Chick-Fil-A Customers Are Reporting That Their Sandwich Buns ‘Smell Like Tires’ Now: ‘Couldn’t Eat The Bun’
May 26, 2023 by Carrie McCabe
One Redditor took to the site recently to observe a strange phenomenon with their Chick-fil-A buns: apparently, according to the user (u/TheSissyAnn), they suddenly “[smelled] very weird”—in fact, “like tires.”
The user went on to elaborate that they’d had sandwiches from two different locations in the Houston, Texas area and both suffered from the same issue. It was so off-putting, in fact, they “couldn’t eat the bun.”
A helpful commenter on the post speculated that perhaps the sudden change in the buns had to do with the chain’s distributor: “Bread is made locally by and distributed by a local distributor. Both locations almost certainly use the same distributor,” they theorized. The user also suggested that the original poster let the locations know about the issue.
However, it seems like many people are voicing complaints regarding recent changes to Chick-fil-A’s buns, and while not all of them are complaining about the smell, many are complaining about a new key ingredient: sesame.