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Black mold growing on the dispensers at my local McDonald's

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Buttflapper@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Floodedwomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Much more likely to be mildew. Still gross, but not toxic.

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    20 year old dispenser there too. (date code says 08/05)

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    • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is that a problem? Is there a special reason these should be replaced?

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I genuinely cannot process what I’m looking at here.

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    • Periodicchair@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

      Red is the camera, blue is what you see in the picture

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      • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Excellent diagram.

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      • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Blue looks like a dude wearing shades

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    • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think we’re looking up at a drinks dispenser, one where you push your cup against the metal thing to start filling.

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    • baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • rayyy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • petersr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      1. Wtf, there is a Wikipedia just for mold?

      2. How can it feature 0 pictures

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    • ComradeR@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • Brickhead92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, and the toilet rolls have been replaced with duct tape rolls.

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    • unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • oyo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s ok. The “clean” ones are dripping with invisible toxic cleaning product.

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    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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…

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      • gimsy@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • Kaiyoto@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What is it dispensing?

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    • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Black mould.

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    • youngalfred@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      McDonald’s USA has free soft drink refills.

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      • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m always torn on this. God bless America, but it also feels irresponsible.

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      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “Free^tm”

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      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        In Canada we don’t, but you still fill your own cup. Is that not typical?

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      • thejml@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If that is what an easy to clean outer surface looks like… just imagine what the inside looks like.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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!

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    • PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      At least they’re not chic fil a. That’s the only reason I can come up with.

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      • scoobford@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • sznowicki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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).

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  • unreachable@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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  • istanbullu@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    still not the most concerning health hazard from eating mcdonalds. 🤣

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  • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yummy

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  • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    what is wrong with american food safety man

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