McDonnalds Urban Legend!?

Binomate

Have you ever heard of someone finding spit in their burger? I remember I used to hear horror stories from my mates who knew people who found out someone had halked all over the inside of their burger after they gave cheek to the some young fella behind the counter. Although I don't think any of the workers now a days would do it for fear of being deported or something.

Anyone have any real life horror stories about any fast food resteraunts like the urban legend above?

Dave!

I do it all the time mate. Be nice to me. You could be next.

WexCan

As an ex Maccies employee I can categorically say that I never EVER saw it happen. We joked about it, but never did it. Our amusement was mainly from sending back grill slips:

1 SMARTIEFLURRY
> EXTRA MEAT
> EXTRA KETCHUP
> NO ONION

Eminem

My mates burger was not cooked right :eek:

Binomate

Eminem wrote:

My mates burger was not cooked right :eek:

Well now in all fairness, that's a lot better than lifting the bun to find a jobby.

WexCan

Eminem wrote:

My mates burger was not cooked right :eek:

This one's pretty common. Maccies policy is not to flip the meat at all. You just stick it on the grill, pull down the top platen (cooks on both sides) and 60 seconds later the grill releases and you have to take the meat off, pink bits and all.

Some stores aren't as strict but I got my head eaten of by a manager once for flipping.

So burger-flippers is a bit outdated

Pigman II

Never worked in fast food but if I had I'd probably joke about it like anyone else but certainly wouldn't ever do it no matter how big a cúnt the guy about to get it was. I'd definetly turn narc on someone who did it too. Sick fúckers.

Terry

a friend of mine told me that he found a big clump of hair in his mcchicken sandwich. i didn't believe him though. he's something of a liar.

bounty_hunter

I personally know of several disgruntled ex-employees who have added various bodily fluids to the milkshake mixture, etc. upon being fired.

Enii

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/mcdshake.htm

Check out www.snopes.com for urban legends

Terry

ugh. another snopes link.
i'll read their stuff when the can prove or disprove the existence of god. until then they are just a bunch of geeks with too much time on their hands.

N_Raid

Only one I know of happened to my mam. She got a Big Mac from a Drive Thru. When she opened it there was already a bite taken out of it! She tried to bring it back but the manager was accusing her of doing it. Of course when the words 'Lab test' and 'Solicitor' were mentioned out came the free birthday party for me and, jesus there must have been at least 20 or 30, other kids. We even brought friends of friends just to make up the numbers and get as much out of them as we could. My mam didn't want money off them, I'm sure they didn't want to go giving out money, I got a free party. Everybodys happy. Of course she hasn't eaten there since

Victor

The most I've ever seen was a physicly abuse burger - squashed, torn, etc. No molestation.

WexCan wrote:

As an ex Maccies employee I can categorically say that I never EVER saw it happen. We joked about it, but never did it. Our amusement was mainly from sending back grill slips:

1 SMARTIEFLURRY
> EXTRA MEAT
> EXTRA KETCHUP
> NO ONION

I thought it was cool to order one night

54  BIG-MAC
      > PLAIN

In English, thats 54 plain Big-Macs. I then hit TOTAL (no changes allow) instead of SUB-TOTAL (changes allow) and had to get a manager to erase it.

WexCan

Ah the best one was entering 99 on someone else's till and waiting. They've changed it over the last few years so all deletions and changes need manager keys.

Tee hee hee.

Fajitas!

Mate of mine found what he thought was spit in a burger. Fair enough it could have been but it could have been grease or anything too.

Then again he's a bit of a prick to people that work in places like that.

My friend used work in a pizza company. Many a tale of salami tubes down the crack, 'cheesy' cheese etc. Obviously I never ate in there.

Gaillimhtaibhse

"Where's the beef?":rolleyes:

Pigman II

Gaillimhtaibhse wrote:

"Where's the beef?":rolleyes:

Probably between some disgruntled employees arsecheeks.

Gator

Ex maccies employee, I lasted for two days, at the time there was some promo on and there was balloons everywhere

Sure enough staff started messing with them and a customer came back with a red ballonn in his fries, guy was sacked on the spot, I wish it could have been me so I did'nt have to go in the next day

TerrorFirmer

I worked in Supermacs for a few years, and as someone said, you joke about it, but in reality I never once saw anybody abuse anyones food in any way.

