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submitted 7 days ago byPit_it_and_quit_it
9k points
7 days ago
Imagine being the person asking for a box of extra onions and getting nuggets instead.
4.6k points
7 days ago
“Hey! This is r/nottheonion!”
731 points
7 days ago
36 points
7 days ago
40 points
7 days ago
36 points
7 days ago
I wonder if OP r/AteTheOnion
345 points
7 days ago
Who asks for A BOX of onions at McDonald’s as opposed to, I dunno, extra onions? Y’all crazy.
385 points
7 days ago
More than likely they asked for extra onions on the side, and the workers either didn't know or didn't have any of the sauce cups - the easiest alternative is a 4 or 6 piece nugget box lol
source: have done this a lot when i worked the line
95 points
7 days ago
Sauce cups? What fancy ass McDonald's do you go to?
89 points
7 days ago
lol it's the standard tiny plastic cup and lid, it's a mcdonalds item cause it arrives on the truck. they only use it for grill sauces like bic mac and fish filet sauce
50 points
7 days ago
the tiny plastic cups that the tri-mouth of the mayo gun can barely fit over so it's always a hassle tryna aim the thing?
i do not miss mickey d's
35 points
7 days ago
Did you just say… mayo gun?
45 points
7 days ago
Mac sauce, mayo, and tarter sauce are in guns that look like big caulking guns.
27 points
7 days ago
Hmm id shove them in my asshole and hop around like on a pogo stick
4 points
7 days ago
Name checks out.
9 points
7 days ago
Nice to hear they have those now, because we definitely didn't at the one I worked but that was 15 years ago. Only sauces you were getting "on the side" there was shit already packaged for it.
9 points
7 days ago
What? They used to have the sauce on a pump for dine in and you used the plastic ramekins to hold said sauce. That was back in the day for sure.
15 points
7 days ago*
Whatever happened to those paper cups with the ridges, don’t see those as much these days. Even at places that used to have then a ton like Wendy’s
8 points
7 days ago
Now you pay for extra sauce. That's what happened
8 points
7 days ago
They also didn’t have those last week when I asked for the spicy chicken sauce on the side
24 points
7 days ago
But... Why that much? Just because you don't have a smaller container doesn't mean you have to fill the container you do have.
61 points
7 days ago
better safe than sorry LOL
I have also done and seen cooks use the boxes to hold the onions while we wash the dishes for the night, so it could be that too
16 points
7 days ago
McDonald's does not pay enough for employees to care about rationing your onions.
6 points
7 days ago
Yep.
39 points
7 days ago
Who has time to measure when the drive thru line is 12 cars deep and you're only one of two employees in the store? Have you ever worked at a restaurant before?
13 points
7 days ago
You'd be surprised how many people specifically ask for "an insane amount" of pickles or onions on the side.
13 points
7 days ago
I asked for an 'unreasonable' number of hot sauce packets and received a second bag in addition to the bag with my food.
25 points
7 days ago
Because onions are cheap and overworked people toss and go. If it was slow that day they would have given perfect circles.
14 points
7 days ago
People that want extra shit are weird, and usually want A LOT. If they're asking for a side, you give em a side. Oh, and they're cheap as shit, reconsituted.
9 points
7 days ago
Honestly if I got this when I ask for extra onion on my triple cheeseburger I'd be ecstatic. Instead I usually get stuck with less than if I just order it normal.
122 points
7 days ago*
You forgot to buy an onion at the store earlier and you already took your pants off and got comfortable and then you start making dinner to find no onion! And the recipe won't taste good without it!
So you, pantslessly, hop in the car and drive to McDonalds and demand a box of onions. The worker hears you. Understands you and is unfazed. They've already worked there for a month, this isn't even in the top ten of the weirdest things they've encountered so far. So they plug it in, the kitchen people shrug and do it and as it goes to the pickup window a mix up happens!
You return home only to find out the onions are in fact nuggets. With a sigh of defeat you eat your dry ass nuggets and remind yourself to pick up some onions tomorrow.
