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In reply to the discussion: Panera Bread worker says TikTok video showing frozen mac-and-cheese got her fired [View all]Politicub
(12,163 posts)68. God bless America!
Im going to make some macaroni and cheese now. Reading about it so much is making me hungry.
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Panera Bread worker says TikTok video showing frozen mac-and-cheese got her fired [View all]
groundloop
Oct 2019
OP
Heated plastic against the fat of the cheese gets all of the chemicals into your tummy.
Beakybird
Oct 2019
#1
Kids - if you embarrass your employer on the Internet you may get fired. n/t
PoliticAverse
Oct 2019
#8
was the poster being literal re: only cod? & if she/he was, cod is caught in the mid-Atlantic, and
spooky3
Oct 2019
#129
Got food poisoning from their mac and cheese a few years ago, haven't eaten there since.
Ace Rothstein
Oct 2019
#21
I guess. It changed my perception of Panera when I learned how they don't prepare much
Politicub
Oct 2019
#93
A lot of people initially couldn't even figure out what they meant by "clean" food.
LisaL
Oct 2019
#44
there are whistleblower laws to protect employees reporting actual wrongdoing...
Takket
Oct 2019
#134
Calling someone a "retard" is not "brutal honesty." It is a bigoted insult. nt
SunSeeker
Oct 2019
#117
The original Mueller's mac N cheese reecipe is still my favorite. It is not on the box you buy now
dameatball
Oct 2019
#33
I would be concerned about plastic particles being in it after they boil the plastic bag with it.
LisaL
Oct 2019
#45
Fair point. I'm contending they could make the argument for why they do it that way.
Gore1FL
Oct 2019
#46
Exactly. Instead, they retaliated against a whistleblower who exposed their fraud.
SunSeeker
Oct 2019
#60
People, people, people, mac and cheese is so easy to make. Start cooking at home.
YOHABLO
Oct 2019
#48
I prefer to be disappointed in the perpetrators of the fraud, rather than the victims. nt
SunSeeker
Oct 2019
#64
Frozen isn't the issue. It's the misleading ads, suggesting it's made from scratch.
SunSeeker
Oct 2019
#136
If your doctor tells you that you don't get enough saturated fat, sodium, cholesterol, and refined
progree
Oct 2019
#115
Panera is committing a fraud upon their customers suggesting they cook from scratch.
SunSeeker
Oct 2019
#59
The term has meaning and implications, you're just trying to redefine it into meaninglessness. nt
SunSeeker
Oct 2019
#118
Panera fraudulently implies you're not getting boil-in-the-bag food, when in fact you are.
SunSeeker
Oct 2019
#92
In the 1980s, they had frozen foods you dropped in water to thaw then serve.
Farmer-Rick
Oct 2019
#105