Although listen to this - me and my friend were re-filling the ice cream machine on a quiet day. There was a big fly flying about the place and he landed inside the machine and began crawling along the side of the vat. So me and my friend got a packet of the ice cream milk stuff each and started squirting it, seeing who could get the fly first. It was only after my friend successfully blasted him into the depths of the mixture we realised....oh crap....that's pretty sick. It was a pretty big fly.

We sold a fair bit of ice cream that day. No one reported any insects.

Binomate

I've heard some pretty weird stuff about the Supermacs in Galway. Apparently some Romanian lad put a knife to a girls throat and told her to give him a hand job. Some how she escaped and reported him to the Gardaí but they couldn't find him. Of course the next day she walks in to Supermacs in eyre square and guess who was behind the counter to take her order!

TerrorFirmer

Binomate wrote:

I've heard some pretty weird stuff about the Supermacs in Galway. Apparently some Romanian lad put a knife to a girls throat and told her to give him a hand job. Some how she escaped and reported him to the Gardaí but they couldn't find him. Of course the next day she walks in to Supermacs in eyre square and guess who was behind the counter to take her order!

I worked in the one in Oranmore. At any one time only about 3 staff on, place was always quiet, so apart from public holidays and night time after the pub, which I never worked anyway, it was mostly quiet. :cool:

No crazy Romanians here thank you! Although lots of poles, and thankfully, all dead sound and great fun.

gary the great

I remember me and another bloke i worked with got a bollicking (for not selling enough supersize or something) and we were real pissed off, so we went down to the utility room and proceded to put about 6ooeuros worth(a months supply) of non-diluted cleaning agents down the drains! it was funny at the time when you were 16 in your first job and hating every minute of it.

We also used to lock each other in the customers toilets for hours and put the xmas cds on in the middle of march.

we used to write messages to the customers on the burger boxes, **** like " save us, they make us work all day and pay us **** all money".

Ah those were the days.

WexCan

gary the great wrote:

I remember me and another bloke i worked with got a bollicking (for not selling enough supersize or something) and we were real pissed off, so we went down to the utility room and proceded to put about 6ooeuros worth(a months supply) of non-diluted cleaning agents down the drains! it was funny at the time when you were 16 in your first job and hating every minute of it.

We also used to lock each other in the customers toilets for hours and put the xmas cds on in the middle of march.

we used to write messages to the customers on the burger boxes, **** like " save us, they make us work all day and pay us **** all money".

Ah those were the days.

Haha classic

MarinoMark

Myth ! it does not happen. Generally !!

Aquos76

On the subject of McDonalds, this is going around the net. Its hardly true, but its a good laugh.

WexCan

Aquos76 wrote:

On the subject of McDonalds, this is going around the net. Its hardly true, but its a good laugh.

I'd probably give him a job tbh

sunzz

Oh I needed that was feeling like ****e today, this thread cheered me right up

WexCan

sunzz wrote:

Oh I needed that was feeling like ****e today, this thread cheered me right up

Duh nuh nuh nuh nuh burgerwatch....

cakehole

Mac donalds is not the one to worry about ..you can always see into the kitchen ie you know what their doing as you can see them!
My buddy is a chef and he worked in a lot of top clas resturants....he and his co workers would do things out of spite on certain guests.
be careful what you send back!

Kinetic^

A guy I know who's also a member of Boards *cough* Gator *cough*, got given out to in McDonalds for calling the fries chips, he left after his first day

WexCan

cakehole wrote:

Mac donalds is not the one to worry about ..you can always see into the kitchen ie you know what their doing as you can see them!
My buddy is a chef and he worked in a lot of top clas resturants....he and his co workers would do things out of spite on certain guests.
be careful what you send back!

Exactly, there a as many if not more horro stories about "conventional" restaurants.

Pigman II

Keyser Soze 5 wrote:

A guy I know who's also a member of Boards *cough* Gator *cough*, got given out to in McDonalds for calling the fries chips, he left after his first day

Facists! Have these people never heard of freedom-fries of speech?

