The Real Reason Australia Doesn't Have Burger King

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[@friendlyjordies]

KFC Workers, we're going for round 2! Give me more of your stories by replying here. Keep 'em short and sweet. Also, I've added a bunch of new shows to my tour: www.friendlyjordies.com/live-show Townsville, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Ballarat and MORE.

[@randommanonyoutube]

Found maggots in the deep frying oil

[@boxxy7688]

Someone in the drive-thru ordered raw chicken products SPECIFICALLY. RAW. assuming he was going to go home and cook it himself we just gave him the bucket of raw chicken. when he got handed the raw chicken, he straight up ate it in front of everyone in the drive-thru. Turns out, he was high on meth and management learnt that the next morning. I think Jordies can guess where this KFC was. additional Mcdonalds story just for fun (cuz of that one hungry jacks story) Someone ordered a mighty McMuffin with. NOTHING. no bacon, no egg, no bun, no butter, no sausage, no ketchup. Nothing. Just the box. he spent $11 for a yellow box.

[@Fuzzy1998]

Do Coles

[@gildedgryphon9852]

If you do a round 2 of Macca's I've got one. I went in to empty the nappy bins in the bathrooms and after 30 mins I gave up and left. Found out from them later some guy overdosed on meth in there. He was laying there for 3 days before anyone found him. Edit: just looked it up but couldn't find the exact incident. Coincidentally I did find the exact same thing happening at a hungry jacks in 2016 though

[@aristocratStudios]

(Anon please) One of the Kids at my school worked at Kfc. recently he suffered quite the injury when one evening he was taking out a bag of hot gravy to be thrown into the rubbish..he did so and decided to give the bin a bit of push down with his boot because it was getting full..anyway the hot gravy fell into his boot and pretty much melted the skin, next thing he was hoping back into the kitchen shouting FUCCCKKK in front of all the customers and he stuck his leg in a bag of frozen chicken wings..he eventually had to be airlifted to Melbourne Hospital..it was fucked

[@TheFourthBlackReaper]

It was called Burger King until said king was eaten by Hungry Jack, who proceeded to usurp his kingdom.

[@dobbersanchez1185]

Spat in a few burgers along the way

[@myamdane6895]

the real game of thrones

[@kaeolandon-lane3429]

He usurped his kingdom but uslurped his Pepsi.

[@TK.D36]

Why don't you dickheads that commented give the reaper his kudos for his great comment. PS your response comments are lame.

[@NabPunk]

Sounds like what kirby would do, so the pfp checks out.

[@calliebates3066]

I do want a Bonkey Kong shirt, though

[@jarraddove]

Indubitably

[@yokan1342]

shaboinkey kong

[@TheTulerie]

Konkey Dong

[@garvielloken5494]

Yes, Bonkey Kong shirt please

[@dannysolucky3904]

Please Bonkey

[@TheBlueB0mber]

Mould spores can survive some pretty high temperatures. also their microscopic roots can quickly grow deep into the pores in bread. Do not eat mouldy bread.

[@dcptiv]

Mold you see is a flowering spore & the main part is inside the food. Toasting the surface will not make the mold safe to eat.

[@soapygusset]

Mushie ill yum

[@CptnAwsmBalls]

Thanks Dr Karl.

[@Sivrn-Val]

A little bit of penicillin won't hurt ya

[@pierate4701]

Most bread molds are safe to eat, but unsafe to inhale. Toasting it will kill the surface spores that you might inhale and your stomach acid can deal with the parts that are still alive. You have to eat a LOT of bread mold to even get mild indigestion

[@watsonwrote]

​@@pierate4701 But if you're unlucky enough to get mold that's not safe to eat, killing the mold doesn't remove the toxins

[@Ellipsibus-t5o]

Microwave ovens heat things because polar molecules like water align with the rapidly changing polarity of the microwaves being beamed into your food. This results in rapidly moving molecules also known as heat. Ice has molecules which are too firmly bonded to each other to move in the first place. This is why frozen food takes so long to heat up in a microwave, you essentially have to wait for some of the ice to melt and then that water can begin heating the rest of the ice.

[@crocus9905]

Ukraine

[@Mendax80]

Because Tuckka-fukka was too long

[@the_bw_trekkie]

NERD

[@GreenClawForestry]

Someone beat me to it

[@oshwaflz]

if they don't know why ice doesn't melt why would putting it this way help, just say "microwaves affect the liquid in our foods, so the ice has to melt before it can heat up" so laymen can understand Or if you want me to paraphrase "Erm, English please." *cue audience laughter*

[@hotaruFirefly2]

I was very happy to hear that the old Hungry Jacks I used to work at shut down. The franchise owner was incredibly anti union and find ways out of paying you. I was casual worker and was meant to be paid the minimum casual rate but instead of the $19 an hour I was supposed to get I was only given $15. When I complained he said he'll fix it and suddenly I was getting less and less shifts.

[@MangoPanic]

Should've reported that to the Fair Work Commission, don't rely on selfish owners to change their ways lmao

[@Sivrn-Val]

When was this? Because I was literally being paid $12.50 an hour when I was 18 and I don't know if that was because I was in training or not.

