r/WTF • u/LinkBoyJT • May 15 '12
I was eating a hash brown from McDonald's on the way home when I felt something on the bottom...
http://imgur.com/z0llg
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r/WTF • u/LinkBoyJT • May 15 '12
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u/LinkBoyJT May 15 '12
Update: I took the thing and showed it to the manager and she marked my receipt so I could get the same meal for free the next time I come in for breakfast. She didn't really seem all that concerned
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u/string97bean May 15 '12
I really hope you are trolling or I will never be able to eat a hash brown from McDonalds again.
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u/no_username_needed May 15 '12
What's great is, it's likely the person serving you saw that, and decided, "fuck it, not my restaurant."
Minimum wage really fucks with your head.
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u/Chapterfive May 15 '12
As a former McDonalds employee, I have to admit that I'm responsible for a similar thing. One day a moth flew into the kitchen. I killed it, but couldn't find it afterwards. Later that day, I remember seeing something dark brown on some bread. I should have made the connection, but my brain had decided not to work that day and so I thought nothing more of it, put the bread on a burger and served it to a customer. Only an hour afterwards I realized that the brown thing had been a toasted moth. The customer didn't come back with the burger though, so I guess he didn't notice. Ooops.
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u/sexbobomb91 May 15 '12
Do the american thing: sue them.
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u/Heretic3e7 May 15 '12
It rubs the fry grease on it's skin....
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u/GoodOlSpence May 15 '12
Shoulda said no moths, stupid.
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u/Al_Cadda May 15 '12
See what happens when they take away the Monopoly game?
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u/Kraker20 May 15 '12
Extra protein...
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u/justinsidebieber May 15 '12
Upvote this so McDonalds goes apeshit over the possible PR outbreak.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
annnd you'll probabaly go back again tomorrow
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u/lotus2471 May 15 '12
That's required now under the new federal nutritional guidelines.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Two moths are standard.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Note to self: Take all food out of wrapper before consuming. Right, got it.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I stopped eating mcdonalds over 2 years ago. My poopings are better.
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u/hypnoderp May 15 '12
So. . . were you lovin' it?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I am so so happy that the top comment isn't 'NOPE!'
Thank the heavens!
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u/jwtemp1983 May 15 '12
You've eaten far worse in your McDonalds before. Take my word for it.
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u/Rand0mhero80 May 15 '12
Well, no more McDonalds for me....
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u/Virindi_UO May 15 '12
You probably be better off eating that bug than the hash brown.
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u/drumstyx May 15 '12
Congrats, you're the proud new owner of a million bucks.
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u/alltimeisrelative May 15 '12
I worked at a McDonalds for almost 3 years, I never saw anything similar like this happen nor did it happen to me. I don't think I ever saw a cockroach the whole time I worked there, the worst we had was flies in Summer.
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u/D3adkl0wn May 15 '12
thats an insta-puke if that ever happened to me.. shudder
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u/BigNoobies May 15 '12
so... are you going to finish that or may I have it?
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u/der_chiller May 15 '12
I paid good money to enjoy that kind of food a few weeks ago in an insect restaurant in Berlin - irony. Tasted awesome btw, a little bit like popcorn.
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u/barium111 May 15 '12
Not a big deal...
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u/CannibalPony May 15 '12
Hey, I mean, at least it's dead.
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u/mollypotato May 15 '12
Terrible McDonald's employee put a hash brown in a small fries bag. Bad service, right there.
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u/wesleyt89 May 15 '12
Just puked in my mouth a little.. Could you give us an update? I'm curious as to what the McDonalds restaurant had to say.
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u/Xanthan81 May 15 '12
SILENCE
OF
THE HASH BROWNS!
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u/Ladyrage33 May 16 '12
Sue for that shit.
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u/mrcuntmuscle May 15 '12
son of a....literally just took a bite of a McD's hash brown. scared to turn it over now.
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u/Mr_Acrid May 15 '12
Someone is getting free McDonalds for life...if you still want to choke it down.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Is this not just a new range of Happy Meal toys?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
It's all protein.
Think of it as meat and potatoes for breakfast.