WexCan

Pigman II wrote:

Facists! Have these people never heard of freedom-fries of speech?

Well hey, a company that expects its staff to run around yelling "I'm loving it" can't be taken seriously. They're pretty strict about tiny little things like the fries/chips thing.

Kinetic^

Another thing, why don't the have mayonnaise in the little sachets like they do ketchup, the jerks :mad:

WexCan

Keyser Soze 5 wrote:

Another thing, why don't the have mayonnaise in the little sachets like they do ketchup, the jerks :mad:

That was so annoying, we'd get it every now and then back when I was in Maccies, always flew out, especially with all the French/Spanish/Italian students looking for it.

Kinetic^

Thats it,I'm not eating in McDonalds anymore, strictly drive thru

WexCan

Grafton Street is usually best from mayo, AFAIR

*Oul_Doll_Cork*

Never had anyone spit in my burger at mac Donalds!! My friend bought a burger from Hilbillies once though (this is true, I was there and witnessed it!).. She opened the burger to take out some of the lettuce and inside there was this big green insect squirming around in the mayonaise!! It was a really strange looking one with white stripes on it's back!!
Anyway.. we went back up to Hillbillies to speak with the manager and there was a big queue there, the manager came out (a big swetty fat guy) and said "Oh look, do you want a new one??" Everyone in the queue was disgusted and left without their food... She just got her money back!! :rolleyes: It was discusting though!

WexCan

*Oul_Doll_Cork* wrote:

Never had anyone spit in my burger at mac Donalds!! My friend bought a burger from Hilbillies once though (this is true, I was there and witnessed it!).. She opened the burger to take out some of the lettuce and inside there was this big green insect squirming around in the mayonaise!! It was a really strange looking one with white stripes on it's back!!
Anyway.. we went back up to Hillbillies to speak with the manager and there was a big queue there, the manager came out (a big swetty fat guy) and said "Oh look, do you want a new one??" Everyone in the queue was disgusted and left without their food... She just got her money back!! :rolleyes: It was discusting though!

That's one good thing, they'll give you a free anything if you complain.

I had numerous customers who would eat their fries on the try on the counter while I got their drinks (any McDs vets spot the problem with this situation for extra points) and then they'd ask for new ones beacuse "de box isn't full, bud".

They asked for my manager, who gave them the meal free and gave them new fries.

Mmmm_Lemony

I have first hand experience of this. I won't complain in a restaurant whether it be mickie d's or the oval. If I have a problem I finish what I can and leave, never to return. Only place I won't do this is subway, as I love it too much not to come back.

I worked in md's and saw first hand the lengths people will go to seek revenge on a complaining unhappy customer. On my first day of training in clondalkin, one burger patty was used as a football, then dusted a bit and placed back in the burger. I think the customer didn't want pickle or something (surely a valid request ). I was surprised that it did not fall apart. Probably all the card board.

Point is you get idiots in absolutely every corner of society, to suggest otherwise is silly. Saw tons of other stuff. Never ever partook myself.

Siogfinsceal

remember that horrible old story bout the guy who got a glob of mayonaise on his chicken burger and it turned out to be puss from a tumour the chicken had

WexCan

Siogfinsceal wrote:

remember that horrible old story bout the guy who got a glob of mayonaise on his chicken burger and it turned out to be puss from a tumour the chicken had

Funny, "mayo" in these stories usually refers to something else

TerrorFirmer

Siogfinsceal wrote:

remember that horrible old story bout the guy who got a glob of mayonaise on his chicken burger and it turned out to be puss from a tumour the chicken had

I'm not one to be affected by these "put you off your lunch" stories but that one is just plain nauseating, I remember reading the original post ages ago and feeling sick

netwhizkid

HavoK wrote:

I'm not one to be affected by these "put you off your lunch" stories but that one is just plain nauseating, I remember reading the original post ages ago and feeling sick

