Jump to content

The Off Topic Thread.


KEN 24T

Recommended Posts

  • WOT?
  • Moderating Team
  • Member For: 11y 8m 16d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Frankston, 3199

Pfft Freeze - I've made the gravy at KFC

Haven't eaten it since

Scary, scary stuff when you know how stuff is made

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • I <3 Floods
  • Silver Donating Members
  • Member For: 13y 3m 9d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: South West QLD

Haha yeah I agree.. When I was a baker I would only eat pies I saw get made..

Morning f*ckers!

Why am I at work already?

Wanna hear a funny story? Coles don't make anything in there bakery. Everything is frozen. Only thing they make from scratch is cinnamon donuts and fill sponge cakes with fresh cream.

On that note things must have changed at coles a bit over the years? Back in my day the bakers at coles were making all coles bread and cakes.. It was things like donuts/crossaints that were coming in prepackaged frozen.
Edited by Slightly Depressed Panda
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Too heavy needs boost
  • Member
  • Member For: 11y 3m 4d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Adelaide

had to start at 6.30 because its a hour and a half to get to site.

get on site and the job gets canned.

easy over time.:D

hardest part of the morning now. What do I have for breakfast.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • I <3 Floods
  • Silver Donating Members
  • Member For: 13y 3m 9d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: South West QLD

You suck.. I bought in last nights leftover roast dinner for lunch..

Had it for breakfast..

Guess today's lunch is gonna be Grill'd if I ever get out of this meeting..

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Sucker
  • Moderating Team
  • Member For: 20y 6m 16d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Brisbane

Morning biatches.

Coles was in the poo recently as their whole "baked fresh in-store today" omitted to mention that everything was par-baked in Ireland and just finished in the in-store ovens.

Woolies has started doing similar in allot of their stores now with setups like Subway, they ship in unproven shaped frozen dough and prove, bake, slice, package all in a small kiosk in the centre of the store.

PS: Rain looks to have finally fcked off :buttrock: ...it's heading for you guys in Sydney though :original:

PPS: Please tell us about the KFC gravy, love to hear if it's better/same as the urban myth that's been doing to rounds for years. I'm guessing it's not as exciting as mixing demi-glace powder with hot water?

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • WOT?
  • Moderating Team
  • Member For: 11y 8m 16d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Frankston, 3199

At the bottom of the big pressure fryers there's a large catch can - collects all the crud that comes off the chicken while it's frying.

At the end of however many runs each cooker does the oil is drained and the nasty sh*te that is in the bottom is pulled. Sometimes it's fine - other times it's horrid.

When it's gravy making time a batch of this stuff is mixed with a powder. Probably doesn't sound so bad when written, but the sludge can be pretty bad at times - think of the underside of a grill tray that's been in service for a decade and never washed.

They may have changed the process in the 25 years since I was working the cookers, but can still remember freaking out when I found out how it's done. Especially given it was a fairly busy store I was in and the cookers weren't drained, filtered and cleaned quite as often as they should have been.

Keep in mind also - this was the store that they found maggots in the chicken 30 odd years ago (was before my time - but was a huge story around the playground at school)

Damn - just writing this makes me smell the bloody stuff - the smell (not too offensive) would penetrate everything and stick with you for days.

edit: what's the urban legend.

Edited by raband
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Sucker
  • Moderating Team
  • Member For: 20y 6m 16d
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Brisbane

Oh...was expecting better than that. About how all the puss from rotten chicken used to go in the gravy or something along those lines.

What youre describing may look and smell horrid but the flavour from that would be unreal. And given it's sitting at such a high temperature for so long there is no chance of it containing any live bacteria so it'd be safer to eat than anything else in the store.

But yeah I believe they have changed that process and it's all instant sh*t now.

BTW if you ever toured a chicken abattoir the gravy would be the least of your concerns. I was brought up on a beef cattle property and have seen everything so have no week stomach but it startled me. For about half an hour. :ermm:

But seriously the image of the big maori chick yanking the guts out of chickens that the machine didn't quite do properly while they are hurtling past hanging by their feet on hooks at a rate of about 1000 per minute is something that stays with you. She was one tough scary looking motherfcker. Or the dude with a stanley knife finishing off the few that slipped through after the electrified water bath and throat slitter missed a couple.

Might have to have KFC for lunch now just thinking about it :nudie:

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
  • Create New...
'