The other day, Mrs Mangetout said that she didn’t fancy coming with me to McDonalds with the kids because of what they put in the food, now I know that fast food isn’t generally a particularly healthy thing, if it features prominently in your regular diet, I’m even aware that all kinds of animal parts can end up in fast food items (not necessarily at McDonalds though).
Anyway, she seemed really cagey about it, but eventually said that it was because there is [sub]semen[/sub] in the mayonnaise.
“What!?!”, I exclaimed; “There’s [sub]semen[/sub] in the mayonnaise - apparently they found [sub]semen[/sub] in the mayonnaise at McDonalds”, she replied.
Now I am certain this is nothing more than an urban legend and I told her so. Snopes says nothing about the subject (although there are quite a number of McDs adulteration tales there).
Googling, I found a couple of pages where someone was claiming that this or that branch of McDonalds got closed down after ‘they’ found semen in the food there, but again, they are in classic UL format and layout (The person thought their burger tasted funny/fell ill and sent it for testing, wherupon ‘they’ found that it contained…")
Anyroadup, can anyone tell me if there ever has been a legitimate documented case of food contamination by human semen at McDonalds (and indeed at any commercial food outlet)?
I heard that they thought it was mayonnaise, and then they were really sick, and under analysis it was actually chicken pus. It’s true! Bloke said! It happened to someone who knows a friend of mine! (Actually, I really really was told this as gospel by a friend. But it isn’t).
Semen is more healthy than most of the food that you’ll get at McDonalds. You should demand that there be semen in your food. If there isn’t already some in your food, check through the packets of ketchup, etc. and see if they have any packets of semen to add to your food.
Please folks; the humour is great, but I’m looking for factual answers here; I know there are urban legends about this sort of thing but the existence of numerous urban legends about it doesn’t negate the possibility of it having happened.
The factual question is: Are there any legitimate, recorded cases of restaurants serving food that was found to contain human semen?
Given the nature of bored, sullen, stoned, and hostile fast-food burger flippers, I would be shocked if no one can come up with a story of one wanking on a customer’s food.
Only documentation I’ve ever seen in paper was written up in “The Final Call” or somesuch… whatever they call the official newspaper of The Nation of Islam.
The article ran when I was in college, which dates it to between 1995 and 1999. I believe I read this Freshman year, which puts it in 1995-1996, but I wouldn’t swear on a stack of Korans to that.
In the article a Black customer of a chinese delivery restaurant was outraged to find a used condom in his dinner.
That being said, the journalistic integrity of the journal in question is uh… probably somewhat less than that of the New York Times.
I worked at a Wendy’s 20 years ago, and i walked in on a guy pissing into the 5 gallon pickle bucket back in the stockroom.
Thats not semen, but thats bad enough
Absolutely. Find and read a copy of “Fast Food Nation” by Eric Schlosser. WARNING: it may put you off fast food and maybe even processed meat for life.
The situation is often like this (and not to disrespect hard-working teens): you have a food establishment largely staffed by young people, who are supervised by young people. There have been documented instances of food fights, urinating in coffee and spitting into sandwiches. Now aren’t you glad you asked?
The Smoking Gun has a few pages of compilations of police reports and lawsuits related to restaurants tampering with food. Honestly, this is a risk you take when you eat anywhere, not just McDonald’s, and it’s generally not randomly done, it’s done in retaliation for some perceived slight.
So, the answer is yes…there are documented cases of nasty, horrible people tampering with food in all sorts of restaurants. I wouldn’t call it a standard practice, though, and singling out McDonald’s is rather silly.
