While some people say that the internet basically brings out the worst in people, there are
some parts of the old’ cyberspace that are actually beneficial to society.
Here’s an example of that: Reddit's /r/AskReddit section had a question to the tens of thousands
of Redditors that work in food service what items people should definitely NOT order.
We figured we’d do our part too, so we went through the countless responses to pick the
top 10 items you definitely shouldn't order the next time you hit up the drive-thru.
Chili at Wendy's
One of the things that separates Wendy's from its fast foot competition is its chili, so
if you're one of the many who stops by Wendy's drive-thru late at night to get some delicious
Cowboy food, you might want to skip ahead just a bit.
Multiple workers from Wendy's let people know that the chili is made from the same meat
the restaurant uses for its burgers.
The problem there is that they typically use the hamburger that’s too old for those square
sammiches to make the chili, which means you're eating old, dried up and sometimes expired
meat when you order it.
Beyond that, they also use the excess hamburger that's left on the grill in the chili, which
is just disgusting.
Want the trifecta?
Apparently, if the chili that they've made doesn't sell fast enough and ends up getting
too cold to sell (despite being in the warmer), employees add hot water to the expired meat
smorgasbord to just really up the grossness of this former favorite fast food item.
Steak and Beans at Taco Bell
While the chili entry was confirmed by multiple Wendy's employees, some of these are based
on the individual claims of single employees.
That's just a disclaimer before you completely write off a favorite item from a restaurant’s
menu.
Redditor Beefcake21 said of the steak and beans at Taco Bell: "The beans start out looking
like cat food, and the directions are, 'Add water and stir until you can't see white anymore.'
Beefcake21 also said that the steak was just the worst on dish duty.
If it would sit too long it would become like hair gel."
Just the nastiest.
Disclaimer or not, we're definitely going to think twice next time we get the urge to
eat "Mexican" food.
Dunkin' Donuts' Sandwiches
Dunkin' Donuts is really popular, especially on the East Coast of the United States, and
a treasured part of every 80s cop movie.
Beyond just coffee and donuts, Dunkin' Donuts has attempted to expand its offerings to breakfast
sandwiches and regular sandwiches as well.
While that makes sense as all fast food places are attempting to expand what they offer in
both items in general and healthy items in particular, one employee named "mjforever33"
warns against purchasing the relatively new sandwiches.
Mjforever33 says: "The donuts are fine.
But don't order the sandwiches, “Both the tuna and chicken is scooped out of a little
container.
I don't even know what's in it.
The eggs come 'pre-cooked' and look disgusting.
Donuts = Good.
Sandwiches = You're nuts, stoned, or hammered."
Say what you will about his assessment of the level of quality of the ingredients in
the sandwiches, he's not wrong about the customers’ level of sobriety.
Chipotle's Quesorito
One thing that every customer at any restaurant fears is somehow pissing off the server or
kitchen staff that make and carry your food.
Because there's always a chance that that person will spit or otherwise mess with your
order.
While Reddit user and Chipotle employee "ThedudeisCJ" didn't necessarily say that people at Chipotle
are spitting in food, he does lay out all the ingredients for doing just that.
He warns against people ordering the Quesorito, an item that takes a lot of time and care
to make, especially during busy hours at the restaurant.
While it's fine to order when it's slow, if you order it during a rush, ThedudeisCJ says
employees will hate you.
The people behind you in line will hate you.
Everyone will hate you."
That'll increase the chances that something bad might end up in your food, especially
considering Chipotle’s less than sanitary reputation.
Anything Fried...
Or At All from Olive Garden
Now, sure, adding Olive Garden to a list of fast food restaurants is a bit of a stretch,
as it's more of a chain sit down place, but this entry is so gross that it had to be included.
Olive Garden prides itself on offering relatively luxurious food, at least from the standpoint
of chain restaurants, which implies a quality that apparently just doesn't exist.
Just ask Reddit user 'UppersArentNecessary'.
He works at Olive Garden and said this of deep-fried food; "I don't know how often the
frying oil is changed, but judging by the color....
I know it smells rancid."
Beyond that, though, he expanded his critique to the food in general, saying; "I don't know
which dishes this comes with, but the potato and pepper mixture, which is fried, will often
have pieces of pepper in it that have started to rot.
Not growing-mold rotten, but definitely soft-discolored rotten."
So maybe make your own spaghetti at home next time.
Guys, it’s so easy.
