Dumb Blonde - Throwback Ask, Tell, Confess: Feral Food Service Secrets

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

Since Bunnie Xo is on a wild LA run… here’s a throwback Ask, Tell, Confess that might ruin fast food for you forever. (Originally aired 4/25/25)On this episode of Ask, Tell, Confess, Bunnie Xo, Meme and Hailee spill some of the most unhinged fast-food horror stories you’ll ever hear. From managers crossing major lines, cooks getting high on the job, and truly foul food tampering, to firsthand confessions about sketchy restaurant practices—nothing is off limits. They swap personal work-war stories (yes, including Waffle House and recycled salsa), call out what really goes down behind the scenes at chain restaurants, and remind everyone why being kind to service workers matters… especially after you hear this.Watch Full Episodes & More: YouTubeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Just to piss you guys off one last time. Oh, goodness. So on the last Ask Talk and Fest, Patreon members submitted multiple stories of shit they've done to food. and fast food restaurant secrets. And it is overwhelming. I wasn't prepared.

I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. It's rough, guys. Like, I'm, and there's so many. We could make this a fucking series and it could go on forever. Like, there's so many. I cannot believe the stories we have since heard. All right. I'm going to kick it off.

Okay. You seem like you're excited. I'm ready. Well, you kicked it off last week. All right. Oh, I have a few. I worked in the food industry for 12 years. At a restaurant in Texas in 2007-ish, I walked in on my boss banging multiple different servers, sometimes at the same time. He was called the server slayer. He was our boss, but his mommy and daddy owned the place. No, I never went near that. I was also 15 through 17. I worked as the hostess.

But I also worked at Burger King in 2011, and I walked in on a manager's banging one of the cooks. Her, the manager's nudes later got leaked through the whole team, and she was given an unfortunate nickname having to do with Arby's. I have witnessed cooks doing lines off the counters and wiping it down with a wet rag and then cooking on it. I could keep going, but I'll end it there. What about fast food makes people so horny? Everybody's fucking horny.

Crazy, right? I don't get it. The amount of sex that happens in restaurants is baffling to me. It's probably because you're just stuck working together with these people all night long and everybody just gets a little fucking horn dog. It's like they're slapping meats in every different direction, man. I mean, it's kind of hot. I don't mind the sex stories.

Like, I think that's hot. It's the fucking, like, drugs and the fucking with people's food that I'm like, bro, this is fucking weird. Even down to the scissors sisters in the freezer the last episode, like, rub it out. Get one in. You know what I'm saying? But don't fuck with people's food, dude. I mean, I guess I would probably take sexual acts over, like, my food being spitting.

Or a fly or if I get a fly story was crazy. Yeah. Or heroin? Yeah, the scabs. Bro, and then cooks doing lines on the counter and then wiping it off. Bro, nowadays. And I guess that was an older story, but like, imagine nowadays. Like a little with fentanyl.

With fentanyl it takes to, that could. I feel like there's so many cameras nowadays, though, that maybe this has gotten better. I don't know. Maybe. Because a lot of these stories aren't recent. Yeah, that's true. You know, okay, so I got one that's not so recent. Okay.

So many years ago when I was a teenager going through nursing school to supplement my income, I worked at Waffle House. The big dub. I really love Waffle House, guys. I don't. It's so dirty, I would expect shit to go down at Waffle House. You know, there was a lot of things out of this story I expected. This wasn't one of them. Oh, Lord.

So while she was working at Waffle House at nights and on weekends during my training, an old lady that had long curved fingernails and was a smoker when you could smoke inside of the Waffle houses. Do you guys remember that? No. Oh, okay. So when we first came here, they would ask you if you wanted smoking or not smoking, but it's the same building. So it's either you're sitting by the smokers or on the other side.

It was crazy. That was the biggest trip when I moved to Tennessee was whether you want to. If you sit on the other side, like the smoke doesn't travel. Exactly. If we would walk in there like, you want smoking or non-smoking and you're like, I guess non-smoking. But it's just a haze. Dude, I grew up in Vegas and casinos. Yeah.

Everybody used to smoke in the cause. They still do. Yeah. They do. I hate it. So she had these long curved fingernails and she was a smoker when you could smoke inside Waffle House still. While smoking a cigarette hanging, while smoking, she had a cigarette hanging out of her mouth with ashes a mile long.

