I've worked at 2 different Olive Gardens, this couldn't happen unintentionally. The size of the foot would impossible not to notice unless you scooped the soup with your eyes closed. The ladles are so small that you'd basically have to balance the foot on it to even make it to the bowl. Olive Garden management is militant on cleaning standards, so unless the entire staff was near brain dead, I don't see how this is possible.
While I do agree that it likely wasn’t Olive Garden at fault here, and most likely was just someone trying to make money by filing a lawsuit, so they planted it in the soup themselves.. I also just want to point out that even though Olive Garden is a chain restaurant, and they probably do have pretty good quality control, I also imagine they aren’t all up to the same exact standards. So while the ones you worked at may have been up to snuff, and prioritized cleanliness, there’s bound to be some locations that are run by sh!tty management and staff. Also, I doubt they all have the same exact sized soup ladles, but who knows? So it’s definitely possible for something like this to occur, but highly unlikely. Just some scumbag trying to scam Olive Garden.
I think you could both be correct, and incorrect here, strangely. Yeah I agree its very unlikely that this was the fault of the restaurant and most likely is a scam. I cant tell if the foot looks cooked or placed after the food was cooked from the images unfortunately. But also, the food they use, many of the ingredients do come from warehouse or factory settings. it is possible for these to become infested or contaminated without people knowing. Either in storage or during delivery. It is possible that the foot was in the food when it arrived and the employee didn't notice due to a high workload and people naturally taking less notice when it is something they do on a daily basis. Its very possible that an employee who ladles soup daily, and is very busy could just grab a ladle, take a scoop and put it in a bowl without paying much notice to it. Kind of like when we drive home but do it instinctively, we don't notice the journey as we zone out as its just something we always do, then suddenly realise we are at home. Unlikely, but the possibility cant be ignored either
I hate to protect company, but it could be customer who put it there, to sue and get some money, including just settlement. It is not first time something like this happened.
I once went to Olive Garden, and there was a customer making a fuss about a couple of hairs being in her food. Mind you, she had blonde short hair. Imagine everyone’s faces when the waitress went into the kitchen to tell them and all of the staff compared their hair color and length and nobody had the same hair… except the customer.
@@gregansbootstrap5352at a dennys, I once pulled out a very long hair outta my 3 stack of pancakes. it was friggin baked into the middle of them & was revealed when I made the first cut into them.
@@sorrowfulvixxx you acting like you’re above me or something? Naive? Don’t kid yourself. The only naive thing here is your pointless response to such an obvious and self explanatory statement. Of course it happens, majority of the times it doesn’t though lmfao
Look just because a decent amount of us actually enjoy rats feet in our food doesn't mean this dude should have to eat it💯 that's basically peer pressure at this point dude chill
As a chef of 25 years I can tell you it's way more frequent for customers to do something bad to their food than someone at the restaurant messing with the food on purpose. Yes, unfortunately it does happen but majority of incidents are accidents.
Yeah I almost never believe that this was a genuine accident cuz it's so easy for customers to slip stuff into their own food and try to act like it's the restaurant's fault.
Worked on a line for awhile. One time we had a customer from door dash or some service say they needed new food because it has hair in it. The driver was well trusted by us, we had literally 5 eyes on the food. 4 cooking the different crap and one taking the food for boxing. Customer was extremely hesitant to give us the old food in exchange for the new food. Opened the box to find a egg with a long brown hair( nobody in the place or the driver had long brown hair.)
Someone tried to sue mountain dew because they claimed there was an entire rat body in a can of this delicious beverage. Mountain dew won the case. How? Because mountain dew proved that if an entire rat was somehow canned with the beverage that within 60 days the rat would be completely dissolved. Based on the manufacturing date of the can in question and purchase date of the can in question it was well past 60 days old. Let that soak in.
The only bad experience I ever had with olive garden (aside from seriously sub par food on some rare occasions) was my mom got a certain salad on the menu, and pulled out a large plastic piece of the bag the lettuce came in. The waiter looked back and yelled to her manager not far from her and said "Uhh, I found it"! The manager rushed over and apologized profusely. Explained they had been looking everywhere for the missing piece of plastic, implying they even make sure they have the full bag to throw away. And to their defence we couldnt even see it until she pulled it out with a fork for her next bite. We got our entire meal consisting of 6 family members for free, and included a desert for everybody. We paid nothing and left with a great experience. They really are on top of their quality control for the level of restaurant they are, and i was impressed. This is 100% a load of crap. There is no way this slipped by. If it was really cooking in the soup for a while the meat wouldve been falling off the bone, if not broken down into it. Definitely a scam. Edit: Gotta give em some props tho. Definitely some serious brain worms level dedication to chomp on a fucking rat foot of unknown origin and cutting up your mouth... but gotta play the part i suppose.
@thevoicestoldmetoagain4627 We didn't ask for anything. Not even a fresh salad and they replaced it anyway. No discount nothing free. We understood it was a mistake no harm no foul. Manager insisted. We did tip towards the amount we would've paid and then some. We ain't fuckin mooches. I'm emphasizing the spectacular way they handled the situation they didn't have to do anything they did.
I got a crayon sleeve in my soda. I was really chill about it though as a service worker. I was like “hey you guys I’m not trying to be mean but there’s some weird plastic in my dr pepper can I get a new one?” They gave me a new one. It was all good.
I worked in restaurants for 10 years, and although I've seen pretty insane shit back in the kitchen, there is absolutely NO WAY something like this can happen, unless it is entirely on purpose. Two things might've happened here: 1) A disgruntled kitchen staff member 2) A customer trying to finesse the restaurant for money. I'm inclined for 2. If you're kitchen staff, you know you can't get away with this crap, because it will be easily traced back to you. Plus, no matter how sketchy you might be, I have not met a single cook who would go out of their way to do something this heinous.
Yeah. Only reason it would be planted by the server is if they both knew the guy and hated his guts. And even then, I don't think they would go out of their way to bring a rat foot to work, when they wouldn't even know when or if the guy would come in.
@chelseyhussein7899 Yes. Specially in a restaurant like Olive Garden. Their soups are most likely sealed bagged and frozen, thrown directly into a boiler before service.
@@TheHuskyGT where I worked, if there were soups left at the end of the night, they’d get bagged, sealed, and placed into a donation bin. All soups were made fresh every morning and periodically throughout the day.
When I was a kid we went to eat out at a local restaurant and my mom found a baby gecko floating in her ice water. It definitely wasn't there when they served it so it must have fallen from the ceiling. It was unresponsive (severely undercooled) but breathing. They let me keep it and nurse it back to health. Turned out to be a female. I named her Frosty and she lived in giant terrarium in my bedroom for the next twelve years :3 EDIT: Out of all the comments I've left on this site throughout the years, how did THIS one blow up the likes?? And, yes, the story is true. Frosty was an African fat-tailed gecko. We were living in Abuja at the time because of my dad's job. When we moved back to the Netherlands Frosty came with us, so I guess she became a naturalized Dutch fat-tailed gecko :P
@@sayuhyme Think my parents thought it safer to agree to me keeping her, as oppose to saying no and living in fear that I might have smuggled it back home anyway and then lost it indoors. At least the first way they could control the situation by making sure I got the proper inescapable enclosure for her 😅
As a former Olive Garden waitress, the servers are the ones who scoop and serve the soup. It would be literally impossible not to notice an entire rats foot. Plus, the soup (at most locations) is bagged and given to food banks at the end of every night. As much as I despise that “we are family” corporation, I 100% believe this was faked.
It happens near me in a Canadian restaurant call St-Hubert a whole rat body was into a salad apparently they bought prewash and cut salad and it was pickup during the harvest. They serve it without even notice it. It really came from the restaurant even if it seem unbelievable.
I mean, that's a pretty dry foot for being served in soup. Not to mention it looks more raw than something that was cooked, or sitting in a heated pot of soup for X hours. Obviously we don't know exactly what happened, but based off that pic it's definitely sus. Guess I'll wait for the notification/breaking news that the remaining portion of that rat was found in another pot of soup at Olive Garden. 🤣 If that happens I'll have to side with the customer.
as someone who used to work at olive garden i find this VERY hard to believe. definitely would’ve been noticed. also idk how other olive gardens were but we were VERY serious about cleanliness etc
@@David-tu3ot Stfu dude. She wasn't asking you, she was just writing a comment. You're the one that chose to reply to her. People like you are so weird.
The light color of the fur from that rat foot looks more like the kind you find at a pet store (possibly pet food for a snake), than the ones you would find outdoors. I'm also pretty certain this isn't Howie's first time doing something scummy.
It also doesn't look like it spent much time cooking. As unlikely as it would be for that thing to be swept up unnoticed in the preparation of the soup, it's even less likely that it just found its way in there after the soup was made. Edit: I watched more of the video, and it looks like Darden made that exact point about the foot not looking at all like it had been cooking in a pot of soup all day.
if that's the case, it implies the man not only killed a rat for no reason other than publicity, but killed a _domesticated rat_ for publicity. what a fucking piece of shit.
