At this point OP has the tough choice of
A. Return it for a new burger, being polite and understanding that bugs aren’t following human social norms.
B. Hide the burger somewhere in the store and let the maggots have it, buy another burger, just so things get really petty.
C. Go full karen/Kevin, clearly the workers are training flys to do this crap.
Dude if their are maggots/fly eggs on your food and at that amount, you DO get a manager or call corporate, this is a health risk, by not addressing it you are risking other people's health.
RIGHT?!?! like this is risking others people's health by not addressing this to a manager AND corporate! trying to be a nice person to not make people see you being mean is NOT being nice if it involves risking other peoples health, it's being a weak bitch.
One time when I was young & a bigger asshole my friend & I put a McDicks hamburger in a library book & reshelved it. We went back a week later hoping to see a million flies but all we found was a petrified burger patty. No flies, no smell, it looked like a thin hockey puck & it was almost as hard.
Why the health department? They clearly left the burger out for too long. No way you would have fly eggs like this on a pickle and a cooked patty. If they were there when the burger was make, they would no longer be in a cluster.
Isn't it still a health department/inspection issue? Or would it fall under FDA? Idk, whoever inspects restaurants for health and safety, they still need to.be notified, lol.
You must not realize how quickly a fly can land and lay eggs. You can have the cleanest kitchen in the world but all it takes is one pregnant fly getting in and laying eggs in a few seconds. Calling the health department wouldn't make a difference here. Shit just happens and there's only so much that can be done to try and mitigate it.
It could have happened in between the time from made to wrapped, even while wrapped if it was loose enough for a fly to get in, boom eggs. These flies lay eggs fast, like seconds. OP could’ve gotten it in restaurant and walking from counter to table could be enough time. If that was a drive home or delivery that’s tons of time after the burger itself was last seen.
Since they’re on the pickle too I’d bet these were laid well after assembly.
I’ve worked as a chef.
Usually situations like this are because a multitude of fuckups happened. Why are flies there? Because the bins haven’t been taken out for a while. How did the fly land on the burger? Because it wasn’t covered, the fly lamp is broken, and the pickle container has no lid.
I doubt it’s the first fly egg burger, and doubt it’s the last
Because it's fast food prepared by a minimum wage worker.
Not to get too corporationy but from what I've read McDonalds has some of the highest industry standards when it comes to health.
While this is disgusting, considering the amount of burgers they prepare worldwide daily, it's bound to happen now and then.
Fast paced environment. They aren't looking at the food, just slapping it together as fast as possible.
Or they are just stupid.
During the height of covid, I went to a McDonald's for some burgers. The employees happened to be celebrating another employee birthday. I watched some chucklefuck employee pull down his mask and blow a noise maker all over my burger as he was preparing it, covering it in spit I'm sure.
Unless it's different in this McDonald's, the meat is kept in plastic bags in a cooler, which then gets thrown on this pressure oven type thing. This begs the question of how this situation even could happen.
The only ingredient I can think of that could be left open long enough for this is the pickles, but you'd think that's too acidic for a fly to want to lay eggs on. There's no way this is just an oopsie. This is either deliberate, staged by OP, or a real code violation is going on.
The amount of people on reddit who apparently leave fast food around for the next day astounds me. I wouldn't be shocked if this were the case.
I wouldn't ever trust fast food the next day.
Considering there are eggs on the pickle, too. Highly unlikely they were laid during the burgermaking process.
Edit: OP admitted that Burger was unattended for 20-40 minutes
There's a ChubbyEmu video about a girl who ate a day old burger. Apparently she often would eat half a burger, then leave it sitting on her desk all night and then eat the rest for breakfast. I don't want to ruin the twist, but: >!Her illness had nothing to do with the old burgers, she ate tainted lettuce!<
You can probably trust left-out fast food a lot more than home-cooked food, due to the amount of preservatives. In my experience, fast food burgers that have been left out just start to dry out, they don't even get moldy or rotten.
Yeah as someone who is guilty of dropping a McDonald's fry between my car seats and not cleaning it until a few weeks later; that shit is probably perfectly edible, albeit hard as a rock and dessicated.
