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HZence
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As some of you may or may not know, I work at Wendy's currently. Heh. Well I have some information which I'd like to share, since I've searched all over the internet for Wendy's horror stories and haven't found any.

First, be careful about eating chili there. Here's how we make our meat for our chili there. When meat on the grill gets too burnt to serve as a hamburger, we use it as chili meat. At the end of the day we freeze it and the next morning it gets placed on the stove for a few hours in water to...uh..."unfreeze." Then, we take the giant pan of it and chop it up, and put it in our chili. Well on MULTIPLE occasions people have spilled this meat on the floor, swept it up, and STILL used it. When I've seen it I protested but they still insist on doing it (manager-approved!)

Yeah, occasionally people will make salads/sandwhich condiments without wearing gloves. Gross? Yes. Heh.

Anyone else have any "horror-stories" to share?


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Sparda
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Glad I've never eaten at Wendy's

I heard there was a chicken head found in McDonald's french fries, but that could be just an urban legend.

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This story may be a bit gross, so don't read it if you can't handle some grossage.




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One time, i went to McDonalds, and they gave me a burger... Horror story enough?
I never did like McDonalds.

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Heheh, the only time I went to McDonald's, I got their equivalent of the "whopper". Instead of a real hamburger, they gave me a piece of bread and patty. Didn't even have condiments.... And I have never eaten there again

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Megaton Cat
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Did you know they feed the chickens and cows meat, then use them for burgers? True story.

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There was the one about the mayo. Basically a woman bought a taco bell chicken wrap effort but specifically asked for no mayo. As she was driving along she noticed that they had included mayo, but it didn't taste like regular mayo, so she she ate it all anyhows. Later on in her journey she had such bad pains in her stomach that she had to stop at the nearest hospital where she had really bad food poisoning or somesuch. Anyhows, it turns out that the chicken meat had a... damn, whats the word... basically like a big boil full of puss and stuff. But it was under the breadcrumbs/ batter/ whatever. Anyhows it had been overlooked when cooking it, and the "mayo" was actually all the puss and stuff inside it. Tops.

Again, thats just another urban legend. Still, put me off chicken from fast food shops for a while. Yuck.

Oh, and there is a Michael Moore type book around called something like fast food nation. I started reading a few chapters, but I had got past the McNugget bit (which I don't like anyhows) and had read on the back something like "You will never eat at a fast food joint again!", so I decided to stop, not buy it, and get out. After picking up a book called "Willing slaves" about how we work our ar*es off for no good reason. And I also wanted a burger from BK or Macey D's without feeling ill.

Cheers (erm... for the chicken story...)

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Posted: 30th Jul 2004 06:49
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Niiiiice stories (particulary the one about the boil).

I used to work at Wendy's myself, so I can backup HZence's claims 100%! I used to be the burger grill boy, so I know that the burnt stuff was used for the chili. Oh yeah, and they save all their fat for the makeup and soap industry. There's always large vats full of fat after each night of work, weird huh?

I quit that job soon after they forced me to work from 9pm-5am!

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My friend always refuses to go into Macey D's after she worked there several years ago. Won't say why, and still goes to BK. Says she hasn't seen what goes on behind the scenes at BK, so can blissfully ignore the obvious fact that they will be exactly the same. ie. Doesn't know for 100% it's the same. Hmmm.

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Oh yeah, and it's funny how your memory plays tricks. I basically loved Wimpy's more than anything when I was a kid (they were huge 20 years ago or so). Saw one in a small town a year ago (Henley if you are interested) and couldn't believe it. Haven't seen one in years. Was a bit sad that it looked like a rubbishy cafe, and it tasted like those sad efforts you find in the freezer section of the local supermarket. Yuck.

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I found a pubic hair in a box of Chicken (pronounced: Mystery Meat) Nuggets I bought at mcdonalds. Enough said.

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I dont eat fast food all the time but I like McDonalds, Buger King or Wendy's once in a while...


