I just HAVE to call special attention to this.

[rbnyc]

Forgive me. This is from a very long thread in the lounge. And I just decided I wanted to make sure more people saw it. It's about a place I used to work when I was a teenager. Maybe it's YOUR favorite restaurant.

"You want to know how the chili sauce is made. They cut holes in the lid of a big white bucket and put the half-used ketchup bottles upside-down in the holes to drain. They keep the bucket in the walk-in. It takes about a month to fill up, sometimes longer. Then they add some junk to it, I'm not sure what---but that's not the disgusting part.

The disgusting part is that where I worked, the bucket was always being pulled out of the walk-in so we could get to the salads and other stuff, and being left out. Well, right outside the walk-in was also where trash was kept before being brought out, so flies and gnats that would gather by the trash would end up in the bucket.

So the chili sauce was made of a layer of old ketchup, a layer of flies and gnats, a layer of old ketchup, a layer of flies and gnats, and then some spices and junk.

Yum!!"

If you haven't seen the thread, guess where I worked.

;)

:P

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. I'm just glad I don't eat chili

I have no idea where this could be. Is it a well-known place?

[rbnyc]

2. I think it's regional.

I haven't seen them on the East Coast. This was in Illinois.

:)

[kittycat1164]

12. ewww, I grew up in Illinois. What was it?????

I'm scared of this answer!

[rbnyc]

17. Steak-n-Shake (nt)

[motely36]

23. My brother worked there when he lived in Indiana

That alone was enough to keep me from ever eating there! ;)

[Ian David]

3. Oh, god. please tell us!

[terrya]

4. This may be way obvious...but is it...

"Chili's"?

[Florida_Geek]

5. OK I will bite where did you work nt

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. Thank God we don't have that around here...

And you really should turn them into the Health Department. EWW!!
:puke:
Duckie

[motely36]

7. I'm glad it's not East Coast

I should be safe. Of course I don't know the thread you are talking about. So I don't know if I've eaten there or not.

[DS1]

8. Bob's Big Boy

is my guess

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Fancy bakery selling overpriced apple pies. How they're "made".

In a few affluent communities in Bergen County, New Jersey, there is a well-known bakery and its franchises. It has a reputation for decades where people will line up out the door in the mornings to get their freshly baked cakes, pies, and buns.

I worked in the bakery section for exactly one day.

First, if I hadn't asked where the bathroom was, I would have been put to work without the benefit of washing my hands.

About the apple pies. The filling is not exactly a grandma peeling apples in the backroom. It is an industrial-size can of apple filling like the ones in the supermarkets. Furthermore the filling gets into the pieshell in this manner: not carefully scooped with a large spoon or whatever and lovingly placed in the shell. Try bare hands trying not to let the syrupy apples fall from the improvised scoop and thwack! into the pieshell. And not enough to boot to make it a serious pie.

And these babies sell for more than $15 apiece.

It's been a few years since my brush with the food industry. I can only hope that at least rubber gloves are employed with the apple pies among other tasty items that the bakery sells.

[gingergreen]

10. Taco Bell?

Toxic hell?

[rbnyc]

11. Going to work now, so I'll tell.

Steak-n-Shake.

:puke:

Am I right that it's regional?

See you at lunch time, if you can eat!

;-)

[kittycat1164]

14. which city????

I'm from the original Steak & Shake city....Normal, Illinois

[rbnyc]

16. I worked at one in Galesburg Illinois.

When I was in college, before I was old enough to work in a restaurant that served liquor.

[terrya]

15. Well, so much for going there again.

"Steak-n-Shake" is hideously overpriced for that kind of restaurant (hell, it's a glorified fast food joint).

And to hear that that kind of stuff goes on there...and to pay ridiculous prices...well, fuck that.

T

[gingergreen]

18. never heard of it

must be a midwest thing :-)

[terrya]

21. It is.

Mostly in Illinois, Indiana. I think it's also in Ohio.

[Florida_Geek]

20. Steak-n-Shake are in Florida I know

Makes you wonder.

[Beware the Beast Man]

13. I worked at Long John Silver's as a teen- oddly, the cleanest place

I ever worked. Sanitary from top to bottom.

[Kali]

19. ugh but coated with grease

Had a boyfriend in college that worked there - took an hour in shower to get the "fried" smell off.

[Beware the Beast Man]

22. Yes, it was messy, but sanitary.

But you're right, by the end of the night I smelled of grease pretty bad.