When he's writing creepy novels, Stephen King doesn't hesitate to "go for the gross-out".
Today, we're going for the gross-out with some unwelcome surprises found in McDonald's
food. If you're a Mickey D's fan, you may just lose your appetite...at least, for a
little while. The lure of those tasty burgers and fries from McDonald's may be too strong
to keep you away long-term. Bear in mind that one or more of these tales from the dark side
may be a hoax. People can be malicious and blame restaurants for things that they've
planted in food themselves. So, keep an open mind as we give you the inside scoop on some
unwanted extras in typical McDonald's menu items. Here are the top 10 disgusting things
found in McDonald's foods.
Half-chewed Gum In A Big Xtra Burger
In May of 2017, a man named Max Ipinza, who lives in Vancouver, Canada became concerned
about his health after finding a piece of chewed-up gum inside of a McDonald's Big Extra
burger. He was worried that he might catch hepatitis due to the disgusting extra item.
His experience got media exposure through one of Canada's biggest and most trusted news
networks - the CBC. Max was enjoying a take-out lunch from McDonald's with his work colleagues,
when he chomped on his burger and noticed a minty flavor. He spit out the food right
away and then spotted gum in the rejected bite. He says he was mostly finished with
his burger, when he tasted the mint. He knew immediately that there was a problem. It wasn't
the first McDonald's burger that he'd eaten and the Big Extra just didn't taste right.
Once he discovered the chewing gum, he started to feel physically ill. No wonder. After that,
he sought out medical attention at a local health care facility. The doc listened to
Max's concerns about hepatitis and told him to return for a check-up if he started experiencing
symptoms that were flu-like. Max believes that the burger was contaminated intentionally,
for malicious reasons. McDonald's Canada responded to a letter from Max, by letting him know
that the company had thoroughly investigated the situation. McDonald's Canada encouraged
him to avoid drawing conclusions without all of the facts.
Maggots in A McD’s Burger
Did you see that classic 80s movie, The Lost Boys, where too-cool-for-school locals who
were actually vampires terrorized a California town? That movie really rocked and it featured
a scene where the main character was eating rice which seemed to become a carton of writhing
maggots. Unfortunately, one unlucky McDonald's customer claims to have had the same type
of surreal (and super-gross) experience while eating a McDonald's burger. This unfortunate
experience happened in Brisbane, Australia. According to media reports, a mom from Queensland
believed that McDonald's sold her a cheeseburger that was crawling with live maggots. Her name
is Emmi McHugh and she posted a pic of the disgusting, maggot-laden burger on the Web.
The maggots were writhing inside of the all-beef patty. She was horrified and wondered how
something like that could happen. The burger was part of a Happy Meal for her little kid. She
froze the burger as evidence and vowed to pursue the matter legally. She felt that she'd
never be able to eat fast food again and that her new distaste for fast food might be the
only silver lining in a gross-out situation. She was hoping for a little weight loss by
swearing off fast food. A McDonald's rep who was questioned about the situation informed
a well-known British news source that the odds of live maggots appearing in McDonald's
burgers were extremely low. The company rep said food handling and food safety at Mickey
D's is first-rate.
A Dead Mouse In A Cup Of McDonald’s Coffee
In October of 2014, a Fredericton, Canada resident found a dead mouse at the bottom
of a cup of McDonald's coffee. However, McDonald's Canada reported that health inspectors, along
with a pest control company, saw no rodent issues at the fast food joint that served
the man his cup of Joe. The man who complained about the dead mouse is named is Ron Morais.
He grabbed the coffee as a morning pick-me-up on his way to his job. He sipped the coffee
and enjoyed it, until he noticed what was at the bottom. Morais wanted answers in terms
of how the rodent made it into his cup of coffee. Ron said he routinely removes the
lids from take-out coffees when the cups are almost empty, to get every last drop of the
beverages. He found a surprise that was not the good kind of surprise. He also implied
that mouse droppings were present in the cup. He showed his coffee to his work colleagues.
I'm sure they really enjoyed that. His co-workers had watched him drink the entire cup of coffee,
so they felt that his claims had credibility. Who would drink that, knowing what was inside? McDonald's
responded by sharing information about how food quality and safety are top priorities
at all Canadian McDonald's locations. The restaurant said that there are procedures
and policies which safeguard the food preparation process and keep things like this from happening.
The investigation did show that the McDonald's location in question was pest-free. McDonald's
wanted a product sample from the customer, but hadn't received it when publicly responding
to the serious allegation.
A Tooth In An Order Of Mickey D Fries
McDonald's officials didn't deny that a human being's tooth was found in a carton of French
fries. This incident happened in Japan, in 2015. After the customer found the tooth,
while visiting a Mickey D's in Osaka, the fast food chain did confirm that a tooth was
found in the fries. McDonald's Japan spokespersons also confirmed that a chunk of vinyl was found
in a container of McNuggets and that a hunk of plastic was unearthed from a frosty ice
cream sundae. The restaurant chain's execs made it clear that they would do their best
to stop those types of incidents from happening. The tooth problem was subsequent to another
McDonald's Japan incident, whereby the fast food chain ran out of french fries and had
to bring in supplies from America. McDonald's executives couldn't determine how the tooth
got into the fries, but did determine that the tooth hadn't been deep-fried. The customer
who received the fries said the manager at the Osaka McDonald's told her that the tooth
had gone into the fryer. When it comes to this incident, there were so many unanswered
questions. The fact that other foreign objects were making their way into McDonald's fare
seems to point to a bigger safety control problem.
