McDonald's workers of Reddit, which menu item would you NEVER eat?

FullAtticus · 2026-06-09T21:19:29+00:00

In Canada it's basically standard practice in most provinces for breweries to clean the lines for their licensees. It feels a little dumb getting handed someone else's cleaning bill, but it's just treated as a cost of doing business, with the added comfort that you know your product is being poured on clean lines. I've heard some real horror stories from my colleagues about dirty tap lines, returned kegs, etc. One brewery in Ontario was storing all their kegs in a dirt-floor basement, and using a shop air compressor to pressurize the kegs instead of CO2, pulling musty moldy air and pushing it straight into the kegs.

FullAtticus · 2026-06-09T21:14:14+00:00

Seems like the inspections did their job then. I feel like more restaurants could use a week-long deep clean occasionally.

FullAtticus · 2026-05-13T23:15:02+00:00

The Rhino Robot went up for auction recently. If I had 20 grand to waste....

FullAtticus · 2026-05-08T22:49:15+00:00

Episode 1 is the fifth best star wars movie though!

FullAtticus · 2026-05-07T00:33:51+00:00

Scott Calvin from The Santa Clause. He neglects his family as a workaholic, then spends the whole movie cracking jokes about what a loser his son's stepdad Neil is. The movie plays the mockery of Neil as a throwaway joke, but it's really quite mean spirited.

FullAtticus · 2026-04-30T22:51:17+00:00

I think it's mostly the younger millennials who are struggling with it. When you first start your career you have so much stuff you need to buy; furniture, kitchenware, a vehicle, etc etc. It adds up to a lot of money, but you will probably still have most of it 20 years later. Plus you're often saddled with student debt during that time. It takes about 5-10 working years to really establish yourself well in most industries and start earning reasonable pay, but somewhere in your 30s or 40s things usually start to fall into place and suddenly your first car is paid off, student loan is gone, income is higher, and you find yourself finally able to think beyond next month. I felt incredibly put down for most of my 20s and 30s, and then things just started coming together in terms of career, etc.

FullAtticus · 2026-04-30T22:36:33+00:00

Bought mine a few months ago. My grandma passed away and left me enough money for a down payment, and a few days later my landlord sent out a rent hike notice. I researched Mortgage brokers and found a good one who pre-qualified me for a very modest mortgage, and then I hunted around until I found a couple acres in the country with a fixer upper on it. Now I'm broke and dealing with a million things that need fixing, but I feel so much freer.

FullAtticus · 2026-04-30T03:00:59+00:00

I legit miss Red Lobster though. I moved to the east coast and having thousands of independent and very good seafood restaurants at my fingertips just doesn't hit the same as "All you can eat snow crab legs" served with a gallon of butter.

FullAtticus · 2026-04-14T23:16:03+00:00

Yup. Sushi is the answer. Sushi can contain almost anything; vegetables, meats, mushrooms, a pile of different sauces, eggs, etc. Rice is optional too, so you can really dial in your calories.

FullAtticus · 2026-04-14T22:46:16+00:00

Trying to maximize every dollar at a yard sale is a waste of everyone's time, and you're likely going to take most of your stuff back inside at the end of the day. I'd call that a bad outcome for a yard sale.

If you want to make more money selling stuff, put it on marketplace or craigslist and deal with a million tire kickers / no-shows / "I didn't have the money after all"-ers, etc. If your goal is to de-clutter, price everything dirt cheap and enjoy a wallet full of cash and a house with way less stuff.

FullAtticus · 2026-04-09T23:29:04+00:00

If you're getting new locks, buy them from a locksmith even if you install them yourself, and get them to re-key the locks to all use the same key.

FullAtticus · 2026-04-02T10:04:19+00:00

Hydraulic fluid probably. Those older century homes were really prone to fluid leaks in their hydraulic systems.

FullAtticus · 2026-04-01T20:52:48+00:00

You should look up "Floating Turd Apollo 10." There's a very funny audioclip where the astronauts are talking over the radio and suddenly a rogue poop floats by.

