mcdonalds antics

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Man finds ants in his burritos
Sandwich discovery 'disgusting'
By CHRIS DOUCETTE, TORONTO SUN
Last Updated: 3rd January 2010, 10:35am
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Click here to watch the videoA Markham man says he found about 50 ants in his McDonald's breakfast burrito.
Play VideoMARKHAM -- Having Aunt Martha stop by for dinner over the holiday season is one thing, but having 50 ants for breakfast was more than Tommy Lam could stomach.
The jeweller said he found them lining his McDonald's burritos.
"It was disgusting!" Lam told the Sun yesterday soon after he said he made the gruesome discovery.
The 28-year-old said he and his girlfriend stopped by the busy fast-food restaurant at Markham Rd. and Denison St. around 11 a.m. yesterday to grab a quick bite to eat on their way to work.
After waiting 15 minutes in line, the couple said they ordered two sausage and egg burrito combos to go, which includes a total of four pita-wrapped sandwiches.
Soon after, they sat down to eat at his business, Jewellery Box, just around the corner at Steeles Ave. E. and Middlefield Rd. That's when Lam claims they spotted dozens of ants inside and outside their burritos.
NOT MOVING
Fortunately, the little critters weren't crawling around. But that was of little consolation to Lam, who had already eaten the first of his two burritos.
Whether or not that first sandwich was also laced with dead ants, Lam is not sure.
He doesn't even want to think about it.
"I still can't believe this happened!" Lam said, shaking as he recalled the ordeal.
Finding the ants in his food was shocking enough, but Lam said he was even more stunned by the reaction he received from the store manager when he returned with the contaminated food.
NO APOLOGY
"He didn't even offer an apology," Lam said of the McDonald's manager, a man who only identified himself to him as Keith.
The one thing the manager did offer, Lam wanted no part of.
"He offered to replace our burritos, that was it," Lam said. "I just said, 'No thanks!' and walked out."
Before yesterday, Lam said he stopped by the McDonald's regularly for breakfast on his way to work.
"But I'll never eat there again," he said.
Lam said he later tried to contact McDonald's head offices and his local public health department, but he wasn't able to reach anyone over the long weekend.
However, he still has the burritos and he vows that first thing tomorrow morning he'll be demanding some answers.
Staff at the McDonald's location referred the Sun's calls to the company's head office.
A message left on the Media Relations Centre line was not returned yesterday.
York Region Community and Health Services also could not be reached for comment.
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Quote: Originally Posted by lone wolf

Not moving, I can understand. Cooked does that. I just wonder how ants got there. This is winter. Don't ants go dormant?

I smell scam-for-lawsuit

Quote: Originally Posted by lone wolf

Not moving, I can understand. Cooked does that. I just wonder how ants got there. This is winter. Don't ants go dormant?

I smell scam-for-lawsuit

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

Nothing would surprise me when it comes to what might appear in your restaurant food these days.

I used to work with a guy who was once an assistant mgr. at a KFC. They caught a young (male) employee adding some "special sauce" to a batch of creamy cole slaw...his own semen! He was quietly fired.

If you think of the thousands of people working behind the scenes in restaurants and food outlets, the law of averages pretty much dictates that you're going to see some "oddities" once in a while. Some are deliberate, and some are just poor cleaning and food handling practices. None of them are good, of course.

Quote: Originally Posted by spaminator

i guess you could say the kfc employee 'came and went'.

Quote: Originally Posted by TenPenny

In NB, you can see on line the results of health inspections of restaurants - if they pass, they get a green square; if they get a yellow (warning - to be corrected) or a red (shut down until corrected), you can actually read the inspectors' reports on line.

Some of them are fairly interesting; I think last summer, one of the Don Cherry's Grapevines was shut down for a couple of days by the health dept.

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

Sounds like a good system in NB.

In BC, they have stretched the health inspectors to the limit...not really enough of them to go around and do the job properly, especially in the "Heartland" (anything other than the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island). They keep reorganizing the jobs in an effort to cope with ongoing budget limitations...you see some inspectors being saddled with restaurant inspections, sewer system inspections, and water system inspections...a real "focus", eh? Most of them are just "on the run" without sufficient time to check all the restaurants, and certainly not enough time to sit down and help the restaurants get better. It's a pretty stupid setup, but that's not all that unusual in BC - we have lots of idiocy in government-run things. It's a tradition out here.

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

Yeah, although they're not sure how many times he "came" before he "went."

Quote: Originally Posted by JLM

He probably didn't know if he was coming or going.

Quote: Originally Posted by TenPenny

In NB, you can see on line the results of health inspections of restaurants - if they pass, they get a green square; if they get a yellow (warning - to be corrected) or a red (shut down until corrected), you can actually read the inspectors' reports on line.

Some of them are fairly interesting; I think last summer, one of the Don Cherry's Grapevines was shut down for a couple of days by the health dept.

Quote: Originally Posted by Francis2004

That's the same for BC TenPenny.. Here is the link for our area..

Lower Mainland Area
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Vancouver Island
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Coastal Inspections
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They have the full reports and follow up inspections that you can read..

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

Hey Francis...do we have any similar reports for areas in the Interior? I'd love to see them but don't have enough speed in the old dial-up system to search around for them...thanks!

Quote: Originally Posted by Francis2004

Nope, the Interior is not important enough.. LOL..

Seriously, here are two links CB..

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and the more general one..
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Enjoy..

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

Thanks a bunch, Francis. I used the first link and just discovered that a restaurant I go to once in a while was nailed for improper food storage!!! (No ants, though)

I'm amazed that the Interior actually was included in the reports! OK, that just proves that G. Campbell is aware that there is something in BC "beyond Hope!"

Thanks again Francis...saved me a bunch of dial-up time! (Now only if we could convince Mr. C. that we need some high-speed internet service up here in the Heartland...)

Quote: Originally Posted by Francis2004

No problem for the links.. I think knowing "what" to Google can save you much more time and bandwidth then anything else Call it an art..

As for high speed internet, I am not sure that is all Mr Campbell's fault. Perhaps a lot of it has to do with Telus, Shaw and anyone else who is not willing to put infrastructure in due to "cost" / low people count depending on your area..

But hey, he makes a great whipping boy..

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

Oh I agree...it's hard to "hone the art" when the website never appears on the screen (speed)...

Actually, the BC government - through Network BC - has a mission to ensure that "all" citizens of BC have access to broadband. Much of it will likely be in the form of wireless towers. Telus, Shaw, etc. won't even go close to the remote areas as there isn't enough return on the investment, and that makes sense to me.

So no, I'm not using Mr. C. as a whipping boy here at all...I just wish that the program which his government designed would get underway!

Thanks again for your help on those links, Francis...

Quote: Originally Posted by missile

Having had a few bad experiences at fast food joints,i only eat what i can prepare at home for myself..the moving worms in an order of fish and chips was the final straw,

Quote: Originally Posted by Francis2004

I reviewed NetworkBC again to make sure they had not changed anything.. Most of what they state still stands..

I work with a company that makes last miles wireless infrastructure.. They don't run the system as such but need a "provider" to sell the service too.. There are smaller providers willing to sell the Wireless access to certain areas at times but you must understand that a main trunk line from a Telco must go in.. without that trunk line there is a big bottle neck and no one can access bandwidth..

As to further services provided by NetworkBC it is simple and straight forward.. Wireless EVDO, satellite and such systems run off main Telco / Cable networks..

BC will never own infrastructure in Internet and nor should they..

Quote: Originally Posted by AnnaG

I got those in a piece of halibut once. The word got around town.
I'll eat halibut I'm not that crazy about it.

Ants are almost entirely proteins and they are fastidious for cleanliness.

Quote: Originally Posted by countryboy

That's why I avoid salmon sashimi or sushi...they're notorious for having little critters in the flesh. Some apparently aren't prone to having parasites though...tuna and red snapper are two that come to mind, and quite popular for raw consumption in Japan.

Quote: Originally Posted by JLM

I don't think I'd let that bother me too much, as with the cookin' the critters are probably just as dead as the salmon............................