McNuggets that Aren't Made Fresh
Who doesn't love McDonald's' McNuggets?
You know, besides Gordon Ramsay.
Sure, they're made from the "pink slime" chicken that went viral a few years ago and end up
on a production line that looks like a factory that's making car parts, and they've also
recently been linked to cancer thanks to all the preservatives used to ensure that they
stay "fresh" as long as possible, but...
They're just so delicious!
Well, add one more reason to not order what apparently is going to end up killing us all,
as Reddit user and McDonald's employee "Ritch88" said that you should always specify fresh.
"If you order,” he said, “especially chicken nuggets, just ask for them fresh.
Otherwise, they've been just sitting in their container in the heat.
They have a timer, but 9/10 times when that timer goes off, people just reset it instead
of making new ones.
This could go on until all the nuggets are sold."
McDonald's McCafe Machine
McDonald's used to get a TON of business from people who were simply ordering coffee, and
once their breakfast coffee market share started slipping thanks to the addition of drive-thrus
at places like Starbucks or Caribou (not to mention all the hipster coffee joints that
have popped up), and the at-home coffee machine revolution headed by companies like Keurig,
McDonald's decided to up the quality of their java by launching the McCafe side of their
business.
McCafe was the "high-end" version of regular McDonald's coffee, which makes the info provided
by McDonald's employee and Redditor "Envirometh" all the more ironic.
Basically, just don't order the "fancy" coffee, as; "All McCafe beverages run through a horrifically
dirty machine; we're talking 5+ inches of uncleaned, liquid bulls--t making up its inside
parts, and the smoothies have glass cleaner in them."
McYuck.
Milk Shakes at Jack in the Box (Especially If You've Got
a Fruit Allergy)
Fruit allergies are no joke, as something as small as a grape can literally kill some
people.
Because of that, having a severe food allergy can be a nightmare for people as they never
can be really sure that what they're about to eat won't kill them.
While a lot of people like to make fun of those allergies, especially peanut allergies
(as there's been a lot of bad PR in that regard, like parents getting admonished for making
a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for their kids' lunch), there's a pretty logical rationale
behind that fear and those notes as the entry from Reddit user "RingoTheCraftySquid" points
out.
Ringo works or worked for Jack in the Box and mentioned how the same machine makes both
smoothies and milkshakes, which means that your milkshakes could have remnants of fruit
in it.
Ringo says that it's also not a very clean machine, per company policy: "We do not clean
the mixer very well, and it's used for smoothies and milkshakes.
Like, we're TOLD to just half-ass it.
In the training video."
Ballpark Hotdogs
Attention sports fans, the questions/theories/fear you've always had about those $12 hot dogs
were right!
Despite the fact that the markup on hotdogs should allow those in charge of concession
stands to buy new dogs every single day, apparently, they're too greedy or lazy to do so and end
up saving already cooked hotdogs for days and days and days.
Stadium worker and Redditor "FreakyCheeseMan" says the following of his experience at the
ballpark; "[The hot dogs] made it out of the package okay, and might even have been edible
after we finished grilling them, and then they went into the water.
Any hot dogs left at the end of the day went back into the fridge and came out again the
next day.
Me and the other cook put our feet down on throwing out the water and old hot dogs after
two full days, but the management didn't want to let us."
Hotdog...
More like Lukewarm-Pre-and-Re-Cooked-Food-Poisoning-Waiting-to-Happen-Dog.
Seafood Sandwiches at Subway
Subway is having a lot of problems right now.
Not only did their spokesperson of a decade end up being a pedophilic monster, but they're
also losing customers left and right now that they've moved away from their five-dollar
footlong program (which wasn't great for profits, anyways).
Subway is the largest fast food company in the United States, with almost 2,000 more
locations than the second place company, McDonald's and they're closing restaurants left and right.
That might be a good thing, at least for sea-life, as when they're not substituting seafood with
imitation meat and mixing in way too much mayonnaise, they're also potentially using
seafood that contains dolphin and/or sea turtle meat.
According to one Subway employee; "Worked at Subway 2010-12.
The only thing I have to say is that tuna and seafood packages used to have a label
on it that said that it didn't contain dolphin or turtles in the meat, then in 2012, that
label suddenly disappeared.”
That could just mean they're only using imitation meat now and thus they don't need the label
but think about that.
That’s still pretty bad.
When the options are either they're lying to you or killing dolphins and feeding them
to you, you know a company has problems.
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