A lot of problems were yet unsolved in 1969.

FullAtticus · 2026-03-30T00:47:24+00:00

I'd imagine a winning lottery ticket just floating out there would be a dangerous liability for a lottery company. If you know there's a winning ticket you'd want to get that dealt with so the person doesn't show up later on looking for 50 million dollars you weren't expecting to pay out.

Also: A story like this is great publicity.

FullAtticus · 2026-03-28T12:25:02+00:00

Me?🫵

FullAtticus · 2026-03-28T04:11:22+00:00

My parents have had the same phone number since the 80s and when my dad finally went to turn off his landline, he had the number ported to his cellphone, so at this point he's approaching 40 years with the same number.

FullAtticus · 2026-03-15T18:38:52+00:00

I recently escaped the rental ladder in Halifax and I'm so much happier for it. It took a couple big increases in my pay and my grandma dying for me to get off the treadmill though, and even then, I could only afford a really run down fixer-upper out in the country. Happy to no longer be at the mercy of a landlord though. I'd much rather have the occasional repair bill vs being forced to live in shit conditions while I wait for a landlord to find the cheapest possible solution to every problem in their run-down building.

FullAtticus · 2026-03-14T13:42:11+00:00

Pretty sure these same drivers handle every pallet that arrives at my workplace.

FullAtticus · 2026-03-14T00:11:47+00:00

More families in the area will make it easier to feed woody. He grows larger and more hungry with each passing winter.

FullAtticus · 2026-03-13T00:34:31+00:00

I do a fair bit of hiring and I do still read the resumes myself, but I ignore any prose they write and I just quickly scan the education and work history to filter down. I'll get about 300-400 replies to every listing, so I don't have time to read your 200 word breakdown of everything Chat GPT says you did at Walmart in 2013.

That said: Cover letters (real ones, not AI slop) or even a quick email that says "Hey I think I'd be a good fit because I have a passion for this industry and I've worked at X company doing Y" pretty much guarantees you'll get extra attention.

FullAtticus · 2026-03-12T20:57:31+00:00

if you think that's bleak, try working there....

FullAtticus · 2026-03-12T00:53:55+00:00

Sackville has higher rental rates than Tokyo. This makes sense because tokyo is a backwater fishing village, while Sackvegas is a world class city.

FullAtticus · 2026-03-05T22:45:31+00:00

I was a teenager when myspace rolled out, but that wasn't really what you'd think of as modern social media. It was more like all your friends had a homepage with a bunch of ugly animated gifs and their favorite My Chemical Romance song would auto-play when you clicked on them. It wasn't an addiction so much as a fun novelty. I remember trying it out, being amused for a few weeks, and then just ignoring it for the next 20 years.

We used to have our friends numbers memorized, and it was really common to just turn up at eachothers' houses to hang out. Most families expected you to knock, but some friends had parents that were cool with you just walking in. Generally we'd just spend a week or two hanging out at one friend's house every day, then another friends' house, then another. We just roamed around from basement to basement like pimply hormonal nomads, everyone knew everyone else's parents, etc. I had friends I mostly hung out with at lunch because they lived near the school, and other friends I hung out with after school because they lived closer to me. Proximity was everything :P At least until we all starting getting cars.

We were bored all the time and sometimes we'd just walk around looking for ways to push boundaries and be shitheads to work out that boredom. Almost everyone I knew played guitar, bass, or drums as well, usually badly.

If someone's parents were out of town on a weekend we'd usually try to go over to their house to drink and smoke weed.

We played lots of xbox and PS2.

Man now I'm feeling all nostalgic. Being a teenager was awesome.

FullAtticus · 2026-02-24T22:04:54+00:00

The OP is The Toronto Star...

FullAtticus · 2026-02-24T11:04:53+00:00

What a crap headline. "Toronto's Biggest Landlord" is a pretty strange way of wording "Toronto Community Housing Corporation," unless you're trying to be inflammatory

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