This was my thought. Feeder rats are cheap and super accessible, and it’d be really obvious the rat was frozen if he threw the whole thing in the soup. I could easily replicate this image, and I live in a place where feeder rats are insanely regulated
I’m sorry, he CUT the inside of his mouth??? You’re telling me this man picked up that huge ass foot and leg with his spoon and shoveled it into his gourd??? I don’t think so.
@@bn-tc2tk sure but the pointy bits are sharp when you break them. if the rat had been cooking in the soup, its nails would probably be too soft to draw blood, but a snapped bone might be able to. def planted tho
Fun fact i used to work at a Dickey's barbecue pit, and on one of the very first weeks of this location being open my manager pulled me aside. He showed me his finger which was now a bit shorter (all of the meat before his fingernail was gone). He said he felt a sharp pain when it happened, but couldnt find the piece of flesh, because it was while he was chopping a bunch of brisket. He then said " i just chopped the brisket up extra fine because i didnt have time to find it because of how busy we were". Some poor soul out there is an accidental cannibal lol.
As an owner of a lot of weird pets inc. rats, snakes, etc. - that looks identical to the foot of a frozen feeder rat that you'd use to feed reptiles. I'm looking at the ones I have in my freezer right now and they all have really similar blotchy discoloration. Edit: just to add more info these are available very cheap (usually $1) from practically any pet store that sells small animal supplies, including big chain stores like petco etc., much cheaper than live adult rats. The feet and tails often break off in the freezer and can be used to feed baby snakes that aren't ready to eat big rats yet, so you could probably even ask for a foot by itself if you didn't want to handle the frozen rat. I think it's also possible the person is telling the truth and a rat was accidentally chopped up at a factory and frozen with ingredients but it seems more likely to me that it's a scam. Just trying to assuage people's fears that a rat was deliberately tortured or anything like that.
I worked at Olive Garden for legit like 2 months and I can tell you there is no way the staff wouldn’t have seen it. The kitchen management is hardcore and everything is clean all the time
The implication that he dipped his spoon in to the soup, lifted the spoon to his mouth, and still took a bite without ever noticing the rat foot is a bit hard for me to believe.
@@Verticom10youd be surprised how many people dont look at their food, my aunt straight up bit glass bc she wasn't watching her food at all (we weren't at a restaurant my OTHER aunt just cant cook for shit and somehow "forgot" to mention she "accidentally" dropped a bit of glass in.)
I worked at bk for YEARS there was a nest of roaches that hatched on our biscuit warmer and still forced me to serve food out of it.When I finally left it’s because a methhead manager was screaming at me to serve undercooked sausage after I just opened the entire store by myself because she was too busy crawling thru the ceiling because she was so high she locked the keys to the store in the office.
One time a guy tried suing PepsiCo because he said he found a rat packaged into his can of mountain dew and the PepsiCo people proved in court that it wasn't possible because mountain dew would actually dissolve a rat within the timespan between packaging and being sold in stores 😂
@@IAmTheBugInsideYouthats what citric acid does though. Its not surprising that citric acid can do that. If u eat a large serving of pineapple the citric acid can make ur mouth tender.
As a server years ago I had a family order a smoothie at the end of the meal. Upon finishing the smoothie the angry guests called me over because of a bear bottle cap at the bottom. The manager comped their entire meal, and after they left I looked closer and it was a cap for a beer we did not even serve... I know it isnt as extreme but people will do crap like this.
I used to work at OG and it is almost impossible for an employee not to notice something like this at least in the two locations I used to worked at they were very strict with the food’s quality control, the soups are prepared and cooked from scratch everyday and whatever is left from that day it gets frozen and then donated
My favorite part is the fur of the rat foot is clearly white, which rarely is the case for wild rats. So either it is a test rat, a food rat, or a pet rat in which the foot came from.
Omg, some psychos really do think everyone is stupid! I had a pathological liar for an old friend try to compete with the fact that my backyard chickens were producing many huge eggs, so he photoshopped a black hen into a nest in his yard with a half dozen pure white eggs he supposedly found from this hen, unbeknownst to him that I knew my chicken facts and only pure white hens can lay white ages!🎉😮😅
A few years ago back in like 2015 I was hanging out with my friends and we went to Olive Garden but prior to going there, we stopped at petsmart to get food for one of my friends dog. Being teenagers, we messed around in the store and one of my friends ended up taking a worm/maggot/larva (Dont know exatly what it was or how he got it). When we got to Olive Garden , my friend put the worm in his salad as a joke and made the employees panic by telling them the worm was in the salad before he got it. Basically, I can DEFINITLY see this rats foot being planted by the pantiff. Its not that far fetched. Charlie is right, serving a dead raw rats foot by accident is REALLY unlikley.
Being a former Olive Garden employee, one time a cockroach fell from the ceiling into someone's chicken alfredo. Management then tried to bribe them with Olive Garden giftcards so they wouldn't leave a bad review.
I once found an entire intact grasshopper in my chicken wrap at wendy's. This was in summer 2014 on the day of my HS graduation. Just a perfectly whole massive grasshopper that was visible at the end of the wrap without even taking a bite. How they didnt notice is beyond me
It's pretty easy to test if the rats foot was planted or left in that soup for a while. If it shows no or little signs of being cooked then it'll be super suspicious. Same thing happened with the Wendys finger lawsuit.
The issue is that the person with the rat's foot refuses to let anyone examine it, so no testing can be done. Which in of itself is a major sign that it's a scam.
@@akirajotaro yep 100%, even if I wanted to give maximum benefit of doubt and say he might be worried the evidence dissapears after he hands it over, they can't just take his word for it.
My favorite part is the fur of the rat foot is clearly white, which rarely is the case for wild rats. So either it is a test rat, a food rat, or a pet rat in which the foot came from.
@akirajotaro in fairness they asked for it to "test what species it is" but unless they're going to compare its species to the rats they claim aren't in the restaurant I'm not sure why they want to know exactly what kind of rat it is
When I was a kid, my dad was drinking a can of beer and said it tasted weird after a single sip. He dumped it out and looked in the can with a flashlight and saw a dead mouse in the can. As I remember, he never threw up or panicked and just tossed it and opened another one.
I've read something like this before and now I pour my beer cans into a frosted glass. When people ask I say that I like frosted glasses, which is also true.
As a manager at olive garden they tried to scam using the worst soup u can imagine😂 the minestrone is a vegetable soup which is super transparent and has no huge chucks in it all💀 it would make more since if he did it with our chilli soup or sausage n potato but chose our least popular soup as well as the meat free one💀💀
Being an Olive Garden employee I can confirm that from time to time a short man with a neatly trimmed beard will pull up in a black van and pay us handsomely to slowly dispose of a Whole Foods bag filled with body parts by chopping them up and tossing them in the pasta. When you’re here, you’re eating people.
I could see how someone could think they can pull a rat foot off, but a human finger? Really? Was she trying to imply there was some psycho muderer working there, chopping off people's fingers and carrying them around in his pocket at work? Straight up forcing a big investigation, Wendy's couldn't settle out of court even if they wanted to lmao
I mean anyone in the kitchen can lose a finger and accidentally drop it in some food. Especially a large pot of chili. The unlikely part of the scenario is that someone wouldn't notice their finger fall off, fall into the pot of chili, then assume that serving the finger with the rest of the chili is fine. Scandals like that can also be used to peddle rumors like "oh their chili is made of human remains" or some texas chainsaw massacre type shit. It shouldn't even be taken seriously since all it ever is used for is causing a scandal.
i think it would be an issue with the factory where they actually cook the chilli. They don't cook food inhouse at wendys its all pre cooked at big industrial factories where it is quite likely that someone could lose their finger in a machine and then the finger ends up finding its way into a big pot of chilli before they freeze it and send it out the the restaurants
It is impossible for someone to miss this, and if Olive Garden found something like this in the soup, you are sure as hell going to have corporate questioning management and the entire store closed for a week at least for an investigation into WTF happened.
I worked as a server in Olive Garden for about a year. Management sucked and id never work there again however there is no way that the server couldnt have seen the foot in the ladle of it was indeed in the soup. You can count out how many gnocchi balls are in a scoop and those are smaller than the foot. So the fact that the server didnt "see" this leads me to believe that it was most likely planted
As someone who has worked in multiple restaurants as a cook, either the person who made the food didn’t see it or the customer bought the foot and placed it in the food ( I’m very sure it was the customer) I have heard lot of stories like this and have been in some situations like this, it’s usually 90% the customer up to no good.
@@lukeandrewg This sounds like a parody of what we joke about in Sweden when we talk about typical American behavior. Not even our jokes are this stupid.
@@karonuva very very unlikely, I have seen people drop meat then put it back on the grill or fire( disgusting but this happens a lot more than you realize) and found bugs in bags of salad we get from warehouses, but never have I seen or heard a cook do some dumb shit like that, having a rat foot in food, could shut a whole restaurant down costing many people their jobs who work there, and no cook wants that’s kind of smoke from the staff( trust me ) I mean is there goofy people who will do shit like this……yea maybe, but this Olive Garden customer story has BS written all over it.
