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Confetti
Ask tell, confess. Ask.
Bunny
Hello friend. Welcome to another ass talking. Bam.
Confetti
I really missed those.
Bunny
Just to piss you guys off one last time.
Confetti
Oh, goodness.
Bunny
So on the last Ask Talking festival, Patreon members submitted multiple stories of they've done to food and fast food restaurant secrets. And it is overwhelming.
Confetti
I wasn't prepared.
Bunny
I haven't been able to stop thinking about it.
Confetti
It's rough, guys.
Bunny
Like I'm. And there's so many. We could make this a series and it could go on forever. Like there's so many.
Confetti
Believe the stories we have since heard.
Bunny
All right, I'm gonna kick it off.
Confetti
Okay. You seem like you're excited. I'm ready.
Bunny
Well, you kicked it off last week. All right. Oh, I have a few. I worked in the food industry for 12 years at a restaurant in Texas in 2007. Ish. I walked in on my boss banging multiple different servers, sometimes at the same time. He was called the server slayer. He was our boss, but his mommy and daddy owned the place. No, I never went near that. I was also 15 or 7. 15 through 17. I worked as the hostess. But I also worked at burger king in 2011, and I walked in on a manager's banging one of the cooks. Her. The manager's nudes later got leaked through the whole team and she was given an unfortunate nickname having to do with Arby's. I have witnessed cooks doing lines off the counters, then wiping it down with a wet rag and then cooking on it. I could keep going, but I'll end it there.
Confetti
What about fast food makes people so horny?
Bunny
Everybody's horny. Crazy, right?
Confetti
I don't get it. Yeah, the amount of sex that happens in restaurants is baffling to me.
Bunny
It's probably because you're just stuck working together with these people all night long and everybody just gets a little horn dog.
Confetti
It's like they're slapping meats in every different direction, man.
Bunny
I mean, it's kind of hot. I don't mind the sex stories. Like, I think that's hot. It's the fudgeing, like drugs and the fudgeing with people's food that I'm like, bro, this is fudgeing weird. Even down to the scissor sisters in the freezer the last episode. Like, rub it out, get one in. You know what I'm saying? But don't fuck with people's food, dude.
Confetti
I mean, I guess I would probably take sexual acts over, like, my food being spitting, you know?
Bunny
Or a fly.
Confetti
Or fly story was crazy.
Bunny
Or heroin.
Confetti
Yeah, the scabs, bro.
Bunny
And then cooks doing lines on the counter, wiping it off, bro.
Confetti
Nowadays. And I guess that was an older story, but, like, imagine nowadays, like, little. With fentanyl, it takes to. That could.
Bunny
I feel like there's so many cameras nowadays, though, that maybe this has gotten better. I don't know. Maybe because a lot of these stories aren't recent.
Confetti
Yeah, that's true. You know? Okay, so I got one that's not so recent.
Bunny
Okay.
Confetti
So many years ago, when I was a teenager going through nursing school to supplement my income, I worked at Waffle.
Bunny
House, the big dub.
Confetti
I really love Waffle House, guys.
Bunny
I don't. It's so dirty. I would expect to go down at.
Confetti
Waffle House, you know, there was a lot of things out of this story I expected. This wasn't one of them.
Bunny
Oh, Lord.
Confetti
So while she was working at Waffle House at nights and on weekends during my training, an old lady that had long curved fingernails and was a smoker. When you could smoke inside of the Waffle Houses. Do you guys remember that?
Bunny
No.
Confetti
Okay. So when we first came here, they would ask you if you wanted smoking or not smoking. But it's the same building, so it's either you're sitting by the smokers or on the other side. It was crazy. That was the biggest trip when I moved to Tennessee was whether you want.
Bunny
If you sit on the other side, like, the smoke doesn't travel.
Confetti
Exactly. If we would walk in there, like, you want smoking or non smoking? And you're like, I guess non smoking.
Bunny
But like, that's just a haze, dude. I grew up in Vegas and casinos. Yeah, Everybody used to smoke in the casino. They still do. Yeah, they do hate it.
Confetti
So she had these long curved fingernails and she was a smoker. When you could smoke inside Waffle House still while smoking. A cigarette hanging. While smoking had. She had a cigarette hanging out of her mouth with ashes a mile long. It would. And during that time, she was teaching me how to stir the orange juice with her arm when you couldn't find a clean spoon.
