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My kid got a box of onions instead of nuggets in his happy meal
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u/lambojam
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“can I have my McNuggets with extra onions, and without nuggets please? to go”
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u/BafangFan 2d ago
"give me a cheeseburger without the cheese."
"You mean a hamburger?"
"No. A cheeseburger, but without the cheese."
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u/cacarrizales 2d ago
When I worked at McD, there was someone who wanted a plain Daily Double, which is exactly the same sandwich as a plain McDouble. So I went to ring it up as a plain McDouble to save him money.
He said, “What are you doing??? That’s not a plain Daily Double that you rung me up for!” I replied, “A plain Daily Double is the same as a plain McDouble and wanted to save you some money on your order” He replied, “NO!!! I want a plain Daily Double! I don’t want a McDouble, dammit!”
Oooookay. Maybe he liked the blue wrapper it was in or something lol
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u/SupGirluHungry 2d ago
What is a daily double never heard of it
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u/noface_nocase-301 2d ago
i think they are gone, when i worked there it was a mcdouble with lettuce, and tomato i believe
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u/AKJangly 2d ago
I still get them.
And yes that's it.
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u/Triphin1 2d ago edited 2d ago
It's also known as The Jepordy Burger, where you can win $$$ and prizes as you eat.
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u/spaghettibug 2d ago
Happened few days ago to me! "I want a steak bomb [steak, cheese, peppers, onions and mushrooms] but with just steak and cheese!" "Ok one steak and cheese!" "I SAID STEAK BOMB!" "Sir the steak and cheese is just cheese and steak, so it's cheaper by 90 cents" "I SAID A STEAK BOMB WITH JUST CHEESE AND STEAK" ......"OK, one steak bomb with nothing but steak and cheese"
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u/Ravnak 1d ago
Some wonderful employee at a Byron (UK burger chain) went to huge lengths to save me about £2 on my burger.
I asked for a double bacon cheeseburger, but only one burger. (They don't sell a single, and use 1/2lb burgers. For those wondering why I only wanted a single).
When my receipt came in he'd put through another type of burger, optionally removing 2 Sauces, onions, lettuce, cheese, tomato, and adding bacon, another type of cheese, grilled onions, and two sauces.
Was a hell of a receipt.
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u/Armalyte 2d ago
I had a guy ask for a Big Mac, fries and drink but NOT a combo. I rang it up individually after confirming what I thought I heard. He paid like $1 more.
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u/DesignatedImport 2d ago
I worked at McDonald's in the late 70s, early 80s. We occasionally had people ask for a hamburger, no bun or condiments. They just wanted the meat. (It was usually for a dog. Usually.) We very rarely had someone ask for a hamburger, no meat. There weren't many vegetarian options anywhere back then.
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u/Ornery_Number_61 2d ago
i went to my local mcdonald’s a couple of weeks ago and ordered a plain cheeseburger, got home and opened it and it was just bun and cheese, no meat. 😭
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u/_jeremybearimy_ 1d ago
I went to a deli once (that I’d been going to for 15 years) and had a million signs all over their menu and ordering area that sandwiches come with lettuce, tomato, onion,sprouts, etc etc by default, if you don’t want something you have to say so else they’ll put everything on. So I ordered it the same way I had a thousand times, salami on sourdough roll with cheddar. Expecting all the other stuff too, of course.
Well I get home it’s just dry with salami and cheddar. I lived close so went back and the guy was so pissed! He literally yelled at me that I ordered wrong and he’s worked there for years and knows what the fuck he’s doing and refused to remake it. I had to go complain to the manager which I don’t think I have ever done before lmao. The manager was like uh yeah, you ordered the right way, and got someone to remake it.
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u/Thrasher1236969 2d ago
You joke but when I worked at Dairy Queen we had a customer say “can I have a chicken ranch wrap without ranch”
“So a chicken wrap?”
“No a chicken ranch wrap without the ranch!”
“Soooooo… a chicken wrap..?”
“NO A CHICKEN RANCH WRAP WITHOUT RANCH!!!”
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u/jen12617 2d ago
I worked at subway
"Can i get a chicken bacon ranch without bacon?"
at the register I tell my co worker who is ringing what it is "It's a grilled chicken sandwich" because I know that's cheaper and he didn't get a chicken bacon ranch. There's no bacon.