It would. And during that time, she was teaching me how to stir the orange juice with her arm when you couldn't find a clean spoon. I need an example. She said she just stick her hand down in the orange juice and stir when there were no clean spoons available. Ew. You're just raw dogging these nasty nails and cigarette. She said she used to wait for the ashes to drop into the food that she was preparing. Bro.

I'm not, I'm kind of not surprised, though. Waffle House is like, they don't have a reputation for being. and clean. I mean, you go to Waffle House when you want some sloppy, fucking dirty food. Yeah, that's true. I climbed on the counter in Waffle House. That's, you did. You did.

Nobody cared. Nobody cared. Nobody cared. But imagine the gunk under fingernails and you're just sticking your hand down and mixing up the OJ. I stopped getting my nails because when I would pet the cows, I would get so much dirt under my nails and it drove me crazy. Even now with my natural nails, I've got a little scrubber by my sink. And I scrub under my fingernails because I'm so scared of like going and touching stuff later. Yeah, me and me are growing out our natural nails right now.

Everybody's like freaking out online. They're like, bunny, you don't have your nails on. And I'm like, is it really that big of a deal? Like I'm trying to do something new here. Comment sections are wild when you don't have nails on. Yeah, it's like I can be talking about like the coolest shit and they only care about my nails. Yeah. You're like, look at my tanning booth.

And they're like, why don't you have nails on? Yeah. It's crazy. I'm like, let a girl fucking live, man. Jeez. I'm enjoying the natural nail era, though. I am too, but we'll see how long it lasts. Are you going to put some on?

I don't know. We'll see how long it lasts. I'm like, I like to just do what I like to do. This one broke my heart. Oh, no. It's going to break errors too. Shit. My first job was at a local Mexican restaurant.

They recycled the salsa. Whatever was left on the table after guests, they just poured right back into the bucket to serve to the next customers. I only worked there two days and I never ate there again. It's one of my worst fears. Just eating people's saliva. Saliva. Saliva salsa.

Yeah. You're just fucking, that juice is really people spit. It's not even saliva. It's not even fucking salsa. Not even salsa fucking juice. It's saliva. I'm going to throw up.

I'm going to throw up. I know. That's not okay. It's pretty gross. You're just dumping it back in. Yeah. Okay. that because I fear it so much, I always tend to throw a little trash in mine.

Like, like, at the end when you're cleaning up, I always, like, take, like, any little, like, trash that we have and I'll, like, pile it. Because it's always been a fear of mine. Yeah, well. It's like, I don't want other people ingesting my DNA. If they don't use yours, they're going to use somebody else's and you just ingested somebody else's DNA. So what does it matter if you fucking do a little.

I'm trying to break the cycle. Trying to be one last fucking spatoon. I love that. Why would you do that? I love it. Someone tell me if that's still done or not, because that's making me question all my life choices. Yeah, I'm never eating out again after this, bro.

I'm not doing it. Ruin me. So not talking about like awful things that people did food, but food preparation. Have you guys seen how viral Applebee's was going because they microwave their steaks? They're fucking gross. I wouldn't imagine them being grilled.

It's Applebee's. Who goes to fucking Applebee's for a steak? I feel like a lot of people do. Remember? We had this conversation the other day. You guys wanted to go to Chili's and I was like, I'll probably get a steak. And then I was like, ew, who orders fucking steak from Chili's? Hi, May does?

I raise my hand immediately. So I will get a six ounce sirloin, baby. Oh. Yeah. It says, I worked at Applebee's and pretty much everything is microwaved and frozen. Yeah. I also don't know what it was in their water there, but everyone was hooking up, especially in their storage closet by the dumpster.

We also tipped out our bartenders and hosts, and one of our managers would tell us we owe them even more money than we actually did, and they would steal all of our tips from us. That's, especially if you're a waitress, that's really fucked up because waitresses don't get paid the same. Yeah.

As like bartenders and things like that. The bartenders are already making a substantial amount more. Yeah. And it's like you're going to take their tips from their waitresses. That's crazy. Have you ever seen the movie waiting with Ryan Reynolds? Obsessed. That's kind of the idea we got here.

Everyone was like, I'm here for the waiting in the comment section on Patreon because that's a good movie. Yeah, it's great. That's exactly what I feel like we're experiencing right now. The amount of stories on Patreon about people rubbing food down their pants and serving it to people. And butt cracks.

Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. That was rough. All right. This one says puberty. anyone? Oh. My husband worked at Taco Bell 20 plus years ago before we met, but this story has lived on.

One day, his girlfriend's abusive ex's voice came through the drive-thru window, and he felt rage, just knowing what dude had put her through. So as he made his burrito, he reached down into his pants and ripped hairs from under his sweaty nuts and added them to his burrito. He swears everyone in the kitchen saw it, but no one said a word. that bro straight plucked some hairs and put him in a burrito, which I mean, rightfully so, ish, a little bit, may have deserved it. It was for a good cause. It was a good cause.

It was a good cause. It was revenge pubes. Yeah. That's, okay, but I have a lot of questions. Did you have gloves on? Did you raw dog it? Did you just? Does it matter?

And then wait back to serving other people's food. He literally ripped. Pube's out of... Like preparing other food. Oh yeah. He probably just went right about his day. Taco Bell is crazy. The amount of stories on Patreon that people dropped about...

From Taco Bell. The Taco Bell preparation, how you literally just add water to everything. Well, that, and they also said that a lot of food is expired and they change the expiration dates on it. And that's why people get the runs. They're getting trouble for throwing it away. They were like, hey, we'll just like serve it anyways

because our manager's going to tell us to do it. Like, what? How are you getting away with that? How is it not FDA regulated? Exactly. That's what I don't understand. Like, how are these people getting away with fucking, like, how are these huge corporations getting away with shit like this?

I mean, but you guys won't pass fucking triz appetite. Thank you. Like, thank you. It's insane. The ones that I saw was like the beans are just like a powder that they add water to. Same with the ground beef and the chicken. They just like boil in bad. and they have to be super careful rinsing it afterwards because it will crumble apart.

Yeah, it's just nasty. Where is that meat coming from? Is it meat, though? I heard a rumor and I don't know if it's true that Taco Bell meat is really made from soy. The beef is made from soy. You're asking chat right now. Yeah, ask chat. Give it a goog or give it a chat.

Give it a GPT. Yeah. What is Taco Bell meat made? out of. He's probably going to have the politically correct answer. Taco Bell's seasoned beef is actually made with real beef, specifically 100% USDA inspected beef, according to the company. Go to Google.

Say is Taco Bell meat made from soy? It says they put oats in it, too. Oats in beef. Yeah, it said it was made with beef, not just beef. Yeah. It says no. No, seasoned beef, their seasoned beef is not soy-based. I don't know.

This does say, though, that the beef ingredients, by the way, should be 100%. It's not. Oats, a maltrine dextrin, maltodextrin, is a food additive derived from starch. And then an anti-caking agent trio. Yeah, there's something wrong with that shit. Corn starch. There is soy in it, though. Helps prevent separation.

Oh. And then citric acid, sodium, sodium, phosphate. Why are all these things in the meat? You guys, we've told you this before. If you look at an ingredients list and there's more than three ingredients in it, don't eat it. That's crazy. Don't eat it.

The more ingredients there is in it, the more sick it's going to make you. Yeah. The more terrible it is for your body. I was teaching Olivia. that because we went through this like big part i think it was like after the danny podcast and i went home and i was like you know what no like i'm not doing this anymore and i like cleaned out my pantry of anything that had like mile long lists of ingredients and we switched over to like the kids snacks being like annies and like there's this other one we took all the dyes out of there and like it's crazy the

difference in like ingredients lists when you're comparing it's kind of weird it's wild it's wild and that stuff has different effects on your kids and you and like mental health and just everything. Cash and red dye do not mix. And I never thought I would be one of those parents. I swore I wouldn't until I experienced it firsthand. And like my mom sometimes slips up because she doesn't, she's not as like, I'm ever aware of those things. She's not as crunchy as us. I'm a crunchy mom for sure. Bailey calls me a crunchy mom. I am 100%. And literally she'll slip up because she'll be like, the other day she was like but it's not red and I'm like I understand that the product itself wasn't red but it doesn't mean that there's not red dye in it and I knew the minute I walked

through that door I said he had red dye she's like no we went over the list of things he ate that day and I was like that right there what does he act like insane no like you think he's wild just by himself he will like there's like a like a switch that just turns on in his brain when he has red dyes or any kind of dyes blue yellow it doesn't matter just a lot of like food dyes will switch this in him and he does not you can literally tell he's not himself it's like a look in his eye and it's so weird like if you're not a parent of a child like you couldn't really understand it but like I'll just look at him and I'm like you had red dye yeah we were shopping for stuff for Easter today yeah and I was trying to like find at things