As a current employee of olive garden (server, the one who ladles out soups) I love how this guy planted his rat foot in our token vegetarian soup to make it extra emotionally distressing.
This reminds me of the lawsuit where a guy sued Mountain Dew after he allegedly found a mouse in a can of pop, he lost because Mountain Dew came out and said that the acidity of the pop would have dissolved the mouse skeleton and remains and he wouldn't have found any remains in the state he claimed to have
In fairness, customers can be sketchy like that. I used to work at IHOP, there was a girl who sent back her burger for hair. The reason it was odd was because the single strand of hair was wrapped around the patty. The cooks were guys and my hair (I was the server) was short.
I was a line cook at OG and one time we found a massive cockroach in an unopened bag of lettuce (bag was clear so we could see inside) that thing was massive but at least we noticed it before opening the lettuce.
Yeah you'll have that. That's just an unfortunate (but rare (ish) part of food manufacturing. My stepdaughter found a ladybug in our egg noodle bag last year, and I've found several dead insects in sealed packages back in my food service days. Hakuna matata!
A restaurant call St-Hubert had a whole rat body was into a salad apparently they bought prewash and cut salad and it was pickup during the harvest. They serve it without even notice it. 😂
Some people might remember that Olive Garden used to have rolling chairs. As ridiculous as it may seem, when I was younger, I dropped a crayon and tried to roll back while leaning down to pick it up. This resulted in my head hitting the corner of the table and actually cracked my skull to the point that it required an immediate ER visit and led to a hefty amount of staples being lodged into my head. As someone else commented in their story, Olive Garden’s approach to remedy this was by providing my family with a $50 gift card. Incidentally, they no longer have rolling chairs at this particular establishment and I’ve never seen them in an Olive Garden since. Although I find it highly unlikely that this is solely due to my unfortunate encounter years ago, it has always stuck with me that I could inevitably be to blame for the lack of wheels in the restaurant.
Bro, someone at my McDonald's got hit by a car while running a parked order out for drive-through, and it is now the company policy to wear a bright neon green, reflective vests whenever running food out lol
whether the person’s lying or not, this is funny ash. like the rats foot just casually sitting in the food like it was supposed to be hidden or apart of the meal has me in tears 😭
How the hell is it impressive, you could do that when saying anything negative about food in general. Burger King sucks but it made me roll my eyes that he feels the need to bitch about it all the time lol
I've heard cases of people finding rodents inside soft drink cans. If I recall correctly, a person had contacted the company and they halted their production temporarily, investigated every step of their QC and manufacturing line, they found some sort of crevice in the industrial sorting and canning area of one of their suppliers. They thanked the dude for bringing it to attention and discussed fixes and stuff and sent him several boxes of product.
Probably an instance where the condition existed for Murphys law to take place. That’s the thing about life, anything that can happen will happen. As long as rats exist and people are eating soup, someone will legitimately find a rats foot in their soup and it may very well be a situation where no amount of *reasonable* quality control could have prevented it. .
You're somewhat correct. In the 90s, the FDA found rodents in some Pepsi cans and at least one woman got hospitalized after drinking a can with a spoiled rodent in it. But in basically every case, the company denied that it had happened. In 2012, there was a resurgence of such claims specifically concerning Mountain Dew, but the company won the lawsuit after proving that the rodent would have long been partially dissolved into a smelly jelly like substance in the acidic solution and also that the rodent was so young, it wouldn't have even been born when it was "canned".
Nothing has aged me faster and more severely than Charlie not knowing about the Wendy's chili incident. I remember that happening like it was yesterday.
This happens so often in Hong Kong that they assume everything wrong with their food is a customer scam. The last time I went there and ate at a restaurant, half way through my meal, I found what looked like curly armpit or pubic hair in my dish. The waiter's response was "Well you already ate half of it. So, what do you want now, then?"
"Did you hear about the man who's suing Olive Garden because he found a rat foot in his soup?" "Was he upset about it?" Charlie always asking the real questions
As someone who has worked for Olive Garden, I have seen some wild things in their food. I once saw a green bug in the soup and a whole plastic kitchen glove in a dish of pasta.
I'm a culinary professional (yes that's what it's actually called) at Olive Garden. With the way we prepare our soups, it's highly unlikely that this would ever happen. All the soups are made from scratch everyday and immediately sealed and stored hot. There's no way a rat would ever come near the soups.
so they don't use any prepackaged soup stock or canned anything? I'm figuring if this really happened, that is where it would have come from....Not Olive Garden perse, but the suppliers of ingredients
There is an olive garden across from my apartment and it is hands down the cleanest kitchen I have ever seen. Staff often doesn't leave the restaurant until three, sometimes four hours after closing on the weekends. It took me about 30 minutes to close down the McDonald's 'kitchen' to spec after being slammed all day and night, in comparison , this location here brings in an enormous amount of money (right by the 2nd largest mall in the state) and everything there is immaculate.
Even as a 16 year old working in fast food….I had the balls to tell my manager I wasn’t comfortable serving the old salad we had. He took a look at it, looked at me, and said “alright, throw it out. I’ll see about a delivery in the morning.” Just know, if you’re working in fast food or retail in the United States, you can easily find another job. Don’t let your bosses hold you hostage.
Not sure what that holding you hostage part was about, that came totally out of left field. I'm not sure if your boss brings a gun to work to make sure no employees run away or if that is completely made up in your head. Your 'boss' probably gets paid about as much as you and has little incentive to grind out dollars for a company that will easily replace him.
@@kayokake ...it's a common saying to not let your job hold you hostage (for rent money/healthcare/etc). no one is saying the boss is literally holding someone at gunpoint. you're the one who just made that up lol
honestly, my mother was a chef and parts of animals ending up in produce is pretty common. she used to wash lettuce and find all sorts of shit the harvester had sliced up. famously half a frog managed to make it onto a plate of salad. though thankfully it was noticed before serving it. they just hoped the second half was in the field, not on another plate. but the rat foot in minestrone definitely seems made up, for a multitude of reasons.
I’ve seen squashed snakes, rabbits and various rodents in bales of hay we feed the horses. It’s always kind of alarming but kind of funny too. The cutting and baling machine just picks up anything it happens to pass over. We’ve found rocks too. It happens.
Thank you for being the one sane person in the comments who’s not insisting its literally impossible, when things like this would clearly happen from time to time.
@@PerfectSense77 Obviously not impossible, just extremely unlikely like others said. As people who worked at olive garden have confirmed, the soups are sealed beforehand. So it would of taken at least 2 different people to not see the rats foots or someone REALLY hated that customer. (Plus the rat is not...soup colored, which it would of been if it was in the soup)
Imagine going to prison for the "severed finger at Wendy's" scam, and the inmates that are imprisoned for far worse crime laugh at you and call you names 😂😂😂
One time I went to an Olive Garden with live mice running around the dining room while some employees attempted to round them up. It was kind of hilarious, tbh. I thought my mom was going to lose her mind.
When I worked at a certain Steakhouse of an Aussie nature, someone snuck a dead cricket into the restaurant and put it in their Toowomba Pasta trying to get a free meal. Steakhouse was like lol no and the drama ended in about an hour. Thanks for unlocking that memory this evening.
I’ve worked at Olive Garden and I stopped eating the salads once I saw a roach climb on the wall and jump into the lettuce container then I threw everything out. But it makes you wonder how many times people don’t catch stuff like that🤢
The only way I could see a severed part of any animal getting into soup is if the animal fell into some machine at a meat packing facility. The only problems with that theory are that there’s usually no meat in minestrone, and like Olive Garden themselves said, the foot would’ve been cooked
There's no guarantee they didnt just pay with cash and or catch or raise their own either, and im doubtful pet stores are charging so much for a rat you need to break out the credit card. Have you seen the interview where a farmer brings up an excellent point about vegans who eat his crop products? He said the amount of death caused by working a field is astounding for their fancy arugula and kale salad juice, thousands of rodents and other animals are killed each season in one field alone. Sometimes their bits also do make it through various forms of QC measures. The only person who knows the whole truth is the plaintiff, and thats just going to have to be on them.
@@100GTAGUYI'm going to tell you something very simple. Most people who go vegan are against the cruel & demonic ways the meat industry raises their animals. They live in pain & fear from the moment they are born till they are slaughtered. This is much different than random animals in the wild meeting a sudden death. Why is that so hard to comprehend?
@@100GTAGUYUh okay to be fair the majority of vegetables especially corn are grown to feed livestock. By eating meat you are effectively consuming more than 10x ish the amount of calories in plants. There's something called tropic levels etc. it's pretty interesting you can look it up online
Years ago my dad was eating from a frozen bag of veggies that you microwave, and found a piece of glass in it. We stared at it and it was one of those "Huh. Where do we go from here?" moments. I found a screw cap inside a bag of Puppy Chow (the chex mix snack, I was not eating dog food) and sent them a picture of it on twitter and got a coupon that I never used. I also found a piece of glass _in my mouth_ from.. I think it was chicken. Looked like the top of a jar. Never did anything with it, just got freaked out and warned everyone else in the house to be on the lookout. That's how real people encounter this stuff.