I'd hazard a guess that many do it so they can post shit on reddit and complain. I'm willing to believe a lot of shit these days, but you can't tell me this burger went out like this... I mean, how?
People who think this needs to be out for more than an hour for this to happen are crazy. This can happen very quickly. We held a barbecue once with the family, and about half an hour after we ate, fly eggs were found deposited on a piece of leftover chicken.
That’s true, tough you weren’t the only one mentioning leaving food out for a long time. I think some people overestimate the time a fly needs to deposit eggs.
Honestly, I've been living on this earth for almost 37 years now (mind you, not in the US), and I haven't had a fly lay its eggs on any food stuff I've accidentally left out in the open. They're not even infesting my trash can, which is actually left open, because closing the lid is turning the contents into smelly goo. The only issue I sometimes have here are fruit flies, who just love that kind of shit, but they're hardly an issue, just a bit annoying at times. I almost consider them summer time pets (not pests) now.
Seriously how do people believe this. Fly larvae doesn’t just magically appear on meat while it’s being made. That patty would have been in a warmer and then taken out and then assembled into this. It’s likely that OP left this out at home and their local flies got into it.
There is no way I believe you didn't put those there yourself just so you could post here. They're so fucking clean. No grease. Nothing. Those were not on there when the burger was wrapped and given to you. Try harder next time
I believe the burger was left out and allowed atleast one fly to lay eggs on it. The burger looks dry and cold. If this happened the bun would've smashed the eggs around and mixed them with ketchup mustard and pickles. Totally staged.
That’s a patty left out for 25-30 minutes after it’s cooked. During a rush, we’d fry up 196 patties at once and pile them in hot holding. The ones exposed to air look like this after 30 minutes (we were allowed to keep them for 40 minutes after cooking)
That patty looks pretty dry, for it to be a fresh burger. Did you leave it sit out for a while? There is no way eggs would be sitting nicely like that, with how the food is prepared in the back.
There's no way this came from McDonald's. I worked there. Made burgers. Kitchen staff see it all and this would never happen. Burger is cooked. Condiments are packaged. Those are too clean and have never come in contact with food before this picture was taken.
These fly eggs couldn’t have been in that meat before it was cooked, or they wouldn’t look like this. After the meat is cooked it’s put into a burger almost immediately and then wrapped up where no fly could get to it. I don’t see how this would be possible, unless the eggs were laid after the burger was unwrapped.
This is BS. There's no way a burger at a fast food would be left out long enough for a fly to lay all those eggs. This is probably a disgruntled employee. I hate these kinds of stupid posts..
Do you see how the piles are not mashed or scattered? It looks like somebody wasn’t quick enough, and a fly landed and did its business after the burger was unwrapped.
Thems is insect eggs of somekind. 🤢
But what really has me puzzled is the meat looks cooked, but the eggs aren't. Like how long has that patty been sitting around?
Those are fly eggs
By "fly eggs" I think he means "unhatched maggots."
No by “fly eggs” he means “cool spawn”
Pretty fly for some larvae
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>he needs some cool tunes not just any will suffice but they didn't have ice cube so he brought vanilla ice savage
Great Job! I sang this out loud when I read it
He means extra protein
I think it is, "caviar au boeuf"
French for “boof the caviar”
That made me snort. Thank you.
I thought he meant fly eggs as in, those are some pretty fly eggs bro.
Unhatched McMaggots
>unhatched maggots In some states they are just called maggots.
At this point OP has the tough choice of A. Return it for a new burger, being polite and understanding that bugs aren’t following human social norms. B. Hide the burger somewhere in the store and let the maggots have it, buy another burger, just so things get really petty. C. Go full karen/Kevin, clearly the workers are training flys to do this crap.
Dude if their are maggots/fly eggs on your food and at that amount, you DO get a manager or call corporate, this is a health risk, by not addressing it you are risking other people's health.
It really isn’t being a “Karen” to be angry about there being literal maggots in food that you buy.
Yeah. Fully agree. Being a "Karen" is flipping out because your burger doesn't have pickles. If my food has insect eggs, I'm losing my mind.
I had someone's hair wrap around my teeth from a Panera breakfast sandwich last week. It was traumatic.