Bunny
I. I need an example.
Confetti
She said she just stick her hand down in the orange juice and stir when there were no clean spoons available.
Bunny
Ew.
Confetti
You're just raw, dogging these nasty nails. And cigarette. She said she used to wait for the ashes to drop into the food. Yeah, that she was preparing, bro. I'm not.
Bunny
I'm kind of not surprised, though. Waffle House is like, they don't have a reputation for being clean. I mean, you go to Waffle House when you want some sloppy fucking dirty food. Yeah, I climbed on the counter in Waffle House.
Confetti
That's. You did. You did nobody recently, too. That wasn't very long ago.
Bunny
Nobody cared.
Confetti
But imagine the gunk under fingernails and you're just sticking your hand down and mixing up the og.
Bunny
I stopped getting my nails done because. Because when I would pet the cows, I would get so much dirt under my nails, and I. It drove me crazy.
Confetti
Even now, with my natural nails, I've got a little scrubber by my sink, and I scrub under my fingernails because I'm so scared of, like, going and touching stuff later.
Bunny
Yep. Me and Mimi are growing out our natural nails right now. Everybody's, like, freaking out online. They're like, bunny, you don't have your nails on. And I'm like, is it really that big of a deal? Like, I'm trying to do something.
Confetti
Comment sections are wild when you don't have nails on. Yeah.
Bunny
It's like, I could be talking about, like, the coolest shit, and they only care about my nails.
Confetti
Yeah. You're like, look at my tanning booth. And they're like, why don't you have nails on?
Bunny
Yeah. It's crazy. I'm like, let a girl live, man. Jeez.
Confetti
I'm enjoying the. The natural nail era, though.
Bunny
I am, too, but we'll see how long it lasts.
Confetti
Are you going to put some on?
Bunny
I don't know. We'll see how long it lasts. I'm like, I like to just do what I like to do. This one broke my heart.
Confetti
Oh, no.
Bunny
It's going to break yours, too. My first job was at a local Mexican restaurant. They recycled the salsa. Whatever was left on the table. After guests, they just poured right back into the bucket to serve to the next customers. I only worked there two days, and I never ate there again. It's one of my worst fears, just eating people's saliva. Saliva salsa? Yeah. You're just Fucking. That juice is really. People spit. It's not even saliva. It's not even fucking salsa. Not even salsa fucking juice. It's saliva.
Confetti
I'm going to throw up. I'm going to throw up. I know that's not okay.
Bunny
It's pretty gross.
Confetti
You're just dumping it back in.
Bunny
Yeah.
Confetti
Okay. That. Because I fear it so much, I always tend to throw a little trash in mine. Like, like at the end when you're cleaning up, I always, like, take like, any little, like, trash that we have and I'll, like, pile it. Because that's always been a fear of mine. Yeah. Well, it's like, I don't want other people ingesting my DNA.
Bunny
If they don't use yours, they're going to use somebody else's. And you just ingested somebody else's DNA, so what does it matter if you do a little.
Confetti
I'm trying to break the cycle pile.
Bunny
Trying to be one last spittoon. I love.
Confetti
Why would you do that?
Bunny
I love it.
Confetti
Someone tell me if that's still done or not, because that's making me question all my life choices.
Bunny
Yeah. I'm never eating out again after this, bro. I'm not doing it.
Confetti
Ruined me. So not talking about, like, awful things that people did. Food. But food preparation. Have you guys seen how viral Applebee's was going because they microwave their steaks.
Bunny
They're fudgeing.
Confetti
Gross.
Bunny
I would. I wouldn't imagine them being grilled Applebee's. Who goes to fucking Applebee's for a steak?
Confetti
I feel like a lot of people do.
Bunny
Remember we had this conversation the other day. You guys wanted to go to Chili's, and I was like, I probably get a steak. And then I was like, ew. Who orders fudgeing steak from Chili's?
Confetti
Jaime does.
Jaime
I raise my hand immediately.
Confetti
So.
Jaime
Six ounce sirloin, baby.
