on an American cheeseburger do you really know what some of your favorite fast food chains have
been up to these are 10 of the biggest fast food scandals ever the old finger in the chili scam
chicken biscuits are Bruiser Morty how much do you enjoy Wendy's chili some diners consider a staple
of the fast food chains menu While others find the meat that they use to be a little bit suspect
this has led to many online users speculating that the beef and Wendy's chili is actually
made using chopped up bits of day-old hamburger that have been left to dry out under a heat lamp
for hours at a time but if that doesn't sound disturbing enough in 2005 one woman even went
so far as to claim that Wendy's chili contained a body part according to 45 year old Anna Ayala
she found a severed human finger in amongst her kidney beans and vegetables and worse than that
she apparently hadn't even noticed it until she had already taken a bite into the digit
but authorities were quick to begin noticing holes in the woman's story while forensics were able to
prove that what she had in her possession was indeed a real human finger there didn't appear
to be any bite taken out of it while Ayala had claimed that the finger had been at least
partially cooked authorities could find no sign of this and no employees at Wendy's had reported
any injury that might explain the finger's presence it was eventually discovered that
Ayala's husband had gotten the finger off of a co-worker who had recently suffered an
industrial accident and the couple had come up with a scam together looking to score a
big chunk of cash out of Wendy's the couple both pled guilty in court to charges of conspiracy to
file a false Insurance claim and attempted Grand Theft with damages exceeding 2.5 million dollars
Ayala received a nine-year sentence while her husband wound up being sentenced to 12 years
skin in an Arby's sandwich it's a focused group of Arby's Executives watching us eat not every chain
is innocent when it comes to including body parts and amongst their list of ingredients
Arby's has a surprisingly long history of this sort of thing actually happening the first event
took place back in 2005 when one David scheiding filed a lawsuit against the fast food chain after
taking a bite out of his chicken sandwich and discovering that something about it just didn't
feel right upon investigating he uncovered a slice of human skin roughly three-fourths of
an inch long clear enough that he could still make out the individual's fingerprints on it
when a health investigator paid a visit to that particular Arby's location they noticed that a
manager was wearing a bandage on his right thumb as well as a latex glove the manager
then explained how he had cut his thumb while shredding lettuce and although he had sanitized
the area at the time he had not taken the time to throw out the bin of lettuce he had been preparing
which explained how a bit of the manager's thumb had wound up in the customer's sandwich
shame on shame on you and as if it wasn't bad enough for something like this to happen once
Arby's would find themselves facing a similar Scandal again in 2012. this time 14 year old
Ryan Hart would take a bite out of his roast beef sandwich only to find a full finger inside as it
would turn out and Arby's employee had suffered a severe injury to her hand while preparing the
boy's meal and although she was taken away to deal with the emergency the meal was completed by
employees who were unaware of any contamination Hart's own mother described her son as being
traumatized by the event claiming that he'd been having trouble sleeping and eating and had needed
to be prescribed with medication while the Arby's location in question was quickly shut down the
Secret Service sues Denny's all right Denny's it's always open in 1993 21 uniformed members of the
Secret Service who had been tasked with setting up security for Bill Clinton were given only an
hour for their lunch break and so they decided to go to Denny's obviously their party was a little
bit too large for them to all sit together so they were split up which is what led to one table being
occupied by six black secret service members although all 21 agents had their orders taken
at the same time the tables that were dominated mostly by white agents had their meals brought to
them speedily while the table where the six black agents were seated were left waiting steaks cooked
medium rare can I get my steak cooked what no question though they asked what was taking so
long the only answer their waitress would give them was that their meals were coming even
though they could actively see their own plates sitting under a heat lamp once the hour was up
the Secret Service members were forced to take their leave and it was only then that a Denny's
waitress offered the six waiting agents a platter that they were forced to turn down one among the
six agent Robin D Thompson reported that he felt humiliated by the entire ordeal and a lawsuit was
filed accusing Denny's of denying the six men of their civil rights we're always on the up
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Chipotle norovirus scandal love Chipotle they make a really nice burrito over there the largest
ever fine imposed in a food safety case was unfortunately settled against Chipotle in 2020
when it was discovered that one of our favorite burrito chains was actually responsible for
infecting over 1100 of their American customers with norovirus between the years of 2015 and
2018. when speaking with Chipotle employees it was discovered that the restaurant would rarely allow
them to take a day off if they were feeling sick and that they hadn't received the proper training
required for proper food safety procedures meaning that their meat was often being sold dangerously
undercooked Chipotle agreed to pay a 25 million dollar fine in multiple payments and the company
CEO was forced to make a public apology McDonald's lands in a bit of hot water I remember my dad took
us to McDonald's the very first morning they had breakfast many of us have heard the story of the
woman who managed to get rich suing McDonald's after she'd spilled her coffee on her lap while
holding the cup between her knees while driving and while many of us have been quick to dismiss
the whole issue as her fault after all who doesn't know that coffee's hot there's actually a lot more
to the story than you may realize 79 year old Stella lybeck of Albuquerque New Mexico had been
sitting in her parked car with her grandson when the coffee's filled and though she acknowledged
that the spill was her fault when she actually objected to was the ridiculously hot temperature
of the coffee served to her lybeck suffered third degree burns on her legs and genitals requiring
surgery and her injury was so severe that there was a chance she may not have survived it I want