That once happened to me, I was eating in McDonald's with a few people and my sister was there too, and she ordered this Chicken Burger after in insisting she not (fearing of Avian Bird-Flu) Then we were talking about these urban legends while we were waiting for the food to be dropped down. Well bloody hell wasn't there a big chicken bluey-red vein in the Chicken Burger she ordered! :eek: We were disgusted! I remember in my earlier obese days about 3years ago before I lost a few stone, A Big Mac and super-sized fries would not fill me up :v: Thinking back I wonder what garbage did my body consume there. I was also told once that the "fries" chips to me and you were not made out of spuds only some sort of dried powdery flour and included recycled Chinese newspapers. Any one see podge and rodge last night? they said the old one in the "Reduce- Re-use- Recycle" ad had the hots for your man and that sex with older women was the ultimate in recycling! I thought it was one of the funniest things I heard so for this year. They really made a great job of the show and their female assistant is very easy one the eye!

Pigman II

I know Supersize Me put a lot of people off Maccers, not me tho. That said tho they did describe how they make their chicken nuggets and I have to say I haven't touched one since (of any brand). Ya might as well be eating out of a bin as touch them.

WexCan

Pigman II wrote:

I know Supersize Me put a lot of people off Maccers, not me tho. That said tho they did describe how they make their chicken nuggets and I have to say I haven't touched one since (of any brand). Ya might as well be eating out of a bin as touch them.

Supersize Me made me hungry.

The shame.

Tha Gopher

Ive worked there and can honestly say this type of thing never happens. Truth is that even if you wanted to do something the place is too rushed and fast paced to get the chance. As for the chance of being caught doing it, if the average employee goes back to the kitchen during his break to swipe extra food the chance of a manager catching you is VERY high for some reason,* so as for spitting etc forget about it.




Mackers are so fcuking tight re free food. On your hour you get a medium meal (medium fries, coke and one of the 6 main burgers- Big Mac, Chicken sandwich/premiere/Fish Filet 1/4 Pounder) and on the small break you get a kids meal- small fries, coke and ham/cheeseburger. I got given out to once for taking a double cheeseburger on my 15 min break:rolleyes:

Never stopped me though, id never take only a single cheeseburger on grounds of principle and taste, cheap kunts.

Green_Martian

all these stories are total Urban Legends,

I worked in BK for a number of years, and as previous ppl have stated its all talk.

The worst i think we did was the following:

A customer complained that they had asked for a burger plain with just ketchup, they were being very irate about this little accident so we decided if all they wanted was ketchup on the burger then they would get it. We covered the whole burger and bun with a mountain of ketchup, luckily the order was for takeaway. the customer never came back to complain........LOL:D it was so funny

WexCan

Tha Gopher wrote:

Ive worked there and can honestly say this type of thing never happens. Truth is that even if you wanted to do something the place is too rushed and fast paced to get the chance. As for the chance of being caught doing it, if the average employee goes back to the kitchen during his break to swipe extra food the chance of a manager catching you is VERY high for some reason,* so as for spitting etc forget about it.




Mackers are so fcuking tight re free food. On your hour you get a medium meal (medium fries, coke and one of the 6 main burgers- Big Mac, Chicken sandwich/premiere/Fish Filet 1/4 Pounder) and on the small break you get a kids meal- small fries, coke and ham/cheeseburger. I got given out to once for taking a double cheeseburger on my 15 min break:rolleyes:

Never stopped me though, id never take only a single cheeseburger on grounds of principle and taste, cheap kunts.

The break meal thing depends on store, my one was a lot more flexible, took what we want really, rang though our own emp meals ourselves, etc etc. Was it a franchised place?

Cutie18Ireland

never had anything in mc donalds but in eddie rockets in blanch a few years back the dad ordered a burger with lettuce... took something off it and noticed there was a worm wrigglinf in the lettuce.... wasnt the only one that day and the manager was mortified... good thing i dont like lettuce lol

Rael

From working in Pizza Hut when i was younger, i can actually say they were cool about taking food home or on breaks. emlpoyee's were allowed 1 beer a day if desired and you were overage. and there was no messing with customer's food

However I do have friend who is a qualified chef who told me of trainee chefs jacking off into food when a customer complained and then there was other stuff he refused to go into details about :eek: