“Chicken McNuggets are designed to be eaten, not to be pressed against the thigh of a 4-year-old girl for two minutes"
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Maybe I’m just weird, but when my kids were young and we would occasionally get fast food from a drive-thru, I would pull into a parking space for a couple minutes. My wife and/or myself would distribute the food to the kids and make sure everyone’s order was correct and everyone got the toy they wanted. Once everyone was situated and happy then would I get back on the road.
It sounds like this lady just handed the food over her shoulder to her 4-year-old daughter and said “bon appetit” and headed back onto the highway.
It sounds like this lady just handed the food over her shoulder to her 4-year-old daughter and said “bon appetit” and headed back onto the highway.
That's what we did but I can't say that I always checked to make sure the chicken nuggets were not scalding hot. Because in my experience they are rarely hot enough to produce a first degree burn, much less a 2nd degree burn.
This is crazy talk. Parents taking responsible and not depending on teenage strangers.
Pfff, I suppose next you are going to say you checked up on their homework to make sure they were making their best effort in school.
To be honest, it wasn’t entirely about responsible parenting so much as it was me not wanting to have to listen to a bunch of screaming if we got 3 miles down the road and someone realized they got the wrong toy or they got shorted a McNugget.
But one of the side benefits was that if their food was too hot I could make sure it cooled down before they ate it instead of just tossing a bag of scalding hot chicken in their laps and then merging onto the interstate.
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So you open all food containers handed to you through the drivethru and test them for proper temperature and absence of foreign objects every single time before handing the food back to your kids?
If I had an autistic 4-year-old daughter then yes, I would check her food before handing it to her.
Fried food that is right out of the fryer and hot enough to burn skin looks and smells different than food that has been sitting under a heat lamp. This isn’t rocket surgery.
Yep, pull over in the parking lot and hand the stuff back individually after opening. Not looking for fentanyl though, I don’t even know what it looks like…
That's nothing. How do you think the chicken feels?
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Again, people are morons. Don’t put hot coffee between your legs and don’t hold and press a hot chicken nugget against your leg for four minutes and it won’t burn you.
According to the USDA, poultry should be cooked to 165 degrees F.
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If I’m not mistaken, 140 degrees is the ideal temperature for rapid bacterial growth and is often referred to as the “danger zone.”
UPDATE: I was mistaken. This is incorrect.
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My kids were to messy to be allowed to eat in the car- drove them home if we picked up McDonald’s , so they could eat in the tub
Where the hell are they supposed to put the coffee? Why did the lid come off so easy? Why did McDonalds keep the temperature so high even after hundreds of complaints?
Consumers have rights as well. Corporations shouldn't have the luxury of putting out a bad product
41*-135*. 140 is usually considered the lowest safe hot-hold temp.
It doesn't really matter with a delivery pie though, because it's most likely going to be eaten before it's been in the danger zone long enough to develop bacteria(2hrs).
I don't know about you, but I expect to receive HOT coffee, not LUKEWARM coffee.
Speaking as a consumer, not a corp. mouthpiece.
Sir, your order is ready but it needs to sit for a while before I hand it to you.
Safety is a function of both temperature and time. It’s safe to eat chicken at 140 degrees if it has been at 140 long enough (eg: sous vide).
Safety doesn't play into it if you want to talk to me about 140* chicken. Poultry that soft isn't for me.
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If you are handing out coffee period, spills are an obvious risk. It's on the company to mitigate the obvious risks as much as possible in the parts that they can control.
So you serve hot but not scalding hot coffee. Now if someone gets hurt from regular hot coffee that's on them. But at the temperature McDonald's was serving coffee at, 3rd degree burns happen in about 3 seconds of exposure. At normal coffee temperatures it takes 20 seconds. That's a big freaking difference.