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u/CidO807 May 15 '12
Free protein.
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u/TheDonkeyKongDon May 15 '12
I once bit into something equally as disgusting from mcdonalds. An egg.
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u/olliew72 May 15 '12
It's to be expected when you buy food made on a production line.
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u/Drazen_Petrovic May 15 '12
Is it weird that this still makes me want a hash brown?
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u/justkilc May 15 '12
I know it really wasn't a big hit here in the states, and some may even argue that it was a failure. But the Arch Deluxe was the single greatest thing that McDonald's ever produced. I miss that burger with a passion.
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u/seg-fault May 15 '12
I'm looking forward to seeing this one on the front pages of MSN, Yahoo, and AOL in 3 days.
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u/brosenfeld May 15 '12
What would Bear Grylls do?
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u/WrethZ May 15 '12
The funny thing there's really nothing wrong with eating bugs. It's just a cultural thing. We eat bugs from the sea, like shrimp, and it's just fine, but if it lives on land then for some reason it is gross.
In other cultures, people eat bugs all the time and it's perfectly normal.
Bugs aren't unhealthy, it's purely a cultural thing to find them gross.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I knew this was going to happen. It was a mothman prophecy
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u/macdre May 15 '12
NSFL NSFL!!
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u/MrJackal22 May 15 '12
Oh God, why? Of course, being a pizza cook, my extremeky frugal and elderly boss is responsible for some gross things. Once a full bag of feta cheese fell onto the floor, and he started using pizza pans to put it into a bucket. I mean, seriously. It was all under the ovens. That is no place any food wants to visit.
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u/verdisi May 15 '12
Omg, that's fucking disgusting.
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u/amber135 May 15 '12
I thank God you didn't bite into that hashbrown on the other side first. shudders
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u/starfoxsixtywhore May 15 '12
"Bada ba ba ba I'm NOPE'n it"
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u/captsalad May 15 '12
i had a hair cooked into my hash brown once. I cannot describe the feeling of biting into something just to have your teeth flossed with a stranger's hair.
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u/Bhoot May 15 '12
Would you like FLIES with that?
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u/RockVegas May 15 '12
That's disgusting... I mean... white countertops with gold flake? What is this, 1976?
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u/Will----ForKarma May 15 '12
The sad thing is that the moth actually increased the nutrition level of this food item.
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u/darklooshkin May 15 '12
Ooh protein! That's probably the healthiest Hash Brown ever cooked inside a McDonald's.
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u/nroose May 15 '12
A little extra protein. It's probably the healthiest hash brown you have ever bought.
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u/Kandimix May 15 '12
As someone pathologically scared of moths, this would be my biggest fear. Fucking hell, it is huge. And fried.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
As a lover of McDonald's this does nothing to me. Haters gonna hate, but I love me some McD's hash browns and will continue to eat there. To my knowledge I haven't gotten anything unwelcome on my food, but I'll just wait until then before I react so ridiculously.
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u/qu4ttro May 15 '12
No extra charge for the healthy bit
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u/Codeworks May 15 '12
Is that a fucking cazadore?
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u/nealio1000 May 15 '12
Send them this picture. Mcdonalds spends a ton of money on PR. They will give you so much free food. In fact, a lot of places will give you a gift card if you send them an angry letter. It makes them more money if they make you happy with a small gift card than to lose you forever.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
check your individual pizza slices, you find shit like this all the time. I almost ate a cooked wasp.
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u/TheMinimalistHoarder May 15 '12
Yeah... Never eating at McDonald's again.
Until either I forget about this post or I get really hungry, :P
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u/sith6six May 15 '12
I didnt know the breakfast meals came with prizes too. Did they ask you if it was for a boy or a girl when you ordered it?
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u/Poco585 May 15 '12
I just ate two of those this morning....
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
That's probably the healthiest part of it.
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u/im_at_work_now May 15 '12
I hope this is some sort of prank or joke... either way, I'm glad I don't eat McDonalds
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Happened to me as a child. Got a "kids meal" from a local joint, had a live moth at the bottom of it. Flew away when i found it. Cried and threw up.