I live in Canada. We had a place called Crab Park Chowdery. A girl found a corpse of a stewed rat. Good for Shrek, not for us. They apparently made the soup in a basement and one fell in the vat.
Charlie's eternal despise for BurgerKing needs to be studied. Here in India (and all throughout Asia in general), BurgerKing has been consistently putting out banger products on its menu, especially the vegetarian options. Its better than McD here imo.
im in south east asia and i disagree. the BK in my country released a chocolate burger. in Thailand, they released a burger with nth but buns and 20 slices of cheese.
If I had a nickel for every time a person has placed a severed appendage into restaurant food, I would have 2 nickels, but it's pretty weird that it happened twice.
I remember the KFC accusation as well with a fried rat, think it was just a weirdly shaped chicken as well the restaurant tried to get the piece which was kept by the customer, but I think he never gave it to KFC eventually thrown out.
The soups are put into vats and served by servers with a flat shaped ladle with an inch deep pit, the server definitely would’ve seen it and trust me they look at the spoons while scooping because of how the broth and solids will either be not enough or too much.
12 years ago I was a line cook at Olive Garden and 2 people found roaches in their lobster spaghetti and lasagna Classico. I can’t believe a rat foot would make it into anyone’s food.
Former Olive Garden employee here... As a line cook at olive garden you don't prepare any of the soups. They come in bags from god knows where and we heated the bags up in water. (look up Sous Vide if you're interested in this technique)
I worked in a restaurant for 2 years. There was a giant ice maker where everyone got ice for the drinks they were serving. One day we had to disconnect it for a while to move it to another location and someone decided to empty the ice out. There was a frozen dead rat at the bottom of the ice that it was anyone's guess how long it had been dead in there...
got the notification and saw huge olive garden drama. immediately clicked. i can’t stress this enough. this is possibly the most important thing to caucasian america.
As a former rat from Olive Garden, I can confirm my foot has been severed and served into a customer’s meal
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Listen here, we'll give you $20 in olive garden gift cards if you speak not of your foot being served. We have cheese?
I'm so sorry about the loss of your foot, former rat from Olive Garden.
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You should sue olive garden, Master Splinter
I've worked at 2 different Olive Gardens, this couldn't happen unintentionally. The size of the foot would impossible not to notice unless you scooped the soup with your eyes closed. The ladles are so small that you'd basically have to balance the foot on it to even make it to the bowl. Olive Garden management is militant on cleaning standards, so unless the entire staff was near brain dead, I don't see how this is possible.
While I do agree that it likely wasn’t Olive Garden at fault here, and most likely was just someone trying to make money by filing a lawsuit, so they planted it in the soup themselves.. I also just want to point out that even though Olive Garden is a chain restaurant, and they probably do have pretty good quality control, I also imagine they aren’t all up to the same exact standards. So while the ones you worked at may have been up to snuff, and prioritized cleanliness, there’s bound to be some locations that are run by sh!tty management and staff. Also, I doubt they all have the same exact sized soup ladles, but who knows? So it’s definitely possible for something like this to occur, but highly unlikely. Just some scumbag trying to scam Olive Garden.
I think you could both be correct, and incorrect here, strangely. Yeah I agree its very unlikely that this was the fault of the restaurant and most likely is a scam. I cant tell if the foot looks cooked or placed after the food was cooked from the images unfortunately. But also, the food they use, many of the ingredients do come from warehouse or factory settings. it is possible for these to become infested or contaminated without people knowing. Either in storage or during delivery. It is possible that the foot was in the food when it arrived and the employee didn't notice due to a high workload and people naturally taking less notice when it is something they do on a daily basis. Its very possible that an employee who ladles soup daily, and is very busy could just grab a ladle, take a scoop and put it in a bowl without paying much notice to it. Kind of like when we drive home but do it instinctively, we don't notice the journey as we zone out as its just something we always do, then suddenly realise we are at home. Unlikely, but the possibility cant be ignored either
so is the soup made in house, or is it made in warehouse and shipped to restaurant?
Militant on cleaning standards? The ones I used to do pest control at were pretty damn nasty.
I hate to protect company, but it could be customer who put it there, to sue and get some money, including just settlement.
It is not first time something like this happened.
Never ending bread sticks comes with never ending drama
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The bots have arrived already… *Sigh*
i’m better than Charlie no cap (please help me, their going to hurt me again)
Words to live by. Is this the official Olive Garden motto?
@@SnowFoxWithAGasMask Don't underestimate modern UA-cam bots
I once went to Olive Garden, and there was a customer making a fuss about a couple of hairs being in her food. Mind you, she had blonde short hair. Imagine everyone’s faces when the waitress went into the kitchen to tell them and all of the staff compared their hair color and length and nobody had the same hair… except the customer.
Not to mention restaurants REQUIRE your hair be in a hat, hairnet, bun, etc so that this doesn’t happen lmao
@@gregansbootstrap5352it still happens. don't be naive.
@@gregansbootstrap5352at a dennys, I once pulled out a very long hair outta my 3 stack of pancakes. it was friggin baked into the middle of them & was revealed when I made the first cut into them.
@@sorrowfulvixxx you acting like you’re above me or something? Naive? Don’t kid yourself. The only naive thing here is your pointless response to such an obvious and self explanatory statement. Of course it happens, majority of the times it doesn’t though lmfao
Since I was a kid I always knew to compare my hair to those who cooked mine before even speaking up lol. Common sense is awesome
Moral of the story: If you are going to plant the foot of an animal in a restaurant’s food to get money out of a lawsuit, then go to Burger King
Yeah but to do that you’d have to go to Burger King.
@@PeterPeter-rl9vndefinitely NOT worth it.
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Finding a rat's foot in your soup is like finding an onion ring in your fries. An unexpected but welcome surprise, I don't know why he was upset.
If you get fries from BK its inevitable to see an onion ring show up in your fries, since their dump stations are right next to eachother.
@@100GTAGUYolive garden keeps the rat feet next to the soup
You are a sick person. I think we could be friends. 😁😁😁
Look just because a decent amount of us actually enjoy rats feet in our food doesn't mean this dude should have to eat it💯 that's basically peer pressure at this point dude chill
This made me laugh good. Thank you friends
As a chef of 25 years I can tell you it's way more frequent for customers to do something bad to their food than someone at the restaurant messing with the food on purpose. Yes, unfortunately it does happen but majority of incidents are accidents.
Yeah I almost never believe that this was a genuine accident cuz it's so easy for customers to slip stuff into their own food and try to act like it's the restaurant's fault.
Worked on a line for awhile. One time we had a customer from door dash or some service say they needed new food because it has hair in it. The driver was well trusted by us, we had literally 5 eyes on the food. 4 cooking the different crap and one taking the food for boxing. Customer was extremely hesitant to give us the old food in exchange for the new food. Opened the box to find a egg with a long brown hair( nobody in the place or the driver had long brown hair.)
@@Anyannymousewell, to play devil's advocate for a moment I often find my wife's hair on me
Like that lady who said there was a finger in her Wendy’s chili, when she’s the one who put it there.
Someone tried to sue mountain dew because they claimed there was an entire rat body in a can of this delicious beverage. Mountain dew won the case. How? Because mountain dew proved that if an entire rat was somehow canned with the beverage that within 60 days the rat would be completely dissolved. Based on the manufacturing date of the can in question and purchase date of the can in question it was well past 60 days old. Let that soak in.
The only bad experience I ever had with olive garden (aside from seriously sub par food on some rare occasions) was my mom got a certain salad on the menu, and pulled out a large plastic piece of the bag the lettuce came in. The waiter looked back and yelled to her manager not far from her and said "Uhh, I found it"! The manager rushed over and apologized profusely. Explained they had been looking everywhere for the missing piece of plastic, implying they even make sure they have the full bag to throw away. And to their defence we couldnt even see it until she pulled it out with a fork for her next bite. We got our entire meal consisting of 6 family members for free, and included a desert for everybody. We paid nothing and left with a great experience. They really are on top of their quality control for the level of restaurant they are, and i was impressed.
This is 100% a load of crap. There is no way this slipped by. If it was really cooking in the soup for a while the meat wouldve been falling off the bone, if not broken down into it. Definitely a scam.
Edit: Gotta give em some props tho. Definitely some serious brain worms level dedication to chomp on a fucking rat foot of unknown origin and cutting up your mouth... but gotta play the part i suppose.
Yall bogus though. Shouldve paid half the bill at least. Return the courtesy they showed you.
Did yall not tip too?
@thevoicestoldmetoagain4627 We didn't ask for anything. Not even a fresh salad and they replaced it anyway. No discount nothing free. We understood it was a mistake no harm no foul. Manager insisted. We did tip towards the amount we would've paid and then some. We ain't fuckin mooches. I'm emphasizing the spectacular way they handled the situation they didn't have to do anything they did.
