Food workers share all the things restaurants don't want customers to know
When it comes to the food industry, either you want to know what goes into the snacks, treats and delicacies that you indulge in, or you don't. If you fall into the former half of that statement then lucky you, as Reddit has served up a veritable feast of facts from those in the know. Intrigued? Read on for our menu du jour…
Answering the question: "What’s a secret the food industry don’t want yo"u to know?", one person replied: "Lots of restaurants don’t actually have ginger ale in their fountains. Sprite with a splash of coke for color is served as ginger ale in more places than you’d think."
Another person responded, adding: “Beekeeper checking in: there is no such thing as organic honey. I do not treat my bees with chemicals, but I have no idea where they get their nectar. A bee can fly up to three miles from a hive to get nectar. It is virtually impossible to guarantee they have not gotten nectar from a chemically treated source.”
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Someone else revealed that the term 'natural flavourings' is actually very loose. They added: "The natural flavors are just big jugs of glycerin with hyper-concentrated flavoring in it. Banana flavoring is fairly flammable."
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One other reader chimed in: "Can confirm. I make skittles. The orange ones are particularly corrosive and flammable."
Discussing a well-known restaurant in the US, one server shared: "Olive Garden makes all their necessary pastas for the whole day from 8-10am every morning. Partially cooked. So when an order comes through, they grab a serving of the needed pasta style and flash cook them in hot water. Also, it’s just the brand, Barilla." Someone else chipped in: "As a current Olive Garden employee, I can confirm this is true."
Someone else piped up: "A lot of the processed cheese and cream cheese is all the same recipe we just switch the labels and packaging for the different brands we run. Source: I work in a cheese factory in a company that services 75% of America's domestic market."
"When I worked at a mass production bakery the chocolate for the chocolate covered doughnuts came in giant frozen blocks of 4x4 peices and contained no actual chocolate what so over," revealed another person. "When unfrozen it was like some sort of nasty-smelling paraffin wax that I would break up with a hammer and place into a melter that would then pour over the doughnuts."
Another person added: "Pringles (and baked Lays/similar) are made of rehydrated and compressed rejected/excess parts of potatoes that go into regular chips. I learned that from my dietician at work and thought that was odd. I still like them over regular chips."
Sharing the holy grail of ingredients, one person claimed they had the secret recipe to KFC. They wrote: "2/3 tspn salt, 1/2 tspn thyme, 1/2 tspn basil, 1/3 tspn oregano, 1 tspn celery salt, 1 tspn black pepper, 1 tspn dried mustard, 4 tspn paprika, 2 tspn garlic salt, 1 tspn of ground ginger, and 3 tspn white pepper."
And someone else penned: "The reason restaurant food tastes better than what you make at home is probably because it was drowned in butter or oil. Also MSG is in nearly everything. Totally safe and delicious. And it definitely isn’t what is giving you a migraine. The fact you ate 4000 calories and 3 times your daily salt intake is probably what gave you the headache."
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