A Cockroach In A McDonald’s Hash Brown Patty
In 2002, a Mickey D's customer took to Reddit and let the world know that he received a
McDonald's hash brown patty that had a cockroach on the bottom, between the hash brown and
its paper covering. The Reddit post included a really gross pic of the hash brown, the
squashed insect and the paper hash brown wrapper. The Reddit poster wasn't one hundred percent
sure if the insect in question was a cockroach or a moth. Either way, he was not happy. This
unhappy McDonald's customer didn't seem to take any legal action against McDonald's.
He just put his story out there. Since there wasn't a legal action over the issue, there's
really no way to tell what really happened. Formal complaints tend to lead to investigations
which may or may not provide answers. Customers trust restaurants to provide food that is
not contaminated. When this trust is broken, word gets around. Restaurants do investigations
because some incidents aren't what they appear to be. Fast food chains try to defend themselves
by looking deeper into facts, which will hopefully exonerate them. When it's a pic on Reddit
and a post from an anonymous user, questions will never really get answered, but restaurants
will still get some bad publicity. When the anon customer visited McDonald's and got the
gross hash brown, he did complain to the manager, whom, he said, did not seem too surprised
at his complaint. He received a voucher for a free breakfast. The anon customer thinks
that the cockroach became frozen into the hash brown patty while it was in transit in
a refrigerated delivery truck.
A Wire Brush In A McD’s Chicken Sandwich
A boy from the UK got a nasty shock when he found a wire brush measuring five inches in
diameter inside of a chicken sandwich. There wasn't actually any chicken in the sandwich.
It was like someone decided to replace the chicken patty with a power tool accessory.
The wire brush was stiff, made from metal and far from edible. When faced with a complaint
from the boy's mother, the manager at the English Mickey D's location laughed the whole
thing off, but did offer a replacement chicken sandwich. Managers should probably take these
types of complaints seriously, as they have the potential to lead to expensive litigation
that costs the fast food chain cold, hard cash and may damage its reputation. This manager
was more relaxed about things. Maybe he thought that this approach was the best way to defuse
the situation. Ingesting wire bristles is really dangerous, and wire brushes are sometimes
utilized to clean grills, so they are present in many fast food kitchens. The best defense
is checking a burger out carefully before you take a single bite. It's pretty rare to
find a big wire brush in a burger that doesn't even contain a meat patty. It's more common
for small bristles that have gotten caught in grills during cleaning to get embedded
into food items.
A Needle Found In A McDonald’s Hamburger
A woman from Kentucky bit down on a burger from McDonald's and said that she found a
needle tip inside. This happened in 2017, during the summer. The woman was the stepmother
of Erin Spellman. She, her father, her stepmother and her son were enjoying lunch at Mickey
D's in Lexington when the woman noticed a hard object in her hamburger. After the incident,
the family posted about the needle on social media. Spellman wanted people to know what
happened to her stepmom. Spellman went one step further by calling the local health department
to report the incident. She warned others not to visit that McDonald's location. Finding
a needle is a big deal. Needles might be contaminated with who knows what. Plus, they are sharp
objects that might cause injuries. A health inspector looked into the incident and found
no evidence of any contamination at the Lexington McDonald's. Despite the clean report from
the health department, a spokesperson for McDonald's said that the incident was being
taken seriously.
McDonald’s Deep-fried Chicken Head
In terms of complaints about gross-out objects found in McDonald's food, this one is really
extreme and controversial. A woman said that she found a fried chicken head in her package
of McDonald's chicken wings. The woman posted a gruesome pic of the fried chicken head,
which was soon shared all over the Internet. This isn't the type of publicity that McDonald's
wants, so how did the fast food chain respond to the allegations? Well, the McDonald's franchise
owner, who runs a restaurant in the Newport News area, said that he was taking it seriously
and doing a detailed investigation. According to the disgusted customer, the chicken head
found in the fast food meal contained the eyes, beak and comb of the bird. The customer,
Katherine Ortega, said that she complained by phone after discovering the chicken head
and management let her know that she could bring the chicken head back and get a free
meal for a refund. She wasn't interested in getting any free McDonald's grub and was considering
a lawsuit. A lot of people were suspicious of Ortega's story, especially since she went
to a television station after the incident happened, rather than taking the fried chicken
head back to Mickey D's.
A Dead Rat In A Mickey D’s Salad
In 2006, three people sued a McDonald's franchise owner because of a dead rat that they found
in a salad sold by the fast food chain. A nanny, an NFL coach and his wife sought out
1.7 million dollars in damages. According to a family spokesperson, the three people
who sued tried to resolve the situation with McDonald's, but couldn't, and then decided
to file suit. The salad was purchased in June, at a drive-thru. The dead rodent found in
the roughage was believed to be a young rat. After the rat was unearthed, the family contacted
the McDonald's location. A manager visited the family's home to inspect the salad. The
man who owns the Southlake fast food joint later made a public statement, letting everyone
know that his franchise maintains strict standards of quality and that an investigation was being
conducted. The three people who sued said that they suffered physical and psychological
turmoil due to the incident, and that their eating habits changed afterwards. The case
was dismissed and the people who initially sued weren't willing to discuss the details,
which seems to indicate that a settlement was reached.
A Condom In A Happy Meal
This one is just awful. In 2007, a girl who was just seven years of age reportedly found
a used condom in her Happy Meal. The girl was from Switzerland. Police in Switzerland
investigated the matter after receiving a phone call from the girl's mother. The condom
was apparently in the French Fry portion of the meal. Police were analyzing the situation
to try to figure out whether or not the item put the little girl's health at risk. A similar
incident happened in 2013, when a little boy enjoying a McDonald's PlayPlace found a used
condom on the floor and then ingested it. With regard to the second incident, McDonald's
reps said that PlayPlaces are kept in clean condition and reminded people that the claim
was just an allegation.
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