[@hotaruFirefly2]

@@MangoPanic I had a nervous breakdown and had to quit. That's when I was diagnosed with depression, anxiety and a few other things. I should have but I was not at all in the right mindset.

[@hotaruFirefly2]

@@Sivrn-Val This was 2008 I think and I was in my early 20s. Basically he told me and everyone else we were all casual but we would be getting the penalty rate. I was adamant I'd get paid correctly and was just given excuses.

[@CaptainAndy99]

Ice did'nt melt because the molecules are too close together so they can't vibrate and generate heat. Microwaves work on the liquid content of a substance.

[@OblivionYouTube]

Nerd

[@vulpesinculta3478]

Real!!

[@anboard]

Thx

[@MrFrankdole]

Ice molecules are vibrating, quite violently actualy. The time in the microwave wasn't enough to bring it from -20 to above 0

[@priceprice_baby]

Exactly, that's why it always sucks trying to defrost shit in the microwave. Gotta do a tiny bit to soften the outside, smash it up, mix as much as possible, and repeat over and over so there is as much water as possible over the biggest possible surface area of frozen food

[@mythbustersfan3456]

Actually fun fact! Burger King actually partnered up with Shell Corp. to build restaurants near their servos and for a short period of time, in 1997, there were a small handful of actual Burger King restaurants around Sydney, and a few other states (I don’t remember witch ones) until eventually Hungry Jacks absorbed the Burger King restaurants. I remember recently watching a documentary on it hence why I know quite a bit of said info.

[@samuelstacey2309]

There was a Burger King inside the Cairns airport in 1999. Only remember because I was 9 and it was the first time I’d flown anywhere.

[@elsa7998]

Burger King lost a court case bc they decided to compete with Hungry Jacks to get more profit, despite also being the franchisor, and they were found to have been acting unfairly to Hungry Jacks. Losing the lawsuit is what caused them to be folded into Hungry Jacks

[@jasonstone5106]

We had one in adelaide

[@esdraskuhn8896]

I remember there being one in Hobart

[@ChaingunCassidy]

There was one in Orange for a long tim.

[@oberakdragonprow2695]

There is a trick I learned in high school to double your order using the drive thru. All you needed was a friend like me to get out of the car before you drive up. I hide in a bush or something nearby waiting for you to pull up to the window. They always hand you the drinks first. That's my cue to start running. While you are taking your time placing the drinks somewhere stupid they will hold the bag of food out the window. That is when I come screaming through, grab the bag, and dart off to a designated spot. You and the worker stare at each other in awe, they say, "Wow, that has never happened before.", and give you another order of whatever. Then you pick me up and we go back to the party with enough for all. Two for the price of one. Works every time. KFC was the least fun to do that too because of the hot gravy. Still worth it for them buckets.

[@MadHeadzOz]

Gold. Absolute gold! I've witnessed many a drivethru fleece and this takes the...medal.

[@funnyperson4027]

Brooo 😭😭😭

[@blackflagqwerty]

If I wasn't so fat and lazy now. I'd try this.

[@DarthRaver12]

Genius level planning

[@allgoodcuz1152]

Sounds like a croc of shit,you'd get done by the jacks at hungry jacks,stop talking shit

[@Zyxxx101]

I found half a dead huntsman spider in my HJ whopper

[@4x4CampingandAdventures]

Extra protein

[@brockbayley5279]

Sure hope you hadn’t eaten the other half

[@mepmepimabee9866]

Yummy!

[@aaronswesternassault]

Only half??? Rip-off!!

[@Kati_P]

I wonder where the other half wandered off to?

[@darien5186]

Friend who worked at KFC told me they basically chuck everything in the same deep fryer so if your chips taste like donut balls now you know why

[@Kragith]

Is chips tasting like donut balls really a bad thing though?

[@jake_adlay_24s90]

This is true my sister works there and I have definitely gotten a few popcorn chicken bits in my doughnut balls it really throws the senses off

[@blazernitrox6329]

Dunno if things are done differently in Aus but here in the States that's pretty much how everybody does it. Nobody's putting up the money to have one fryer for each item and they _definitely_ aren't changing the oil between items.

[@WorldGoods]

What did you think they do

[@TheDanSwan1]

Haha, literally a week ago I ordered chips from somewhere. Tasted them, "do they sell churros there?" Yeah tasted like cinnamon

[@Lactose2305]

The 4-5 hr grilled chicken shit is real, we only ever cooked to order with that because it never got bought

[@SOVADEA]

And they got rid of the old patties that were thicker.

[@Lactose2305]

@@SOVADEA I haven't worked there in like 8 months so I hadn't noticed

[@pauljackways1473]

Burger King NZ was running a 'royal roulette' promotion just the other week. Ads and displays and all, then after like 5 days they paused it for 'technical difficulties' and then a week later they just nuked it like it never happened. If this happened with McDonalds Monopoly it would have been headline news...

[@yeahdaegzzzzz9831]

Look up the maccas monopoly story...