RIGHT?!?! like this is risking others people's health by not addressing this to a manager AND corporate! trying to be a nice person to not make people see you being mean is NOT being nice if it involves risking other peoples health, it's being a weak bitch.
D. Eat it, like the gutter punk you are
One time when I was young & a bigger asshole my friend & I put a McDicks hamburger in a library book & reshelved it. We went back a week later hoping to see a million flies but all we found was a petrified burger patty. No flies, no smell, it looked like a thin hockey puck & it was almost as hard.
McMaggot eggs...
Mcfly eggs. That sammich just needs to hit 88mph.
At least it wasn’t chicken.
Natures seasoning.
extra protein!
It's a McDouble the protein!
They gotta make that nutritional value minimum somehow
It’s crazy it’s not just the meat but on the pickle too? How did this get put together without them falling off?
https://i.imgur.com/ZllnJqH.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ADd2eTc.jpg
Um, no thank you.
WTF you had to pick those images in particular, barf...
It kind of looks like little grains of rice.
McGots
With extra flies
More protein
McMaggots yuck!
I like to mush them into a paste and dip my fries in it
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Uhhh.....you need to contact your local health department yesterday.
WE KILLED THE HEALTH INSPECTOR
Grab mi shovel my boy.
it's all icky and corpse-y!
Shovel? What do you think went in the patties?
The dark deed you requested is done, sir.
At least meat is back in the patty!
Why the health department? They clearly left the burger out for too long. No way you would have fly eggs like this on a pickle and a cooked patty. If they were there when the burger was make, they would no longer be in a cluster.
That's a good observation. Edit: Other people are saying that flies lay eggs really fast.
Not that fast though. It must have been a really slow McDonald's to have a burger sitting around for hours.
Isn't it still a health department/inspection issue? Or would it fall under FDA? Idk, whoever inspects restaurants for health and safety, they still need to.be notified, lol.
My comment states this did not happen at the restaurant.
You must not realize how quickly a fly can land and lay eggs. You can have the cleanest kitchen in the world but all it takes is one pregnant fly getting in and laying eggs in a few seconds. Calling the health department wouldn't make a difference here. Shit just happens and there's only so much that can be done to try and mitigate it.
The question is how the hell does that make it past the burger handler
no seriously. it doesn’t take 20/20 vision to see that while your handling the entire burger-making process
It could have happened in between the time from made to wrapped, even while wrapped if it was loose enough for a fly to get in, boom eggs. These flies lay eggs fast, like seconds. OP could’ve gotten it in restaurant and walking from counter to table could be enough time. If that was a drive home or delivery that’s tons of time after the burger itself was last seen. Since they’re on the pickle too I’d bet these were laid well after assembly.
I’ve worked as a chef. Usually situations like this are because a multitude of fuckups happened. Why are flies there? Because the bins haven’t been taken out for a while. How did the fly land on the burger? Because it wasn’t covered, the fly lamp is broken, and the pickle container has no lid. I doubt it’s the first fly egg burger, and doubt it’s the last
Because it's fast food prepared by a minimum wage worker. Not to get too corporationy but from what I've read McDonalds has some of the highest industry standards when it comes to health. While this is disgusting, considering the amount of burgers they prepare worldwide daily, it's bound to happen now and then.
Fast paced environment. They aren't looking at the food, just slapping it together as fast as possible. Or they are just stupid. During the height of covid, I went to a McDonald's for some burgers. The employees happened to be celebrating another employee birthday. I watched some chucklefuck employee pull down his mask and blow a noise maker all over my burger as he was preparing it, covering it in spit I'm sure.
I hope you refused that burger.
I can't remember what I did with it lol. I was drunk and ripped the employees a new asshole loud enough for the entire store to hear.
Exactly. What food service worries about is mice/rats and cockroaches.
Unless it's different in this McDonald's, the meat is kept in plastic bags in a cooler, which then gets thrown on this pressure oven type thing. This begs the question of how this situation even could happen.
The only ingredient I can think of that could be left open long enough for this is the pickles, but you'd think that's too acidic for a fly to want to lay eggs on. There's no way this is just an oopsie. This is either deliberate, staged by OP, or a real code violation is going on.
