Name: Fast Food Items That The Staff Won't Even Touch
Uploaded: 2021-09-14T10:05:22.000Z
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Would you bite into day-old meatballs that  have been bobbing around in hot water? Probably  

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not. Of course, no one eats fast food for their  health, but even staff won't get near these items.

Do you subscribe to the popular assumption that  the grilled chicken on the McDonald's menu is a  

reasonable choice? Well, it appears that at least  one of McDonald's employees would beg to differ.

That employee revealed in a Reddit thread in 2013:

"A lot of people choose to be healthy  and order our grilled chicken instead.  

Not a lot of people realize that they're eating at  

a fast food joint and we WILL find  a way to make anything unhealthy."

The employee couldn't help but notice that  

a lot of liquid margarine was used in  preparing McDonald's grilled chicken.

"To keep it from sticking to the grill, we  use three squirts of liquid margarine on  

the bottom of it. To keep it juicy, once  we've lain the frozen blocks of chicken,  

three more squirts of liquid  margarine are applied to the tops."

And margarine contains about the  same amount of total fat as butter,  

according to Providence  Nutrition Services. And so,  

this seemingly healthier sandwich  may actually be pretty bad for you.

Fast food restaurants have rules aimed at  making sure the food you're served is sanitary,  

of course. However, how those rules are followed  may vary by location. Moreover, there may always  

be an employee who simply ignores the rules. Based  on statements made by a former Burger King fry  

cook in a Reddit forum from 2013, it appears  that Burger King is not immune to this issue.

Specifically, the Redditor pointed out that  he frequently observed one of his coworkers  

spilling french fries on the  floor only to then pick them up  

and put them back in the cooker  with, quote, "dirt and all."

He also witnessed that same worker dropping  two chicken patties onto the floor,  

stepping on them, and then serving them anyway.  It was something the fry cook could never unsee,  

and is the reason he won't  eat at Burger King anymore.

Whether or not you subscribe to the five-second  rule, the fact is that food dropped on the floor  

will come back up with bacteria adhering to  it, according to a Clemson University study.

"Five second rule!" "Five, four, three,  

Whataburger gravy may not  be fresh when it's served,  

according to one Redditor employed at Whataburger.  In a 2013 Reddit forum, the employee revealed:

"I currently work at Whataburger and  I would never order the chicken gravy.  

It has an expiration of eight hours,  but unless it gets used up before then,  

we will leave it sitting there until it does,  which can be well over the eight hours."

Apparently, the expired gravy goes from its  normal creamy and white appearance to a, quote,  

"gross brown color" with a  "super thick" consistency.  

While “Consumer Reports” has pointed  out that "sell by" notations do not  

rise to the level of "do not consume after"  warnings, it can be difficult to tell when a  

food is expired, or whether it's become  contaminated with food-borne bacteria.

Subway's "eat fresh" motto may be  more aspirational than factual. Now,  

you may be perfectly comfortable with the  freshness of whatever it is you typically  

order from Subway. However, if that happens  to be the meatball sub, you might reconsider  

after hearing how a Subway employee and Redditor  responded to a 2021 Reddit post, which petitioned  

fast food restaurant workers to name the  one item from their chain they'd never eat.

"Meatballs are probably the worst menu item for  me now. Meatballs are heated from frozen in a  

microwave then left to sit in a bath of hot water  to keep warm. Supposed to be thrown out after four  

hours but I would sometimes start a shift and see  the bag I made yesterday still sitting there."

possibility that this practice is  happening at a Subway near you.

Reddit user Kiss My Sassiness revealed something  scary about Steak 'n Shake's food safety practices  

back in 2015 when she responded to a post, which  asked fast food employees a loaded question:

"What should we not order at your restaurant?"

The Redditor revealed that anyone with a peanut  allergy who orders a shake from Steak 'n Shake  

may be taking a serious risk with their health  and their life. She said it plain and simple:

"Steak n' Shake waitress here. Don't order  the milkshakes if you have allergies."

Apparently, each Steak 'n Shake location  has around a dozen metal shake containers  

that they use to make shakes all day long.  Allegedly, the containers are merely rinsed  

with water between uses. That means any peanut  residue from one of the many shakes on the menu  

may or may not be rinsed away by the time you  order your peanut-free shake. While we have not  

yet heard of any allergic reactions occurring  as a result, it's certainly food for thought.

The "roast beef" Arby's slices up to  pile atop a bun is not actually what  

you think of when you think of roast beef,  like a single cut of meat, but rather a:

That's what an alleged Arby's employee  and Redditor contributed to a January  

2021 Reddit post regarding the one item fast  food workers would advise against ordering.

"It comes in a bag filled with beef  broth, and you just warm the entire  

thing in the oven for a few hours. And  once the compressed beef block is heated,  

you put it on the slicer and leave it under  a heat lamp for hours to slowly desiccate."

Even if that doesn't gross you out, you should  know Arby's roast beef falls under the definition  

of ultra-processed food, which, according to a  2020 study published in the Nutrition Journal,  

is linked to dying earlier from all causes.

Many fast food employees have  confessed on social media they know  

better than to consume the ice at their place  of employment. Even with regular cleaning,  

employees reported that fast food  restaurant ice machines are disgusting.  

One employee commented on a  Reddit forum in 2015 and said:   

"[The machines] could very well be teeming  with mold, bacteria, and even broken glass."

Sherri Woodus, retail food section chief for the  Arkansas Department of Health, told SafeIce.org:

"The same risk you can get from food, Salmonella,  

E. coli, any of those pathogens  can also be found on ice."

And while a McDonald's employee and Redditor  defended the cleanliness of the ice at Mickey D's,  

the reality is you really don't know how  

clean the ice machine is at any  particular fast food restaurant.

Out of all the weird rules that  McDonald's employees have to follow,  

not a single one addresses how much sugar they are  compelled to put into the McDonald's sweet tea.  

Nevertheless, one employee and Redditor posted  about it in a Reddit forum from 2013. They said:

"McDonald's sweet tea. Pound.  Of. Sugar. Per Gallon."

If this is true, that's quite a bit more sugar  than McDonald's claims to put in their sweet tea.  

But even if McDonald's doesn't use the  pound-per-gallon formula as alleged,  

the restaurant still uses a lot of sugar in their  sweetened tea. As noted on the McDonald's website,  

a small and large sweet tea are listed as having  21 grams and 38 grams of sugar, respectively.

Although it's okay to indulge in  the occasional high-sugar treat,  

the fact is that too much dietary sugar  can really do a number on your health,  

contributing to a host of conditions  that might otherwise be avoidable,  

including obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver  disease, according to Harvard Men's Health Watch.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade,  right? Apparently, however, you won't find  

employees using actual lemons to make Wendy's  lemonade. Yes, despite the fact that Wendy's  

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