[@magdalena_dewinter]

lmao i was wondering what happened

[@TheFinalStarman]

I have a mate who works at a KFC in Penrith. When she started the place was appalling - floor so dirty it was never not greasy (I used to work at McDonald's so I get it), workers often got injured on the job due to poor maintenance, on top of managers treating the store like their personal dictatorship and generally being shitty to workers, including even stealing worker's personal belongings and gaslighting them into thinking they just lost them or accusing them of lying/gaslighting themselves. My friend got sick of this, the final straw was when the managers attempted to short the staff of all their pay one cycle and my friend then managed to convince about 45 of the 80 people who worked there to not go into work. When I congratulated her on organising a strike, she replied: "What's a strike?" I directed her towards the Retail and Fast Food Worker's Union. The managers caved instantly. She now runs that KFC. She encourages new hires to join RAFFWU. It's probably the best-unionised KFC in the country.

[@TheAverageBrit]

this gave me an unusual amount of hope for society. your friend is awesome :)

[@martingarricks6209]

still think it’s insane how narcissists and sociopaths can get to such a high point of management

[@kevinmicallef8798]

After some googling, it looks like the OD story is from Perth. The highlighted story refers to another OD at a Hungry Jacks but in his car at Cabramatta. Both incidents were about a year apart

[@milkmanmiddleton5879]

Yes, this happened at my local HJ’s in Westminster, Perth. I’m sad to say that I’ve eaten there since it happened 😢

[@Crowsie]

yeah that sounds like Perth

[@kevinmicallef8798]

@@milkmanmiddleton5879 I’m not judging you, I’m sure I’ve eaten worse. Can’t remember her name though.

[@Botch3dToe]

Nice, ty

[@jonchowe]

I worked as a teen at a roadside diner in the US, connected to an auto body shop. During winter they would put the freezers outside and just open them up when it was below freezing (32 we call it here) to save on electric. I would have to chop out the rats that got into the freezers at night, and then got shut inside when they closed the doors as temps rise in the morning. We would use the ground meat patties we chopped them out of. They also made me dance to Dominic the Donkey and made me stir boiling pizza sauce with my arms. Good times in the real New England.

[@alexdivision4320]

Ayyy New England let's goooo

[@jonchowe]

@@alexdivision4320 Round pizzas cut into squares. If you know you know.

[@JulithaRyan]

OMG!!! Cutting rats out of meat patties.......😝🤑

[@BlackPsionic]

7:32 The Burger Room is where the burgers are made. More specifically, it's the segment of the kitchen where the patties are fried, the buns are toasted, and all the bits (tomato, lettuce, sauce, etc.) to put on the burger are kept in reach. Opener is probably the guy whose job is to make sure Night Shift actually cleaned the place and ensure that the cooking surfaces are at least in useable condition. idk, I'm just the Special Kitchen Hand (read: janitor)

[@aussieman4791]

Ye, other word for it is Back of House (BOH)

[@asgrahim9164]

Don't know why but calling it The Burger Room makes it sound like some depraved freak shit off the deep web.

[@Trippytrex205]

(I wrote that comment) - an opener is someone who opens the store, which is just doing salad preps, turning on the equipment, ect. And half the time we spend our mornings doing the night shift jobs

[@NervousNecromancer]

I worked the drive thru at the kfc in bayswater. If you ever wondered if we judge you for the state of your car, we absolutely do and talk shit about it later. The one that i remember the most was a little red shitbox where when the guy pulled up he had fast food boxes filling the back, dashboard covered in fake taxi/pornhub/hentai stickers and the real kicker to me was he'd traded out the gear shift for a fucking katana hilt. Before you ask, yes. He did order a large zinger box with a mountain dew

[@fuzzyhair321]

oh the cringe on that is just top notch

[@sammyfromgta]

good ol baysie kfc! i remember when i worked at a place over in croydon in 2015-2016 i'd get lunch from yous occasionally and i swear you guys consistently served chewy-ass chicken. every damn time man also old mate sounds like a colourful character for sure. i'd rather not imagine the smell of the car's interior 🤮

[@jeremyhall7495]

Sounds like you revelled in your power. At least he owned a car, and paid your wages, guessing you miss that job.

[@spannaspinna]

He ain’t the one stuck working at kfc

[@sanctified5523]

0:10 calling Australia "one of the largest continents on Earth" is wild considering it's literally the smallest lol

[@ishaan2216]

Even if you’re last in a race, you’re still ONE of the fastest runners 🤔

[@floot1919]

I was abt to say this ITS LITERALLY THE SMALLEST JORDAN

[@tahjkuemmerle]

It's not the smallest. Australia is in the top 7.

[@TheEthiopian1987]

You do know the map of the globe shows most countries as smaller than the US. Not that hard to look up the actual land size of each country on the planet and compare them.

[@literalcringe6154]

Smallest continent, biggest island.

[@wail2774]

3:46 15 in university? You good?

[@ThatAussieGuy577]

I heard a story of a clothes shop that had a rat infestation, the rats pooped on some of the clothes. Then of course the manager would put the poop clothes up for sale with a discount under the “it’s just a factory stain” defence

[@thelordsanguine6383]

Used to work at HJ's, grilled chicken was put through on order, and only really cooked in advance like the other patties during rush hour. Most chicken items are made to order, unless they're quick sell like nuggets, and their lesser counterparts (chicken royale patties). That's what most training enforces anyway, and their OHS practices, but i probably wouldn't touch any takeaway places in the outback lol.

