real champs eating mcdonald's i'm loving it from dumbledore to victoria everyone has secrets and
mcdonald's is no exception here are 20 mcdonald's secrets employees don't want you to know one last
mystery to solve the broken ice cream machine who wants ice cream who hasn't had the experience
of craving a mcflurry and going to the closest mcdonald's only to have your excitement crushed
by an employee telling you that the ice cream machine is broken now there are rumors floating
around about how employees just say that because they don't want to bother making the desserts
i'm a little busy okay but according to many former employees the machines actually do break
down on a fairly regular basis which brings up the question of why mcdonald's corporate can't get
more reliable machines but that's a question for another time saw swap i buy some sauce have you
ever imagined what a quarter pounder would taste like with big mac sauce or how about a big mac
without the sauce yes we know it all sounds like some crazy sci-fi fantasy but it doesn't have to
be if you want it you can have it while you may have never thought about it before you can totally
ask for any sauce on any item see knowing this will open up whole new levels of tastes and flavor
combos that you probably never considered now what do you think they would do if you were to ask for
big mac sauce on an egg mcmuffin cash only moments keep moving deadbeat cash only in this day and
age when so many people pay for everything using cards their phones and even their watches there
are going to be moments when you still need good old cold hard cash you see at 24 hour mcdonald's
there's a time in every 24-hour period when the employees have to do a full system restart
and while this doesn't mean you can't get food it does mean that for those 30 to 90 minutes
as the system restarts they can only accept cash as payment in fact the employee taking the order
can't even enter it into the system and must write it down by hand and add up the total themselves
special requests suck i can do something special but not for today mcdonald's isn't starbucks well
your starbucks barista might have no issues with your custom order of a mocha latte with half foam
half oat milk a sprinkle of cinnamon and two extra shots of espresso the good folks working
at mcdonald's aren't as happy about special orders it's not that they don't want you to have it your
way do whatever you want just don't tell me about it it's just that your way is probably making an
issue for everyone else ordering food at that time you see when you make some custom requests
the person fulfilling the order has to stop what they're doing and go ask what the special
request is before going back and completing the order this means longer for you to wait and
longer for everyone else to get their food as well the truth about the poor man's big mac
let's tell the truth sure mcdonald's might be less expensive than many other restaurants but
that doesn't mean it's cheap gone are the days of 15 cent cheeseburgers and 10 cent fries these days
mcdonald's will still leave a hole in your wallet even if it's a smaller one than other places and
with that in mind we don't blame anyone for trying to hack the menu to get the most bang for your
buck you think i'm rich i'm not rich like with the poor man's big mac a mcdouble with mac sauce
and shredded lettuce we gotta admit it's a pretty smart order however as one employee wrote online
you will get up-charged for some of those items 30 cents for the mac sauce and 28 to 30 cents
for the shredded lettuce fresh apple pie eat the constructed apple pie not everything we read
is true but when it comes to expiration dates we never thought those would sometimes turn out
to be untrue especially when a large company like mcdonald's is involved but according to a
report quoting an actual employee of one of the restaurants when it comes to the apple pies the
expiration date you see might not be the original one that was marked on the container isn't that
illegal we aren't sure if this is corporate policy and we're hoping it isn't but this employee
did say that when the apple pies would expire they would just slap on a new expiration date
stop asking for fries with no salt hey i said no salt obviously if you're on a low sodium diet or
have health issues relating to salt then of course you should always ask for mcdonald's french fries
without salt however as we all know there are a number of people out there who use that hack as
a way of getting fresh made fries the problem is that when you do that the employees are required
to then clean out the basket and the scoop and make a new batch just for you i deserve that this
is annoying and time-consuming for the workers and it really isn't necessary you can actually just
ask for fresh fries and they'll make them fresh for you without having to de-salt the equipment
artisan equals longer we don't have time we have stuff to do while they may not like to
call themselves fast food restaurants anymore we all have certain expectations when it comes
to mcdonald's and how long it will take for us to get our food well if speed is the most important
factor in your experience then you might want to stay away from their artisanal sandwiches great
they might look interesting and they often do taste good but they also take longer to make there
are special processes for assembly and some of them have longer cooking times all this means that
it takes longer to prepare it and longer to get it to you so if you really want it just be patient
they let the food sit um is the tabouli fresh it's not not fresh it seems some outlets will let the
food sit under heat lamps for a lot longer than the official corporate rules dictate like leaving
fries to sit out for 15 or 20 minutes instead of the required 7 or resetting the timer and having
meat sit for an hour longer than the mandated 20-minute limit i'm calling the police now during
a busy rush this isn't an issue given how fast the food is flying off the grill and out of the
deep fryer however during slow periods we might recommend asking for a fresh serving of whatever
you order high calorie salads today's active humans prefer a low calorie bait if you're one
of those people who thinks it's strange to order a salad at mcdonald's well you can sit there chowing
down on your big mac or mcdouble and feel even more superior knowing that your meal is healthier
than theirs this isn't for all of the salad options but it is a fact that a number of them
actually have more calories fat and even sodium than some of the burger choices on the same menu
