When you choose to eat fast food, you know you're not going to be presented with a gourmet
meal on a silver platter. But you at least expect a few standards to be upheld. Sometimes,
though, disappointment happens. Here are 10 funny fast food fails that will make you want
to eat at home.
Some Assembly Required at McDonald's
This McDonald's customer decided to give in to their Big Mac craving and hit up the drive-thru,
only to get home and see this poorly constructed creation. We see a lot of lettuce and onions
and two very empty buns put together. Clearly, someone wasn't paying attention when they
assembled this burger. Now, we know that not everything you get at any restaurant,
fast food or otherwise, is going to look like the advertised picture. Most people don't
expect picture-perfect fast food. But this is another level. This is clearly the work
of someone who either didn't care about their job or was too busy trying to pump out a million
orders to pay more attention to one food item at a time.
Subway Takes Extra Pickles to a Whole New Level
Pickle juice is becoming an in-demand ingredient to add a twist to a lot of classic things,
from alcoholic drinks to slushies. But if this feels obsessive, there's apparently a
scientific reason that people are so obsessed with pickles. It has to do with the addictive
quality of salt and its correlation with the reward center of our brain. Salt has also
been connected to dehydration and electrolyte imbalances, which means some of us just crave
pickles because something’s amiss. So, when it comes to fast food, there is always
that one person that has to ask for extra pickles. Well, Subway decided to indulge this
particular customer's obsession by completely loading their sub with a massive amount of
pickles. Clearly though, since Subway does make the sandwiches in plain sight, this pickle
lover was okay with it.
The McDonald's Extra Crunchy Hashbrown
There aren't a lot of things in this world more satisfying than a greasy, crispy potato
for breakfast. However, sometimes fast food breakfast can be more than disappointing.
This poor, unfortunate soul was chomping away on a McDonald's hashbrown when they noticed
something was crunchier than normal. This, ladies and gents, is a dead cockroach on this
person's hashbrown. Someone actually deep fried this hashbrown and put it in a bag and
either didn't notice or didn't care that this disgusting bug was hanging on for the ride. Bugs
found in the food is not actually an unheard of complaint from fast food restaurants, unfortunately.
McDonald's itself is no stranger to reports of bugs being found in their food products.
And a lot of it seems to be found in their breakfast products. Now that's what we call
a McFail.
Chemical Condiments at Taco Bell
Instead of giving the customer their fire sauce, Taco Bell decided they could use some
floor cleaner instead. Imagine the surprise when the customer came home and discovered
that not only were they given dangerous chemicals, they were also now missing their fire sauce.
That's like a double-whammy of disappointment. At least this person didn't actually eat the
floor cleaner and noticed it just in time. When you really think about this, it's hard to
imagine how it even happened in the first place. Was the worker who was making the food
just bored and decided to cause a little chaos? Or was this a genuine mistake that happened
because some people decided not to follow basic restaurant rules? Either way, we're
a little confused. Everyone who takes their food safety training course, or even any workplace
safety course, would know that you should never store dangerous and potentially deadly
poisonous chemicals so close to the food you are serving your customers. Because things
like this can happen. And it could have ended up being a lot worse. Either one of two things
would have happened. One, a trip to the hospital after calling poison control or two, a pretty
cool origin story for a new superhero - Tacoman perhaps?
This Undercooked Popcorn Chicken From Sonic
Speaking of things that could have been a lot worse, this undercooked popcorn chicken
from the Sonic drive-thru is slightly frightening. When you order food from a fast food restaurant,
you don't expect it to be the highest possible quality. But you do at least expect it to
be cooked to the point where you're not at risk for salmonella poisoning. It's one thing
to have a bit of pink in your burger, but raw chicken is not acceptable. Anyone working
in a fast food restaurant, or any establishment that sells food to paying customers, needs
to go through food handling and safety training. This person clearly failed theirs or just
stopped caring altogether. According to popular opinion, Sonic is best left for the milkshakes
and ice cream and not for the actual food. This picture proves that. The silver lining,
though, is that at least you can tell it's real chicken, right?
A Burger King Burger That Was Missing Just One Thing
Looks like someone forgot the part of the burger that actually makes it a burger. It
looks like the Wendy's slogan "Where's the beef?" could come in handy right about now. It's
understandable that these mistakes happen. Everyone is rushing around trying to get orders
out in a short amount of time. But imagine how you'd feel if you'd been craving that
juicy beef patty all day and then got home to find out that it wasn't there at all. Especially
when the price of a burger has been going up steadily within the last few years. It's
hard to say you got your money's worth when you didn't even get home with a patty. This
is more like a salad on a bun. You would think that a missing burger patty would be hard
not to notice before wrapping it up. I mean Burger King is the name of the restaurant
and the “burger” part is key there. When the actual burger is missing, it is just a
sandwich. A pretty plain and boring one at that.