[@Sivrn-Val]

Hungry Jacks? Following OHS guidelines? Good one mate.

[@thedevilsworkshop7720]

About 30 or more years ago I once upon a time worked at HJ , so as MD was a block down the road I walked out of work at hungry jacks , walked 2 doors down the road and stood in the drive thru with my mate , who was also wearing a HJ uniform , it worked they served us . We were so fukn stoned.

[@callumw877]

Worked at KFC when I was in highschool around the time COVID was taking over. Every Friday I worked the 5pm till close shift and every week I was closing the store with the same chick who was insanely fit but she was also a very big nicotine addict (This is important for the story). So after countless weeks of chatting her up and being unsuccessful, surprisingly all it took was for me to say, "I'll let you have a hit of my vape if you makeout with me." This proved to be very successful. Over the next couple weeks more drastic moves were made by myself and my coworker on one another to the point where every Friday night I was getting laid in the KFC disabled bathrooms after close. And this isn't even the best part. Although I've moved on and now a University student with an entirely different job, she has remained at that same KFC but now she's a store manager. Every now and then when I feel like KFC I'll go and pay her a visit and she never ever makes me pay for my food. I haven't paid for a single piece of KFC chicken for 4 years now and it's all thanks to vape

[@User66602]

Damn😂😂

[@SaltyAsTheSea]

If this is true, I salute you for not only your perseverance and success, but also for informing the boys about how to get head from a disposable loving thot. GG. Only problem with this is they always have their own vapes so you really gotta watch the supply/ demand like some fuckin stocks and offer a vape only when they don't have any left. Also that's pretty fucked up but I mean we both want something so it's really just a mutual exchange I suppose.

[@Asdayasman]

> And this isn't even the best part. I should hope not, because willingly having one's Johnson in a sket is an awful part of any story.

[@TheRealMycanthrope]

​@@Asdayasman ok 👍

[@watsisbuttndo829]

31 thumbs up is not nearly enough.

[@DomHollow]

A funny day. Myself and other chef mates, went on a paint ball trip. We went to a Hungry Jack's at 5am. There was one lady that was left on her own. We could've waited 40min but we all walked in helped her out, was one of the coolest experiences ever.

[@onedayiwillmakesomecontent]

That would have been some next level Hj's... Or did you turn it down to 15yr old skillset? 😂

[@FF-qo6rm]

11:58 that's maths, not physics, group theory to be more precise

[@RandomLuck12345]

🤓

[@mychkyl]

🤓

[@Hasaan_LG]

🤓

[@MATT-2043]

2015 in my town a Burger King employee found out he was going to get fired so on that day he took a dump in the frying machine. I haven't eaten there since. A few months ago they renovated the entire place including the frying machine might try it out.

[@MadHeadzOz]

Dine in or takeaway? Asking for a friend. Speaking of which, 2015... didn't you used to work for... never mind.

[@MATT-2043]

@@MadHeadzOz i never worked at Burger King. But i know this is never go to the drive through for any place. I go in order to go. I never dine in never drive through i don't get food poisoning at any place i eat from.

[@TimBarrett-b2u]

0:50 Queen Street Hungry Jacks should be heritage listed

[@time603]

@friendlyjordies I have a KFC/Greasy Duck story for you from the late 80s. In Toowoomba, my mate bought a whole bunch of KFC one night with his wife, he was really hungry so he avoided the bucket, grabbed the biggest thing, and bit into it (possibly a 1/2 chicken), and that's when it squirted stinky hot juice all around the car's interior. He said he noticed something not quite right about the taste, but keeps eating anyway... within about 2 minutes, he's grabbing his stomach and groaning loudly. She takes him to ED, where they pump his stomach. The doctor asked what he had eaten, and if he could inspect it.. upon inspection, a large cyst was found, and he had bitten right into it! The doctor was not overly surprised by it and stated "Ahh good old "Greasy Duck" strikes again.. apparently, this was the 3rd case in 3 months.. a few months later, the Ruthven St KFC was closed down by the board of health...

[@kendabooka9079]

Bad day to know how to read

[@bastage5932]

1:10 dude just ordered a Sad European

[@aussieman4791]

