the hamburger meat the outside is nice and red but the inside is gray? Now you know.
Had a friend who worked in the meat department, and he told some REAL horror stories. start with a whole chicken. If it doesn't sell after a few weeks it's chopped up and sold as chicken breasts/thighs, etc. when the skin starts to get really bacteria covered and white/slimy they remove the skin and bones and sell it as boneless skinless chicken breasts. The kicker is that they now charge MORE for the boneless skinless chicken that they do for just the chicken breast.
When even the boneless skinless chicken starts to look old and slimy they take it, wash it, and chop it into strips to sell as stir-fry chicken strips.
And that's just the meat department. Sorry to disappoint any vegans out there, but the produce department has their own set of tricks. Have you ever wondered what those grapes and fruit that has "product of Chile" on it got to your table? I used to work for a shipping company and I happen to know that it takes at least 2 weeks to ship something up from Chile. So this produce is at least 2 weeks old, and that's just if you're living near a distribution center such as New York or LA. The produce dept has this special room where they store the produce that's about to go out, or that is wilted and has been brought back. They blast it with CO2, which brings back it's color so it can last a little longer. And those apples that you're enjoying in March were all picked in September.
I can tell you stories that would turn your hair white and make you swear off food forever, but the fact is that cooking destroys almost all germs (along with almost all vitamins, but that's another story) and what isn't destroyed by cooking is almost always destroyed by your body's immune system. It?s only if food?s been manhandled or improperly stored AFTER it?s been cooked that it can make you sick.
So bring on your cockroaches. Extra protein I call it. Spit on the griddle, it?s all cooked off anyway. Drop my meat on the floor, so long as you throw it on the griddle for a few seconds after dropping it. Manhandle my salad, after all it was grown outside in the dirt for months before I saw it and probably hasn?t been properly washed since then. And even if your food is spotlessly hygienic, are you really going to eat that hamburger with your bare hands? After they?ve been handling money and have been dragged through god knows what all day long? And you dare to complain because the server wasn?t wearing gloves?
And I haven't even mentioned the horrors of how the food was produced before it even got to the store yet. The hormones in the meat, the pesticides in the produce. The chemicals used to maintain color and freshness. The rats in the storage lockers, the fecal mater in the slaughterhouse, etc.
And if you think that because you make it yourself at home it's better for you, you're probably wrong. Where do you get your food from? The grocery store. The margins in a grocery store are razer thin. They'll do anything to save a buck. For example I saw an expose on 60 minutes where they had a ring with the date on it and they went to a grocery store and picked up all the meat, being sure to press the ring into the foam tray. They went back a month later and checked. Sure enough, they managed to find several trays with the impression from their ring in it, but each ahd had the plaster saran wrapper replaced and a new "packaged on" date.
And that's only what they caught. After that roast has been out there long enough it gets chopped into steaks. When the steaks have languished long enough they get ground up into hamburger meat. If the hamburger meat starts to turn grey they have a little trick. they take it back, poke a hole in the plastic wrap and inject in pure oxygen. The oxygen reacts with the meat and turns it red again. Then they just put a sticker over the hole that they made in the wrap.
Have you ever wondered why when you break open the hamburger meat the outside is nice and red but the inside is gray? Now you know.
Had a friend who worked in the meat department, and he told some REAL horror stories. start with a whole chicken. If it doesn't sell after a few weeks it's chopped up and sold as chicken breasts/thighs, etc. when the skin starts to get really bacteria covered and white/slimy they remove the skin and bones and sell it as boneless skinless chicken breasts. The kicker is that they now charge MORE for the boneless skinless chicken that they do for just the chicken breast.
When even the boneless skinless chicken starts to look old and slimy they take it, wash it, and chop it into strips to sell as stir-fry chicken strips.
And that's just the meat department. Sorry to disappoint any vegans out there, but the produce department has their own set of tricks. Have you ever wondered what those grapes and fruit that has "product of Chile" on it got to your table? I used to work for a shipping company and I happen to know that it takes at least 2 weeks to ship something up from Chile. So this produce is at least 2 weeks old, and that's just if you're living near a distribution center such as New York or LA. The produce dept has this special room where they store the produce that's about to go out, or that is wilted and has been brought back. They blast it with CO2, which brings back it's color so it can last a little longer. And those apples that you're enjoying in March were all picked in September.
I can tell you stories that would turn your hair white and make you swear off food forever, but the fact is that cooking destroys almost all germs (along with almost all vitamins, but that's another story) and what isn't destroyed by cooking is almost always destroyed by your body's immune system. It?s only if food?s been manhandled or improperly stored AFTER it?s been cooked that it can make you sick.
So bring on your cockroaches. Extra protein I call it. Spit on the griddle, it?s all cooked off anyway. Drop my meat on the floor, so long as you throw it on the griddle for a few seconds after dropping it. Manhandle my salad, after all it was grown outside in the dirt for months before I saw it and probably hasn?t been properly washed since then. And even if your food is spotlessly hygienic, are you really going to eat that hamburger with your bare hands? After they?ve been handling money and have been dragged through god knows what all day long? And you dare to complain because the server wasn?t wearing gloves?