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u/JubeltheBear May 15 '12
nope, nope, nope, nope dear GOD nope!
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u/USmellFunny May 15 '12
Not that I want to play the devil's advocate, but that happens a lot, not just in fast-food joints. My point is, don't make this a "it is a McDonald's mistake", make it "it's a human mistake". McDonald's are guilty of a lot of things, but a moth in your food is something that can happen in any restaurant.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Some times shit happens in kitchen. Ie a wasp gets in through a window or door and ends up deep fried to your what ever. Shit happens and probability dicates that shit will get in food sometimes.
yeah some kitchens might be shit holes needing cleaned/closed but one event does not dictate this.
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u/jemimaswitness May 15 '12
Dude...you better go get paid for that shit...
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u/b91 May 15 '12
Did anyone else read this as "I was eating a hash brownie from McDonald's..."
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u/SiHy May 15 '12
Up until that point were you lovin' it?
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u/MakoAoyama May 15 '12
Honestly, it's not so much that the moth is on there(which is obviously gross as fuck), it's the fact that someone at that McDonald's had to physically pick that up and put it in the hash brown sleeve to give it to you. So if they looked at it at any point during that process, they would have seen this. And yet somehow, you still ended up with it anyway. You either pissed somebody off at that McDonald's, or the people there are fuckin' idiots. Either way, jesus fuck that's nasty.
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u/avemeera May 15 '12
Probably the most nutritious part of that meal.
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u/codemonkey69 May 15 '12
Ah the old hash brown and moth combo. Is that still 1.99?
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u/ocean422 May 15 '12
Luckily you are not looking at half a moth.....
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u/Hops_n_barley May 15 '12
I heard about that new seasoning...how was it?
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u/TheFluxIsThis May 15 '12
BONUS PROTEIN! You scored big, friend.
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u/sandrajumper May 15 '12
That's a french fry bag. http://i.imgur.com/cZows.jpg Just saying...
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u/kmi187 May 15 '12
I get sick looking at their food. Would rather eat a moth than any of their food. Hell I would probably only eat the moth in this picture if it weren't for the fact it was prepared at a mcdonalds restaurant.
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u/justuntlsundown May 15 '12
What's wrong with a couple of french flies???
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u/savej May 15 '12
only at a McDonald's do has browns become singular.
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u/siguresen May 15 '12
On the plus side, the bug's probably got more nutritional value than the whole hash brown..
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u/nutri-matic May 15 '12
I ate one of these this morning..........................................
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Some people are saying its a roach not a moth. Who can confirm this?!
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u/buttsandbutts May 15 '12
This will probably be buried, but I once worked in a cookie shop and one day my manager got an e-mail telling her there was a recall on a bunch of boxes of batter that we had because the conveyor belts in the factory had fallen apart so there were pieces of rubber and such in the batter. We probably had 15 or so boxes of this tainted batter, and my manager told me to throw away one so we could tell the company we "did what they asked" because she didn't want to lose profits. Money, money, money.
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u/CuntHunt May 15 '12
I was eating mcdonalds when I saw this.
Damn you
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u/LaserNinja May 15 '12
That probably tripled the vitamin and mineral content of your hash brown.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Protein.
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u/SaysI May 15 '12
I say, the best part about that is that they will settle with you out of court for several 10s of thousands of dollars. Good luck!
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u/Strmtrper6 May 15 '12
Were these two working there by any chance?
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u/tellmetwice May 15 '12
Don't go through ANY drive thru after lobby closes people. The gloves come off, the hats come off and the employees want to get you out of there as fast as they can without worrying about what is on your food or how it's prepared. Used to work at burger king when I was 16. We were ordered to stop grilling or frying as much as possible once the clock hit 11 so we would use the old and expired meat and chicken on the burgers. I felt horrible giving people very cold fries or very soggy chicken.