I could put in their Easter eggs that weren't red dye and there was two options crazy so we ended up feeling. Didn't they just outlaw? They said they outlawed red dye. So yes, they did pass a law, but it won't go into full effect because all these manufacturers have to like switch over. Yeah. All these things. But yes, one of the red dyes, that's not all of them. One of them was, uh, just became illegal. I don't trust anything that if somebody comes to me and they're like, it's FDA approved. I'm like, and. And you know what else is FDA approved? Yeah. Like that doesn't make me feel better. No, not at all. I need to do my own due diligence. Exactly. This girl said my boyfriend worked at, uh, a cook and I was the waitress at the same restaurant. I had a table of three men who were talking down to me and when I came back to the kitchen in tears, my boyfriend seeing me upset asked what happened. I explained to him the way these men were speaking down to me and treating me. My boyfriend, who was responsible for making their food, rubbed their shrimp skewers across the bottom of his shoes and placed them back on their plates. If you've ever worked in a kitchen, you know how disgusting the floor gets back there. I served them their plates and I'm not going to

lie, it definitely made me feel better knowing they got theirs. Moral of the story, if someone's responsible for handing your food, kindness goes a long way. I quit racercing years ago and would never go back because of the mistreatment from customers. Aw. Yeah. That's crazy. I always, always, always try to overtip my waiters and my waitresses.

Yes. Because I used to be a waitress. I used to fucking, I worked at Shoney's. I worked at Caros on the strip in Vegas. where else did I work? I worked at, I think that was it. That's all the, and then I did cocktails. And then I was bartender.

So it's like, I don't know. I just could never imagine being mean to somebody who's working. Talking down to someone. Yeah. Out of here, bro. What kind of entitlement do you have that you felt? Yeah, like to treat a way. I would, I'll treat a CEO the same way as I'll treat a janitor.

Absolutely. Like you cannot fucking be a good human and look down on people ever. And I fucking. loved waitressing. Bro, I would waitress now if I could. My dad never let me go into food service because he did it for so long. Yeah. He's like, you can do anything but food service. Aw. Yeah, it was crazy. I always wanted. I really wanted to be a waitress. Now, though, I think back at it, I wouldn't have been a very good waitress because I don't have good memory retention. So if someone to ask me for a ranch, I wouldn't have remembered for like four hours. Yeah.

Like, I probably wouldn't have been a good waitress, but. No, I was, I killed it. It was fucking, because I get to multitask. Yeah. So it was just fucking. You have really good memory, too. Number especially. I would run tables. And I always got tipped really good. Even when I was like fucking younger. Like I just always got crazy amounts of money waitressing.

Yeah. I loved it. So yeah, I couldn't imagine. I hate that she experienced that. But also on the other hand, Jaime, you made a good point. Like you're doing that stuff behind the scenes, but that person was blatantly rude to your face. Something to think about. Yeah.

So who's more evil? Who's got more bold? But I mean, who's more evil in that situation? Yeah. You did something without their knowledge. I hate sneaky shady shit. I would rather punch me on my fucking face, but don't fucking lie behind my back. You know what I'm saying?

It kind of makes a point of like you did that without their knowledge, but they were blatantly rude to your face. But in the end, that's kind of, I don't know, a little kind of worse, would you say? I would. All these stories are crazy. ladies and gentlemen, if you have learned anything the past two weeks from these ass talk confesses, is that kindness goes a long way. Long way. On both ends.

Yes. So if somebody's serving you, be kind to them. If you're serving somebody and they're having a bad day, be kind to them. Love conquers all, ladies and gentlemen. And then we can avoid fucking people doing weird shit to food. Putting pubs and burritos. Scratching. I still can't get over the fucking heroin fucking scabs.

It makes me question every time I ate fast food. Oh, God. There was a period of my life I survived off of fast food. Me too. All of us. We've all gone through it. When I first met Jason, we had like zero money. Like him and I, that was the brokeest we'd ever been.

It was right when we had met. And we just talked about it the other day. We lived on the dollar menus. Oh. Almost every meal. I got food poisoning from Jack in the box one time. Now it makes me wonder what happened. What?

Oh my gosh. Who's fucking semen did I swallow? And on that note, we're out. Love you and see you later. Bye-bye.