How’s it going, YouTube?
I’m your host Landon Dowlatsingh and welcome back to another most amazing video.
Before we get started on today’s top 10, I want to know, what if your favorite fast
food restaurant?
Mine would have to be McDonald's, I just can’t resist their salty fries.
After watching this video, you might want to think twice before you eat another big
mac.
Instead of hitting up a drive-thru, you might find yourself in the produce section of the
grocery store because these next ten facts are sure to gross you out.
We are in this together so let’s get started with this list of the top 10 things fast food
employees won’t tell you.
Starting off this disgusting list in at number 10 with chili.
Mmm everyone loves to eat a nice warm bowl of chili.
But did you know that the chili is made from old hamburger patties?
What’s even worse is that Wendy’s chili is made up from the meat on the grill that
expires and dries up and then it’s put in a warming drawer until they have enough for
a batch of chili.
Oh and if the chili sitting in the warming doesn’t sell fast enough, they add hot water
to it and mix it up.
The 5-second rule comes in at number 9.
Remember when you were growing up and you dropped a piece of food on the floor, but
you thought it was okay to eat it as long as you picked it up within 5 seconds?
Well apparently, the 5-second rule is followed in a bunch of popular food chains too.
Ew, imagine if your big mac got dropped onto the floor at a dirty McDonalds and they still
served it to you.
Not cool.
Employees don’t always wash their hands and this brings us to number 8.
There are always signs in fast food restaurant bathrooms that state “all employees must
wash their hands before returning to work.”
Well, as it turns out, not all employees wash their hands before they return to flip your
burger and topping it with cheese.
It’s actually pretty disgusting when you think about it.
Moving into number 7 we are talking about those lovely grill marks on your burger.
You know what I’m talking about.
It’s the sign that your burger was cooked to perfection.
Well, I hate to be the one to burst your bubble, but those grill marks aren’t real.
They were put there by a factory.
So yeah, if you want real grill marks on your patty, your best bet is to make your own at
home, on your nice clean grill.
Up next in at number 6 burgers are literally made in an instant.
The expected turn around time for cooking a burger is about 30 seconds.
30 seconds?!?
It takes me longer to decide what I want to order off the menu.
The largest fast-food chains have cooking burgers down to a science.
Take McDonald's for example, their grill has two sides, so it takes them 38 seconds to
cook a double cheeseburger.
This is slightly concerning to me.
And now in at number 5 is the amount of time a cooked burger sits before being served.
After fast food restaurants cook something, they put it in a holding cabinet and set a
timer.
Seems legit right?
Wrong.
When the timer goes off, they are supposed to throw the food out, why?
Because of E.coli.
Well instead of following proper health and safety regulations, they will simply reheat
the food.
So if you guys want a somewhat fresh meal and not these old burgers, you should go to
a fast food restaurant between 11am-1pm or 6pm-8pm.
You’re basically drinking bleach and this comes in at number 4.
Most fast food chains will clean everything with highly concentrated chemicals at the
end of each day.
Which is good to a certain extent because it is killing all of the viruses but it can
also be harmful.
That’s because they use these harsh chemicals on the grills and the drink machine nozzles.
So if you’re one of the first customers in the morning, you are probably ingesting
some of those harmful chemical residues.
Number 3, your drink might be dirtier than a toilet.
Those ice machines and drink dispensers are actually very difficult to clean, so they
are actually a breeding ground for bacteria and germs.
There was a study done that compared the bacteria content in ice water and toilet water from
fast food restaurants.
And it was discovered that 70% of the time, ice from fast food restaurants was dirtier
than the toilet water.
And in most cases, the ice tested positive for E. coli bacteria which comes from human
waste.
Alright, so I think I will be sticking to bottled drinks from now on.
Sometimes gross things will sneak into your food and this comes in at number 2.
Back in 2013, a teenager made a shocking discovery while he was eating his Kentucky fried chicken.
While he was picking apart his chicken, he found what looked like to be a fried chicken
brain in his bucket of chicken.
Is this real life right now?
He reported it to the food chain who apologized for the incident but the company’s corporate
office thinks it was actually a chicken kidney and not a brain.
That’s still pretty frigging disgusting.
If that wasn’t bad enough, in at number 1 we have employees tampering with your food.
One employee at Jack In The Box decided to add his own special sauce to a police officer’s
burger.
His special sauce was him blowing his nose into the burger.
That’s actually so disgusting.
Well, he was arrested for aggravated assault, adding a harmful substance to food and disorderly
conduct.
Well, there you guys have it…