McDonald's manager faces 5 years in prison after posting video of herself contaminating french fries, cops say



A former manager of a McDonald's restaurant allegedly posted a video of herself "contaminating" french fries on social media and now faces prison time.

Kaylie Santos, 22, of Southbridge, Massachusetts, was arrested for the video that went viral on Facebook that showed two workers participating in the alleged contamination.

The video apparently showed Santos shoving the fries into her mouth before placing them in the fries carton.

Santos was apparently targeting her ex-girlfriend, who went through the drive-through of the restaurant on April 8, according to investigators. The video apparently showed Santos shoving the fries into her mouth before placing them in the fries carton.

"She wants french fries today, right?" Santos is heard saying, according to police.

Investigators also were able to obtain surveillance video from the store showing that she spit into the carton of fries.

When they interviewed the alleged victim, she said that she had ordered two sodas but that Santos gave her a bag of fries too. She didn't think anything of it and ate the fries.

She also claimed that Santos had been harassing her and the customer's new partner.

Santos faces one count of giving a person food "containing a foreign substance, which was intended or might reasonably be expected to cause injury."

Investigators said they tracked down the victim by searching the license plate on the video from the drive-through.

WBZ-TV reported that the video on Facebook garnered tens of thousands of views.

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The owners of the restaurant said they were cooperating with police and that they had obtained a no-trespass notice against the former manager.

"The actions of these individuals are unacceptable and do not reflect our organization's food safety standards or values," they said. "The well-being and safety of our Southbridge community remains our top priority, and we are taking swift, appropriate actions."

Entry-level McDonald's managers make about $48,000, while general managers can make up to $90,000 in that part of the country.

A poll of Americans found that McDonald's french fries blew away the competition for most popular fries among fast food restaurants.

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McRib fake-out? Sticky lawsuit claims no 'actual pork rib meat' in fan-favorite McDonald's menu item



A class-action lawsuit filed last month is challenging McDonald's over a cult-favorite menu item, the McRib.

The lawsuit, filed on December 23 in U.S. District Court in Chicago, alleges that McDonald's engaged in false advertising when promoting the limited-time menu item.

'We've always been transparent about our ingredients so guests can make the right choice for them.'

The four plaintiffs in the complaint are Peter Le of Baldwin Park, California; Charles Lynch of Poughkeepsie, New York; Darien Baker of Chicago, Illinois; and Darrick Wilson of Washington, D.C.

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The complaint claims that the McRib "does not contain any meaningful quantity of actual pork rib meat — indeed, none at all." The plaintiffs claim that the fast-food chain uses lower-quality cuts of meat instead of rib meat, including, "inter alia, pork shoulder, heart, tripe or scalded stomach."

In December 2024, when the McRib was available, the complaint shows that the McRib was one of the most expensive individual items on the menu, even exceeding the price of a Big Mac on average.

As a result, had they "known that the McRib did not contain any actual pork rib meat, [the plaintiffs] would not have purchased the McRib or would only have purchased it for a lower price."

In a statement obtained by CBS News, McDonald's USA said, "This lawsuit distorts the facts, and many of the claims are inaccurate. Food quality and safety are at the heart of everything we do — that's why we're committed to using real, quality ingredients across our entire menu. Our fan-favorite McRib sandwich is made with 100% pork sourced from farmers and suppliers across the U.S. We've always been transparent about our ingredients so guests can make the right choice for them."

CBS also reported that McDonald's denied the specific claim that the McRib contains pork hearts, tripe, or scalded stomach and that the company said the McRib has a base of 100% seasoned boneless pork.

The complaint emphasizes that the marketing for the McRib was "materially misleading" for consumers, potentially affecting their purchasing decisions.

The McRib was first introduced in Kansas City in 1981.

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Rep. Pramila Jayapal slammed with backlash after politicizing devastating wildfires in California



Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington state tried to politicize the devastating wildfires in California and faced swift backlash on social media.

Firefighters are struggling to contain several wildfires in the Los Angeles area that have spread quickly because of high winds since Monday. More than 5,000 homes and businesses have been burned to the ground, and at least 10 people have died already.

'That’s someone’s livelihood going up in flames as you cheer, you ignorant fool.'

Jayapal thought to take advantage of the natural disaster to harangue people about global warming in a post on social media Thursday.

"Corporations got us into this mess, but even they can't escape the devastating reality of climate change," wrote Jayapal, who added a video of a McDonald's restaurant in flames in the California fire.

Critics immediately assailed her for seeming to assign the blame of the fires to businesses.

"Yes, because corporations provided all those homeowners with jobs. And some of those houses were built by corporations and corporations furnished lots of the building materials. What an idiotic post," responded Brit Hume of Fox News.

"You’re an idiot. As evidenced by the ratio, anyone with an IQ above 1 understands that this has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with Democrat incompetence and woke DEI policies that have failed their constituency for far too long," replied Donald Trump Jr.

"This is sort of a psychotic thing for a member of Congress to say, no?" responded Tim Carney of the American Enterprise Institute.

"I don't know where to begin with the ignorance of this post," said Fox Business host Charles Payne.

"Likely was a small business owner who owned that @McDonalds (there are an estimated 14,300 locations in the United States of which 93 percent are franchise operations owned by people in our communities who are our neighbors, & coach our kids in Little League)," noted journalist Salena Zito.

