What's the Most Disgusting Thing You've ever seen in a restaurant?

@Ashida (1370)
United States
January 23, 2007 12:21pm CST
I have a couple... While waiting in line at McDonalds one day, I looked back into the kitchen and watched one of the cooks picking his teeth with his fingernail, then go back to making food. I tapped the person in front of me on the shoulder and showed her what this guy was doing. The two of us just walked out. Another time I was eating in a Mexican restaurant and my seat faced the kitchen. Our waitress asked if we were done with our basket of chips. We were, so she took it back and dumped our leftover chips back in the chip warmer. Whenever I eat Mexican, I think about this.
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@kgwat70 (13388)
• United States
24 Jan 07
The most disgusting thing that I ever saw in a restaurant was an employee drop a piece of bread on the dirty floor in the back and put it back up on the counter and put food on it and served it. That is disgusting what the person you saw did. I wonder who put the rat into a McDonalds salad in Texas months ago.
@kgwat70 (13388)
• United States
24 Jan 07
It seems to me that McDonalds is guilty of doing disgusting things more than other places. I don't go to McDonalds anymore for anything.
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
well, I think you take your chances anywhere you go -- it's a wonder people don't get sick more often from this kind of stuff
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
you know that kinda leads me to another point about making your server angry -- there's no telling what they will do with your food.
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• Philippines
24 Jan 07
This happened to me and friends when we're dining at a local restaurant... At the middle of the course, we saw a bandage floating on the soup. It was so gross... The restaurant manager was so angry to the staff, and we didn't manage to pay the bill. Definitely!
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Oh my! That is nasty. I can't even think of a word disgusting enough to describe that.
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• Philippines
24 Jan 07
You bet! It was really disgusting. And the fact that we have eaten some of the soup! Yuck!
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@forjosie (1544)
• Indonesia
24 Jan 07
Yuuuuuuuuk!!!!!!!! yeah, that's very disgusting....:( cooker just human being too...sometimes they forgot the higienist. You must look at the traditional restaurant's kitchen, you will more surprise that what you see on there...ehehehehe... SO my mom always says to me: If you eat at the restaurant where ever it is, do not look at the kitchen, or you will could not eat the food...:D:D:D
@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
I think that's good advice. I think you just have to have faith that the food is hot enough to kill whatever nastiness it's been swimming in.
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@Randync (544)
• United States
23 Jan 07
I have two as well. Both in Hardees. The first one was a lady putting food in the little wrappers. She was licking her fingers to seal the little buscuit bags, then picking up the food. 2nd one I was at a drive through and saw a roach walking around on the frame of the drive through window.
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
23 Jan 07
Aw man. lol -- that is officially nasty. Yeah, I have some roach stories aswell, but they didn't happen to me personally. A friend of mine found a roach deep fried into her taco salad bowl. it was just sitting there encased in the flour tortilla.
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
this was at the food court in the mall. I think the place did go out of business.
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• United States
24 Jan 07
The most disgusting thing I have ever seen in a restaurant was a rats tail cooked into a curly fry.Most disturbing.
@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
That is very disturbing.
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@UnAUnO (106)
• United States
23 Jan 07
a red hair in the burrito and the waitress had yacky red hair..
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
23 Jan 07
that's pretty nasty!
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@lpetges (3036)
• United States
24 Jan 07
at olive garden, i had angel hair pasta, with an alfredo sauce, and as i was eating the pasta, i could tell there was a hair in there- and i pulled out of my mouth a long black hair! yuk, we told the waiter, and he said he didn't know where it came from (i'm blonde, my husband grey)-didn't come from me! So i started to very loudly say "I found this long black hair in my food, and you must have a very dirty kitchen with no hair nets on your cooks" that instant the manager came over and paid for our dinners, but of course my appetite was gone, so we left. never going there again!!!
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
that was nice of them to pay for your hair-ridden meal
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@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
I don't know if this is disgusting but it sure was funny....Many years ago I was in a little Chinese restaurant in Philadelphia. All of a sudden a woman came out of the ladies room screaming that there was a mouse in there. The manager rushed over and tried to subdue (actually shush) her. While he was trying to quiet her and telling her she made a mistake, somebody opened the kitchen door and out strutted a couple of cats. They apparently kept cats in the kitchen to catch the mice that weren't there. About half the patrons walked out and the other half stayed and laughed until it hurt. I guess the people who left thought it was disgusting. I stayed and had a good laugh.
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
And thus many an urban legend was born :) That's a funny story!
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@manong05 (5027)
• Philippines
24 Jan 07
I went to a restaurant very early and it just opened, the man just finished putting the plates of salads on the center island salad bar and started to taste each salad using his index finger. Appararently, they were left overs from last night and as he tastes, he puts aside other bowls while he murmurs, ahh, this one is off, and this one too.
@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
mmmmm -- doesn't that sound delicious. These are some really vile stories,
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@AskAlly (3625)
• Canada
23 Jan 07
How would you like your Steak done? - Miss piggy and Chef of the muppets as employees of a restaraunt.
