People have been left gobsmacked after discovering a little-known feature about a common McDonald’s item – but some say it makes perfect sense and should be used more often
McDonald’s feeds nearly 1% of the global population every single day – and yet customers keep making the same mistake when visiting the fast-food chain.
It turns out the vast majority of diners across the world have been using its sauce cups incorrectly, as many simply pour the condiment into the clip and dip their fries into it without making any alterations to the pot. However, a Reddit user claims you’re meant to flatten out the pot, saying it has a fan-like design for a reason. A woman said: “My daughter insists that flattening the sauce cup in McDonald’s is the correct way. I think she’s barbaric.”
Commenting on her post, one user said: “I blew a kid’s mind with this. He was carefully filling his third pot when I made mine into a bowl and filled it with barbecue… His surprised Pikachu look was priceless.”
Another user added: “If you flatten it out halfway, it’s still cup-shaped but can hold more sauce.”
A third user said: “You’ve reached the day when you are certain your child is brighter than you. Embrace it. How are you getting a nugget in your way?”
One more user added: “Your daughter is correct. Also, if you go somewhere like Chopstix that uses those cardboard boxes, you can fold them out into a plate to make them easier to eat from.”
It comes after a former McDonald’s worker explained why the chain’s milkshake machine always seems to be ‘broken’.
Mike Haracz, who was a corporate chef at McDonald’s until 2019, has been sharing behind-the-scenes secrets on his TikTok channel. One of these includes the reason why the fast-food chain’s milkshake machine is often out of order.
In one of his recent videos, he quotes a viewer’s comment: “I work at McDonald’s. They [the milkshake machine] are most probably not broken. We just don’t want to add the mix if it’s busy. If it’s not [busy], then they’re just hating.”
Serving a milkshake or McFlurry when the machine needs refilling requires a crew member to fetch the right mix from a fridge at the back of the store, add it to the machine, and run it until it comes out as expected.
This can take quite a bit of time and isn’t ideal when customers are waiting both in-store and at the drive-thru. That’s when you’re likely to hear, “sorry, the milkshake machine is broken”.
But this isn’t the only reason an employee might fib about the machine’s status. It could also be undergoing a cleaning cycle, or they simply might not know how to put it back together after its cleaning cycle the night before.