And I haven't even mentioned the horrors of how the food was produced before it even got to the store yet. The hormones in the meat, the pesticides in the produce. The chemicals used to maintain color and freshness. The rats in the storage lockers, the fecal mater in the slaughterhouse, etc.
A long time ago, I went to Izzy's buffet, got a piece of cheese pizza, and there was a long hair baked into the cheese!!! It was so gross, I'm so glad I saw it before I took a bite though. After that my meal was free, but it was a shame I had lost my appetite and didn't even eat anything...
this isn't really fast food, but...
I used to get fruit all the time from this grocery store (in Chicago) and one time I bought a "value" pack of fruit; a few days later I had a fruit fly infestation that came in on the fruit, some of which I'd already eaten!
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I think it's great to bring up all the disgusting things about fast food preparation, but what about everything that happens up until then? What about the rows of sickly cows injected with antibiotics? I'm sure at every level of our food there is gross stuff, but what choice does that leave us, the consumers?
I used to get fruit all the time from this grocery store (in Chicago) and one time I bought a "value" pack of fruit; a few days later I had a fruit fly infestation that came in on the fruit, some of which I'd already eaten!
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I think it's great to bring up all the disgusting things about fast food preparation, but what about everything that happens up until then? What about the rows of sickly cows injected with antibiotics? I'm sure at every level of our food there is gross stuff, but what choice does that leave us, the consumers?
Wow, no post for a while!
Okay, nothing gross, I just wanted to say, that if you ever went to a pizza hut in chilliwack, BC, in like, the last 8 years or more, and had Vince Gidon there, you are lucky.
He's my dad, and he would get me to help him sometimes when he used to work there. Now my dad is a clean freak. Wayyyy clean. You wash your hands before you touch any food, if you change from meat to veggies, you wash your hands, can't use the same knife on different foods, anything hits the floor stays on the floor till it is swept up and put in the garbage. After every use of anything it is to be washed right away.
I never did anything bad to anyones food, Imagine a young like, 11 yr girl handing you your pizza. Too cute, eh? I got lots of tips, and as I got older compliments from guys *blush*
And once, my dad was raising money for cancer funds, we did a car wash, and we went past the amount that we were given to make and my dad had to shave his head.
If I ever worked at a fast food place and saw someone pick something up from the floor, I would yell at them. Even if It got me fired. I don't think that would look bad on a resume.
"So, why did you get fired?" "Oh, I was too hygenic...Someone dropped food on the floor and I /Made/ them throw it away."
Pssh, as if that would look bad.
But, I don't ever want to work in a fast food place, and the place I order from Sandwich Tree, they make the food in front of you. can't promise freshness but yea.
Oh and Yea, the oldest stuff goes first. Pizza dough has a shelf life of a certain amount (cant remember) and you use those up before you make new dough, but, none of it is bad. I sliced my finger once, I got a new knife, washed my hands, put a bandaid on and threw away anything I was cutting. I was young and smart, still am.
Even if people were mean to us, my dad always said "the customer is always right" Griping about it doesn't help, really. Have a good night everyone.
Okay, nothing gross, I just wanted to say, that if you ever went to a pizza hut in chilliwack, BC, in like, the last 8 years or more, and had Vince Gidon there, you are lucky.
He's my dad, and he would get me to help him sometimes when he used to work there. Now my dad is a clean freak. Wayyyy clean. You wash your hands before you touch any food, if you change from meat to veggies, you wash your hands, can't use the same knife on different foods, anything hits the floor stays on the floor till it is swept up and put in the garbage. After every use of anything it is to be washed right away.
I never did anything bad to anyones food, Imagine a young like, 11 yr girl handing you your pizza. Too cute, eh? I got lots of tips, and as I got older compliments from guys *blush*
And once, my dad was raising money for cancer funds, we did a car wash, and we went past the amount that we were given to make and my dad had to shave his head.
If I ever worked at a fast food place and saw someone pick something up from the floor, I would yell at them. Even if It got me fired. I don't think that would look bad on a resume.
"So, why did you get fired?" "Oh, I was too hygenic...Someone dropped food on the floor and I /Made/ them throw it away."
Pssh, as if that would look bad.
But, I don't ever want to work in a fast food place, and the place I order from Sandwich Tree, they make the food in front of you. can't promise freshness but yea.
Oh and Yea, the oldest stuff goes first. Pizza dough has a shelf life of a certain amount (cant remember) and you use those up before you make new dough, but, none of it is bad. I sliced my finger once, I got a new knife, washed my hands, put a bandaid on and threw away anything I was cutting. I was young and smart, still am.