Yesterday? oh man by today they might be already dead.
McFlyEggs
Soon to be McMaggots
WcMaggots*
McGots
[Helloo? Helloo? Anybody home, eh? Hey! Think McFly, think!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfs38mrZF-4&t=25s)
McFly, your shoe's untied.
Amazing how clean/undisturbed they look despite being included in the burger making process...
What they didn't mention is this burger was left out for a day or two after they bought it.
The amount of people on reddit who apparently leave fast food around for the next day astounds me. I wouldn't be shocked if this were the case. I wouldn't ever trust fast food the next day.
Considering there are eggs on the pickle, too. Highly unlikely they were laid during the burgermaking process. Edit: OP admitted that Burger was unattended for 20-40 minutes
Fly saw an opportunity and took it. Also, who waits that long to eat a fast food burger?
While it's unwrapped. Like OP got home, grabbed a plate and meticulously plated his unwrapped burger then walked away for half an hour.
Clearly a lunatic
Nah that’s not a lunatic, that’s a stoner who got high and forgot about the burger
the best fast food is cold and soggy
Such a wide range, 20 minutes vs 40 minutes.
There's a ChubbyEmu video about a girl who ate a day old burger. Apparently she often would eat half a burger, then leave it sitting on her desk all night and then eat the rest for breakfast. I don't want to ruin the twist, but: >!Her illness had nothing to do with the old burgers, she ate tainted lettuce!<
You can probably trust left-out fast food a lot more than home-cooked food, due to the amount of preservatives. In my experience, fast food burgers that have been left out just start to dry out, they don't even get moldy or rotten.
Yeah as someone who is guilty of dropping a McDonald's fry between my car seats and not cleaning it until a few weeks later; that shit is probably perfectly edible, albeit hard as a rock and dessicated.
I'd hazard a guess that many do it so they can post shit on reddit and complain. I'm willing to believe a lot of shit these days, but you can't tell me this burger went out like this... I mean, how?
People who think this needs to be out for more than an hour for this to happen are crazy. This can happen very quickly. We held a barbecue once with the family, and about half an hour after we ate, fly eggs were found deposited on a piece of leftover chicken.
My point was that this didn't come from the restaurant like this.
That’s true, tough you weren’t the only one mentioning leaving food out for a long time. I think some people overestimate the time a fly needs to deposit eggs.
Honestly, I've been living on this earth for almost 37 years now (mind you, not in the US), and I haven't had a fly lay its eggs on any food stuff I've accidentally left out in the open. They're not even infesting my trash can, which is actually left open, because closing the lid is turning the contents into smelly goo. The only issue I sometimes have here are fruit flies, who just love that kind of shit, but they're hardly an issue, just a bit annoying at times. I almost consider them summer time pets (not pests) now.
This happens in the span of seconds, if even that. It certainly didn't occur during the process of making the food.
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Seriously how do people believe this. Fly larvae doesn’t just magically appear on meat while it’s being made. That patty would have been in a warmer and then taken out and then assembled into this. It’s likely that OP left this out at home and their local flies got into it.
They would have been laid after the burger was made. Flies lay eggs pretty quickly. More of a disgorgement than laying individual eggs.
They're also on the pickles it looks like. Seems unlikely and was probably left out by OP or someone else at home.
Those are fly eggs. They will hatch as maggots .
Why would you let them hatch??
Use em for fishing
This guy casts
There is no way I believe you didn't put those there yourself just so you could post here. They're so fucking clean. No grease. Nothing. Those were not on there when the burger was wrapped and given to you. Try harder next time
Imagine ruining your shitty McDonald's burger for shitty internet points lol
People have done worse, for less.
Extra protein.
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r/technicallythetruth
Looks fake. Mcdonalds food, the way they process it, this is pretty much impossible. Unless you bought one and let it sit out like this
Those eggs were not on the meat as they fresh and are not cooked.
I believe the burger was left out and allowed atleast one fly to lay eggs on it. The burger looks dry and cold. If this happened the bun would've smashed the eggs around and mixed them with ketchup mustard and pickles. Totally staged.
