No, “over salting” isn’t code for anything nasty. The 20-year-old McDonald’s worker literally spilled salt on the hamburger meat that was used to make a “Big ‘N Tasty” that was served to a Georgia police officer.
The police officer says the burger made him sick—and Kendra Bull, 20, spent a night in jail because of it. According to Kendra, she accidentally spilled too much salt on the hamburger meat, tried to remove it, notified her coworkers, then took a break. During the break she says she ate a burger made from the salty meat.
Officer Wendall Adams got a burger from the over salted batch, took a few bites and came back to confront Kendra. From WISTV:
Bull admitted to spilling the salt on the burger, and the officer asked her to step outside, where he questioned Bull further, she said.
Bull, who has worked at the restaurant for five months, said she did not know a police officer had ordered the burger because she could NOT see the drive-through window from her work area.
Bull said Adams insisted the burger must have had something worse than salt on it. Adams actually did NOT eat the entire burger, and samples were sent to the state crime lab to find out what was in or on the burger that made Adams sick.
Union City public information officer George Louth said Bull was charged with reckless conduct because she served the burger “without regards to the well-being of anyone who might consume it.”
A night in jail for a salty burger? Crime lab analysis? Wendall, it was salt. You order your McDonald’s, you take your chances. Asking nicely for a new burger would have probably done the trick.
McDonald’s employee charged after serving oversalted burger [WISTV] (Thanks, D-Bo!)
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Are you people even reading what you are writing here? There is no situation where the cop was right. It doesn’t matter who ordered the food, you can always just order another. We all know McD would of given it to him for free. Wasting taxpayer’s money to see what was on his burger is paranoid and silly. I hope the employee finds a lawyer and sues. All you people who are cops, have cop friends/family members STOP posting. Everyone in the world knows that there ARE totally scumbag cops. This is dumb and all you people that are siding with the cop … I hope this happens to you at your work. I hope you spend a night in jail for a clerical error or a slightly off report. Maybe you should be in jail because your dry cleaning company couldn’t get a stain out ><. Have fun ruining what’s left of America ….
That just seems really wrong to me. I’ve worked at fast food places in the past (not McDonald’s) and it is really easy to knock over something like salt because they tend to store it in a really large container and expect you to keep it “handy”. So if she was in a rush she could have knocked it over. I know I’ve had accidents where I’ve knocked the sugar over into food (and then told my coworkers/supervisor). It really isn’t the employees call whether food can be discarded, and in fact at most fast food restaurants if she had discarded the food without consulting a superior they would fire her for ‘theft’ or charge her for the food.
This salt hating bully pig MUST BE related to this one:
[www.denverpost.com]
There are some inconsistencies with the girls story.
McDonald’s burgers are all pre-made, when they are cooked McD has a special salt shaker. Each burger gets exactly one shake as it is cooked. To over salt the burger she either gave the salt shaker more than 1 shake, the lid fell off the shaker, or she intentionally over salted the cops burger.
Also as a side note burgers are not “flipped” at McDonalds. They cook in a grill that acts like a clam shell. The patties are placed on the bottom, the top is closed and exactly 1 minute later the top opens to reveal a perfectly cooked burger! So efficient! Each burger then gets one shake of seasoning and is sent down the line for condiments.
How could he tell that there was too much salt? I thought they coat everything in salt all the time.
//goes off to McDonalds
If it was a stale Donut…she’d be dead!
lol at this article. It’s 2 years old but I think it somehow displayed on the main page in error yesterday (I’m not sure how else I would have gotten to it, but I did).
Now it has been posted and green lit on Fark.
over-salting a burger a criminal offense? this is absurd.
for starters, there is far more troublesome content in even the most properly prepared mcdiesel food.
second, at least salt is something you’re supposed to eat. it’s not like she spit on it or sprayed it with cleaning solution or something.
that girl should never have been arrested, if anything the cop should be suspended for abusing his authority.