you to take that coffee and spill it on worse even than that McDonald's Had apparently known
that their coffee was a hazard as in the decade before the liebec case they'd received roughly
700 reports of customers burning themselves on their coffee and yet McDonald's continued
to insist that 190 degrees Fahrenheit was simply how their customers liked their coffee originally
lybeck had no intentions of taking McDonald's to court but she had one of them to pay her
medical expenses which was estimated at twenty thousand dollars when McDonald's offered her a
poultry eight hundred dollars in compensation live act decided to go through with her lawsuit
in 1994. the jury unanimously sided with lie back upon hearing her story even suggesting that she
deserved a larger compensation than she was asking for and McDonald's was legally required to reduce
the temperature that they brewed their coffee to Taco Bell's mystery meat I would like you to
accompany me to Taco Bell Taco Bell's meat has long been considered to be a little suspect but
in 2011 Alabama Law Firm Beasley Allen made these shocking accusation that their beef technically
couldn't even be considered beef according to the USDA standards rather their findings seem to
suggest that only 35 percent of their beef filling actually contained beef while the rest of it was
filled out using a mix of Oats seasoning and other fillings and so selling it under the label of beef
was actually false advertising Taco Bell took on Beasley Allen's lawsuit with an almost eager
sort of enthusiasm as they seem to see this as an opportunity to defend the quality of their
beef in the eyes of the public Taco Bell spent somewhere between three and four million dollars
on an ad campaign trying to spread the word that their beef was actually 88 beef rather than the
35 percent claimed in the lawsuit Beasley Allen would eventually come to drop the lawsuit but
even so you can still hear whispers about Taco Bell's use of mystery meat to this very day
chicken head found at McDonald's oh my god when is the last time we've been at McDonald's one of the
most forwarded emails in the year 2001 told the story of a young mother who took her daughter to
McDonald's to pick up some chicken wings which were being offered at mcdee's at the time when
the mother lifted one to her mouth her daughter screamed at her to stop when she looked closer
at the chicken in her hand she realized that it was actually a deep fried chicken head as proof
the email came with a picture attached showing a woman holding a deep fried piece of chicken in
the shape of a chicken's head Secrets out chicken man I'll take care of this believe it or not this
is a picture of one Catherine Ortega who actually did discover a chicken's head in amongst her order
of McDonald's chicken wings although it may be worth mentioning that the forwarded email still
exaggerated the story a little bit Ortega bought a box of McDonald's Mighty Wings which Ravine test
marketed at the time in the Virginia area where Ortega lived when she brought the Box home she
discovered in amongst the wings one that looked a little strange and when she took a closer look
at it she realized that it looked exactly like a deep fried chicken's head reporters who were able
to examine the head confirmed that the breading looked very similar to the kind that McDonald's
had been using at the time and that it genuinely did appear to be a real head but as Ortega chose
not to pursue legal action we may never know for sure if that's what happened a deep-fried chicken
head found amongst a box of deep fried chicken parts may not technically count as a a foreign
contaminant which may explain Ortega's choice to keep the issue out of the courts but even still
this story stands as a stark reminder to always take a good look at what you're eating before
you put it in your mouth bad luck for Subway this state-of-the-art Subway sandwichery in
our cafetorium Jared Fogle became an inspiration for many after appearing in multiple Subway ads
claiming that his 200-pound weight loss was due to the change healthier Alternatives under his
non-profit the Jared Foundation he would even visit schools Across America to discuss obesity
but with some less than Savory intentions in 2015 Fogle was found guilty of possessing illicit
materials containing miners Subway was obviously quick to drop him as their spokesperson but the
whole situation reflected poorly on the brand Papa John's founder resigning as CEO I'm like literally
in a Papa John's right now Papa John's Pizza may be named for founder John Schnatter but it was
his offensive remarks in 2017 that lost him his place within his company often seen as the face
of the pizza company Schnatter famously blamed poor pizza sales on NFL players taking a knee
in protest during the national anthem he later went on to use a racial slur during a conference
call meant to serve as media training the Scandal attached to this issue was simply too much for the
famous pizza chain to shake off and Schnatter was forced to resign as CEO beef burgers made of horse
in January of 2013 authorities reported that Frozen beef burgers that were actively being sold
in Irish and British supermarkets contained traces of horse meat despite packaging that claimed that
the patties had been made using 100 beef not only had horse meat been found in the beef being sold
at the supermarket but also at several major fast food restaurants across 13 European countries the
amount of horse meat that was discovered to be contaminating Taco Bell's ground beef was
considered to be substantial enough for them to pull all beef products from their menu for a time
while the company that supplied Burger King with meat in the UK and Ireland recalled a whopping 10
million beef patties in response to this Scandal the source of the contamination was eventually
traced back to four separate subsidiaries of the ABP food group leading to multiple
companies cutting ties with them as a supplier the most important thing is you got to give
the people what they want although eating horse Meats won't necessarily kill you many customers
were still outraged over the thought that they hadn't known what they were putting into their
body especially when the packaging outright lied by claiming that they were purchasing
100 beef and if the horses in question had been used for sport there was always the possibility
that the meat might contain traces of the drug phenylbutazone which has actually been banned
for use in animals raised for food not only that but the analysis stated that 23 out of 27 of the
recorded samples had also been noted to contain samples of pig meat while we're certainly glad to
hear that some of our favorite chains took action against the use of horse meat this story still
stands as a stark example of how you can't always trust what the label claims searching for another
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