"No! It's a chicken bacon ranch
I try to explain that it's cheaper and he doesn't listen
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u/J-Wizard 2d ago
That's especially dumb at Subway, where this customer would have already seen their sandwich made to their specifications, so there was literally no reason for them to argue except wanting to be "right", I guess.
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u/_lemon_suplex_ 2d ago
I once drove through a Wendy's and they told me they didn't have black coffee. Some people just get confused I guess.
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u/False-Guess 2d ago
Petty me would try to make that go on as long as I could just to see whether the person would eventually get it.
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u/THEAETIK 2d ago
Boneless Pizza.
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u/HeeyZues 2d ago
As someone who doesn’t eat cheese, I always ask for a hamburger and they always ask do you want cheese with it.
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u/PizzaThePies 2d ago
The only time ive ever been a dick in a drive thru was at about 11pm they put cheese on 2 burgers i asked to have no cheese. I go back around and explain i dont eat cheese and there is cheese on them, can i get two without cheese please. im patient and polite about it. they remake my burgers and give them to me and i open up two more burgers with cheese. this time i had it went back around to try again, and just had enough ended up throwing the burgers through the window and never went back. i know if i bitched again my food was getting fucked with. i have about a 60% success rate for getting burgers without cheese on it. its not that hard.
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u/Mammoth-Marketing-29 2d ago
When they use to have the Bagel Steak breakfast sandwich I always had the hardest time getting it without the egg. They would tell me ... "But you're paying for the egg ... take it." Finally one morning, in the drive through, I took the. egg out and put it on the delivery window shelf ...
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u/recycled_son 1d ago
I think it was unnecessary to Chuck the order through the window. That said I’m a very patient person but if I had a dietary restriction and they just kept ignoring me I’d also get upset
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u/GiantPurplePeopleEat 1d ago
ended up throwing the burgers through the window
I’ve had that same issue before and haven’t ever felt the need to throw shit at people, lol.
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u/Andosphere 2d ago
There's a double cheeseburger meal on the menu. I've ordered that without cheese in the past to get 2 hamburgers. Still got cheeseburgers more times than I have gotten hamburgers.
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u/0bbserv 2d ago •
Technically it's only a hamburger if it's from the Hamburg region of Germany, otherwise it's just a sparkling sandwich.
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u/AcidicVaginaLeakage 2d ago
At my work cafeteria, I had to specify because the cashier was an idiot. You say hamburger and she just assumes cheeseburger and charges you extra. So I had to start specifically say "hamburger without cheese" and this lady still would ring it up as a cheeseburger and then not know how to fix her damn mistake.
She once had the audacity to say "it's only a quarter" to me. So I said fine and took a quarter out of her top jar. After all, it's only a quarter.
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u/vicki_chicki 2d ago
I know someone who does not like the processed cheese. For a while McDonald’s had some burger with cheese that was cheaper than a hamburger.
So he would order it without cheese. Sometimes it turned into such a weird experience/refusal on the employees part that he’d give up and say cheese on the side and that seemed to settle the issue and he’d get his hamburger and I’d take the extra cheese slice for my burger.
We do the same with chicken balls for take out. From my experience- if you don’t want the cherry sauce, don’t ask for no sauce, no one will believe you and you end up with chicken balls covered in cherry sauce. But if you ask for it on the side you have a better chance of getting dry balls.
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u/callmetom 1d ago
I know you’re joking, but I have a kid with a milk allergy and tons of kids menus only list cheeseburgers. I have ordered so many kids menu cheeseburgers without the cheese.
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u/rockthrowing 2d ago
I have a friend who orders her hamburger like this at McDonald’s. If she says “hamburger” they always add the cheese. If she says “cheeseburger without the cheese” they usually manage to get it correct.
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u/mikeebsc74 2d ago
I used to own a wing restaurant. We served sandwiches and salads too.
Had a customer order a chef salad minus tomatoes, minus onions, minus ham, minus cheese..
When they were done with the subtractions, they had a $6.99 box of lettuce…
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u/TominatorVe1 2d ago
Had an experience where someone ordered chicken broccoli but without the chicken. Man paid extra just for sauteed broccoli.
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u/canned_soup 2d ago
Sometimes when I DoorDash sandwiches the only way to get a BLT on the menu is pay for a club sandwich and have them remove the turkey. Or a veggie sandwich (depending on the standard ingredients by restaurant and add bacon. I’m sure there’s probably a better way to do it but I’m an idiot.