I too have seen chips go back into the warmer. I can't believe it. Makes you wonder if they recycle garnish on plates as well. I have had a little green worm in my salad and the odd hair (oh gag me) If I have eaten any other questionable things I do not care to know
@Ashida (1370)
• United States
23 Jan 07
While the chips are disturbing -- kinda makes you wonder about the salsa too.
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• United States
24 Jan 07
Good thing you saw him picking his teeth and not scratching his butt and going back to make your burritos. Or wiping his sweat with his hands then continue working. I have seen it and I don't eat out unless I don't have any option.
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Yeah. I think the best thing to do is just to close your eyes and eat. of course this is how saying a prayer before eating got started. Just to ensure you survived the meal.
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@korek222 (701)
• Poland
23 Jan 07
Youck this what've written sounds horrible! I can only recall one of such an events from my past - it was a summer camp when i was in high school. One evening we have had sausages as a dinner. They looked not nice so basicly no one wanted to eat them. Next day they served us grilled sausages ( still no one wanted to eat them adn some started to think where do they come from :P) and yet next day they gave us a kind of mexican food with chopped grilled sausages in it. Some guy started to laugh and scream that 3 days old sausages are soo good to eat ;P
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
that sounds like the cafeteria at my old high school-- they'd throw all the leftover together into some sort of freakish stew on Fridays.
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@ram13288 (387)
• United States
23 Jan 07
i only have one but it was pretty disgusting. i was at this fast food place, i forget the name, but they had everything from pizza to all kinds of sandwiches, so iturn to look at what kinds of pizzas they had when i saw a nasty cockroach just walking all over the pizza and the guy behind the counter didnt even look surpised when he saw it. so im guessing he must see it pretty often around there. since that day i have never gone back.
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Man, I don't know if I'm ever gonna eat out again after reading all these stories.
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• Philippines
24 Jan 07
I haven't seen any disgusting scene yet but a friend told me that one time, he accidentally entered into the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant. Disgustingly, he saw bunch of cockroaches roaming around. I won't mention the restaurant's name but for sure I won't ever step my foot there.
@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
yeah, once they check in they don't check out. I knew a restaurant that had a big problem with them. They would spray and spray and still they came back.
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• United States
24 Jan 07
Eww that is totally nasty, i have seen someone sneeze on food before so i left and went to another one
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
yeah -- you'll never eat out again if you red all these posts! But at least they are funny stories
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@shogunly (1397)
• Libya
24 Jan 07
a curved short hair in a plate (I wonder where that came from ?) a cockroach in my friends sandwich !!lol I once buyed a pizza , the guy making it wasnt wearing any gloves and his face was full of ZITS (swollen pimples on the faces full of yucky goo )
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@shogunly (1397)
• Libya
24 Jan 07
you know there are hairs that are thicker than the hair on the head , smoother ,shorter and slighly curved (not curled) we got sick and then we laughed a lot while trying to guess how that hair might have gotten into the cooks hands then into the dish !
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Okay now you are turning my stomach. Hmm.. maybe the cook had curl hair?
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@raijin (10345)
• Philippines
24 Jan 07
While I was working at McDonalds, I saw a big rat swimming on a bucket with a half-filled sundae mix. We discarded the sundae mix and dumped the darn rat out in the garbage. Eeww!
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@raijin (10345)
• Philippines
24 Jan 07
Actually it was still alive when we saw it, and was still alive when we dumped it..
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@darkblade (123)
• Philippines
24 Jan 07
I was at McDonalds the other day and I saw one of the crew hurriedly getting the orders of one customer. In the process she bumped one of her crewmates and that made her drop the plate of spaghetti she was holding. Next thing I knew she was scooping up the spaghetti from the floor and onto the plate again and served it to her customer. Poor guy, he was so busy talking on his mobile he didn't see what happened. Now whenever I eat at fastfoods, I always look at how the crew served my orders.
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• United States
24 Jan 07
When did they start serving spaghetti at McD's?
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
24 Jan 07
This was in a restaurant, but I worked at a Dairy Queen when I was a teenager. One night a woman comes up and orders a cone, she has her dog with her, a french poodle. She pays for the cone, and gives the dog a lick, then she takes a lick then the dog.....you get the idea.
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Well they say a dog's mouth is cleaner than a humans. Poor poodle! :)
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@hottie0728 (1732)
• United States
24 Jan 07
I think that's why tha chips and salsa are free...nasty! So far I haven't seen anything disgusting myself but I remember tha Waiting movie...haha!
@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
i hadn't thought about it like that -- I mean, what do you expect for free! That's a good point.
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• United States
24 Jan 07
GROSS GROSS GROSS! LOL I can think of one..I was at a Taco Bell/KFC fast food place and went to get something to drink at the drink machine. I accidentally pusehd the tea machine thing a little while waiting for someone to fiish with the soad machine and about 30 cockroaches ran out from under it! YUCK! I gag even now just thinking about it!
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@Ashida (1370)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Oh man. That is revolting. Dd you say anything to the manager?
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