I used to work at wendy's when I was in high school. If memory serves all the hamburgers had wax paper on them to keep it form sticking to the piece of cow flesh below it. Thats mostlikely what it is. They(wendy's) still should of noticed it.

It's just the paper that divides slices of meat. No biggie.

Pre-formed patties that you buy at grocery stores have the same paper. Without reading the comments, that's what I thought it might be as well. Those fries, though. God. Those look horrid.

i'd worry less about a little paper and more about that piece of "meat" you are ingesting. blech.

Wow, that looks disgusting even without the wrapper.

Whenever I eat fast food, I try to look at the toppings more than the meat. At least the tomatoes look nice and juicy.

Kinda looks like a possibly Mexican food wrapper.

I was just coming in here to say the same thing, Sam.

Whenever I make a burger, it looks disgusting too. And when I buy a chicken, it has the giblets inside! Giblets! How gross is that!?

Do you guys not eat meat or something? :)

I suppose if you brought it back, perhaps you could get some sort of refund? I don't know. When I got something weird in a chicken sandwich at a restaurant once, we got the entire meal free *and* they remade it for us.

Hahaha a refund, a dollar menu refund... just let it slide and don't go back to the place.

This one is pretty low on the offensive things found in food scale.

JR writes:

"The photo isn't very clear, but I suspect your reader is overreacting
to a piece of wax paper. Has he never worked in a burger joint?
Never barbecued for more than six people? Sure, Omaha Steaks
individually vacuum-seals their burgers, if you're a member of the
elite beefy bourgeoisie, but most bulk burgers are shipped frozen in
glorious segmented meat cylinders, separated by super-thin sheets of
semi-waxed paper. A typical restaurant box of burgers might be two
stacks wide and three stacks deep, with each stack containing eight
burgers. If you let the box thaw just a little and then refreeze it
(like if you have a slow shift and only use half a box) the wrappers
occasionally get stuck to burgers. If you then have a fast shift and
have to pull a previously-thawed box from the fridge, you might end up
pulling a burger with a bit of paper stuck to it.

Burger joint employees should know better, and it's a little gross,
but there's no reason to speculate about "rat poison wrappers" and so
forth. I suspect the franchise manager is Kaizen-ing the crap out of
his employees trying to get their speed up to earn some kind of bonus.

Also, didn't your reader see Lethal Weapon 2? He should take Leo
Getz's advice and check his drive-thru orders before he leaves the
lot.

cheers
j.r.

former burger flipper
large-scale barbecue veteran
card-carrying member of the elite beefy bourgeoisie"

Toss the "meat" and eat the wrapper. It's better for you.

Coulda been worse... Coulda been an East Coast Rapper found inside that burger.

Most definitely a wax paper separator...I work at Wendy's and all of our beef patties come preformed, separated by wax paper, and sealed in plastic. It is highly unlikely that is was "frozen" into the beef because we never freeze the meat. The walk-in fridge is around 40 degrees and unless the store was ignoring policy than thats were the beef is stored.

I will let you guys know that for some reason, there are eggs in Wendy's beef. I was looking at our Nutritional Information the other day and all the beef contains egg.

By looking at the picture above the fries look far different than any firs you would find at a Wendy's. They are extremely dark and look like fries you would find at a Five Guys restaurant. Another thing to look at in this picture is that the "wax" paper in the burger is green, is Wendy's colors really green. Anyways if that really is a Wendy's meal, then I feel sorry for you. When I go to Wendy's I usually only get a Frosty.