As a current HJs employee in the rural North West of Victoria, idk take your pick, we have had our fair share of problems and most of it stems from eshays breaking shit and being a general pain in the ass. However, one shift that takes the cake was when we had a car accident in the parking lot. Not car on car either. I was standing around with a few people before dinner rush, the broiler was shitting itself again, just not lighting so we were kind of shit out of luck when it comes to meat so we were talking about just getting chicken through. Then, there was a crash, but because we were right under the vent which was full blast we couldn't hear it, then someone yells, "THERE'S BEEN AN ACCIDENT!" We didn't know what it was but myself and four others rushed out to see what had happened and sure as fuck, there had been. So this car had come in to park, however the lady behind the wheel had hit the gas instead of the break, went over the top, over the curb and straight into the outdoor seating area but not completely, thank fuck she hadn't. But the result was two injured, one had two broken ribs and the other was now under the table and wrapped around the seat. Myself and like 7 other people helped him, I held his hand and tried to keep him calm until the ambos came, the whole situation was fucked. After the fact myself and one other went up to see him at the hospital and found out he had two broken legs, a broken pelvis and internal bleeding. They had to fly him to Melbourne that night. As far as I know he's fine now, he's made a full recovery. But yeah, that was one of the stories from our store, know it won't make it here but had no idea this was a thing until now so wanted to share since it was a pretty fucked story. Also, the reason why the chicken is always a bit off is because most stores don't change out their chicken, you're supposed to have it on level for around 20-30 minutes for grill, then have 45 for the JFC. Most don't do that, this was also why the old tenders were fuckin garb cause people would leave them for ages and no cook new batches that needed to be rotated every 20 minutes. We don't do that, cause we're awesome :D

[@wiretamer5710]

True story from me old man. Anzac day, Alice Springs 1955. Big local race meet, plus grand march through town to the memorial on Tank hill. A week before, the truck transporting the necessary refreshments lost its refrigeration unit a few hours out of Adelaide. In those days it was five day journey to the centre. By the time the truck arrived in the Alice, the sausages had turned green. So the driver got hold of a 44 gallon drum of formaldehyde and gave the snags a bath. No one got sick.

[@Reaper4367]

back in the day, when they were trying to bring in all this American fast 'food;, we Aussies though KFC and Macca;s was enough. So they rebranded it as 'Hungry;s' and called it Aussie. There is still a 'Burger King' on the Highway, southbound lane, behind the Goldy. (gold coast)

[@Welshie1]

1 BONKEY KONG SHIRT PLZ AND THANK YOU

[@shanesnooks1234]

kinda disappointed no one from the HJ's in Glenorchy Tasmania didn't say why it went up in flames.

[@phishENchimps]

"Man found dead in a Hungry Jack’s toilet three DAYS after a suspected drug overdose" 23 Jul 2016

[@roninleonard]

yep that’s the one

[@maxvp2696]

Incase you do a part 2 or something, my mate worked at HJ for years, his 2 favourite stories are the time a guy knocked on the door after they had closed and were cleaning up, he yelled I gotta use the toilet and when they said sorry were closed he pissed on the front door. The second, a man in the drive through took 17 minutes to make up his mind cause the fatty went in not knowing what he wanted. And yes we are both from WA so he became depressed from customers constantly asking "can you give me extra tomato, like as much as you can give me", he had a Vietnam flashback when I showed him you're other HJ video.

[@FoodSack]

Queen St Mall Hungry Jack’s workers are basically Brisbane royalty

[@JoeLigmama]

I managed a Burger King once, it shut down after I left. Also I literally smoked blunts in the freezer and in the drive thru on a nightly basis, if you order a burger the last hour you were getting a fried burger. I always closed the lobby two hours early and the assistant manager always kept a bottle of patron in the freezer, it was the goddamn american dream.

[@mochashep8685]

My sister worked for the Gympie (QLD) hungry jacks and regaled me with a tale once. A man in a ute drove up to the window to order where my sister was working at the time and then all of a sudden a random man ran through the drive through to verbally abuse the driver of the ute. It turned into a screaming/punching match with the bloke driving out of the drive through with the random man holding onto the bed of his ute until he fell off at the exit of the establishment. Was informed later that apparently the man in the ute had made off with a bale of hay (an expensive resource in the country) from the local stock foods produce next door to the hungry jacks and decided his perfect lil act of thievery was best treated with a cheeky burger. The man that beat/shouted at the driver was the owner of said produce shop. Ahhhh country life is always so thrilling

[@infinitepower7720]

11:19 was expecting him to be riding a shopping cart but this was even better 😂

[@LimitlessGojo271]

Homeless guy using the OG Fortnite stat, by jumping in and out of the cart to push then ride it to qualify as transportation.

[@TessaBain]

I am still confused on why people would demand you show up in a car or something at the window. They just want your money. No one here turns you away if you walk up to the window as long as it's possible to reach the window from the ground (which means the only place you can't here is McDonald's). The inside isn't even open all day, so you have to do that if you want it at night and don't have a vehicle.

[@Kinfure]

Liverpool Westfield's KFC, my first job circa 2017. I was doing unpaid opens from 6am (aka wage theft framed as training) when one morning we couldn't find the keys for the storeroom. My supervisor found them while scooping the morning mashed potato. Didn't replace that batch because it would've taken too much time

[@douglassmithe9799]

Hearing someone refers to HJs as 'Hungry Jacks' is like hearing an aussie say Mcdonalds instead of Maccas. It just sounds overly formal.

