Much more likely to be mildew. Still gross, but not toxic.
20 year old dispenser there too. (date code says 08/05)
Toxic black mold is a greenish-black gelatinous mold. It is not really black. Mold is not healthy and some people have severe negative reactions to regular black molds though.
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Wtf, there is a Wikipedia just for mold?
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How can it feature 0 pictures
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Employees can daily clean as much of the machine as they can access, and there will still be a bit of black biofilm in there (not mold). The same biofilm lives down in all of your sink drains.
That’s ok. The “clean” ones are dripping with invisible toxic cleaning product.
I once got a cup full of dlihydrogen monoxide when using one of these machines. Let me tell you that it was an experience…
Quite unusual, was it pure? As far as I know they always mix it with other nasty stuff beig it an excellent polar solvent
I dunno what that was, but I got a cup of something transparent and not tasty once at BK. Don’t think I felt too bad, maybe cause I stopped drinking that immediately.
As someone who works in the industry, always assume there is mold. Always assume equipment isn’t cleaned as often as it should be. Always assume everything is gross.
Spent 12 years in commercial refrigeration. Absolutely, and “expensive” doesn’t mean things are any cleaner. I was in some 5 star places that had some of the nastiest kitchens.
What is it dispensing?
Black mould.
McDonald’s USA has free soft drink refills.
“Free” tm
In Canada we don’t, but you still fill your own cup. Is that not typical?
Here in Australia they fill it and give it to you, no refills.
Currently. Iirc, this is being removed company wide. I know the ones near me recently renovated and no long have customer accessible drink machines.
I remember working in fast food and almost nobody ever thought to clean the nozzles or clean out the ice bin.
There is probably a ton of mold inside where the ice is kept.
Friendlys does! Unfortunately, if I remember correctly, we “cleaned” them by letting them sit in seltzer and then wiping them off before reattaching them. I’m only now realizing that we went to so much effort to do that, but using the same sanitizer as the soft serve machines would have been significantly more effective and easier.
It at least keeps things like black mold or giant bacterial colonies from getting hold, but it’s kind of pointless.
Their food is low quality and nasty, they treat their workers like shit and they union-bust as often as possible.
I didn’t really need another reason to not support them anymore, but this is good none the less, here have an upvote!
It’s quite funny that in both Germany and Poland McDonald’s is actually one of the most decent places in case of food quality (not amazing taste but one can be sure it won’t cause any health issues) and employees are also treated quite well (for the industry).
Yummy