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An old school cafeteria story, at least when I was in elementary school.
About once a week we'd get this burritos shipped from Taco Bell. And everybody knows that Taco Bell is infested with cockroaches right? So, this little girl from another school in the district eats one of these, but some cockroach spawned right in the burrito ingredients and it got shipped to the schools, so a couple days later she has a stomach ache. Soon it starts to burn, so she's taken to the hospital and they find little white nasty baby cockroaches swimming around eating the inside of her stomach/intestine. They have to pump her stomach and open her up and patch everything up and nab the roaches the pump missed.

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Some of these stories scare me. I hate fast-food companies that don't keep their kitchen clean. And when somebody asks why, its like "Uh, we don't have time, it's summer and it's very busy".
Especially BCDP's story, if it's true that is



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Bear - That story sounds made up. It's an alteration of an old wive's tale, man. Sure you didn't dream it?

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I remember I dreamed that story, except there was a dancing cat invlolved....

Well I have another horror story for you...

One time... I went to McDonalds... and ordered a burger... and they gave it to me, and it smelled like greasy cow meat! Man that's sick.

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I know, I mentioned in the first sentence it was an old school cafeteria story, 99% of them are bogus.

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Dazzag
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Yeah, sounds like the cockroach eggs lodging into this blokes gums, then he got baby cockroaches hatching a short while later, right in his gums. Yuck.

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Posted: 30th Jul 2004 08:05 Edited at: 30th Jul 2004 08:06
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I got some stories of my old school's cafeteria food... All this is true, because I was there...

-The milk came in "plastic bags" not cartons
-The chicken was rubbery and bounced pretty high
-Food was cold and gross
-Beef was old
-Cheese was runny and foul tasting
-Hot dogs were..... nevermind

ect. ect.

not really horror, but they had bad food... Mabey thats all cafeteria's standards or something.

it's been a long time since I've been to that school, so I can't remember all the icky things..

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Quote: "An old school cafeteria story, at least when I was in elementary school.
About once a week we'd get this burritos shipped from Taco Bell. And everybody knows that Taco Bell is infested with cockroaches right? So, this little girl from another school in the district eats one of these, but some cockroach spawned right in the burrito ingredients and it got shipped to the schools, so a couple days later she has a stomach ache. Soon it starts to burn, so she's taken to the hospital and they find little white nasty baby cockroaches swimming around eating the inside of her stomach/intestine. They have to pump her stomach and open her up and patch everything up and nab the roaches the pump missed."


Yea that sounds bogus. That would have made national news if its true.


But still, im gonna keep eating on fast foods, eating wendy's Chilies, and McD's burgers.

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you* Americans are such sissy's! think of all the people in the world who would consider meat scraped of the floor very clean!....

americans are so pampered

*note i'm an american...


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One time we went to mcdonalds and before we ordered and we were in line, my brother just barfed. yep. right in line. he barfed.

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Quote: "An old school cafeteria story, at least when I was in elementary school.
About once a week we'd get this burritos shipped from Taco Bell. And everybody knows that Taco Bell is infested with cockroaches right? So, this little girl from another school in the district eats one of these, but some cockroach spawned right in the burrito ingredients and it got shipped to the schools, so a couple days later she has a stomach ache. Soon it starts to burn, so she's taken to the hospital and they find little white nasty baby cockroaches swimming around eating the inside of her stomach/intestine. They have to pump her stomach and open her up and patch everything up and nab the roaches the pump missed."


That's a fake, I know it for a fact. There was a similar story floating around my town about a local place. Was a total lie.

Here's some proof:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa112598.htm

EDIT: Another, about that puss-mayo story:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blmcpus.htm


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One time I was at a pool and I barfed on my friend's arm...
I guess I swallowed a bit too much chlorine.

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the baby cockaroches would die from the stomach acid..sorry it's the fact


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In case you didn't believe the chicken head story

http://html.channelcincinnati.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-20001129-231903.html

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I still don't believe it, because I just read another story tonight with a different picture (head even looked different!) that said the fried chicken head was found at McDonald's.

Urband legends...

EDIT: Nevermind, that one was at a McDonald's. Thing is, since when does McDonald's serve wings?