Confetti
Oh, yeah. It says, I worked at Applebee's and pretty much everything is microwaved and frozen. Yeah. I also don't know what it was in their water there, but everyone was hooking up, especially in their storage closet by the dumpster. We also tipped out our bartenders and hosts, and one of our managers would tell us we owe them even more money than we actually did and they would steal all of our tips from us. That's especially if you're a waitress. That's really fudged up because waitresses don't get paid the same.
Bunny
Yeah.
Confetti
As, like, bartenders and things like that. The bartenders are already making a substantial amount more. Yeah. And it's like you're going to take their tips from their waitresses. That's crazy.
Bunny
Have you ever seen the movie Waiting with Ryan Reynolds?
Confetti
Obsessed. That's kind of the idea we got here. Like, everyone was like, I'm here for the waiting in the comment section on Patreon. Because that's a good movie.
Bunny
Yeah, it's great.
Confetti
That's exactly what I feel like we're experiencing right now. The amount of stories on Patreon about people rubbing food down their pants and serving it to people cracks. Yes. Did you read the. Oh, Charlie's one?
Bunny
Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was rough. All right. This one says pube burrito, anyone? Oh, my husband worked at Taco Bell 20 plus years ago before we met. But this story has lived on. One day, his girlfriend's abusive ex's voice came through the drive through window and he felt rage just knowing what dude had put her through. So as. As he made his burrito, he reached down into his pants and ripped hairs from under his sweaty nuts and added them to his burrito. He swears everyone in the kitchen saw it, but no one said a word. That bro straight plucked some hairs and put them in a burrito, which I mean, rightfully so. Ish.
Confetti
A little bit.
Bunny
It was for a good cause.
Confetti
It was a good cause.
Bunny
Was good.
Confetti
It was revenge. Pubes. Yeah, that's okay. But I have a lot of questions. Did you have gloves on? Did you raw dog it? Did you just.
Bunny
Does it matter?
Confetti
And then went back to serving other people's food.
Bunny
He literally ripped pubes.
Confetti
Meant like other. Like preparing other food.
Bunny
Oh, yeah. He probably just went right about his day. Taco Bell is crazy.
Confetti
The. The amount of stories on Patreon that people dropped about from Taco Bell, the Taco Bell preparation, how you literally just add water to everything.
Bunny
Well, that. And they also said that a lot of food is expired and they change the expiration dates on it. And that's why people get the run.
Confetti
For throwing it away. They were like, hey, we. It will just like serve it anyways because our manager is going to tell us to do it. Like, what.
Bunny
How are you getting away with the. A regulated. That's what I don't understand. Like, how are these people getting away with, like, how are these huge corporations getting away with like this? I mean, but you guys won't pass Triazepatide.
Confetti
Thank you. Like, thank you. It's insane. The. The ones that I saw was like, the beans are just like a powder that they add water to. Same with the Ground beef and the chicken, they just like boil in bags and have to be super careful rinsing it afterwards because it will crumble apart.
Bunny
Yeah, it's just nasty.
Confetti
Where's that meat coming from? Is it. Is it meat, though?
Bunny
I heard a rumor and I don't know if it's true that Taco Bell meat is really made from soy. The beef is made from soy.
Confetti
Give asking chat right now.
Bunny
Yeah, ask chat. Give it a goog or give it a chat. Give it a GPT.
Confetti
Yeah. What is Taco Bell meat made out of?
Bunny
He's probably gonna have the politically correct answer.
Confetti
Taco Bell seasoned beef is actually made with real beef. Specifically 100 USDA inspected beef, according to the company.
Bunny
Go to Google. Say is Taco Bell meat made from soy?
Confetti
It says they put oats in it too.
Bunny
Oats and beef.
Jaime
Yeah, it said it was made with beef, not just beef.
Confetti
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It says no seasoned beast. Their seasoned beef is not soy based. This does say though, that the beef ingredients, by the way, should be 100. It's not oats. A malt. Maltrin Dextrin multidextrin.
Bunny
Yeah.
Confetti
Is a food additive derived from starch and then an anti caking agent trio.
Bunny
Yeah, there's something wrong with that cornstarch.
Confetti
There is soy in it though. Helps prevent separation. Oh, and then citric acid, sodium phosphate. Why are all these things in the.
Bunny
Meat, you guys, We've told you this before. If you look at an ingredients list and there's more than three ingredients in it, don't eat it.