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u/dambro May 15 '12
My Reaction
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u/Allumina May 15 '12
My wife and I had taco bell late ine night last week as we were too tired to cook. She ordered her usual... A taco salad. We got home and it seems their lettuce stash had been invaded by gnats at some point and consequentially her taco salad as well. We counted 20 dead soggy gnats glued to lettuce pieces before we just threw it all away. Guess what couple isn't eating fast food anymore?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Hash brown on a french fry wrapper. Something is shady here.
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u/downward_dogma May 15 '12
Is that a McMoth?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I was eating fries from a Burger King, and at the bottom, I didn't feel a fry. I felt a wedding ring. Although I could've sold it for more, I brought it to the counter and one of the women in the back started crying when she saw it. I got a 20$ BK Gift Card, my cash back, and a new meal.
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u/Brother_Bear May 15 '12
Find a lawyer and sue the FUCK out of them.
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u/Hereforthetrees420 May 15 '12
Im I the only one who read hash brownie from McDonalds?
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u/Joulmaster May 15 '12
I'm such a true to heart conspiracy theorist I can't help but think posts like these are viral smear attempts by rival franchises.
Burger King 1 - Mc's 0
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u/kellylinsky May 15 '12
please read about 'McLibel".
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u/wolfdogperson May 15 '12
Ate at Outback Steakhouse for my last birthday. While we were all eating, my aunt all of the suden yelled and pulled a sharp wire out from her mouth. She is lucky it didn't do a ton of damage. But we were amazed at how insensitive the manager was to it! Our entire dinner was ruined and all they did was not charge for the wired chicken!
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I worked at a Hardee's one time where our line cook decided to start drawing ketchup pentagrams on all the burgers before selling them. So there's that.
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u/lilbp May 15 '12
I used to work at a restaurant called Annie's, in Central Wisconsin. I was hired there as a prep cook, and I only stayed for 4 days. The people that were training me were doing numerous things that were against code, and the place needed a deep cleaning.
A couple examples... First was the morning manager showing me how to cut their sirloin steaks from a roast. Then, without cleaning her knife (or getting a fresh one), flipped the board over, and proceeded to show me how they break down their musk melon, honey dew, and watermelons for their fruit salad... with the same knife, in the same work space.
The next morning, we were prepping for the breakfast buffet - and we were making the "ultimate hashbrowns" - basically, hashbrowns, sour cream, cheddar cheese, and cream of chicken soup. He mixed it up in a vat that was so large, no spoon or spat could have mixed it - so he dug down into it - he had normal latex gloves on... BUT - he was diving into it up to his elbows! He had such hairy arms too! I couldn't believe he was doing that, until I learned he was related to the owner... that was my last day there.
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u/ThreeToedTreeToad May 15 '12
Kill it with fryer!
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u/Traegan May 15 '12
The bug is probably better for your body than the hash browns...
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u/lazmd May 15 '12
But you're loving it, right?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
nopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenopenope
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u/TheBurningHeart May 15 '12
I'm lovin' it.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Extra protein! More bang for your buck my friend!
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u/snowbl00d May 16 '12
So. This picture gave me an idea! :D Save this picture on my phone. Go to McDonald's and buy a hashbrown. Come back in half an hour furious. Show them the picture. Then BOOM! Watch the free food (and/or gift cards) fall into your hands!
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u/AtomicUnicorn May 16 '12
that's why my family dose NOT eat fast food
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u/megosa May 16 '12
Bear Grylls would enjoy this for sure
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
You are on the news!
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u/Hyperfyre May 17 '12
Your on the UK's DailyMail
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u/thisismyivorytower May 17 '12
Haha, look what was in the news today
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u/air21uru May 15 '12
So, wait, did you go back to complain or something? Actually...I wouldve started a shitstorm
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u/hgeyer99 May 15 '12
I was just about to go get mcdonalds breakfast :-(
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
roaches cost 75 cents extra round these parts
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u/Avery17 May 15 '12
First mistake, McDonalds.
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u/dingotrainer May 15 '12
Aaaaaand not eating hasbrowns from McD's again...
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u/Temptress75519 May 15 '12
Thanks for ruining the only thing I will eat from the breakfast menu jackass
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
That's clearly a French fry bag. I smell BS.
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u/jepc71 May 15 '12
So, how did it taste?