"Most McDonalds are franchises run by small business owners with tiny profit margins. That’s someone’s livelihood going up in flames as you cheer, you ignorant fool," added Marc Thiessen, Fox News contributor.

Jayapal was similarly roasted when she praised the passage of a minimum wage hike in Seattle without addressing the unintended consequences of such policies.

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'Thank you for your service': Alex Stein calls the McDonald's that caught Mangione



While who allegedly murdered the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, is no longer a mystery — many details surrounding Luigi Mangione still are.

Mangione was discovered eating inside of a McDonald’s by an employee, and he had a backpack containing a manifesto, Monopoly money, and the murder weapon.

“Why wouldn’t he go through the drive-thru?” Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein” asks comedian JP Sears, whose “only guess” is that Mangione “was hoping Trump was working a shift and just wanted to get eyes on him.”

The McDonald’s, located in Altoona, Pennsylvania, now has a 1.4 rating on Google.

“This is very unfair. McDonald’s had a huge pop when they had the president-elect, Donald Trump, go there and serve fries. Then, shortly thereafter, they had an E.coli outbreak that hurt them a little bit, but now because they found this killer at their restaurant, internet trolls are going on the McDonald’s Yelp page and leaving one-star reviews,” Stein comments.


A popular criticism in the new one-star reviews is that the McDonald’s is full of “rats.”

“They’re mad because they’re tattletale-ing, and the mafia rat, somebody that tells and tattles to the police, is considered a rat,” Stein explains, before deciding to call the McDonald’s himself.

“So what’s the deal? They found that CEO shooter at your restaurant today?” Stein asks a McDonald’s employee over the phone. “Did you see on the news that he was at McDonald’s? Did you guys serve him a Big Mac? That’s insane. You guys serve murderers there like that?”

While the employee claimed to be unaware of what Stein was referring to, he didn’t let that stop him.

“I just want to say thank you for your service. What you do for the American people, it cannot be overstated,” he continues. “So I just want to say thank you for catching that hero, or excuse me, catching that evil person and becoming a hero today. So thank you for your service.”

“Yes sir, no problem,” the employee responds, adding, “Thank you so much for giving us a call.”

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Alex Stein ate McDonald’s French fries out of WHAT?!



Donald Trump’s afternoon working the fryer at a suburban Philadelphia McDonald’s will go down in history as one of the best political stunts of all time. Not only did it mock Kamala Harris’ unverified claims that she worked at the American multinational fast food chain in the '80s, it also expressed Trump’s appreciation and respect for working-class Americans. And he got some incredible photos to add to the iconic album of his campaign trail.

What Trump doesn’t know, however, is that it did a fourth thing: It gave the Pimp on a Blimp the idea to eat McDonald’s French fries out of a 24k gold MAGA hat.

“You guys can go to memeranch.com and you can get your own gold MAGA hat,” says Alex, holding up the $5,000, gold-dipped hat to the camera.

“In honor of Donald Trump,” Alex dumps McDonald’s French fries into the hat, tops them with mayonnaise, and chows down while he discusses the aftermath of Trump’s day at McDonald’s.

“What about the dumba** left-wing media that's coming out and saying, ‘This is a staged photo op!’ No s**t, Sherlock! What in the campaign trail isn't some sort of staged photo op?” he laughs.

“Now they're coming after Ronald McDonald; they're saying that we got [E. coli] in the quarter-pounders!” says Alex, pointing to a recent story of an E. coli outbreak at chain.

“This is fake news. I’ve had two quarter-pounders today, and I don’t even eat meat.”

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Targeting citizens for their beliefs: The SHOCKING truth about government weaponization



Weaponization of the government’s power against its opponents and even its own citizens has been steadily growing worse and for a reason.

FBI whistleblower Steve Friend is well aware as to why that is.

“To set the foundation for it, you have to go back to Barack Obama assuming office in 2009. So, a Kamala Harris presidency would mean 20 years. That’s an entire government career, a full generation of hiring that has gone across every single agency,” Friend tells Steve Deace of “The Steve Deace Show.”

“Now you have 20 years of ideologies,” he continues, adding, “and that’s how you’re getting things like McDonald's the other day, who had one franchise allow him to do one photo opportunity and then we had an E. coli breakout, CDC all over that one, and then the United States senators accusing them of price gouging and driving the stock share price down.”



Not only did the government jump at the chance to punish McDonald’s for allowing a photo op with a political opponent, but citizens across the country have fallen victim to the FACE Act.

“In the Biden administration, it’s been applied more than any other presidential administration in history,” Friend explains. “92% application towards pro-lifers, not people who were subject to fire bombings at their crisis pregnancy centers.”

“People do not know exactly the powers that are at their fingertips,” Friend continues. “They have the ability to have an assessment from the Patriot Act, which means that they can open up an investigation on any American for an articulable purpose. Don’t need probable cause of a crime.”

Deace is rightfully disturbed.

“In other words, you’re describing investigations in search of crimes. Not criminal investigations, but investigations in search of crimes. That’s what you’re describing,” Deace says.

“Find me a man, and I’ll show you the crime,” Friend agrees.

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