I have a question for the avid gardeners. Has anyone seen a worm like the ones in this story about a McDonald’s in Kentucky? Two different customers claimed to find worms in their burgers, at two different McDonald’s restaurants.
Here’s one of the threads. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3463542/posts?page=21 .
Here’s a link to a local story about it, with pictures and video. http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/story/32844922/worms-found-in-burgers-at-two-local-mcdonalds .
There are countless FReepers claiming this is a hoax, because the worms could not have survived being frozen and then cooked. I don’t think anyone claimed they were cooked inside the meat. Only that they fell out of the sandwiches.
Have any of you gardeners seen a worm like this on your lettuce? What are the chances of these worms being in the lettuce, and winding up on the burger?
There are two possible answers to the worm issue.
They may have come in on the baggged, unwashed lettuce from the grower, or they came in from outside storage of the buns where they landed on the plastic bags in a rack.
Typically, fresh buns are delivered in early AM, stored outside in plasitc bags in a plastic rack near the back door ,until the store opens later in the morning.
At least one of the worms looks like an "inch worm" which is transported by the wind on a silken thread; the thread is thin and small, similar to a spider web thread.
While they can travel many miles on this thread, I would look to see which plants are surrounding the parking lot as the likely culprit. A careless prep cook might have just brought them into the store via the stored buns bags; you don't sell billions of burgers by being meticulous, especially at lunch time.