February 23, 2007
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Kentucky Fried Rats
A news station caught rats on video at a KFC-Taco Bell in New York.
Here are a few of the pictures:
Here is the link with the video on the right: Link
A news station caught rats on video at a KFC-Taco Bell in New York.
Here are a few of the pictures:
Here is the link with the video on the right: Link
Comments (89)
Oh my. I don’t think I’m going to KFC in New York anytime soon …
-Guru on the Hill
Ew
Yummy.
ugh that is so gross..
Aww, they’re so cute.
finger lickin good
Sick. I had KFC for the first (and now LAST) time last evening.
“Kentucky Fried Rats” LMAO!
That’s why I don’t eat out very often! Blech! I love all animals, but don’t need them where my food is prepared!
There are RATS and cock roaches at most restaurants….even the Fancy, Zagat rated Beverly Hills restaurants. You mix food, moisture, heat, and walla a great recipe of roaches/rats.
as long as the RATS aren’t the ones being fried at KFC…what can you do?
btw: most places bride the health inspectors to get a good rating…..now someone should do an investigation into that!
Yuck!
I was just looking at rats in the New York subway station last night =O
Yummy!
How do you know you haven’t been eating rats this whole time, hmmmmmmmmmmmm?
This is why I don’t eat fast food. D:
i walk by that kfc/taco bell every night on my way home =P
Rats are so common nowadays.
Will they be in your zoo?
So, they’re putting Cajun food in KFC now, huh?
that’s protien dude!
i know you are capable of thinking of a question for this.
EEEEEWWWWWW!
That’s my state!
This changes everything!!!!
thats not news, they escaped from the chicken frier. If you cut upa rat just right, it looks like chicken wings fried up.
oh man.. i love rodents but not in that context.
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They’re in houses too.
filthy ><;
Rats are everywhere
Come on. Every fast food restarant is going to have some rats.
Do they come as a combo with fries and a drink, or just on their own?
oh i meant bribe… LOL in my earlier post
Nothing new there. It’s New York. Ever see the really big ones that live in the subway?
You find a cockroach in your enchilada just flick ‘em off.
Ummm I beg to differ with the people who are saying rats/mice/roaches are in every restaurant. I worked in several fast food places as a teenager and I have never once seen anything like this. Granted, the state I live in doesn’t have an issue so much with rats as mice, but I have still never seen anything like this in any place I have worked. This is absolutely distgusting and not only should the place be shut down until it is completely remodeled and exterminated, the franchise owner should have his franchise revoked.
Gross! Altho I am having my own battle with mice in my kitchen. But I am going to win!!!
It’s in the West Village. I wonder if I’ve eaten there before. I rarely, if ever, eat at either Taco Bell or KFC. In fact, I know I’ve never eaten at a Taco Bell in New York. I’ve eaten at KFC, though. I feel like every place you eat in New York is gross and rat-infested.
I’m with ChrisRusso………… It’s New York!!! What did you expect???
The franchisee ought to lose his store. This wasn’t the first time he was cited. Absolutely GROSS!
As long as the food is cooked there should not be a problem as far as health goes. I fail to see what is so horrible about the rats. Obviously the franchise in question has some other problems based on what was said by the former employee questioned in the video that would help to entice the rats into the restaurant and those violations are more serious to me. One cannot by any stretch of the reasonable mind be made into a commonality between all KFC restaurants.
yum!
I agree with
Posted 2/23/2007 1:17 PM by Momentkeeper
I shadowed a food inspector and even in the seediest looking places in Bumblefuck, Alabama did not have rats and roaches. As someone has already mentioned, some restaraunt owners bribe health inspectors. The person who had been inspecting that place should be fired.
mmm….good.
They’re on the floor. I don’t really see what the big deal is as long as they don’t have access to food or food preparation equipment. And as long as they don’t fry the rats by mistake
Is anyone surprised? Nothing against New York, but there are a ton of rats there. There’s a lot of people, a lot of houses and businesses, a lot of food…
Gross though.
aww they’re so cute.
even so, i wouldn’t want them near my food….but KFC is so good.
grossssss. ive been boycotting fast food places for 2 years now. haha. (not because of rats though)
Having worked in the industry for a while, trust me…that doesn’t surprise me.
I love that food establishments keep getting away with stuff like that. The place I currently work at has cockroaches, according a various people I work with. Crunchy.
that is soo gross!!!
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I felt so sick tonight and then I had to come to your site of all websites! I should consider shock treatment…
i love how people watch a video that will only disgust them. Does that say anything?
ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.ew.
DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !
gross
This is why I eat at neither of those restaurants.
Ummm…. GROSSSSSSSSSSS
eeeeeeew
crap!
rats make good pets, tho
Thank goodness I am vegetarian and don’t go to those restaurants.
One of the MANY reasons I don’t eat fast food. And have not for the past three and a half years.
Is this suppose to shock me?
My mom found a rat when she got KFC, never went back. Which is why I just tried KFC for the first time a couple months ago.
lol eww
thats gross. ew.
Gulp…. suddenly I’m not very hungry anymore! Thanks Dan!!!
NASTY!
as a Kentuckian… I’m appalled.
They’re just rats.
taco bell and kfc are the grossest places ever. i don’t blame them for having rats though. but i do blame them for selling beef that tastes like it has already been digested.
clearly wendy’s is the superious restaurant.
That is just NASTY!!!
N*A*S*T*Y*!!!!
That place will close down, like the KFC stocks did today.
That’s really gross Dan…not my favorite post.
That’s disturbing.
Not as uncommon as you may think. I started my truck driving career as a food service delivery driver, and when you go into a restaurant early in the morning, and turn the lights on, you would be surprised what you might see running for cover. I’m not just talking KFC either. I’m talking about some restaurants that are very nice and/or expensive.
taco bell and kfc are the grossest places ever. i don’t blame them for having rats though. but i do blame them for selling beef that tastes like it has already been digested.
clearly wendy’s is the superious restaurant.
Posted 2/23/2007 4:16 PM by play_up
correct me if i’m wrong but i am pretty sure that superious is not a word. And that you obviously misspelled Arby’s.
isn’t that common in NYC?
Just one more reason to avoid fast food.
Thats why I dont eat that crappppp
Some Chinese restaraunt in my home town got busted a number of years back for keeping live ducks in their kitchen.
Ewwww
There should be a website for people to go and check out how restaurants in their area have been rated by the health department—and by patrons.
What’s the biggie? They taste like chicken.
At the time the video was recorded the facility was already shut down because of the rats. They were currently trying to take care of the problem. When you have that many people in that close an area you are bound to have vermon of some discription running around.
Wasn’t there a story where some chicken joint-I think it was KFC- accidentally fried a couple of rats and served them to customers?
Pray tell me, sir, where in New York are the rats NOT?
what are the rats living off…..and HOW THE HELL DID THEY GET IN ANYWAY?!
dont be surprised if you find your chicken half eaten.
NYC as most any metro is crawling with rodents.
But still rather nasty
Yep – I saw it on the news. Yuck!
we put a tremendous amount of faith and trust in our food procurement system, think about it !
Yeah, I saw a news magazine show that studied that sort of thing. It’s quite common.
I don’t eat at KFC but I do at Taco Bell. It tastes good, and I haven’t gotten sick. I’m going back.
Was it in Long Island New York I did live there a long time ago.
theres rats EVERYWHERE in NY… i see them all the time.. but its still gross