Seems plausible, since the flipping the burger would have knocked off most eggs.
Fake or not, this definitely happened after the burger was made and wrapped.
Agreed. This is fake.
Eggs
EGG
That burger patty looks dry as hell. Is this even a freshly made sandwich?
That’s a patty left out for 25-30 minutes after it’s cooked. During a rush, we’d fry up 196 patties at once and pile them in hot holding. The ones exposed to air look like this after 30 minutes (we were allowed to keep them for 40 minutes after cooking)
That patty looks pretty dry, for it to be a fresh burger. Did you leave it sit out for a while? There is no way eggs would be sitting nicely like that, with how the food is prepared in the back.
Not to defend the mega corp but… …that doesn’t look like a McDonald’s bun…
How long has that been sitting on your desk waiting for a fly to come along?
Thats not how that works, they are completely unharmed, you let the burger sit out long and tried to farm some karma
This is for attention. McDonald's is a lot of things but the way the food gets handled this is not possible. Delete this shit
Probably better for you than what it's made from.
You’re eating maggots Michael.
There's no way this came from McDonald's. I worked there. Made burgers. Kitchen staff see it all and this would never happen. Burger is cooked. Condiments are packaged. Those are too clean and have never come in contact with food before this picture was taken.
Step 1: leave a burger on counter for a week Step 2: take a picture and post on Reddit Step 3: gather karma
Good old fly eggs
that’s not a mcdonalds burger
That burger must have sat out a while to have eggs on it
I dunno, what did you put on there?
These fly eggs couldn’t have been in that meat before it was cooked, or they wouldn’t look like this. After the meat is cooked it’s put into a burger almost immediately and then wrapped up where no fly could get to it. I don’t see how this would be possible, unless the eggs were laid after the burger was unwrapped.
An order of small flies
McMaggots!!!
Pretty fly for a white guy
Why, it’s McMaggots!
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
There's no way these were on the burger when it was served.
Maggots, Michael. You're eating maggots. How do they taste?
Forbidden rice
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It's an egg sandwich now
Whew! That meat is hard to look at!
Weird to see this given that McDonalds doesn’t rot compared to regular meat, it just dries out and shrinks
Extra protein
Dude what the f
I'm not a fan of eggs on a burger.
I recoil every time I see this on Reddit, praying I'm never on the other end of these pics.
McLarva double. Now with extra protein.
McProtein
Soon to be McMaggots
McMaggots
Could be sesame seeds cooked together that fell off from the toaster, could be raw reg onions, or it could also be something horrible.
McEggs. Wait a few days they become McMaggots
McMaggots
McMaggots
All beef patty, pickles special sauce & maggots too.
Extra protein (fly eggs)
A lawsuit
I call bullshit. How could that even get there without you noticing unless you left it open outside for 2 hours before deciding to look at it?
McGgots.
Mmm. About to have some McMaggots.
That’s just the Mc Parasite
Cool beans on the side please
extra protein
What, are you blind, McFly?
This is BS. There's no way a burger at a fast food would be left out long enough for a fly to lay all those eggs. This is probably a disgruntled employee. I hate these kinds of stupid posts..
The mcthats wack the fuck
Your first mistake was going to McDonald's....
There’s blood on those patties 🍉
McTrouble
Do you see how the piles are not mashed or scattered? It looks like somebody wasn’t quick enough, and a fly landed and did its business after the burger was unwrapped.
Disgusting. Out of curiousity though, if OP didn’t realize this and ate the burger (and eggs), what would happen?
Ah the new Mc Double Diarrhea!!!!!
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Why's the burger cooked but the maggot eggs aren't?
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How does a fly fit so many eggs in?!
looks like eggs
McMaggots. Save the pic for a McLawsuit
Bug breach!
Thems is insect eggs of somekind. 🤢 But what really has me puzzled is the meat looks cooked, but the eggs aren't. Like how long has that patty been sitting around?
I believe that would be classified as a Royale due to the eggs.
Baby rice
McFuckThat!
Well it ain’t rice
“Helldivers, we need to nip this mission in the bud. Those damn pests are after our most DEMOCRATIC ASSET”
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