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Not quite food, but definitely chicken, was that story about a man found dead underneath the ruins of a wall that had fallen down. Basically it turned out that the wall was a bit unsafe, got knocked by a lorry or something and fell down. Onto this bloke. Heh, they also realised that he had been, at the time, preoccupied with being "friendly" with a chicken. Which was still attached.... hmmmm....

Still, the chicken was probably still better for you than most of the junk you get in fast food joints. Once you wiped off the brick and, erm, other stuff off it first. Even then....

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Okay, something factual.

One of my old elementary school's favorite dishes to prepare was sloppy joe with chicken. Ground chicken soaked in bbq sauce on a bun. Well....chicken is stringy when it gets ground into sloppy joe, so one day besides the usual hair you get one girl in 6th grade found this big long artery. She tasted something funny, and looked at it. She pulled it out and when she squeezed the top a bit of blackish reddish stuff came out. Probably just ancient barbecue sauce, but she still freaked out and went and got another meal.

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Heh, strange stories there...

True story, not so horrorish though;
I used to work at KFC, and We served up some chips, deep-fried as usual, soaking in fat, and smothered in "chicken" "salt".
A young girl ( bout 17 or 18 ) brought back her serving of chips with a small complaint, which, thankfully, she kept quiet at the time.
It turned out that a cockroach ( our store was infested ) had quite stupidly gotten into the deep-frier with some chips, and then had been served to the girl along with her meal.

Mmmmm, Deep fried Cockroach... yummy...

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Its strange how this post both disdugsts me and compells me at the same time. My brother Has been pretty unlucky with McDonalds, one time he found a (big) peice of greese proof paper in his burger, my dad went to get a replacement and there was an engagement ring in that one!

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It may be a urban legend, but i've heard McDonalds use the fat from the burgers/chickens to thicken their milkshakes? Good thing i don't like milkshakes much...


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went to a chippy once, ordered chips n kebab, i opened it, i emptied the kebab onto the dinner plate, and just as i was wondering where the chips were a potato rolled out of the polythene box.

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These days have you noticed that McDonalds (in the UK anyway) are boasting that there chicken nuggets are now made with "real chicken", if they are made with "real chicken" now, what were they made with before?

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Ok 1st alot of this stuff you hear is just legends, like the chicken head..i dont belive that..and you say "oh but that was on the news, ITS REAL!" yeah...*points at the Enquirer weekly with title Eskimo Clan Found on mars.* or, my favorite recent one... "Gay Aliens found in UFO Crash near Roswell." then it showed 2 skelotons with a big cone head and alien(sterotype) lookin face hugging each other. It was freaky. So dont believe everything.
Iv heard...of some1 who licked a stamp and then had roach eggs in their tounge and they hatched...
but I know this is true: At my school cafeteria last year (8th grade) in one of the "hamburgers" (soyburgers...nasty) there was a cockroach in it Shows how well the sanitary conditions were...Normal day of sittin there eating and see a roach on the wall or a dead one in the kitchen part of the cafeteria floor.

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Quote: "what were they made with before?"


Mystery Meat, random parts of random animals, from the eyeball of a cow to the intestines of a goat...still tasted pretty good though

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I saw a picture of a rat in a burger on the newspaper once. Though, I find it hard to think it was an accident. Badly processed Mystery Meat?

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TKF15H your sig makes me miss the old DB classic IDE

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Part of the McNugget chapter from that book I mentioned, basically said how the CEO (or somesuch) of Macey D's said he wanted a finger sized chicken snack pronto. Think they took 6 months to work out how to keep the re-constituted (sure they used that word) chicken stuck together with various chemicals etc. But to get them to taste good they cooked them in beef fat from the hamburgers. Because of this they were way more fattening than the hamburgers. Or so says the book if I remember rightly. Think there was complaints and they used vegetable fat instead, but still coated it with beef extract. Tops.

Saying that, there was that whole 100% beef only having to be 40% pure beef effort a while back. Confusing....

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Quote: "TKF15H your sig makes me miss the old DB classic IDE"

I miss it too. Sadly, it won't even open up on my computer. Just crashes like DBP games.

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