[@Suntrees]

at 9:50 the same thing happened to the closest HJ's to me. the wawrick one had a guy OD and nobody went in for 2 days cause they were to lazy to cleanup the bathroom

[@BiggestOrse]

Pre sure that’s what he’s talking about but it says syndey hjs car park lol I rember it when it happen ay

[@seal6204]

my mate who worked at KFC was working one night when all their eftpos machines and internet stopped working. Because of this, they couldn't process any orders, he was told to go and stand at the drive-through and tell people in their cars wanting to order that they couldn't process any orders, etc. This one ute pulls up and offers my mate a beer and he then proceeds to chug it in the drive-through on CCTV. A couple hours later on the same shift he decided to do a burnout in the car park of the KFC and someone reported him to the cops. He then was fined over $1000 and almost lost his job. Recently he was made employee of the month and asked if he wanted to become a supervisor. QUEENSLANDER

[@THEfogVAULT]

Back in 2011-2012 pretty sure, my ex was working late night at one of the two KFCs in Mackay when a rat fell from the range hood above the deep fryers and managed to slip between the edge of the basket and fryer tub into the almost 200° boiling oil. When she told the manager on duty, he had a couple half assed attempts at fishing it out of the bottom before giving up and saying they would get it later when this little instrument thing told them it was due for changing. I never asked how long that actually was.

[@UltimusMasterus]

My mate worked KFC years back when we were in school. Said one of the managers got sacked, he didn't know reasons why but he was pretty pissed off about it. Next morning when the opening shift came in they found they couldn't open the store safe, CCTV wasn't active for last night, and the store alarm had been deactivated after triggering at like 3 in the morning. Locksmith of some sort comes in to open the safe. It's empty. Turns out, the fired manager had went to the store after closing, deactivated alarm and CCTV, opened the safe with access code, took the lot, then took the batteries out of the lock in the safe and closed it again just to be spiteful. Police went to his door to try and get him, he had fucked off overseas to Italy or somewhere 🤣 Few months later, the store got closed by health inspector. The night shift were chucking the frozen chicken in the tumble dryer to defrost it quicker. Place was a riot. I went to work at maccies instead. It was no better.

[@Micharlus]

"...me and one of the largest continents on earth." Mate, it's literally the smallest one.

[@CptnAwsmBalls]

Yeah but it's one of the 7 largest on Earth....

[@laurencefraser]

Depends how you count them... or more accurately how you define them. If you go by contiguous land mass above water ignoring human engineering projects it's ... Pretty sure it's number 3 actually... Ok, I'm pretty sure the only defintion that doesn't also include every single island in existence as ca 'continent' where Australia doesn't come last is the one where you use tectonic plate boundaries as the defining factor... at which point It actually IS very high up the list (I won't say first, because I believe there's a few others of similar size and I can't be bothered looking up the numbers) by way of being entirely on a single plate that has all of it's boundaries out in the ocean.

[@hughmiller925]

Well there was a shop already trading in Perth which had the name.... What I don't get is the quantum leap in name change. "Okay burger king is taken, what else could we use, something close to our original name, so the customer can recognise us" Where did hungry jacks come from, it's totally abandoning your original naming and concept. "Let's open a kitchen store!" What shall we call it? Our first pick in name is gone,' "How about "Windy Hollows" "Yeah, that'll work, people will know for sure to buy their kitchen appliances from us." Hungry Jack's? That was the next choice, who comes up with such a non sequitor name?

[@jaegergames7042]

Not buying a Bonkey Kong Tee, if the Legend, the Myth, the MAN himself, Brooz, isn’t superimposed (caricatured, perhaps for legality) over the top of BK’s face.

[@SuperAuzziegamer]

For legal reasons, this is a joke. I've met the Jack of Hungry Jacks. 1 time while working at a HJ and 1 time after being fired from them. Really wanted to tell him that one of his top franchisers abuses his staff daily but remembered a story about him firing half of a corporate office because they were a waste of money. I left him to eat his chicken in peace.

[@jeffmunkynutz1568]

Show dates fake voice over ✅ Still in the 2nd hj's disclaimer ✅ Off screen shanks corrector guy ✅ "Burger room" art ✅ Standards off the charts on this one, nice work all 👍🏻 (Please care what i think) 🤣 Ps - shanks, thats the SOUTH voice ya dingleberry..... Pps - close to best vid ever, no sh!t.

[@RobotnikPlays]

Honestly McDs was the same with regards to chicken things being left too long. Thankfully my store was always slammed until close (in a shopping center) so it didnt matter much for us. But definitely heard stories from workers transferring from 24hr stores

[@tompaton5050]

I'm almost hesitant to repeat this story in case it makes life harder for Jack, but there are quite a few anecdotes online of people meeting him and him being incredibly nice and willing to share his time, and I can confirm first hand that this is true. He spent more than 30 mins talking with me and a friend, he actually swung us a voucher (his assistant did) and made an incredibly generous offer to share something. Which I just don't want to say in case other people meet him and try to hit him up, expect the same treatment. All I can say is, I was blown away and actually feel some loyalty to the chain now, despite my better judgement and cynicism towards all of these multinational fast food places. Old Jack is in his 80's now and the bastard has made me unable to hate all billionaires now.

[@Asdayasman]

Almost like classism is as senseless as racism huh.

[@andrewlefevre9018]

I saw Jack at a corner shop in Sydney last year. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Caramello Koalas in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

[@tompaton5050]

@@andrewlefevre9018 I suppose your point is that anyone can make up anything on the internet. And they can. And nobody has to believe me.

