Revolting secret about Maccas thickshake machine will turn you off them forever

Brb, throwing up in my mouth. 

McDonald's customers have been left disgusted after seeing an employee allegedly dumping expired milk into one of the thick shake machines.

TikTok user @tel2raww posted the video last week, showing themselves allegedly pouring off milk into the vat of the machine.

The staff member claimed that their general manager instructed them to use the expired dairy product, which looks noticeably chunky, to save money.  

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"POV: When your GM tells you to put the expired milk in the milkshake machine," the text over the clip reads. 

The employee said in the caption that his manager told him to do this to try and "save money", but he actually thinks he's "trying to kill somebody."

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Chunks of coagulated milk that look similar to cottage cheese are then squeezed out of a plastic bottle and into the machine. 

It's enough to put you off buying a thick shake ever again, and the comment section reflected this sentiment...

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"Why did you do it?

"This is actually insane," one comment with 34k likes read.

"Woaaaah, um, huh?" another shocked viewer said. 

"🤮🤮🤮🤮" another reply read.

Others questioned why the person would follow their manager's instructions when it came to doing something so unsanitary.

"Why did you do it anyway?" someone asked. "That's more insane than the GM. The stupidity."

Then, users who claimed to work at McDonald's entered the chat with varying opinions. 

"I've been working at McDonald’s for almost three years, and I didn’t know about this until my manager told me a while ago. They do this so they are not wasting the product and money," wrote one alleged employee. 

"We do that but NOT when they’re that bad, just like day of, then we clean them out the same night so it never goes bad, just nothing gets wasted," said a second.

Another TikToker commented: "This can actually kill people! There’s a thing called dairy gas allergies, and the gas comes from expiring, which is also a dairy acid allergy, which comes from expired milk again."

Someone then admitted that they worked at Subway, and their general manager once fished out expired food from the dumpster after a food inspector made them throw it out. 

"I won’t eat McDonald’s ice cream anymore because when I worked at McDonald’s the machine only got cleaned once every three months, the GM would reset the timer that tells you to clean it."

Please note that the franchises mentioned in this story are in the United States.

Originally published as Revolting secret about Maccas thickshake machine will turn you off them forever