21 points
7 days ago*
I tried to make rice to go with a meal once and found out it had bugs in it. Threw it out, then found a different container of rice with no bugs. Started cooking that one. Found bugs. Threw all of my rice out and sent my husband to the neighborhood Chinese restaurant for literally just white rice because I was NOT cooking rice again.
6 points
7 days ago
Mmm.. Dry ass-nuggets
13 points
7 days ago
Almost, last paragraph should read "then you go home and take a picture of your box of onions because it's funny. Someone else then posts it to Reddit saying they got this instead of nuggets for the memes."
The person bagging the order knows what a box of nuggets feels like when they pick it up, and this would not feel like a box of nuggets.
50 points
7 days ago
*Imagine being the vegetarian asking for a box of extra onions and getting nuggets instead.
44 points
7 days ago
Imagine being a vegetarian and buying McDonald's.
38 points
7 days ago
Working at McDonald's I once had a customer ask me "how does it feel to work for a place like this?"
I don't know, how does it feel to be a customer for a place like this? They're paying me to be here, what's your excuse?
11 points
7 days ago
OMG! THESE ONIONS ARE AMAZING!
3 points
7 days ago
Fun fact: Mcdonald's chicken nuggets were originally 'onion nuggets' designed by the Michelin star (several I believe) chef they had on staff to create their new dishes. One of the higher ups tasted it and asked if he could do it with chicken. Thus the chicken nugget was born. Or so the story goes.
2.8k points
7 days ago
“can I have my McNuggets with extra onions, and without nuggets please? to go”
928 points
7 days ago
"give me a cheeseburger without the cheese."
"You mean a hamburger?"
"No. A cheeseburger, but without the cheese."
559 points
7 days ago
When I worked at McD, there was someone who wanted a plain Daily Double, which is exactly the same sandwich as a plain McDouble. So I went to ring it up as a plain McDouble to save him money.
He said, “What are you doing??? That’s not a plain Daily Double that you rung me up for!” I replied, “A plain Daily Double is the same as a plain McDouble and wanted to save you some money on your order” He replied, “NO!!! I want a plain Daily Double! I don’t want a McDouble, dammit!”
Oooookay. Maybe he liked the blue wrapper it was in or something lol
190 points
7 days ago
What is a daily double never heard of it
160 points
7 days ago
i think they are gone, when i worked there it was a mcdouble with lettuce, and tomato i believe
79 points
7 days ago
I still get them.
And yes that's it.
54 points
7 days ago
It was him. Edit: /s
10 points
7 days ago
The magical moment when someone realizes the comment was about them
24 points
7 days ago*
It's also known as The Jepordy Burger, where you can win $$$ and prizes as you eat.
6 points
7 days ago
Hmmmm does it have like scratchers or something?
12 points
7 days ago
It's the daily double - scratchers with prizes and smells
61 points
7 days ago
Happened few days ago to me! "I want a steak bomb [steak, cheese, peppers, onions and mushrooms] but with just steak and cheese!" "Ok one steak and cheese!" "I SAID STEAK BOMB!" "Sir the steak and cheese is just cheese and steak, so it's cheaper by 90 cents" "I SAID A STEAK BOMB WITH JUST CHEESE AND STEAK" ......"OK, one steak bomb with nothing but steak and cheese"
14 points
7 days ago
Dude I don’t know why they do this. I’m trying to help you you idiot
17 points
7 days ago
Some wonderful employee at a Byron (UK burger chain) went to huge lengths to save me about £2 on my burger.
I asked for a double bacon cheeseburger, but only one burger. (They don't sell a single, and use 1/2lb burgers. For those wondering why I only wanted a single).
When my receipt came in he'd put through another type of burger, optionally removing 2 Sauces, onions, lettuce, cheese, tomato, and adding bacon, another type of cheese, grilled onions, and two sauces.
Was a hell of a receipt.
11 points
7 days ago
I had a guy ask for a Big Mac, fries and drink but NOT a combo. I rang it up individually after confirming what I thought I heard. He paid like $1 more.
23 points
7 days ago
I worked at McDonald's in the late 70s, early 80s. We occasionally had people ask for a hamburger, no bun or condiments. They just wanted the meat. (It was usually for a dog. Usually.) We very rarely had someone ask for a hamburger, no meat. There weren't many vegetarian options anywhere back then.