[@romanbagdasarian21]

former hungry jacks worker here: Once we were out of mayo at my table, so when I asked my manager for more, he grabbed a handful of mayo from his tub and he chucked it at me. After the laughing stopped I used the mayo paddle to spread the mayo from the table onto the burger

[@thepainkiller6180]

When Jack Cowin, an Australian businessman, went to open the chain's first franchise Down Under in 1971, there was already a local restaurant there called Burger King that had the name trademarked. To avoid any confusion, he went with the name Hungry Jack's, most likely inspired by his own namesake. copy and paste done.

[@74_pelicans]

urban legend copy pasta

[@anguswebb4767]

Worked at a lovely KFC establishment, had a rather large manager with 30+ years of KFC expertise that would get questionably sweaty while making burgers. Numerous times I watched her wipe her sweat with the cloth she used to wipe down the bench, more times then that I watched the sweat drip into the burger. (Anonymous pls)

[@petzouqi76]

2:10 Microwaves vibrate water molecules to heat things up, but since ice is technically a rock, and the water molecules are locked, it will not vibrate and will not heat up.

[@Realpersonfrongod]

Particles are only still at 0 degrees kelvin(it's impossible)

[@a_lethe_ion]

It's gonna take a while

[@TheManWhoStoleTheShadows]

So I can microwave rocks?

[@Davezy1]

I'm just here to support the development of a 'Bonkey Kong' shirt.

[@4x4CampingandAdventures]

Making a junior whopper is crazy

[@swift4657]

I loved getting a mid roll hungry jacks add on this vid very topical

[@hunkofthehill2332]

The reason ice doesn't melt in a microwave is because the molecules are so tightly packed together that the microwaves can't really move them except for the outer layer, all the microwave is doing is shaking the water molecules in your food really really fast

[@n1cemaiden879]

One time on my shift, the roof caught fire because the broiler vents hadn't been cleaned since the store opened 10+ years prior

[@dominic5386]

lol

[@janieoak9920]

The one in Tasmania, glenorchy, burnt to the ground two weeks ago. After a renovation. They are already building a new one in the same place. Within two days, they had knocked all of it to the ground.

[@mrbigw100]

The ice burger was my mate Charmaine she gets them for her ducks 😂

[@space1989]

Used to work for KFC that was connected to a Caltex, On the my last shift there about 10:30 in the morning, a couple pull up in the drive thru and order one of the biggest orders I’ve ever seen. About halfway though the order the police rock up and arrest the couple blocking the drive thru on both ends. Very eventful day to say the least

[@Splashtosis]

Queen Street HJs is like the respawn point for all brisbanites 😂 the utter state of the creatures i see walk in and out of there is almost concerning

[@Waddledee201]

I've been working at KFC for just under a year, and in that year I've seen a minimum of 20 full racks of chicken be dropped onto the floor, and be put into the warmer like nothing happened. They were all served to customers, (the first time it happened I was still a trainee and was told to follow the five second rule, and SERVE IT ANYWAY because that's 'wasting' and our managers kept their lips sealed. We still have an A for cleanliness by the inspectors. Yes, I still work there. And a little side note, I saw at least 10 wicked wings get dropped into some dish water. The person serving them waited for them to dry, and STILL SERVED THEM

[@brubobaggins]

A Bonkey Kong shirt would be the first merch I'd buy from you, please make it so!

[@TalentlessCooking]

I made a video getting a pickle blizzard from Dairy Queen, it's blended ice cream that usually contains candy, but I wanted pickles. It was delicious!

[@blaisemckenzie7744]

My local hungry jacks burnt down due to mismanagementforcing some kid to have the gas on high with filters not being changed sceance before the store renovated. sacked the kid for "unsafe practices" then the manager refused for a enquiary after burning down one out of 2 joints in the entire state, i guess now you can say the burgers are flamed grilled

[@ChannelReuploads9451]

Glenorchy ? Funny how the only surviving artifact was the "Flame Grilled" sign. There *WAS* actually 3. North Hobart, and South Hobart (On Davey Street near the outlet). Howrah (Glebe Hill) has DA Approval, awaiting the builders to start.

[@Crowsie]

@@ChannelReuploads9451 holy shit Howrah finally got the approval?? I moved away from tassie two years ago but I know some kids that'll be stoked when it gets built

[@shadowprince4620]

Also apparently Bridgie’s getting one soon

[@TheRileyg98]

That Queen St HJs is like the respawn place for Brisbane. It also has a second floor because it's in an old building.

[@aaron6806]

The Voice Of Reason/God stepping in from time-to-time to keep Jordie honest is one of the best parts.

[@qocket]

They call him Donkey Kong because he was once known as "Bonkey Kong" before he bonked that Donkey

[@freddyfrog70]

honestly hungry jacks in aus or burger king in aus slaps hard, i had a double whopper the other day i was in melbourne for holiday, it was so much better than the one in my home country, (pineapple, beetrooot and a sunny side up egg on a burger is still a warcrime tho.)

[@PeterM1-qx1tz]

People were hung at Nuremburg for less!! ; ]

[@adscott27]

Been sick as a dog for almost a week and I'm loving the content this week with plumbers, grindr and now hj's, helping me heal

[@itsthatwutangguy.9370]

wu tang

[@hamncheese9363]

WU TANG!