A Subway Sandwich With a Free Kitchen Knife
Imagine your surprise when you open your sandwich and see a knife poking out at you. That's
not really something that goes well with your ham and cheese sub. This also could have been
pretty dangerous if this customer was one of those people who just rip the wrapper open
to get to the sandwich. If that happened there would be a serious injury on that person's
hands and could result in some pretty dire consequences for that Subway and the employee
who did this. Do we even know the last time that knife was properly cleaned? What if there
was hot pepper juice on that knife and then the customer cut themselves trying to open
the sub? That could be really, really painful, even if they just end up with a small cut. Now,
there are a lot of theories that could possibly explain how this knife ended up in this sandwich.
Most realistic, is that the employee just used it to help roll up the sandwich and forgot
to take it out. If we're being completely honest though, these are pretty decent restaurant-quality
knives and we could understand if the customer just kept the knife.
The Extra Bacon That Wasn’t Very Extra at Wendy’s
If there's one thing we know for sure, it's that extra bacon is never a bad idea. Bacon
is just one of those foods that goes with everything, whether it's a dessert or a main
course. You can get bacon ice cream, bacon-infused alcohol, bacon popcorn, and a variety of other
bacon flavored creations. There are even entire festivals dedicated to bacon now. It's especially
delicious when it's on your fast food sandwich. However, when you order extra bacon, you generally
expect to get more than half a piece of bacon. You can reasonably expect at least one solid
piece of bacon, even at the cheapest of places. It's safe to say that this particular Wendy's customer
was pretty disappointed with the actual amount of bacon that they got when they asked for
extra bacon on their chicken sandwich. Instead of biting into a delicious flavor combination
of bacon and fried chicken, this person decided to double-check before they went through that
disappointment. In fact, it almost looks like someone deliberately ripped a piece of bacon
in half to add to this sandwich instead of just putting the whole piece on. For a fast
food joint that boasts such staples as the Baconator and the Bacon Deluxe, it's pretty
disappointing that they would skimp out like this when the customer is paying for extra
bacon. With their all new Crave menu that’s loaded up with more bacon than you can fathom,
we know there's enough bacon in Wendy’s kitchens to go around. Makes you wonder if
whoever served up this burger had a grudge against this customer for some reason. Well,
more bacon for the rest of us!
KFC is Fresh as a... Feather?
That's really taking fresh to a whole new level at this particular KFC, but we're more
disgusted than anything. One particular KFC customer was surprised to see this feather
stuck to a piece of fried chicken. And we don't blame them. Who knows how long it's
been sitting there. There's also another issue: bird feathers are known to be capable of carrying
tons of diseases that can easily spread to humans. In fact, they can carry any number
of viruses, parasites, and germs that cause those diseases. This person could have gotten
really sick if they accidentally ate this feather, regardless of where this one came
from. Then we'd be talking about a much more serious situation here. We have so many questions
about this. Just how, exactly, does a feather even get on a piece of deep-fried chicken?
What could the explanation possibly be for this particular situation? Something is very,
very wrong here. Maybe someone dragged it in on their clothing and it somehow ended
up in the chicken. Whatever the reason may be, it's not the worst that could happen,
but it's certainly not an ideal situation.
Someone Missed a Step at Taco Bell
We don't really work at Taco Bell, but we're pretty sure you're supposed to take the Doritos
taco out of the cardboard wrapping before it gets put in the soft shell. Taco Bell always
has their signature crispy menu items, but we don't really think they mean it this literally. This
is the sign of an employee that just has had enough or simply just forgot to pay attention
during that step. There's really no other explanation for it because they would have
had to prepare the Doritos taco in the paper before they put the soft shell on top and
squish it together. We don't know what time this happened at, or where this happened,
but maybe it's safe to say that someone was a little tired working the graveyard shift
and just could not care any less. Either way, it's another one of those not-a-big-deal
situations, but it would take quite a bit of work to separate those items and restructure
it properly. You've got your cheese already melted to the cardboard. So, when you remove
it, you're losing a lot of cheese unless you're planning on licking it off the wrapper. Sure,
you could rely on the cheese inside the taco, but let's be real. That's just not enough.
Hopefully, this person was still at the Taco Bell and they could exchange it for another,
and that they didn't make it all the way home just to find this in their take-out bag.
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