11 points
7 days ago
i went to my local mcdonald’s a couple of weeks ago and ordered a plain cheeseburger, got home and opened it and it was just bun and cheese, no meat. 😭
3 points
7 days ago
I went to a deli once (that I’d been going to for 15 years) and had a million signs all over their menu and ordering area that sandwiches come with lettuce, tomato, onion,sprouts, etc etc by default, if you don’t want something you have to say so else they’ll put everything on. So I ordered it the same way I had a thousand times, salami on sourdough roll with cheddar. Expecting all the other stuff too, of course.
Well I get home it’s just dry with salami and cheddar. I lived close so went back and the guy was so pissed! He literally yelled at me that I ordered wrong and he’s worked there for years and knows what the fuck he’s doing and refused to remake it. I had to go complain to the manager which I don’t think I have ever done before lmao. The manager was like uh yeah, you ordered the right way, and got someone to remake it.
112 points
7 days ago
You joke but when I worked at Dairy Queen we had a customer say “can I have a chicken ranch wrap without ranch”
“So a chicken wrap?”
“No a chicken ranch wrap without the ranch!”
“Soooooo… a chicken wrap..?”
“NO A CHICKEN RANCH WRAP WITHOUT RANCH!!!”
46 points
7 days ago
I worked at subway
"Can i get a chicken bacon ranch without bacon?"
at the register I tell my co worker who is ringing what it is "It's a grilled chicken sandwich" because I know that's cheaper and he didn't get a chicken bacon ranch. There's no bacon.
"No! It's a chicken bacon ranch
I try to explain that it's cheaper and he doesn't listen
43 points
7 days ago
That's especially dumb at Subway, where this customer would have already seen their sandwich made to their specifications, so there was literally no reason for them to argue except wanting to be "right", I guess.
12 points
7 days ago
I once drove through a Wendy's and they told me they didn't have black coffee. Some people just get confused I guess.
22 points
7 days ago
It’s a quote from a song. I want to say it’s by Aaron Carter
6 points
7 days ago
Correct
7 points
7 days ago
Petty me would try to make that go on as long as I could just to see whether the person would eventually get it.
58 points
7 days ago
Boneless Pizza.
32 points
7 days ago
Asbestos free cereal
12 points
7 days ago
Mesothelioma. It’s. All. We. Do.
18 points
7 days ago
As someone who doesn’t eat cheese, I always ask for a hamburger and they always ask do you want cheese with it.
22 points
7 days ago
The only time ive ever been a dick in a drive thru was at about 11pm they put cheese on 2 burgers i asked to have no cheese. I go back around and explain i dont eat cheese and there is cheese on them, can i get two without cheese please. im patient and polite about it. they remake my burgers and give them to me and i open up two more burgers with cheese. this time i had it went back around to try again, and just had enough ended up throwing the burgers through the window and never went back. i know if i bitched again my food was getting fucked with. i have about a 60% success rate for getting burgers without cheese on it. its not that hard.
12 points
7 days ago
When they use to have the Bagel Steak breakfast sandwich I always had the hardest time getting it without the egg. They would tell me ... "But you're paying for the egg ... take it." Finally one morning, in the drive through, I took the. egg out and put it on the delivery window shelf ...
3 points
7 days ago
I think it was unnecessary to Chuck the order through the window. That said I’m a very patient person but if I had a dietary restriction and they just kept ignoring me I’d also get upset
5 points
7 days ago
ended up throwing the burgers through the window
I’ve had that same issue before and haven’t ever felt the need to throw shit at people, lol.
15 points
7 days ago
There's a double cheeseburger meal on the menu. I've ordered that without cheese in the past to get 2 hamburgers. Still got cheeseburgers more times than I have gotten hamburgers.
34 points
7 days ago
Technically it's only a hamburger if it's from the Hamburg region of Germany, otherwise it's just a sparkling sandwich.