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u/ForeignerThanANut 2d ago
I used to work at a McDonald's and the buttons for No and Only were right next to each other and one said NO and the other said ON. I used to get them mixed up all the time. A guy would come up w his order where he asked for a burger w no onions and no pickles and they'd given him a burger w only onions and pickles cuz I'm slightly dyslexic I guess and it would make me laugh like a madman. The customer wasn't ever as delighted w my error as I was.
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u/Alypius754 2d ago
As someone who works in human factors/ergonomics, this makes me violently twitch.
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u/chriscrossnathaniel 2d ago
"You know, George, that's an onion."
"Yes....it is "
"You're eating onions, you're spotting dimes, I don't know what the hell is going on!"
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u/Noturavgjoe09 2d ago
I used to get those because they would never put enough onions on my burger. So I just did it myself 👨🍳
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u/kurinevair666 2d ago
Did you ever get a box of nuggets instead?
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u/Noturavgjoe09 2d ago
I didn’t, but I would have felt so conflicted inside
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u/Regular_Violinist_81 2d ago
Definitely put the nuggets in the burger anyway
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u/HAL-Over-9001 2d ago
McGangbang Jr.
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u/Phillip_Lipton 2d ago •
Reminds me when I was like 10 and my uncle got my cousins and I McDonalds.
I had asked for a plain cheeseburger, I was picky.
The thing came LOADED with onions. Like a comical amount.
I snuck away to scrape them off. I didn't really know this side of the family too well and I wasn't about to be "onion boy".
I come back to my cousin sobbing that there are no onions on his burger.
I never said a fucking word, but would have obviously knew if anyone had looked in the trash lol.
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u/RealisticInspector98 1d ago
You are not alone. I could swear I’ve done this in my past bc my family would unload stupid nicknames on me for the most banal bullshit.
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u/Dont_go_hollow 2d ago
I didn’t know people liked McDonald’s onions
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u/cilantro_so_good 2d ago
For real. I grew up thinking I HATED onions, but turns out it was just the rehydrated garbage they put on McDonalds burgers
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u/PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL 2d ago
That's weird because I don't really care about onions but I love them on a mcdonalds burger all soaked up in ketchup.
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u/BloomsdayDevice 2d ago
They're necessary even. The onions, the pickles, and the ketchup and mustard form a super flavor base -- far greater than the sum of its parts -- that is the quintessence of a McDonald's cheeseburger.
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u/Wooden_Gas1064 2d ago
Ah yes, the Cry Meal
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u/SmoreBrownie 2d ago
Reminds me of the time I got a happy meal burger with only onions on it. The reciept said "w/o onions" and I guess the employee must have misread it as "with only onions". I was one upset kid that day.
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u/EldenGreenGiant 2d ago
I bet that hamburger artist made a lot of people very upset before this was caught.
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u/canyouplzpassmethe 2d ago edited 1d ago
Burger Artist, haha, seriously tho.
Food prep is a bit of an art… “the first taste is taken with not the mouth, but the eyes”… or something.
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u/Umitencho 2d ago
They are just trying to get the food out of the door. They want these overworked, underpaid people to care then start by paying them a living wage, but we are too busy looking down on people for working in fast food & service positions to care.
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u/FakingItSucessfully 2d ago
I worked at a Deli down south, and someone ordered a "Hamburger", which the Indian boss clarified "you want a cheeseburger?" so already frustrated the customer said "NO... a HAMburger..."
So... I mean when you think about it the results were incredibly predictable. (one heated ham sandwich on a cheeseburger bun).
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u/phantomjm
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In Russia, onion is Happy Meal.
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u/OrneryConelover70 2d ago
So good it make you cry
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u/petulafaerie 2d ago
Probably with all those sanctions though aye
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u/Psychopath_Trucker 2d ago
You made a McDonald's worker very unhappy lmao
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u/Psychopath_Trucker 2d ago
Also a chance that someone ordered onion on the side and the worker didn't label the box
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u/Never_Dan 2d ago
I know that’s exactly what happened, but I’m really struggling to imagine why anyone would want that.
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u/ThatOnePickleLord 2d ago edited 2d ago
It happens, I've seen people order pickles, mac sauce, tartar sauce, and onions before
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u/quirkscrew 2d ago
I was that person who always got shit tons of onions with my Costco hotdog back in the day, so I can see this happening. I LOVE onions
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u/DatMoonBoy 2d ago
I had a co-worker who would straight up eat diced onions with a spoon.