Good! This is how customer service is supposed to be. Mistakes happen, but so long as they’re avidly covering their bases it’s fine
@@thevoicestoldmetoagain4627 they don't have to so why would they, they could but they don't have to
I got a crayon sleeve in my soda. I was really chill about it though as a service worker. I was like “hey you guys I’m not trying to be mean but there’s some weird plastic in my dr pepper can I get a new one?” They gave me a new one. It was all good.
I worked in restaurants for 10 years, and although I've seen pretty insane shit back in the kitchen, there is absolutely NO WAY something like this can happen, unless it is entirely on purpose. Two things might've happened here: 1) A disgruntled kitchen staff member 2) A customer trying to finesse the restaurant for money.
I'm inclined for 2. If you're kitchen staff, you know you can't get away with this crap, because it will be easily traced back to you. Plus, no matter how sketchy you might be, I have not met a single cook who would go out of their way to do something this heinous.
Yeah. Only reason it would be planted by the server is if they both knew the guy and hated his guts. And even then, I don't think they would go out of their way to bring a rat foot to work, when they wouldn't even know when or if the guy would come in.
As someone who used to be a server at OG, this seems highly unlikely to me considering how the soups are handled.
@chelseyhussein7899 Yes. Specially in a restaurant like Olive Garden. Their soups are most likely sealed bagged and frozen, thrown directly into a boiler before service.
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@@TheHuskyGT where I worked, if there were soups left at the end of the night, they’d get bagged, sealed, and placed into a donation bin. All soups were made fresh every morning and periodically throughout the day.
When I was a kid we went to eat out at a local restaurant and my mom found a baby gecko floating in her ice water. It definitely wasn't there when they served it so it must have fallen from the ceiling. It was unresponsive (severely undercooled) but breathing. They let me keep it and nurse it back to health. Turned out to be a female. I named her Frosty and she lived in giant terrarium in my bedroom for the next twelve years :3
EDIT: Out of all the comments I've left on this site throughout the years, how did THIS one blow up the likes?? And, yes, the story is true. Frosty was an African fat-tailed gecko. We were living in Abuja at the time because of my dad's job. When we moved back to the Netherlands Frosty came with us, so I guess she became a naturalized Dutch fat-tailed gecko :P
Damn that's so cool if it's true.
That is awesome
Imagine they said no, you couldn’t keep her and put her back in the ceiling
@@sayuhyme Think my parents thought it safer to agree to me keeping her, as oppose to saying no and living in fear that I might have smuggled it back home anyway and then lost it indoors. At least the first way they could control the situation by making sure I got the proper inescapable enclosure for her 😅
Nice.
As a former Olive Garden waitress, the servers are the ones who scoop and serve the soup. It would be literally impossible not to notice an entire rats foot.
Plus, the soup (at most locations) is bagged and given to food banks at the end of every night.
As much as I despise that “we are family” corporation, I 100% believe this was faked.
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It happens near me in a Canadian restaurant call St-Hubert a whole rat body was into a salad apparently they bought prewash and cut salad and it was pickup during the harvest. They serve it without even notice it. It really came from the restaurant even if it seem unbelievable.
is it possible the foot got put in during processing and just wasnt noticed.
@@steves578 it would be red from soaking in the minestrone
I mean, that's a pretty dry foot for being served in soup. Not to mention it looks more raw than something that was cooked, or sitting in a heated pot of soup for X hours. Obviously we don't know exactly what happened, but based off that pic it's definitely sus. Guess I'll wait for the notification/breaking news that the remaining portion of that rat was found in another pot of soup at Olive Garden. 🤣 If that happens I'll have to side with the customer.
as someone who used to work at olive garden i find this VERY hard to believe. definitely would’ve been noticed. also idk how other olive gardens were but we were VERY serious about cleanliness etc
i would mount it on a chain to make a nice lucky necklace.
@@David-tu3ot wasnt aware i was talking to you, david. my apologies.
As an ex employee I can genuinely say my managers did not care unless a customer noticed
@@David-tu3ot Stfu dude. She wasn't asking you, she was just writing a comment. You're the one that chose to reply to her. People like you are so weird.
@@David-tu3otI actually can't tell if this actually a bot but if it's a joke that is 10/10
The light color of the fur from that rat foot looks more like the kind you find at a pet store (possibly pet food for a snake), than the ones you would find outdoors. I'm also pretty certain this isn't Howie's first time doing something scummy.
It also doesn't look like it spent much time cooking. As unlikely as it would be for that thing to be swept up unnoticed in the preparation of the soup, it's even less likely that it just found its way in there after the soup was made.
Edit: I watched more of the video, and it looks like Darden made that exact point about the foot not looking at all like it had been cooking in a pot of soup all day.
if that's the case, it implies the man not only killed a rat for no reason other than publicity, but killed a _domesticated rat_ for publicity. what a fucking piece of shit.
This was my thought. Feeder rats are cheap and super accessible, and it’d be really obvious the rat was frozen if he threw the whole thing in the soup. I could easily replicate this image, and I live in a place where feeder rats are insanely regulated
Wouldn't be surprised if they yoinked a dead rat from a shady pet store chain that dumps deceased rodents and animals from their bins.
really upsetting because its true :( i just hope it was a frozen feeder and they didnt torture the thing
Damn, Olive Garden taking Halloween this season to next level. Even changing their menu into witches recipes 🎃
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Witches brew cooking up huh
Shit ton of bots here
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I’m sorry, he CUT the inside of his mouth??? You’re telling me this man picked up that huge ass foot and leg with his spoon and shoveled it into his gourd??? I don’t think so.
even if he did, he would have to CHEW on it to cut his mouth and the foot looks absolutely pristine
@@windy8544maybe the bone?
@@rotisseriepossum rat bones are as brittle as twigs
Yeah, you have to have some physical damage as the basis of any damage claim from a singular event.
@@bn-tc2tk sure but the pointy bits are sharp when you break them. if the rat had been cooking in the soup, its nails would probably be too soft to draw blood, but a snapped bone might be able to. def planted tho
Fun fact i used to work at a Dickey's barbecue pit, and on one of the very first weeks of this location being open my manager pulled me aside. He showed me his finger which was now a bit shorter (all of the meat before his fingernail was gone). He said he felt a sharp pain when it happened, but couldnt find the piece of flesh, because it was while he was chopping a bunch of brisket. He then said " i just chopped the brisket up extra fine because i didnt have time to find it because of how busy we were". Some poor soul out there is an accidental cannibal lol.
Lord have mercy
I'd rather eat that than a bug ;-;
9 months later...
Accidental cannibals would be an awesome band name. ✌️
As an owner of a lot of weird pets inc. rats, snakes, etc. - that looks identical to the foot of a frozen feeder rat that you'd use to feed reptiles. I'm looking at the ones I have in my freezer right now and they all have really similar blotchy discoloration.
Edit: just to add more info these are available very cheap (usually $1) from practically any pet store that sells small animal supplies, including big chain stores like petco etc., much cheaper than live adult rats. The feet and tails often break off in the freezer and can be used to feed baby snakes that aren't ready to eat big rats yet, so you could probably even ask for a foot by itself if you didn't want to handle the frozen rat. I think it's also possible the person is telling the truth and a rat was accidentally chopped up at a factory and frozen with ingredients but it seems more likely to me that it's a scam.
Just trying to assuage people's fears that a rat was deliberately tortured or anything like that.
Bingo if it had cooked in the soup it wouldn't look like that.
yea thats 100% a fancy rat
Yep
My thoughts exactly
@@moongloomablehe should have pre-cooked it
I worked at Olive Garden for legit like 2 months and I can tell you there is no way the staff wouldn’t have seen it. The kitchen management is hardcore and everything is clean all the time
Yeah. Staff would have totally scooped it out before it made it to the bowl
@@irregulargamer1352 They would get rid of all the soup batch and clean everything before starting over again.
Why has everyone from the comment section worked in the olive gardens?
I worked there as a server for a single month and it was absolutely terrible.
Entirely depends on which restaurant. Maybe you're managers wouldn't permit it but I imagine there are lots that wouldn't notice or care.
The implication that he dipped his spoon in to the soup, lifted the spoon to his mouth, and still took a bite without ever noticing the rat foot is a bit hard for me to believe.
Yeah, a rats foot is fucking huge compared to the average restaurant utensil. Who the fuck does this guy think he’s fooling
Extremely. He literally went there just to eat, not a whole lot else to do at a restaurant...
@@Verticom10youd be surprised how many people dont look at their food, my aunt straight up bit glass bc she wasn't watching her food at all (we weren't at a restaurant my OTHER aunt just cant cook for shit and somehow "forgot" to mention she "accidentally" dropped a bit of glass in.)
Perfect!