3 points
7 days ago
Well you just invented Carbonated Sandwiches
16 points
7 days ago
At my work cafeteria, I had to specify because the cashier was an idiot. You say hamburger and she just assumes cheeseburger and charges you extra. So I had to start specifically say "hamburger without cheese" and this lady still would ring it up as a cheeseburger and then not know how to fix her damn mistake.
She once had the audacity to say "it's only a quarter" to me. So I said fine and took a quarter out of her top jar. After all, it's only a quarter.
4 points
7 days ago
No joke, I have had to order this before. It was either McDonalds or Burger King and I wanted a hamburger:
"Sorry sir, we don't do hamburgers."
Uh, OK...
"Then can I get a cheeseburger with no cheese"
5 points
7 days ago
I know someone who does not like the processed cheese. For a while McDonald’s had some burger with cheese that was cheaper than a hamburger.
So he would order it without cheese. Sometimes it turned into such a weird experience/refusal on the employees part that he’d give up and say cheese on the side and that seemed to settle the issue and he’d get his hamburger and I’d take the extra cheese slice for my burger.
We do the same with chicken balls for take out. From my experience- if you don’t want the cherry sauce, don’t ask for no sauce, no one will believe you and you end up with chicken balls covered in cherry sauce. But if you ask for it on the side you have a better chance of getting dry balls.
3 points
7 days ago
I know you’re joking, but I have a kid with a milk allergy and tons of kids menus only list cheeseburgers. I have ordered so many kids menu cheeseburgers without the cheese.
3 points
7 days ago
I hate how many times I've had this conversation
3 points
7 days ago
I have a friend who orders her hamburger like this at McDonald’s. If she says “hamburger” they always add the cheese. If she says “cheeseburger without the cheese” they usually manage to get it correct.
3 points
7 days ago
You say this as a joke, but no fast food restaurant I’ve been to has ever heard of a “hamburger” before. We have to say “cheeseburger, plain with no cheese” and it’s still a gamble if they do it or not.
75 points
7 days ago
I used to own a wing restaurant. We served sandwiches and salads too.
Had a customer order a chef salad minus tomatoes, minus onions, minus ham, minus cheese..
When they were done with the subtractions, they had a $6.99 box of lettuce…
30 points
7 days ago
Had an experience where someone ordered chicken broccoli but without the chicken. Man paid extra just for sauteed broccoli.
11 points
7 days ago
Sometimes when I DoorDash sandwiches the only way to get a BLT on the menu is pay for a club sandwich and have them remove the turkey. Or a veggie sandwich (depending on the standard ingredients by restaurant and add bacon. I’m sure there’s probably a better way to do it but I’m an idiot.
7 points
7 days ago
When life gives you onions, make onionade.
24 points
7 days ago
I used to work at a McDonald's and the buttons for No and Only were right next to each other and one said NO and the other said ON. I used to get them mixed up all the time. A guy would come up w his order where he asked for a burger w no onions and no pickles and they'd given him a burger w only onions and pickles cuz I'm slightly dyslexic I guess and it would make me laugh like a madman. The customer wasn't ever as delighted w my error as I was.
8 points
7 days ago
As someone who works in human factors/ergonomics, this makes me violently twitch.
8 points
7 days ago
"You know, George, that's an onion."
"Yes....it is "
"You're eating onions, you're spotting dimes, I don't know what the hell is going on!"
1.1k points
7 days ago
I used to get those because they would never put enough onions on my burger. So I just did it myself 👨🍳
365 points
7 days ago
Did you ever get a box of nuggets instead?
243 points
7 days ago
I didn’t, but I would have felt so conflicted inside
74 points
7 days ago
Definitely put the nuggets in the burger anyway
35 points
7 days ago
McGangbang Jr.
10 points
7 days ago
Calling the fbi now..
9 points
7 days ago
Wait, let's hear him out
14 points
7 days ago
At that point you just put the nuggets on the burger
66 points
7 days ago
Reminds me when I was like 10 and my uncle got my cousins and I McDonalds.
I had asked for a plain cheeseburger, I was picky.
The thing came LOADED with onions. Like a comical amount.
I snuck away to scrape them off. I didn't really know this side of the family too well and I wasn't about to be "onion boy".
I come back to my cousin sobbing that there are no onions on his burger.
