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Wendy's is home to so many amazing and delicious menu items, making it one of the most popular fast food restaurants out there. But, employees say that there's one menu item in particular that customers should avoid at all costs because it's always lacking in freshness... It's the chili.
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Yikes! We didn't see this one coming... Wendy's chili makes for the perfect comfort food, thanks to its savory flavor and rich texture. But, it turns out that this signature menu item gets its flavoring from meat that's been sitting out all day, according to an employee from the popular fast food chain.
“I used to work at Wendy’s. The meat used in the chili, yeah that comes from the meat on the grill top that expires and dries up that’s put in to a warming drawer until you have enough for a batch of chili, which we first freeze and then thaw the next day. Also if the chili sitting in the warmer doesn’t sell fast enough we just added hot water to it to mix it up," the former employee wrote on Reddit when asked what customers should avoid ordering at Wendy's.
Yeah, that's definitely not what we wanted to hear about our beloved Wendy's chili. It looks like we'll be sticking with fries and a Frosty the next time we're in the mood for Wendy's...