Confetti
That's crazy. Don't eat it.
Bunny
The more ingredients there is in it, the more sick it's gonna make you and the more terrible it is for your body.
Confetti
I was teaching Olivia that because we went through this like, big per. I think it was like after the Danny podcast and I went home and I was like, you know what? No. Like I'm not doing this anymore. And I like cleaned out my pantry of anything that had like mile long lists of ingredients. And we switched over to like the kids snacks being like Annie's and like there's this other one. We took all the dyes out of there and like, it's crazy. The difference in like ingredients lists when you're comparing, it's kind of weird. It's wild.
Bunny
It's wild. And that stuff has different effects on your kids and you and like mental health and just everything.
Confetti
Cash and red dye do not mix. And I never thought I would be one of those parents. I swore I wouldn't until I experienced it firsthand. And, like, my mom sometimes slips up because she doesn't. She's not as, like, aware of those.
Bunny
Things, not as crunchy as us.
Confetti
I'm a crunchy mom for sure.
Bunny
And, like, Bailey calls me a crunchy mom.
Confetti
I am a hundred percent. And literally, she'll slip up because she'll be like, the other day she was like, but it's not red. And I'm like, I understand that the product itself wasn't red, but it doesn't mean that there's not red dye in it. And I knew the minute I walked through that door, I said, he had red dye. She's like, no. We went over the list of things he ate that day, and I was like, that right there. What does he act, like, insane? No. Like, you think he's wild just by himself. He will. Like, there's like a. Like a switch that just turns on in his brain when he has red dyes or any kind of dyes. Blue, yellow, it doesn't matter. Just a lot of, like, food dyes will switch this in him, and he does not. You can literally tell he's not himself. Like, it's like a look in his eye, and it's so weird. Like, if you're not a parent of a child, like, no, I couldn't really understand it, but, like, I'll just look at him and I'm like, you had red dye?
Bunny
Yeah.
Confetti
We were shopping for stuff for Easter today.
Bunny
Yeah.
Confetti
And I was trying to, like, find at things I could put in their Easter eggs that weren't red dye. And there was two options.
Bunny
Crazy.
Confetti
So we ended up.
Bunny
Didn't they just outlaw. They said they outlawed red dye.
Confetti
So, yes, they did pass a law, but it won't go into full effect because all these manufacturers have to, like, switch over. Yeah, all these things. But yes, one of the red dyes. That's not all of them. One of them was. Just became illegal.
Bunny
I don't trust anything that if. If somebody comes to me and they're like, it's FDA approved. I'm like, and.
Confetti
And you know what else?
Bunny
You feel better? Like, that doesn't make me feel better.
Confetti
No, no, not at all.
Bunny
Do my own due diligence.
Confetti
Exactly. This girl said, my boyfriend worked as a cook, and I was the waitress at the same restaurant. I had a table of three men who were talking down to me. And when I came back to the kitchen in tears, my boyfriend, seeing me upset, asked what happened. I explained to him the way these men's were speaking down to Me and treating me. My boyfriend, who was responsible for making their food, rubbed their shrimp skewers across the bottom of his shoes and placed them back on their plates. If you've ever worked in a kitchen, you know how disgusting the floor gets back there. I served them their plates, and I'm not gonna lie, it definitely made me feel better to knowing they got theirs. Moral of the story. If someone's responsible for handing your food, kindness goes a long way. I quit race dressing years ago and would never go back because of the mistreatment from customers. Oh, yeah, that's crazy.
Bunny
I always, always, always try to over tip my weight, my waiters and my waitresses, because I used to be a waitress. I used to fucking. I worked at Shoney's. I worked at Carol's on the Strip in Vegas. Where else did I work?
Confetti
I worked at.
Bunny
I think that was it. That's all the. And then I did cocktails and then I was bartender. So it's like. I don't know. I just could never imagine being mean to somebody who's working.
Confetti
Talking down to someone. Yeah, out of here, bro. What kind of entitlement do you have that you felt to.
Bunny
Yeah. Like, to treat a way I would. I'll treat a CEO the same way as I'll treat a janitor.
Confetti
Absolutely.
Bunny
Like, you cannot be a good human and look down on people ever. And I loved waitressing, bro. I would waitress now if I could.