I worked at bk for YEARS there was a nest of roaches that hatched on our biscuit warmer and still forced me to serve food out of it.When I finally left it’s because a methhead manager was screaming at me to serve undercooked sausage after I just opened the entire store by myself because she was too busy crawling thru the ceiling because she was so high she locked the keys to the store in the office.
I will never understand how such incompetents are the ones who have higher positions..
One time a guy tried suing PepsiCo because he said he found a rat packaged into his can of mountain dew and the PepsiCo people proved in court that it wasn't possible because mountain dew would actually dissolve a rat within the timespan between packaging and being sold in stores 😂
Ugh god that's just another reason to never drink mountain dew lol
It's concerning that they are aware that their product can dissolve a small animal 😅
@@IAmTheBugInsideYouunless it's Baja blast! My organs are gone.
@@IAmTheBugInsideYouthats what citric acid does though. Its not surprising that citric acid can do that. If u eat a large serving of pineapple the citric acid can make ur mouth tender.
@@bifflightyear Not just the citric acid, but also the pineapple enzymes.
As a server years ago I had a family order a smoothie at the end of the meal. Upon finishing the smoothie the angry guests called me over because of a bear bottle cap at the bottom. The manager comped their entire meal, and after they left I looked closer and it was a cap for a beer we did not even serve... I know it isnt as extreme but people will do crap like this.
Ppl are little fkn weasels that meddle when noones watching
You remember what brand? Something random like rolling rock?
@@forestcampbell8962 yeah rolling rock howd you know
@AstroRodeo10 You're joking right,i just was naming a random cheap beer my cousin use to drink.
@@forestcampbell8962 Your cousin is AVGN?
I used to work at OG and it is almost impossible for an employee not to notice something like this at least in the two locations I used to worked at they were very strict with the food’s quality control, the soups are prepared and cooked from scratch everyday and whatever is left from that day it gets frozen and then donated
Yeah backup should notice
Really nice to know Olive Garden donates left over soup.
At the one I worked at the waitresses constantly left their clock in slips in the salad bowls 💀
Ayy, where can I get that leftover gnocchi soup?
That last part I misread as
"..gets frozen and detonated"
and I was wondering where I could sign up.
My favorite part is the fur of the rat foot is clearly white, which rarely is the case for wild rats. So either it is a test rat, a food rat, or a pet rat in which the foot came from.
my guess is it was probably a frozen/thawed rat, like one you buy for a pet snake to eat. The freezing makes the flesh of the rat pale.
Not only that but the soup would have cooked the fur and skin off.
@@laurab5750 YEA
It is probably a frozen rat they save for snakes
Omg, some psychos really do think everyone is stupid! I had a pathological liar for an old friend try to compete with the fact that my backyard chickens were producing many huge eggs, so he photoshopped a black hen into a nest in his yard with a half dozen pure white eggs he supposedly found from this hen, unbeknownst to him that I knew my chicken facts and only pure white hens can lay white ages!🎉😮😅
A few years ago back in like 2015 I was hanging out with my friends and we went to Olive Garden but prior to going there, we stopped at petsmart to get food for one of my friends dog. Being teenagers, we messed around in the store and one of my friends ended up taking a worm/maggot/larva (Dont know exatly what it was or how he got it). When we got to Olive Garden , my friend put the worm in his salad as a joke and made the employees panic by telling them the worm was in the salad before he got it. Basically, I can DEFINITLY see this rats foot being planted by the pantiff. Its not that far fetched. Charlie is right, serving a dead raw rats foot by accident is REALLY unlikley.
I am a bot! Ooo, Spooky! I’m definitely not making fun of that dumbass up there!
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these bots are so annoying; but yeah honestly it isn't far fetched that someone put it there
I looked up the Wendy’s finger chili case and was surprised to see it was in 2005, can’t believe it was that long ago.
2 humans among a sea of bots, what has happened to this comment section.
Being a former Olive Garden employee, one time a cockroach fell from the ceiling into someone's chicken alfredo. Management then tried to bribe them with Olive Garden giftcards so they wouldn't leave a bad review.
LMAO
The fuck 💀
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I found a caterpillar in the minestrone once lol
Hmmm, seems legit.
I once found an entire intact grasshopper in my chicken wrap at wendy's. This was in summer 2014 on the day of my HS graduation. Just a perfectly whole massive grasshopper that was visible at the end of the wrap without even taking a bite. How they didnt notice is beyond me
IM FXUKING CRYING WHAT THE HELL ALAMAOAOAOAOAOA
Yeah.
I would fucking puke
Omfg
It's pretty easy to test if the rats foot was planted or left in that soup for a while. If it shows no or little signs of being cooked then it'll be super suspicious. Same thing happened with the Wendys finger lawsuit.
The issue is that the person with the rat's foot refuses to let anyone examine it, so no testing can be done. Which in of itself is a major sign that it's a scam.
@@akirajotaro yep 100%, even if I wanted to give maximum benefit of doubt and say he might be worried the evidence dissapears after he hands it over, they can't just take his word for it.
if you actually watched the video they said that it wasnt cooked
My favorite part is the fur of the rat foot is clearly white, which rarely is the case for wild rats. So either it is a test rat, a food rat, or a pet rat in which the foot came from.
@akirajotaro in fairness they asked for it to "test what species it is" but unless they're going to compare its species to the rats they claim aren't in the restaurant I'm not sure why they want to know exactly what kind of rat it is
When I was a kid, my dad was drinking a can of beer and said it tasted weird after a single sip. He dumped it out and looked in the can with a flashlight and saw a dead mouse in the can. As I remember, he never threw up or panicked and just tossed it and opened another one.
This is a tale as old as Strange Brew
@OfficerBMTwhat in God's name is remotely funny about that?
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I've read something like this before and now I pour my beer cans into a frosted glass. When people ask I say that I like frosted glasses, which is also true.
Removing the foot of a rat you either killed or found dead and using it for a lawsuit is what any sane, stable person would do.
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Gotta chase that bag man 💰
I turn mine into jewelry, but to each their own
Still not as weird as the finger lady
Capitalism baby!
Take one Olive Garden, add one rats foot and you’ve got profit!
As a manager at olive garden they tried to scam using the worst soup u can imagine😂 the minestrone is a vegetable soup which is super transparent and has no huge chucks in it all💀 it would make more since if he did it with our chilli soup or sausage n potato but chose our least popular soup as well as the meat free one💀💀
Being an Olive Garden employee I can confirm that from time to time a short man with a neatly trimmed beard will pull up in a black van and pay us handsomely to slowly dispose of a Whole Foods bag filled with body parts by chopping them up and tossing them in the pasta. When you’re here, you’re eating people.
Mob related? I mean, it'd fit thematically....
good to know
😮
I’m so weak
I know where I'm eating tonight
I could see how someone could think they can pull a rat foot off, but a human finger? Really? Was she trying to imply there was some psycho muderer working there, chopping off people's fingers and carrying them around in his pocket at work? Straight up forcing a big investigation, Wendy's couldn't settle out of court even if they wanted to lmao
I mean anyone in the kitchen can lose a finger and accidentally drop it in some food. Especially a large pot of chili. The unlikely part of the scenario is that someone wouldn't notice their finger fall off, fall into the pot of chili, then assume that serving the finger with the rest of the chili is fine. Scandals like that can also be used to peddle rumors like "oh their chili is made of human remains" or some texas chainsaw massacre type shit. It shouldn't even be taken seriously since all it ever is used for is causing a scandal.
@@dark_matter869if that would've happened the whole restaurant would've shut down until shit got situated
i think it would be an issue with the factory where they actually cook the chilli. They don't cook food inhouse at wendys its all pre cooked at big industrial factories where it is quite likely that someone could lose their finger in a machine and then the finger ends up finding its way into a big pot of chilli before they freeze it and send it out the the restaurants
I love how Charlie never misses a beat to take a stab at BK whenever an opportunity presents itself.
I was just thinking about that. LMAO
BK. BONKEY KONG.
4:10
I read this the moment Charlie said BK lol 😂
Yeah Burger King sucks but as my initials are bk I always feel indirectly attacked 😂
It is impossible for someone to miss this, and if Olive Garden found something like this in the soup, you are sure as hell going to have corporate questioning management and the entire store closed for a week at least for an investigation into WTF happened.
I worked as a server in Olive Garden for about a year. Management sucked and id never work there again however there is no way that the server couldnt have seen the foot in the ladle of it was indeed in the soup. You can count out how many gnocchi balls are in a scoop and those are smaller than the foot. So the fact that the server didnt "see" this leads me to believe that it was most likely planted
Good to know this real moisty drama is bigger than large or big, and is truly huge.
Four bots wth
@@shaylazaman18825 bots now
@@shaylazaman1882there's actually 5 wth 😭😭
@@doctorvox3267 the state of youtube comments is insane
Yeah, it's terrible, how long until all comments are bot generated?
As someone who has worked in multiple restaurants as a cook, either the person who made the food didn’t see it or the customer bought the foot and placed it in the food ( I’m very sure it was the customer) I have heard lot of stories like this and have been in some situations like this, it’s usually 90% the customer up to no good.
well what else would it be if not one of those 2 scenarios?
