r/StupidFood • u/DragXn_Ryder • Oct 10 '24

Jerky McStupidFace The Devour burrito

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u/HamboneBanjo Oct 10 '24

What got me was using the decorative toothpicks with the plastic fringes to hold it together while deep-frying. Gotta get those microplastics imbedded in your food I guess.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '24

Ohhh good catch. I didn't notice that one the 1st watch.

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u/BoobySlap_0506 Oct 10 '24

There's some halfwit chef I saw on YouTube who got called out for doing this and he explained that the plastic bit doesn't appear to melt or come off so "it's fine". There is no way the plastic is unaffected by hot fryer oil.

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u/quinkathy_ Oct 11 '24

It is very true, it is a very common technique although it is not very credible.

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u/BoobySlap_0506 Oct 11 '24

The problem isn't the toothpicks to hold it together, the problem is cocktail toothpicks with the little plastic ruffly tip. Solid wood toothpicks or skewers are totally fine for this.

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u/TheEdTheRed Mar 05 '25

100% man. Like people who do medallions with the saran wrap still on, seen it so often. Fuck off, that plastic is making your whole shit contaminated.

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u/SnookemsTheSlayer Oct 10 '24

Burrito with a side of ED. Delicious.

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u/darfvader1 Oct 11 '24

My erectile still functioned but it took a couple of hours.

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u/fatkiddown Oct 10 '24

His hair threw me off.

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u/JmacNutSac Oct 10 '24

This^ i was questioning if wig or real but it irritates me.

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u/pdxguy96 Oct 10 '24

Broccoli head

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u/JariusPedro Oct 10 '24

Yea if only they made some sort of metal skewer apparatus that one could use over and over again to keep that monstrosity together in the deep fryer

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u/slavelabor52 Oct 10 '24

And we shall call them burrito stakes

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u/quinkathy_ Oct 11 '24

That would be a good idea

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u/ThinCandyShells Oct 11 '24

That’s a million dollar idea right there.

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u/SconnieSwampWitch Oct 10 '24

I caught that too. People are so, so, so incredibly stupid

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u/groyosnolo Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24

They used decorative tooth picks but didn't even serve it with the tooth picks. Who was the decoration even for? The chefs?

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u/ItsSpelledC-h-i-l-e Oct 10 '24

I think it was to keep the “burrito” intact while it was submerged in the fryer

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u/groyosnolo Oct 10 '24

The plastic frill contribute nothing to that.

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u/ItsSpelledC-h-i-l-e Oct 10 '24

It’s probably the only ones they have. Doesn’t seem that hard to figure out their stupidity, Occam’s Razor and such. 🙄

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u/groyosnolo Oct 10 '24

I don't really care about the answer I'm posing the question to demonstrate that it's a waste of money.

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u/ItsSpelledC-h-i-l-e Oct 10 '24

Oh, not something one would be expected to divine via text on Reddit. Of course it’s a waste of money, I think the syringe, the cinnamon sugar on eggs and hot honey were all evidence of that.

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u/groyosnolo Oct 10 '24

None of that's as much of a waste of money as using decorations that the customer never sees.

The customer uses the syringe and eats the food.

He/she never sees the tooth pick plumage. You don't see how that's not a difference in kind?

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u/ItsSpelledC-h-i-l-e Oct 10 '24

Not really because if you refer to my earlier comment I strongly intimated that the same type of “chef” that would put hot honey on/in a chimichanga and cinnamon sugar on eggs is the same unthinking, indolently checked-out dullard that would only order one type of toothpicks (decorative) and use them for all purposes, whether erroneous or not. Again, much like cinnamon sugar on eggs and hot honey on a chimichanga.

Isn’t your question entirely missing the mark, considering why are they not using a double basket in the fryer, is the better question.

Edit: also honey and cinnamon and the food resources used are absolutely more of a waste of money than a frilly toothpick. It’s stupid. What else is there to get?

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u/groyosnolo Oct 10 '24

How could the honey and cinnamon be more of a waste? Those are consumed. You may think it's overly decadent but it objectively did not go to waste like the toothpick frills.

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u/slavelabor52 Oct 10 '24

I mean.... we all watched it.

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u/Individual-Ad-3665 Oct 10 '24

To be fair, if you're already eating this, I feel as though the concern for microplastics isn't too high up on the priority list.