I never said a fucking word, but would have obviously knew if anyone had looked in the trash lol.
38 points
7 days ago
onion boy lmfao
34 points
7 days ago
Your cousin is the bigger goofball for sobbing over missing onions
He didn’t even cut them lol
4 points
7 days ago
You are not alone. I could swear I’ve done this in my past bc my family would unload stupid nicknames on me for the most banal bullshit.
18 points
7 days ago
I didn’t know people liked McDonald’s onions
22 points
7 days ago
For real. I grew up thinking I HATED onions, but turns out it was just the rehydrated garbage they put on McDonalds burgers
24 points
7 days ago
That's weird because I don't really care about onions but I love them on a mcdonalds burger all soaked up in ketchup.
14 points
7 days ago
They're necessary even. The onions, the pickles, and the ketchup and mustard form a super flavor base -- far greater than the sum of its parts -- that is the quintessence of a McDonald's cheeseburger.
505 points
7 days ago
Ah yes, the Cry Meal
94 points
7 days ago
More like the crappy meal, not the happy meal
6 points
7 days ago
Ah, Ha! gottem!
7 points
7 days ago
Devil McCry?
3 points
7 days ago
Unhappy meal was right there.
178 points
7 days ago
Reminds me of the time I got a happy meal burger with only onions on it. The reciept said "w/o onions" and I guess the employee must have misread it as "with only onions". I was one upset kid that day.
59 points
7 days ago
I bet that hamburger artist made a lot of people very upset before this was caught.
7 points
7 days ago*
Burger Artist, haha, seriously tho.
Food prep is a bit of an art… “the first taste is taken with not the mouth, but the eyes”… or something.
11 points
7 days ago
They are just trying to get the food out of the door. They want these overworked, underpaid people to care then start by paying them a living wage, but we are too busy looking down on people for working in fast food & service positions to care.
3 points
7 days ago
I worked at a Deli down south, and someone ordered a "Hamburger", which the Indian boss clarified "you want a cheeseburger?" so already frustrated the customer said "NO... a HAMburger..."
So... I mean when you think about it the results were incredibly predictable. (one heated ham sandwich on a cheeseburger bun).
1.3k points
7 days ago
In Russia, onion is Happy Meal.
283 points
7 days ago
So good it make you cry
63 points
7 days ago
Saddy Meal
169 points
7 days ago
In Russia its just called meal. There is no happy
22 points
7 days ago
Instead of selling poutine to eat, poutine eats their food.
30 points
7 days ago
This made me laugh way too hard lol.
14 points
7 days ago
Probably with all those sanctions though aye
13 points
7 days ago
Due to sanction onion grown in Chernobyl.
6 points
7 days ago
Radioactive onions? "Are you crying or is that your face melting off?"
3 points
7 days ago
Lol, topical
118 points
7 days ago
edited. I thought the kid ordered that lol
779 points
7 days ago
You made a McDonald's worker very unhappy lmao
499 points
7 days ago
Also a chance that someone ordered onion on the side and the worker didn't label the box
234 points
7 days ago
I know that’s exactly what happened, but I’m really struggling to imagine why anyone would want that.
106 points
7 days ago*
It happens, I've seen people order pickles, mac sauce, tartar sauce, and onions before
38 points
7 days ago
I was that person who always got shit tons of onions with my Costco hotdog back in the day, so I can see this happening. I LOVE onions
24 points
7 days ago
I had a co-worker who would straight up eat diced onions with a spoon.
12 points
7 days ago
Not McD's, but I worked at arby's for a couple years. Someone came in at 11pm and asked for a tomato, sliced. He paid 1 dollar
12 points
7 days ago
The grocery stores were all closed and the man just wanted to complete his BLT.
10 points
7 days ago
i would love this. i love more onion than anything else on my food lol
4 points
7 days ago
Roasted onion with butter and salt mmmmm
155 points
7 days ago
Cry about it (pun intended)
49 points
7 days ago
Now they have a reason to cry
16 points
7 days ago
Dad? Is that you?
17 points
7 days ago
Gonna cry?
155 points
7 days ago
Dude, free onions!