Former Taco Bell worker, we had a customer threaten to sue us because her Spicy Tostada was “spicy”
@@lukeandrewg This sounds like a parody of what we joke about in Sweden when we talk about typical American behavior. Not even our jokes are this stupid.
Could also be a cook intentionally placing it in the soup, psychos have done way worse to people's food
@@karonuva very very unlikely, I have seen people drop meat then put it back on the grill or fire( disgusting but this happens a lot more than you realize) and found bugs in bags of salad we get from warehouses, but never have I seen or heard a cook do some dumb shit like that, having a rat foot in food, could shut a whole restaurant down costing many people their jobs who work there, and no cook wants that’s kind of smoke from the staff( trust me ) I mean is there goofy people who will do shit like this……yea maybe, but this Olive Garden customer story has BS written all over it.
As a current employee of olive garden (server, the one who ladles out soups) I love how this guy planted his rat foot in our token vegetarian soup to make it extra emotionally distressing.
This reminds me of the lawsuit where a guy sued Mountain Dew after he allegedly found a mouse in a can of pop, he lost because Mountain Dew came out and said that the acidity of the pop would have dissolved the mouse skeleton and remains and he wouldn't have found any remains in the state he claimed to have
that doesn't make it sounds much better...
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@@YonkaLmao orange juice would do the same. Mountain Dew is terrible for you but the acidity of it isn't the main problem.
That’s just telling me that my can of mt dew is flavored with dissolved mystery particles🤢
In fairness, customers can be sketchy like that. I used to work at IHOP, there was a girl who sent back her burger for hair. The reason it was odd was because the single strand of hair was wrapped around the patty. The cooks were guys and my hair (I was the server) was short.
I was a line cook at OG and one time we found a massive cockroach in an unopened bag of lettuce (bag was clear so we could see inside) that thing was massive but at least we noticed it before opening the lettuce.
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Yeah you'll have that. That's just an unfortunate (but rare (ish) part of food manufacturing. My stepdaughter found a ladybug in our egg noodle bag last year, and I've found several dead insects in sealed packages back in my food service days. Hakuna matata!
A restaurant call St-Hubert had a whole rat body was into a salad apparently they bought prewash and cut salad and it was pickup during the harvest. They serve it without even notice it. 😂
Those elementary kids won't have time to react.
Wait until you see white ocean fish riddled with worms. Yum!
“Emotionally traumatizing” 😂 lawyers are funny
I work at Olive garden, and they make the soup from scratch. There's absolutely no way that could have been in there unless it was planted
Dude these fucking bots are everywhere and it hasn’t even been a day.
I’ve been a line cook my whole life and totally agree it had to be planted
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@adylynemahaffey4449 Yeah, let's stop them
He says he unknowingly put in on his spoon and in his mouth. That’s a big rat foot. You don’t accidentally put that in your mouth.
Some people might remember that Olive Garden used to have rolling chairs. As ridiculous as it may seem, when I was younger, I dropped a crayon and tried to roll back while leaning down to pick it up. This resulted in my head hitting the corner of the table and actually cracked my skull to the point that it required an immediate ER visit and led to a hefty amount of staples being lodged into my head. As someone else commented in their story, Olive Garden’s approach to remedy this was by providing my family with a $50 gift card. Incidentally, they no longer have rolling chairs at this particular establishment and I’ve never seen them in an Olive Garden since. Although I find it highly unlikely that this is solely due to my unfortunate encounter years ago, it has always stuck with me that I could inevitably be to blame for the lack of wheels in the restaurant.
Intresting!
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When was this cuz I was born in 05 and never seen wheels at OG
@@ThePope_francisI have no doubt you couldn't even read that if you tried. 2nd grade must be pretty tough for you
Bro, someone at my McDonald's got hit by a car while running a parked order out for drive-through, and it is now the company policy to wear a bright neon green, reflective vests whenever running food out lol
I think this calls for an Olive Garden menu tier list. Charles and Matt are the only ones who can set the record straight.
That microwave is gonna work hard 😂
Did you just fucking call him Charles?
whether the person’s lying or not, this is funny ash. like the rats foot just casually sitting in the food like it was supposed to be hidden or apart of the meal has me in tears 😭
I’m both shocked and impressed that Charlie somehow was able to make an insult on Burger King when that’s not even the restaurant he’s talking about.
Burger King deserves every stray it catches.
That place blows lol.
Burger King is not a restaurant, restaurants serve food
How the hell is it impressive, you could do that when saying anything negative about food in general. Burger King sucks but it made me roll my eyes that he feels the need to bitch about it all the time lol
@@Creature_of_the_Land how dare you sir 🗿they called Burger King for a reason :(
Is BK particularly bad in the US or something? They don't seem much different to McD's in the UK.
I've heard cases of people finding rodents inside soft drink cans. If I recall correctly, a person had contacted the company and they halted their production temporarily, investigated every step of their QC and manufacturing line, they found some sort of crevice in the industrial sorting and canning area of one of their suppliers.
They thanked the dude for bringing it to attention and discussed fixes and stuff and sent him several boxes of product.
Being sent the product that you recently found to be contaminated is somewhat questionable.
Probably an instance where the condition existed for Murphys law to take place. That’s the thing about life, anything that can happen will happen. As long as rats exist and people are eating soup, someone will legitimately find a rats foot in their soup and it may very well be a situation where no amount of *reasonable* quality control could have prevented it. .
You're somewhat correct. In the 90s, the FDA found rodents in some Pepsi cans and at least one woman got hospitalized after drinking a can with a spoiled rodent in it. But in basically every case, the company denied that it had happened.
In 2012, there was a resurgence of such claims specifically concerning Mountain Dew, but the company won the lawsuit after proving that the rodent would have long been partially dissolved into a smelly jelly like substance in the acidic solution and also that the rodent was so young, it wouldn't have even been born when it was "canned".
Soft drink cans, though?
@@mike48931
@@elio7610 “hey we double checked this batch and this one genuinely is good”
They fixed it before shipping boxes you fool
It seems Remy has been a bit more unlucky than usual this time
His name is ratatouille
@@PhantomOfficial07 actually ratatouille was the scientist
Maybe he knew the best ingredient to put in the soup was rat leg, so he made the ultimate sacrifice
(sadly) little chef...
RIP Remy. Gone but never forgotten.
Nothing has aged me faster and more severely than Charlie not knowing about the Wendy's chili incident. I remember that happening like it was yesterday.
Me too man its like i was 9 watching the news all over again
@@KristenZianourry2015what is it
some lady tried to hoax a chopped human finger in her wendys chili and it was gross
@@bobswag2353
@@bobswag2353they sold chili with human skin in it
@@aionvibe. no they didnt. thats just wrong. a customer planted a finger in their chili and tried saying wendys had served them a finger.
This happens so often in Hong Kong that they assume everything wrong with their food is a customer scam. The last time I went there and ate at a restaurant, half way through my meal, I found what looked like curly armpit or pubic hair in my dish. The waiter's response was "Well you already ate half of it. So, what do you want now, then?"
Haha you ate pubic hair
Based
"Did you hear about the man who's suing Olive Garden because he found a rat foot in his soup?"
"Was he upset about it?"
Charlie always asking the real questions
Anytime someone sues and lists off all the "mental damage" from the incident then its fake
As someone who has worked for Olive Garden, I have seen some wild things in their food. I once saw a green bug in the soup and a whole plastic kitchen glove in a dish of pasta.
@sonic-templeos lmao olive garden "Italian"
The worst I had was someone accidentally left the corner of plastic bag in their chicken Alfredo and the piece was about 2 inches long
I'm a culinary professional (yes that's what it's actually called) at Olive Garden. With the way we prepare our soups, it's highly unlikely that this would ever happen. All the soups are made from scratch everyday and immediately sealed and stored hot. There's no way a rat would ever come near the soups.
so they don't use any prepackaged soup stock or canned anything? I'm figuring if this really happened, that is where it would have come from....Not Olive Garden perse, but the suppliers of ingredients
Dont lie, everything at Olive Garden is premade and just warmed up by chef mike(microwave)
@OfficerBMT ok, I know its bait. But
WHAT THE WHOLE SALE CHICKEN DALE PONYTAIL
FFFFFFFFUCK
IS WRONG WITH YOU
@OfficerBMT when you're incapable of getting even a minimum wage job lmao
@@NecroChungusits bot
There is an olive garden across from my apartment and it is hands down the cleanest kitchen I have ever seen. Staff often doesn't leave the restaurant until three, sometimes four hours after closing on the weekends. It took me about 30 minutes to close down the McDonald's 'kitchen' to spec after being slammed all day and night, in comparison , this location here brings in an enormous amount of money (right by the 2nd largest mall in the state) and everything there is immaculate.
Even as a 16 year old working in fast food….I had the balls to tell my manager I wasn’t comfortable serving the old salad we had. He took a look at it, looked at me, and said “alright, throw it out. I’ll see about a delivery in the morning.”