[@anothersomeone1713]

@@hamncheese9363 WU TANG!

[@marksuckaturd5098]

TANGMAN?? WTF ARE YOU DOING HERE?

[@cheeserdane]

Whoop!

[@Mendax80]

Wu-Tang is legit.

[@julianaparo8054]

Last story, when kfc has there promos sometimes the chip fryers got to cook at 2mins instead of 3min so the electrion comes and programs the fryers to the 2 min timer, everything would cook fine on it apart from nuggets which would be raw on the inside, it took our area 2 weeks and 6 food positioning complaints oneof which sending a 4 year old to the hospital apparently before they figured it out. They still didn't program the timers back, we were told to put tape on the 2 min buttons instead.

[@blue.square]

I'm a survivor of HJ's. Once i took a massive shit, wiped it up with a bun, and put in a Whopper Jr.

[@jordanfrancis129]

Ya didn’t but noice

[@Tectonix26]

Fuck finally. I'll keep this one short and sweet. The bags of raw chicken in the cool-room tend to get punctured from the inside by chicken bones, meaning that when we pick them up to carry em to the breading station- the blood angels juices tend to splash over everything else in there. Like the drinks. Also, said bones tend to poke through your gloves when you're trying to bread 30 pieces of chicken breasts in the expected time, and your skin too if you're fast enough. Putting new gloves on over the open chicken wounds was the managerial wisdom at the time.

[@roark8009]

I can't think of anything intelligent to say

[@matthaeusiacomusalexeliusp7984]

2:30 like a 1/4 chance that McDonalds might of been the house my father grew up in

[@matthaeusiacomusalexeliusp7984]

nvm that was the McDonalds

[@Skeedan]

I got a cheese burger with a mouldy bun from HJs went back in and showed them the mould on the bun an they’re reply was “a bit of mould won’t kill ya you probably won’t even taste it”

[@ShadeKirby500]

I can hear FriendlyJordies putting on a voice as he says that quote.

[@jasonpatterson8091]

Mold has to grow quite a bit before you see it. The fuzz is external to the part that has already grown through at least the nearby bread, if not the whole thing. Just scraping/tearing/cooking it off doesn't work. That said, fuzzy green bread mold isn't particularly harmful to eat (as most all of us have learned); it just tastes bad.

[@Achilles·LastStand]

My brother worked at HJ for 1 month, and every time someone ordered the bacon delux he would put like 10 strips of bacon in their burgers.

[@aaron6806]

I'm in for a Bonkey Kong shirt, and I also agree, this is the best of the series so far

[@gingerbreadhead957]

This isn't a BK, but the place I work had an oven explode, a gas leak, and an active tornado in the area. These were all within a few months and none of the instances resulted in the restaurant closing. We had to work through it all

[@python3773]

From my time at Maccas in Townsville, we regularly had people come through on horses. Pretty much only ever on the over nights, and generally after farming events. But yeah, 100% you can be served on a horse. Even served a cop on a horse one time.

[@我的家-j4b]

I forgot how microwaves work and just sat in awe thinking about how ice doesnt melt in the microwave despite being told before in my lifetime _how_ a microwave works.

[@aintnobetterthan]

Oh god i think i know the HJs in the mould story... It was in stones corner back in the mid 2000s, it was shut down for that exact reason.. mould on patties, chicken being left to sit in the hotbox for half the day, stale lettuce, you name it. it was BAD.

[@Fallout_]

I work in a hungry jacks, and the burger room is where the burgers are made. There are two different sides for 4 inch and 5 inch burgers.

[@alext6933]

In bathroom in car outside of restaurant what is the real difference. The car probably was his bathroom

[@TheCooopers]

I’d heard some guy visited the states, saw Burger King doing well, came to Australia & trademarked everything he saw of BK in the states. Then he waited, they turned up and had to either buy him out or pay a royalty or rename. There’s now one BK in Sydney airport and he lives off the royalties of that one.

[@xe2594]

Getting smooched twice by the same lady manager in the walk in freezer. Was aggressive but I didn’t mind- thanks Steph. Grilld things.

[@VanDiemensLander]

So my partner is a vet nurse and apparently pickle racing with animal testicles is something that happens in the vet industry.

[@Jonathan-Shadow]

10:21 *COME ON KRANKY TAKE IT TO THE FRIDGE* 🌰, 🥜, 🍍 *SMELLS* , 🍇,🍈, 🍊 *AND* 🥥 *SHELLS, AW YEAH!*

[@jaybilzarian1351]

When I was 18 some friends and I tried to walk through the Hardee’s drive through at 3am. They told us we needed to be in something that had 4 wheels. So we walked down to Walmart and stole a shopping cart and returned to Hardee’s with it. One by one we took turns riding and pushing the cart through the drive thru to get our food.

[@julianaparo8054]

Back when I was a TM at kfc we used to do the dumbist shit from 6head fryer curls to seeing what could be fryed in the 6head cookers one time we got a drum stick and keept breading then fryering it untill it become a footy, then my manager at the time gave it to some crack head as a limited edition item.