Even if people were mean to us, my dad always said "the customer is always right" Griping about it doesn't help, really. Have a good night everyone.
alright...so i worked at this place similar to starbucks...and there would always b this lady that came throught the drive thru demanding a drink similar to a frapachino..but not blended...she always wanted with no ice and since filling the cup with mostly ice was our way of making money i informed her that it was standard we filled the cup with ice..she basically blew up in my face and screamed at me and told me she would not come back if i put ice in it..i was soooooo mad at one moment and as revenge...i made her drink wiht PURE coffee cream...she was huuuuuge alraedy...probaby cuz she drinks one of these everyday...but she was sooo rude at that monent i just got so pissed....other than that....mmm...i agree with be a nice customer..i personally wouldnt do anything gross like spitting and w/e but i guarentee it does happen
I worked in a 24 hour resurant and cooked sour pancakes all morning intill a customer asked to speak with the cook.. The previous shift had made the batter with milk instead of water so it went bad really fast. Hate to say it but **** happens and most people that work in a resturant dont try too "KILL" you.... oh yeah and our lemon aide machine had mold floating on the top at one point... needless to say once it was found it was cleaned pronto!! Im the one that got sick that time I had been drinking it all day
My husband had a full mouth extraction. We went through the drive thru at McD a few days later to get him a milkshake. We were the 2nd car in line at the pick up window. While waiting we saw one of the employees bring someone's food out to them.(The McD here will pull you up to wait for food if it isn't done and they have a long line) This person was in a truck and had a dog in the back. The employee hands the guy his food, pets the dog, walks in and hands the car in front of us their order. Now, I couldn't see inside the store, but I KNOW he didn't have time to wash his hands. We pull up to the window and he is making my husband's shake. I refused it and told them I wanted my money back. He insist that he walked to the back and washed his hands quickly. There was NO WAY he had time. I was like my husband just had full mouth extraction........do you realize what kind of infection he could get? If you didn't wash your hands after playing with the dog, it makes me wonder if you have washed your hands at all today.
Once, in around 1989, I stopped at a drive-through at a Burger King in Tucson on the way from San Diego to El Paso. I got a Whopper and started eating it as I continued on my long drive. halfway through, I noticed something weird that felt like a very resilient piece of lettuce - when I looked, I found that it was a "Jolly Rancher" candy wrapper, that had been ground into the patty. It really grossed me out, but by this time, I was already 30 miles down the highway, so I didn't go back to complain. It was many years before I hate at a Burger King again.
Which brings me to a more recent trip - my family and I were moving from Florida to California, and this time we decided to stop at a Burger King in Van Horn, Texas, because it had one of those indoor playgrounds for the kids. We walked in all ready to order, but looking around, noticed that almost ALL the tables were filthy, even though there was only one table occupied. And on top of that, there was a huge puddle of VOMIT in the middle of the floor, which looked like it had been there for a while, and nobody at the counter was budging to take care of it. Needless to say, we got the hell out of there without ordering and found another place to eat.
I guess we don't have good luck with Burger Kings on long trips...
at a local custard shop (it's like ice cream), one of the employees sliced a finger off and it was immediately served (the custard making machines are really, really fast so this is feasible). the customer who received the severed finger in his bowl refused to give the finger back to the employee as he wanted it as evidence for suing. well, as it turned out, that customer did sue but LOST his case because it was ruled an accident. However, the employee sued the customer and WON because the employee would have maybe been able to have the finger re-attached had the customer given the finger back.
Moral of the story: always give the finger back.
Edited to add: i don't know all the particulars, but the employee who lost his finger was in the backroom, and the 'custard-making machine' separates the backroom from the serving area, and it's all very loud. So the employee who was serving the custard did not know that one of his/her co-workers had just severred a finger for a few minutes.
Moral of the story: always give the finger back.
Edited to add: i don't know all the particulars, but the employee who lost his finger was in the backroom, and the 'custard-making machine' separates the backroom from the serving area, and it's all very loud. So the employee who was serving the custard did not know that one of his/her co-workers had just severred a finger for a few minutes.
Original Post by avacadogrl:
at a local custard shop (it's like ice cream), one of the employees sliced a finger off and it was immediately served (the custard making machines are really, really fast so this is feasible). the customer who received the severed finger in his bowl refused to give the finger back to the employee as he wanted it as evidence for suing. well, as it turned out, that customer did sue but LOST his case because it was ruled an accident. However, the employee sued the customer and WON because the employee would have maybe been able to have the finger re-attached had the customer given the finger back.
Moral of the story: always give the finger back.
Maybe I am missing something, but if I am an employee and serving custard and chop my finger off, I am going to stop what I am doing, not continue to serve the order and then deal with my missing digit. Had to of been blood going everywhere and what not. Couldn't imagine just going on about my business and serving the customer before I sought medical attention for my chopped off finger.
Many of these are just so disgusting! I can't even fathom that they can be real.This really did happen to me. We were going through a drive though and the poor girl serving us had really bad acne. the bad part was that it looked like she never ever took care of it and there were MANY blemishes that had popped and the remains had dried where they lay. I would have just let that go and moved on, but my 5 yr old son who also happens to have autism, LOUDLY declared that that lady had polka dots all over her face and one of them fell on his ice cream cone.
Edit, he also has OCD
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