Just know, if you’re working in fast food or retail in the United States, you can easily find another job. Don’t let your bosses hold you hostage.
Also always discuss wages
Not sure what that holding you hostage part was about, that came totally out of left field. I'm not sure if your boss brings a gun to work to make sure no employees run away or if that is completely made up in your head. Your 'boss' probably gets paid about as much as you and has little incentive to grind out dollars for a company that will easily replace him.
What does that have to do with holding you hostage, isnt that a good boss? A bad one would call you crazy and make you serve it
Good on you and the manager to toss the stuff. Their are worse managers who are so cheap they let withered and rotted lettuce leave the salad line.
@@kayokake ...it's a common saying to not let your job hold you hostage (for rent money/healthcare/etc). no one is saying the boss is literally holding someone at gunpoint. you're the one who just made that up lol
honestly, my mother was a chef and parts of animals ending up in produce is pretty common. she used to wash lettuce and find all sorts of shit the harvester had sliced up. famously half a frog managed to make it onto a plate of salad. though thankfully it was noticed before serving it. they just hoped the second half was in the field, not on another plate. but the rat foot in minestrone definitely seems made up, for a multitude of reasons.
But this is soup
Yeah it’s really common in food processing plants, we would find rats all the time. They would be missing their legs and tail.
I’ve seen squashed snakes, rabbits and various rodents in bales of hay we feed the horses. It’s always kind of alarming but kind of funny too. The cutting and baling machine just picks up anything it happens to pass over. We’ve found rocks too. It happens.
Thank you for being the one sane person in the comments who’s not insisting its literally impossible, when things like this would clearly happen from time to time.
@@PerfectSense77 Obviously not impossible, just extremely unlikely like others said. As people who worked at olive garden have confirmed, the soups are sealed beforehand. So it would of taken at least 2 different people to not see the rats foots or someone REALLY hated that customer. (Plus the rat is not...soup colored, which it would of been if it was in the soup)
Imagine going to prison for the "severed finger at Wendy's" scam, and the inmates that are imprisoned for far worse crime laugh at you and call you names 😂😂😂
One time I went to an Olive Garden with live mice running around the dining room while some employees attempted to round them up. It was kind of hilarious, tbh. I thought my mom was going to lose her mind.
Round them up?! Like sheep?? 😭 LMFAO
at least we know their mice feet are fresh
Doubt
When I worked at a certain Steakhouse of an Aussie nature, someone snuck a dead cricket into the restaurant and put it in their Toowomba Pasta trying to get a free meal. Steakhouse was like lol no and the drama ended in about an hour. Thanks for unlocking that memory this evening.
As an Alchemist, I can tell you that man underpaid for that soup.
lmfao, burger king "we probably did" lol.
Not the Splinter joke 👩🦲 0:40
I’ve worked at Olive Garden and I stopped eating the salads once I saw a roach climb on the wall and jump into the lettuce container then I threw everything out. But it makes you wonder how many times people don’t catch stuff like that🤢
Remy fell into the soup guys. Relax
Omg, I remember hearing about the severed thumb in the chili. I had no idea that was fake. The despicable levels some people will stoop to is wild.
Yep, lady chopped her child’s finger off to do that.
I start every day by watching Charlie, it makes me feel like I’m a 50 year old man watching the news
The only way I could see a severed part of any animal getting into soup is if the animal fell into some machine at a meat packing facility. The only problems with that theory are that there’s usually no meat in minestrone, and like Olive Garden themselves said, the foot would’ve been cooked
"Olive Garden. When you're here, you're family, and we specifically made that happen by making a wizard's potion in back."
As an attempted scam, they should subpoena bank and credit card records for any pet store purchases.
There's no guarantee they didnt just pay with cash and or catch or raise their own either, and im doubtful pet stores are charging so much for a rat you need to break out the credit card.
Have you seen the interview where a farmer brings up an excellent point about vegans who eat his crop products? He said the amount of death caused by working a field is astounding for their fancy arugula and kale salad juice, thousands of rodents and other animals are killed each season in one field alone. Sometimes their bits also do make it through various forms of QC measures. The only person who knows the whole truth is the plaintiff, and thats just going to have to be on them.
Its probably a frozen/thawed rat. Stores sell them for snakes and such.
@@100GTAGUYI'm going to tell you something very simple. Most people who go vegan are against the cruel & demonic ways the meat industry raises their animals. They live in pain & fear from the moment they are born till they are slaughtered. This is much different than random animals in the wild meeting a sudden death. Why is that so hard to comprehend?
@@100GTAGUYUh okay to be fair the majority of vegetables especially corn are grown to feed livestock. By eating meat you are effectively consuming more than 10x ish the amount of calories in plants. There's something called tropic levels etc. it's pretty interesting you can look it up online
4:23 Burger King:…Yea we probably did, here’s some money. Haha!
3:38 I love the way he says soup
“this would be something Burger King would serve you with a smile on their face and this would probably be better than half their menu” 😭
I was emotionally traumatized that time I ate at olive garden also. a rat foot would have actually been an improvement
Years ago my dad was eating from a frozen bag of veggies that you microwave, and found a piece of glass in it. We stared at it and it was one of those "Huh. Where do we go from here?" moments. I found a screw cap inside a bag of Puppy Chow (the chex mix snack, I was not eating dog food) and sent them a picture of it on twitter and got a coupon that I never used. I also found a piece of glass _in my mouth_ from.. I think it was chicken. Looked like the top of a jar. Never did anything with it, just got freaked out and warned everyone else in the house to be on the lookout. That's how real people encounter this stuff.
I live in Canada. We had a place called Crab Park Chowdery. A girl found a corpse of a stewed rat. Good for Shrek, not for us. They apparently made the soup in a basement and one fell in the vat.
“I went to the Olive Garden, and their slogan is true: they DO treat you like family!
Our waiter told my brother he’s a worthless piece of crap.”
I bet the chef was like, “Stop that soup!”.
Charlie's eternal despise for BurgerKing needs to be studied. Here in India (and all throughout Asia in general), BurgerKing has been consistently putting out banger products on its menu, especially the vegetarian options. Its better than McD here imo.
In the US burger king sells pretty cheap and at best mediocre food. Definitely worse than most other fast foot places
A lot of American fast food chains are better abroad.
Yeah no not in ny at least. Their chicken fingers are the only worth while item
as someone from the uk i do prefer burger king to macdonalds as well
im in south east asia and i disagree. the BK in my country released a chocolate burger. in Thailand, they released a burger with nth but buns and 20 slices of cheese.
Having worked at Olive Garden I’m not even surprised tbh
I work there currently and I agree
@OfficerBMTyou’re a psychopath
Having worked at one too, i forking i am wtf
The epitome of "you can copy my homework, just don't make it obvious"
Every time i observe charlie in his natural habitat his enclosure seems to evolve with his content
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It's been the same content for the past 3 years. Unless your vocabulary of basic words is evolving
This is certainly one of the most things ever to have happened.
If I had a nickel for every time a person has placed a severed appendage into restaurant food, I would have 2 nickels, but it's pretty weird that it happened twice.
1 nickel actually. A finger is not a limb.
@@DiamondCake2 noted
You forgot about the "Chicken Head Nugget" that was also faked.
That actually happens a lot more than you think.
Scam a person and you get a slap on the wrist, scam a company and your life is over
I remember the KFC accusation as well with a fried rat, think it was just a weirdly shaped chicken as well the restaurant tried to get the piece which was kept by the customer, but I think he never gave it to KFC eventually thrown out.
The soups are put into vats and served by servers with a flat shaped ladle with an inch deep pit, the server definitely would’ve seen it and trust me they look at the spoons while scooping because of how the broth and solids will either be not enough or too much.
12 years ago I was a line cook at Olive Garden and 2 people found roaches in their lobster spaghetti and lasagna Classico. I can’t believe a rat foot would make it into anyone’s food.
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1:45 Olive Garden food frozen so the rats foot had to been there in the packaging. This is probably why og is fighting back
Former Olive Garden employee here... As a line cook at olive garden you don't prepare any of the soups. They come in bags from god knows where and we heated the bags up in water. (look up Sous Vide if you're interested in this technique)
I worked in a restaurant for 2 years. There was a giant ice maker where everyone got ice for the drinks they were serving. One day we had to disconnect it for a while to move it to another location and someone decided to empty the ice out. There was a frozen dead rat at the bottom of the ice that it was anyone's guess how long it had been dead in there...
on the bright side, at least it was frozen 😰
Fun Fact: In the original book, Stuart Little wasn’t actually a mouse. He was just a very tiny boy that resembled a mouse.
To bring a rat foot AND BITE IN IT to scam a restaurant is INSANE 🥴🤮🤮
1:07 if you need a reminder.
got the notification and saw huge olive garden drama. immediately clicked. i can’t stress this enough. this is possibly the most important thing to caucasian america.
I smell an Olive Garden tier list is now needed
Ive had numerous rats and would never describe their claws as sharp. But idk, never had one in my mouth 😂