20 year old dispenser there too. (date code says 08/05)
Black mold growing on the dispensers at my local McDonald's
Submitted 11 months ago by Buttflapper@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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ms_lane@lemmy.world 11 months ago
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Is that a problem? Is there a special reason these should be replaced?
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I genuinely cannot process what I’m looking at here.
Periodicchair@lemmy.world 11 months ago
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Excellent diagram.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Blue looks like a dude wearing shades
Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I think we’re looking up at a drinks dispenser, one where you push your cup against the metal thing to start filling.
baggins@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
The black piece in front is the nozzle where your drink comes out of the metal bit at the back is the thing you push your cup onto to dispense the drink
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I stared at it for like 3 minutes and suddenly it flipped and all made sense, like a proper optical illusion.
The metal comes down and to the right, then bends back to the left. The shadow is the reflection off the metal. The metal is coming down and out of a hole. The white area is a completely flat surface.
rayyy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Toxic black mold is a greenish-black gelatinous mold. It is not really black. Mold is not healthy and some people have severe negative reactions to regular black molds though.
petersr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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Wtf, there is a Wikipedia just for mold?
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How can it feature 0 pictures
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ComradeR@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
My mom has a strong allergic reaction to mold. Her nostrils blocks (similar to a strong flu) when she touches some moldy object or enter in a moldy room.
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Employees can daily clean as much of the machine as they can access, and there will still be a bit of black biofilm in there (not mold). The same biofilm lives down in all of your sink drains.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
“Corporate wishes to play a little game. Whom do you value more? Your co-workers or the customers? If you report this health code violation, the store may have to shut down and everyone working there laid off. If you remain silent, you may I directly kill countless customers.” - Ronald “Jigsaw” McDonald
Brickhead92@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh, and the toilet rolls have been replaced with duct tape rolls.
unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Depending on which country you live in and who (or better: what) you are - if you’re a McD McEmployee, you’ll might personally feel the McWrath for filing the complaint - not just having the weight of theorethical jobs lost on your soul.
oyo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That’s ok. The “clean” ones are dripping with invisible toxic cleaning product.
CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I once got a cup full of dlihydrogen monoxide when using one of these machines. Let me tell you that it was an experience…
gimsy@feddit.it 11 months ago
Quite unusual, was it pure? As far as I know they always mix it with other nasty stuff beig it an excellent polar solvent
Kaiyoto@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I remember working in fast food and almost nobody ever thought to clean the nozzles or clean out the ice bin.
There is probably a ton of mold inside where the ice is kept.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
When I worked at subway… Fuck me 10 years ago this month…
We pulled them nipples and the inserts off every night and rinsed them in hot water, then left em overnight in sanitizer solution, and I (being 6’4") had to clean the ice holder every 2 weeks to a month, never got told bad in there thanks to that
There was a picture our boss would show you of what happens when you don’t that convinced everybody to clean it religiously. We got free drinks from the machine, after all, we’d only be killing ourselves faster with that shit being dirty
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Friendlys does! Unfortunately if I remember correctly we “cleaned” them by letting them sit in seltzer and then wiping them off before reattaching them. I’m only now realizing that we went to so much effort to do that, but using the same sanitizer as the soft serve machines would have been significantly more effective and easier.
It at least keeps things like black mold or giant bacterial colonies from getting hold, but it’s kind of pointless.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 11 months ago
What is it dispensing?
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Black mould.
youngalfred@lemm.ee 11 months ago
McDonald’s USA has free soft drink refills.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 11 months ago
I’m always torn on this. God bless America, but it also feels irresponsible.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
“Free^tm”
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
In Canada we don’t, but you still fill your own cup. Is that not typical?
thejml@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Currently. Iirc, this is being removed company wide. I know the ones near me recently renovated and no long have customer accessible drink machines.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
If that is what an easy to clean outer surface looks like… just imagine what the inside looks like.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As someone who works in the industry, always assume there is mold. Always assume equipment isn’t cleaned as often as it should be. Always assume everything is gross.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Spent 12 years in commercial refrigeration. Absolutely, and “expensive” doesn’t mean things are any cleaner. I was in some 5 star places that had some of the nastiest kitchens.
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Their food is low quality and nasty, they treat their workers like shit and they union-bust as often as possible.
I didn’t really need another reason to not support them anymore, but this is good none the less, here have an upvote!
PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
At least they’re not chic fil a. That’s the only reason I can come up with.
scoobford@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Most CFA locations are franchises, meaning employee treatment varies wildly. I was paid $8/hr and worked 73 hour weeks. By contrast, the location down the street from me advertises $18/hr.
sznowicki@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s quite funny that in both Germany and Poland McDonald’s is actually one of the most decent places in case of food quality (not amazing taste but one can be sure it won’t cause any health issues) and employees are also treated quite well (for the industry).
unreachable@lemmy.world 11 months ago
istanbullu@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
still not the most concerning health hazard from eating mcdonalds. 🤣
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yummy
Grass@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
just piut on lab goggles, douse it in and out with hot water mixed with sodium hydroxide, put a sign up that says “do not touch, guaranteed caustic burns”, and fuck off and feign ignorance.
Mwa@lemm.ee 11 months ago
what is wrong with american food safety man
Floodedwomb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Much more likely to be mildew. Still gross, but not toxic.