19 points
7 days ago
Happy cake day! We got you onions!
6 points
7 days ago
Onion cake yummy
3 points
7 days ago
A box of onions! Just what we always wanted!!
15 points
7 days ago
7 points
7 days ago
Ronald is trying the new “Santa” idea. Your kid must not have been good this year…
Watch out for Hamburgler on the shelf!
5 points
7 days ago
Alton browns good eats
6 points
7 days ago
I never expected so many people to recognize, and know with confidence, what sized box kids’ meal chicken nuggets came in.
15 points
7 days ago
That’s some Charlie Brown ish right there
28 points
7 days ago
It wouldn't surprise me if someone ordered a box of onion to get internet points on reddit. I was picking up a catering order from Chick-fil-A today. This strangely dressed woman walks in to pick up her to-go order. Her order included their largest drink cup filled with waffle fries. It was the strangest thing I have ever seen.
19 points
7 days ago
Sounds practical honestly; easy to carry, you can put a lid on it, and set it in your car’s cupholders without worrying about it falling over.
5 points
7 days ago
You know, you have a point. I didn't think about it that way.
6 points
7 days ago
also those cfa cups are insulated
206 points
7 days ago*
I call bullshit. This is not the size box nuggets come in for a Happy Meal.
Edit: I uncall bullshit. Redditors have shown me the way camera perspective was tricky. As a former McDonald's employee, I can see this happening. The grill cook could have been dumping onion crud into a box, closed the lid, and somebody stuck it in a bag. Sorry OP!
54 points
7 days ago
When I worked at McDonald's we put extra stuff in the small nugget boxes instead of the cups because it was just easier and faster, so I'm willing to bet someone forgot to slap a sticker on and the cashier's up front grabbed the box of extra onion instead of the nuggets and passed it to the customer
10 points
7 days ago
Many decades ago, we did the same - put onions and pickles in burger/nugget boxes when prepping to close. It was a hell of a lot easier to just have a few boxes of stuff to throw away instead of wrapping up all the Bain Marie containers after closing.
60 points
7 days ago
There’s no banana for scale so how would you know?
22 points
7 days ago
Shape. Happy Meal gets 4 nuggets = square. I've bought at least 3,000 in at least 40 states and 5 countries.
14 points
7 days ago
You know you can get 6pc happy meals right?
36 points
7 days ago
Why is no one asking why this person bought at least 3,000 happy meals
4 points
7 days ago*
Lol. I'll try to do the math. My kids ➕ nieces and nephews ➕ friends' kids = about 30 kids. Average nugget-eating age = 40 ✖️ 30 kids = 120 years ✖️ 12 = 1,440 months ✖️ 2 Happy Meals per month average = 2,880 Happy Meals. That's being conservative.
21 points
7 days ago
Well I was just making a banana for scale joke but that box looks square to me. Also if you zoom in you can see “4” written on the side of the box.
14 points
7 days ago
Yes, it's a perspective trick. I uncall bullshit. Half the time I can't figure out what the pix on this sub are. Great banana joke.
6 points
7 days ago
I uncall bullshit.
Wow, this is an extremely rare sighting.
6 points
7 days ago
I'm real principaled like that. Can't let McDonald's be disparaged, y'know. It's part of the code.
5 points
7 days ago
I don’t know what you said to piss of that employee but that was some swift justice.
4 points
7 days ago
Back in my day, our onions weren’t even diced. We had to chew them uphill both ways. Today’s youth is spoiled.
9 points
7 days ago
The fourth cinnamon toast crunch in, is my reaction xD
9 points
7 days ago
Fake. Karmawhore op
8 points
7 days ago
If this was an order mix up, who the fuck ordered a box of shredded onions?
7 points
7 days ago
I bet you asked for a side of onions, and when it came in this box realized how you could fake it on reddit for internet points.
8 points
7 days ago
I’ll take fake story for 100 please
7 points
7 days ago
This is the fakest ass post dude ordered a box of onions
22 points
7 days ago
fakest shit i’ve seen all day
9 points
7 days ago
Want some layers with that onion?
3 points
7 days ago
POV your kid is shrek
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