what a twist now often the bulk of that sodium fat and those calories come in the dressing so
if you are eating a salad to be healthy we guess you could eat it dry but that doesn't sound very
enjoyable does it the mcnuggets are chicken but no man i mean well yeah but you may remember a while
back when that image of pink slime was making its way around the internet as being the sludge used
by mcdonald's to make their mcnuggets well the good news is that wasn't mcnugget slime the bad
news is that because of that slime mcdonald's put out a video showing how they actually make
mcnuggets i hate to while they do start off with real chicken yay from there they take the breast
meat some chicken skin and spices and grind it all up into a chicken mash that they form into
mcnuggets but at least contrary to the rumors it is actual chicken being used hope you don't want
fresh onions no of course not of course not in order to get the food prepared and served as fast
as possible mcdonald's is always coming up with ways to shave a few seconds off the preparation
times and apparently cutting fresh onions is just way too time-consuming a task for employees to be
concerned with oh not again oh come on so how do they get those onions that go on your burger
can you say dehydrated onions that's right they're like sea monkeys just add water and watch them
grow if you've never noticed we guess that's a good thing since they taste just like fresh cut
onions what's in the mcrib i wasn't aware of you know what was going on with the mcrib sandwich
a lot of chefs will tell you that often the most delicious dish is the simplest well it appears
that mcdonald's doesn't follow that philosophy especially when it comes to their mcrib sandwich
according to multiple reports the mcrib consists of close to 70 ingredients that includes the rib
itself which without bones isn't actually a rib really really really the rib is actually multiple
parts of the pig along with a lots of salt and there are supposedly 34 ingredients in the bun
alone including a variety of chemicals well at least the pig parts and the chemicals they use are
tasty right the five second rule and in about five seconds you're gonna see why as mythbusters fans
will know the five second rule isn't a real thing according to jamie and adam's findings a mere
millisecond on the dirty ground will contaminate a food item making five seconds seem like a dirty
eternity i just can't wait any longer and yet it would appear that some mcdonald's employees still
believe the myth because according to what one mcdonald's worker posted on reddit many times buns
and nuggets would be dropped onto the floor just to be picked up and served anyway obviously this
doesn't happen all the time but shouldn't even one time be too many no sitting at the drive-thru
hey you want to sit down i'm good everyone knows that sitting all day is bad for you according
to the new science sitting is the new smoking but that doesn't mean that everyone should just stand
all day especially in one place and yet that is what mcdonald's employees who work at the
drive-thru window are expected to do it's awful awful awful they are just stand at that window for
hours on end and supposedly there is an actual rule against them sitting during that time this
can take a toll on a person's lower back and feet especially if they aren't used to standing so much
why can't they at least just give them a stool the french fries aren't just potatoes yeah yeah
french fries okay before we get into this one we just want to say that like most people out there
we love mcdonald's french fries we assume there are others out there who like us assumed french
fries were fried potatoes plain and simple what are you trying to say but the truth is that while
they do start with fresh potatoes there are a bunch of other ingredients that go into making
what ends up on our tray besides salt a variety of oils citric acid natural beef flavor wheat
and milk can all be found on the mcdonald's fries ingredients list don't do breakfast after 11 a.m
it's too late for that my dear oh too late it certainly was exciting the day mcdonald's
announced all day breakfasts knowing you could go to a mickey d's at any time and order an egg
mcmuffin without having the cashier tell you they stopped serving breakfast already however therein
also lies the problem we got a problem here you see once it gets to about 10 30 or 11 a.m that's
when they get going on the lunch menu items and the breakfast selections become more of an
afterthought meaning the breakfast sandwich you order at noon could have been sitting under the
heat lamp for the last hour and a half no secret menu it's their menu the menu of lunatics ah the
secret mcdonald's menu that mythical list of food items that you can only get if you're in the know
well the problem is that there is not actually any secret menu there's no secret club no items that
only the cool kids know about nothing i'm not cool the mcdonald's menu everyone sees is the only menu
so don't try to impress your date by asking for something from the secret menu because as one
employee stated online whenever people ask about the secret menu we just roll our eyes avoid the
eye rolls in order from the regular and only menu the drive-through speaker hears everything you
recorded a private conversation without marsha's permission these days we're all aware that the
smart speakers in our house are listening to us at all times and the phone in your pocket is tracking
your every move but if you thought you were safe from eavesdropping in the mcdonald's drive through
lane think again can you do that for me from the time you pull up to that order box until you
physically drive off the people working the drive through hear everything you say so if
you're on the phone as you pull up they hear it listening to your favorite boy band song from
the 90s that you only listen to when no one else is in the car they hear it so be aware
stay out of the play place dad this place is really dangerous kids are super cute but
they're also germ factories with dirty hands that love touching anything and everything including
each other and how do we put this delicately they also can't always control their bowels
what do you mean one employee posted online about the time a kid dropped his pants and then dropped
a number two all the way down the slide of course this is an extreme example but it's definitely a
reason to wonder about the sanitation of the mcd's play place jump into more great videos
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