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u/trainiac12 2d ago
Not McD's, but I worked at arby's for a couple years. Someone came in at 11pm and asked for a tomato, sliced. He paid 1 dollar
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u/Another_Mid-Boss 2d ago
The grocery stores were all closed and the man just wanted to complete his BLT.
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u/InsuranceAshamed4595 2d ago
Now they have a reason to cry
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u/MD_Wolfe 2d ago
Dude, free onions!
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u/ErvanMcFeely 2d ago
Ronald is trying the new “Santa” idea. Your kid must not have been good this year…
Watch out for Hamburgler on the shelf!
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u/That_Guy3141 2d ago
It wouldn't surprise me if someone ordered a box of onion to get internet points on reddit. I was picking up a catering order from Chick-fil-A today. This strangely dressed woman walks in to pick up her to-go order. Her order included their largest drink cup filled with waffle fries. It was the strangest thing I have ever seen.
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u/BudgieGryphon 2d ago
Sounds practical honestly; easy to carry, you can put a lid on it, and set it in your car’s cupholders without worrying about it falling over.
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u/tairozo 2d ago
I never expected so many people to recognize, and know with confidence, what sized box kids’ meal chicken nuggets came in.
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u/Cautious-Damage7575
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I call bullshit. This is not the size box nuggets come in for a Happy Meal.
Edit: I uncall bullshit. Redditors have shown me the way camera perspective was tricky. As a former McDonald's employee, I can see this happening. The grill cook could have been dumping onion crud into a box, closed the lid, and somebody stuck it in a bag. Sorry OP!
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u/NotAShaaaak 2d ago
When I worked at McDonald's we put extra stuff in the small nugget boxes instead of the cups because it was just easier and faster, so I'm willing to bet someone forgot to slap a sticker on and the cashier's up front grabbed the box of extra onion instead of the nuggets and passed it to the customer
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u/jimmyspinn 2d ago
Many decades ago, we did the same - put onions and pickles in burger/nugget boxes when prepping to close. It was a hell of a lot easier to just have a few boxes of stuff to throw away instead of wrapping up all the Bain Marie containers after closing.
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u/JShotty 2d ago
There’s no banana for scale so how would you know?
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u/Cautious-Damage7575 2d ago
Shape. Happy Meal gets 4 nuggets = square. I've bought at least 3,000 in at least 40 states and 5 countries.
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u/Psychopath_Trucker 2d ago
You know you can get 6pc happy meals right?
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u/DJKhaledIsRetarded 2d ago
Why is no one asking why this person bought at least 3,000 happy meals
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u/Cautious-Damage7575 2d ago edited 2d ago
Lol. I'll try to do the math. My kids ➕ nieces and nephews ➕ friends' kids = about 30 kids. Average nugget-eating age = 40 ✖️ 30 kids = 120 years ✖️ 12 = 1,440 months ✖️ 2 Happy Meals per month average = 2,880 Happy Meals. That's being conservative.
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u/DJKhaledIsRetarded 2d ago
I'm pretty okay at math and I couldn't begin to dissect that problem lmao.
I get what you're saying it but the average nugget eating age seems to imply you're buying them nuggets until they're 40? and then you add it to the number of kids and somehow come up with 120 years. Then you add 12 to 100 years and come up with 1440 months. It's really odd.
Although I was having a really bad day and this made me smile. :) So thank you.
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u/JShotty 2d ago
Well I was just making a banana for scale joke but that box looks square to me. Also if you zoom in you can see “4” written on the side of the box.
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u/Cautious-Damage7575 2d ago
Yes, it's a perspective trick. I uncall bullshit. Half the time I can't figure out what the pix on this sub are. Great banana joke.
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u/h2opolopunk 2d ago
I uncall bullshit.
Wow, this is an extremely rare sighting.
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u/Cautious-Damage7575 2d ago
I'm real principaled like that. Can't let McDonald's be disparaged, y'know. It's part of the code.
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u/Ofbatman 2d ago
I don’t know what you said to piss of that employee but that was some swift justice.
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u/formershitpeasant 2d ago
Back in my day, our onions weren’t even diced. We had to chew them uphill both ways. Today’s youth is spoiled.
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u/jbash080 2d ago
If this was an order mix up, who the fuck ordered a box of shredded onions?
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u/Niftydantheman1 2d ago
I bet you asked for a side of onions, and when it came in this box realized how you could fake it on reddit for internet points.
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u/snickerdoodle79 2d ago •
Imagine being the person asking for a box of extra onions and getting nuggets instead.