Confetti
My dad never let me go into food service because he did it for so long.
Bunny
Yeah.
Confetti
He's like, you can do anything but food service.
Bunny
Oh, yeah.
Confetti
It was crazy. I always wanted. I really wanted to be a waitress. Now, though, I think back at it. I wouldn't have been a very good waitress because I don't have good memory retention. So if someone had asked me for ranch, I wouldn't have remembered for like four hours. Yeah, like, I probably wouldn't have been a good waitress.
Bunny
But no, I was. I killed it. It was because I get to multitask. So it was just.
Confetti
You have really good memory, too. Number especially run table. That's like.
Bunny
And I always got tipped really good, even when I was, like, younger. Like, I just always got crazy amounts of money waitressing. Yeah, I loved it. So, Yeah, I couldn't imagine. I hate that she experienced that.
Confetti
But also, on the other hand, Jaime, you made a good point. Like, you're doing that stuff behind the scenes, but. But that person was blatantly rude to your face.
Jaime
Something to think about, you know? So who's more.
Confetti
Yeah. Evil.
Bunny
Who's got more balls.
Confetti
Yeah, but I mean, who's more evil in that situation?
Bunny
Yeah.
Confetti
You did something without their knowledge.
Bunny
I hate sneaky shady. I would rather punch me in my face, but don't lie behind my back. You know what I'm saying?
Confetti
It kind of makes a point of like you did that without their knowledge, but they were blatantly rude to your face. You. But in the end, that's kind of, I don't know, a little kind of worse, would you say?
Jaime
I would.
Bunny
All these stories are crazy, ladies and gentlemen. If you have learned anything the past two weeks from these ask Tall confesses is that kindness goes a long way. Long on both ends.
Confetti
Yes.
Bunny
So if somebody's serving you, be kind to them.
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Bunny
If you're serving somebody and they're having a bad day, be kind to them. Love conquers all, ladies and gentlemen. And then we can avoid people doing.
Confetti
Weird putting pubes and burritos scratching.
Bunny
I still can't get over the heroin scabs.
Confetti
It makes me question every time I ate fast food.
Bunny
Oh, God.
Confetti
There was a period in my life I survived off of fast food.
Bunny
Me too. Yes, We've all gone.
Confetti
When I first met Jason, we had like zero money, like him and I. That was the brokest we'd ever been. Was right. When we had met and we just talked about the other day, we lived.
Bunny
Yeah.
Confetti
On the dollar menus.
Bunny
Oh, I got food poisoning from Jack in the box one time. Now it makes me wonder what happened.
Confetti
What?
Bunny
Oh, whose fucking semen did I swallow? And on that note, we're out. Love you. See you later.
Confetti
Bye.
Episode: Throwback Ask, Tell, Confess: Feral Food Service Secrets
Date: January 30, 2026
Host: Bunnie XO
Production: Dumb Blonde Productions
This episode of Dumb Blonde dives headfirst into the wild, gross, and hilarious underbelly of the food service industry, as exposed by listener confessions and the hosts' own stories. Guided by Bunnie XO and her co-hosts Confetti and Jaime, the conversation is equal parts jaw-dropping, comedic, and honest. Focusing on the shocking things that go down behind the scenes at restaurants and fast-food joints, the episode serves up stories of sex, sabotage, substance abuse, and scarily questionable hygiene. All the tales are punctuated by hearty laughs, relatable commentary, and a strong message about the importance of kindness.
Confetti recounts a jaw-dropping Waffle House story: an employee with long, dirty fingernails stirs orange juice with her arm when no clean spoons are available.
Bunnie comments on her own turn away from artificial nails due to concerns about hygiene (especially around animals):
Classic “revenge food” tales surface:
More common tales include stealing tips, hooking up in storage closets, and widespread expired food usage.
On Sex and Drugs in Food Service:
Horrified Reactions to Gross Practices:
On Ingredient Lists:
Taking Revenge on Rude Customers:
Reflections on Kindness:
Parting Thoughts:
To sum up:
This episode is a must-listen for anyone who’s ever worked in food service or eaten at a restaurant (i.e., everyone). You'll laugh, you'll cringe, and you'll probably think twice the next time you reach for the table salsa.