A McDonald's customer was most certainly not loving it after a recent trip through the drive-thru, where she says her car was splattered with raw meat. And she still has no idea where it came from.
The incident, which occurred at a McDonald's location in the city of in Broadbeach on Australia’s Gold Coast, was documented by TikTok user Jacinta Jade. In a video posted to the platform this week, Jade says that she was treating herself to a coffee frappe when a burger patty landed on her windshield.
"I was waiting to pay at the next window and I hear a massive 'bang,'" she explained. "And I look up and there’s a raw beef patty on my windscreen. [Don't] know what to say? I have not been able to stop laughing, it’s the weirdest thing. I don't know how it's happened."
@jacintajade_ a RAW beef patty landed on my windscreen in the @McDonald’s drive thru - how did this happen!? #greenscreen #mcdonalds #australia #fyp #vlog #dailyvlog #takeout #fastfood #maccas
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Jade then showed a close-up image of the raw burger patty on her window, and it was indeed pretty disgusting. "At first I didn't even know what it was, and then I was like, 'Oh my goodness, I think that's a raw beef patty that's just been thrown at my window," she continued. However, because there was a car in front of her and behind her car, she has no idea where it came from.
She says that when she got up to the window to pay, she flagged down a McDonald's employee to explain the situation, and asked for tissues to clean it up. The employee was equally flummoxed, and apologized before putting on a pair of gloves to remove the meat from the windshield. "I'm just—I'm so confused," Jade recalled.
But there was an added twist. "The plot thickens, because I just got home and I got out of my car, and it's on the roof," she said, showing a photo of a second beef patty sitting on top of her car, before ending the video.
Commenters were likewise stunned, but some offered theories as to how it got there, such as being dropped by a bird or that a prankster procured raw meat elsewhere and threw it at her car.
"As an ex-manager that is probably not a [McDonald's] patty," one user wrote. "Definitely send a photo in an email asking them to go over the footage to see where it even came from!"
Others suggested that there was no way it could be from the Golden Arches since it was fresh, raw meat. Though, similar to McDonald's restaurants in the United States, Australia uses fresh, 100 percent beef that’s "hot, deliciously juicy and cooked when you order" in the chain's Quarter Pounders.
In other words, the internet is no closer to solving the puzzle. For now, at least, it looks like we'll have to let the mystery be.
