10 Biggest Fast Food Scandals

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Mcdonalds and Subway particularly have had some terrible scandals 😆
Written by: Josh Strider
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[kenndreafoltz]

The worst part about the McDonald's coffee one was that people view that poor woman as a Karen because of a huge smear campaign against her so the company wouldn't face as much pressure from the public to pay out

[elenaprice]

Thank you so much for talking about the McDonald's coffee lawsuit. To this day people STILL make jokes about it, no one mentions the fact that she was 79 years old and that she suffered from complications from it for the rest of her life. Thank you for always being respectful and for always doing such thorough research

[gaycoffeeaddict]

Fun fact: coffee is not supposed to boil. It actually reduces it's flavour. So their excuse was complete bullshit.

[ImaginaryAlchemist]

I'm so, so glad more people are shedding light on the McDonald's coffee story. I grew up hearing jokes about the case and the woman who was burned, and when I found out the true story I was appalled. I hope she was able to recover from her burns, as well as the pointless hate and mockery people sent her way. I can't imagine how that must have felt for her.

[juggalouie]

Thank you for talking about the truth behind Stella's story. I still see people believing the version that McDonalds twisted around to make her look like the bad guy. Yes, coffee should be hot, but it shouldn't literally fuse your skin together.

[randomnerdery]

The issue with Super Size Me is that, ever since the movie was released, there have been multiple attempts (several by major universities) to replicate Spurlock's "results" and every single attempt has failed.

[GreycatRademenes]

Here's my personal bizarre 'Scandal'. In college one of my close friends used to work at a busy McD, so I heard a lot of weird stories. One time there came a man that wanted to talk with the manager. He claimed he ate an EggMcMuffin at their restaurant a day before and apparently it made him constipated. However the most bizarre part was that he didn't threaten them with a law suit, but instead that he'll going to slander them in a local talk show.
The gave him a fruit pie so he'd get lost. Also apparently some places nickname fruit pies as 'F*ck-off Pies' since they give them to people who complain because they're easiest to write off.

[AGBDYM]

There’s also the Subway scandal where the spokesperson turned out to be a sex offender

[DramaLlamaTheatrics]

In a sad twist of irony, the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit actually just became relevant to my own life. Last week a good friend of my parents spilled hot McDonald’s coffee on her lap when she tried to take a sip while sitting in her car. She’s still undergoing skin grafting in order to treat the second and third degree burns she obtained from it, and she’s working with her husband to get a good lawyer to sue McDonald’s for criminal negligence. I genuinely hope it works out for them because not only is she out of work until the burns are fully healed, but she also can’t do anything on her own and the couple is now dealing with exuberant medical bills as well as the money lost from her being unable to work.

Now before anyone says that she just wasn’t being careful and spilled it on accident while driving, she was completely stationary as the car was parked. When she went to pick up the cup only to learn the cup melted from the scalding hot coffee and practically disintegrated when she tried taking a sip.

This isn’t a joke post or anything, just me trying to show that even now McDonald’s coffee is still dangerous due to how hot it is (and apparently from how shoddy the cups are made in my opinion). It’s been 30 years since that 1992 suit, and nothings really changed.

[BleedingGrafitti]

I hate it when people keep blaming the old lady for her coffee burns. There's absolutely NO reason to heat coffee so hot that it DESTROYS the cup its in. It's literally a violation on McDonald's part, especially when numerous people have complained. They should've shoveled out more money in that lawsuit.

[selalewow]

"Super Size Me" was a scandal in itself because he refused to release the doctor's findings and reports. Many people called BS on his experiment. Not that fast food is healthy, but his guy got a lot of notoriety from this and made bank with other "documentaries".

[glenncross]

As a McDonald's worker, I can say this list could be a top 10 McDonald's scandals

[Barnowl]

I think the best part of Super Size Me was when they went into schools and called them out for their unhealthy lunches they provided. It's kind of hypocritical for schools to talk about all the healthy foods in health class, and then provide slop that is definitely not good for you.

[mchristiansen]

When I was a shift supervisor at McD's back in the 80's. One of my checklist duties was to calibrate the machines, juice, soda, and coffee. I found the juice machine was set too low and adjusted it, I also found the coffee maker set at it's highest setting, (210), and I reset it down to 155-160. I was written up! I retaliated by getting in touch with the health dept. and had the store fined, (I was made to reverse the temps, which would allow the juice machines to be to warm and form bacteria, and the coffee way too hot), I was suspended for 2 weeks, until the new owners took over. It was just plain stupid on McD's part. In retrospect, coffee sales did go up, because it no longer tasted of scalded camel spit, and juice waste went down.

[bm]

Subway's mascot or spokeman Jarrod getting arrested was a big one and I thought was going to be on here, but it does make sense why it wasn't. You were keeping to the food aspect

[Ospyroem]

The horsemeat scandal was huge news here in the UK- all the major supermarkets here came under fire. However, it did make for some pretty hilarious horse puns in headlines and social media 🤣

[talkingben]

One scandal I recently found out was the Burger King pokeball scandal around 1999 where they had pokeball toys in their kids meals, but there were reports of young children suffocating to death on them which caused BK to air adverts requesting a recall in the toys which set them back millions.

[Dafawfulizer]

I remember hearing an interesting critique of Super Size Me. Basically, the body's metabolism and what it's used to eating plays a large role in weight and what foods the body is better at processing. The main criticism was the fact that the man in question was vegan, so his body wasn't even used to digesting meat, let alone the stuff at mcdonalds, so the health outcomes he got were a bit inflated from what they would be for the average person. I don't know for sure if all of that is true, I'm just going off of memory, but it's a very interesting perspective either way.

[pastasauce]

I remember watching Super Size Me in highschool and then having to do a project based around all the ingredients in certain foods and how they were unhealthy for you. It warped my mind so badly that I swore off Mcdonalds and fast food specifically for almost 2 years. I indulge here and there as an adult now (definitely less than I did as a kid), but seeing clips from the documentary just took me back.

[nathanhaimson]

I always knew about the truth behind the McDonald's coffee story, but I had never heard about the actual temperatures. Both places I had been a barista at had our Bunn water machines also set to 180. I didn't realize how potentially dangerous that was until now. At Dutch Bros, our training told us to steam milk at maximum 150-155, but the americanos (espresso and hot water) was always 180. I hope that nobody has gotten hurt accidentally. They would HAVE to have known about this lawsuit. I wonder why it was so hot.