Cross Contamination While Eating Out

[rttobe]

Hi everyone. I understood that Burger King makes its fries on a dedicated fryer. But today I got an order of large fries and halfway through them found an onion ring in with the fries. I guess that pretty much shows there is never a gurarantee when eating out. Its always kinda at our own risk.

[celiac3270]

Oh yeah...I would never trust Burger King cause you find onion rings in basically every order--McDonalds is the safest of the fast food joints.

[mstrain]

You can always count on BK throwing in an onion ring or two with your order of fries! Befoer I was diagnosed I thought of this as a bonus! Now I do not even consider eating there!

[KaitiUSA]

I have had that happen before too. I definitely do not trust BK.

[grantschoep]

I've never heard any such thing. Every Burger King I have ever seen has one set of fry'er's for everything. The only fast food I have known that has separate fryer's is McDonalds.

Sure, I've heard some people say they have a secret McD's somewhere that doesn't do this. But I still really doubt it. I worked at a number of different McD's across the country. The fry's were always made separate in their own oil, all the stores took this sort of religiously it seemed. Plus, workers were not prone to "do it different" as the fry'ers for other things were always on the other end of the kitchen area. Where fry's were made by the people in Drive through or the counter service, everything else was made by the grill area workers. So.. you could double check but I really doubt there is many McD's in existance that they cook other things in the french fry fryers(oh, the french fry fryers are also a completly different temp too) same oil though.

[rttobe]

I've never heard any such thing. Every Burger King I have ever seen has one set of fry'er's for everything. The only fast food I have known that has separate fryer's  is McDonalds.

Sure, I've heard some people say they have a secret McD's somewhere that doesn't do this. But I still really doubt it. I worked at a number of different McD's across the country. The fry's were always made separate in their own oil, all the stores took this sort of religiously it seemed. Plus, workers were not prone to "do it different" as the fry'ers for other things were always on the other end of the kitchen area. Where fry's were made by the people in Drive through or the counter service, everything else was made by the grill area workers. So.. you could double check but I really doubt there is many McD's  in existance that they cook other things in the french fry fryers(oh, the french fry fryers are also a completly different temp too) same oil though.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Even though I`m sure fast food restaraunts try to take precautions, experiences dont lie. The bottom line is that people make mistakes and take shortcuts at times, and that includes fast food restaurants. The only guarantee a celiac really has is if they cook and handle their own food all the time. Thats not always practical. So.. like I said, things like this will happen from time to time.