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Packets Of Sauces......

ECBG — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 22:45:46 GMT

On the radio this morning, I heard of a very young woman in her early 20's went to a McDonalds, bought $35.00 of food and was only given two packets of sauce.

WHAT she ordered wasn't shared.

She said she was going to rob the store to get more sauce packets. The police were called!!!!

If I go to McDonalds, It's rare, I need something quickly. I don't care about a sauce!

Do you have a drawer with sauces you have collected?

We DO but only from the stir fry place we order from and we use them until we run out.

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luvmybeetle — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 23:10:55 GMT

I would just ask them for more sauce.

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davisesq212 — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 23:12:22 GMT

This happened a year and a half ago.

I didn't think sauce packet issues topped the list of world problems theses days.

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Dusty1 — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 01:07:59 GMT

I don't really get the story.

I thought maybe she ordered the BTS Meals that come with special Cajun & Sweet Chill sauce for the 10 piece McNuggets.

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Bri369 — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 11:43:55 GMT

@ECBG wrote:
On the radio this morning, I heard of a very young woman in her early 20's went to a McDonalds, bought $35.00 of food and was only given two packets of sauce.
WHAT she ordered wasn't shared.

She said she was going to rob the store to get more sauce packets. The police were called!!!!

If I go to McDonalds, It's rare, I need something quickly. I don't care about a sauce!

Do you have a drawer with sauces you have collected?

We DO but only from the stir fry place we order from and we use them until we run out.

Huh?

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shoptilyadropagain — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:26:21 GMT

I'm kind of OCD when it comes to food waste or waste of any kind. If I have restaurant leftovers in the fridge, I will eat them and will use up various packets if I happen to have some leftover. Right now, I have two packets of a Buffalo Sauce that I got at Chick-Fil-A.

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Shanus — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:32:12 GMT

I ask for more sauce packets like ketchup for fries if not in my order. No biggie. I also keep the extra packets of soy or mustard that comes when I have a takeout order of Chinese food...there are times these packets are left out, so I'm sure to have backups.

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4kitties — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 13:37:42 GMT

I am thinking that there was a supply problem with the small individual packets of sauces and ketchup because of the pandemic. At least I think I remember reading about it somewhere.......

Some fast food restaurants were limiting the number of packets with each order. Maybe that is why they gave her so few......???

People sure get testy when it comes to their food...........

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Mj12 — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:00:01 GMT

No, we don't keep any sauces in a drawer. We don't save any leftover packets of anything. If I want ketchup or soy sauce for something else I get a bottle from my fridge.

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beckyb1012 — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 18:21:00 GMT

One of the drawers in my fridge I keep odds and ends and all the sauce packs go there. I do throw some away when they get old. Living alone I would rather throw an old sauce pack away then a bottle of ketchup. Which I have done many times for many full size products. I always ask for extras!!

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Miss Pepsi — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 18:51:48 GMT

I don't keep sauce packets but then I don't ask for them either. If I get exra when ordering chinese food and I generally only get 1 or 2 packets of soy, I use it and its done. I have enough stuff in my house I don't need that as well.

I think there is more to this store than what was heard on the radio.

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chickenbutt — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 19:11:45 GMT

I have a small Lock & Lock in my refrigerator with some soy sauce packets. I've had them for years. I wonder if they are any good still.

I think I also have a few of the Taco Bell or Jack in the Box taco sauce packets that are fairly old.

Do these depreciate in quality or just plain go bad?

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ECBG — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:06:02 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
I have a small Lock & Lock in my refrigerator with some soy sauce packets. I've had them for years. I wonder if they are any good still.

I think I also have a few of the Taco Bell or Jack in the Box taco sauce packets that are fairly old.

Do these depreciate in quality or just plain go bad?

@chickenbutt

I wouldn't eat them after a little over a year. The flavor would likely have turned unpleasant. Why take a chance with your food.

You can probably order a box of types of condiment packages on amazon.

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chickenbutt — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:31:40 GMT

@ECBG wrote:
@chickenbutt wrote:
I have a small Lock & Lock in my refrigerator with some soy sauce packets. I've had them for years. I wonder if they are any good still.

I think I also have a few of the Taco Bell or Jack in the Box taco sauce packets that are fairly old.

Do these depreciate in quality or just plain go bad?
@chickenbutt

I wouldn't eat them after a little over a year. The flavor would likely have turned unpleasant. Why take a chance with your food.
You can probably order a box of types of condiment packages on amazon.

I think you're right. I'll let them go.

Thanks

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KCDiva — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:37:40 GMT

There is a shortage of sauce packets in some places. People take theirs sauces seriously I guess. Taco Bell sauce packets are sold on ebay. I don't eat fast food much and so I never have any extra sauce packets. I dontl like extra junk in my refrigertor anyway. Sunday it gets cleaned out. My father, when he was alive, had a drawer of packets. Salt, pepper, jelly, ketchup, etc. You name it. He was so frugal.

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4kitties — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:50:10 GMT

When my daughters were younger and lived at home, we used to get carry out food frequently when we were rushing around with school activities and games. I used to save the packets with plastic utensils and salt and pepper packets in them. They were great to stick in a picnic basket or sack lunch.

When I cleaned out my walk in pantry last year I found a small box full of them!!🤣🤣🤣

But no sauce packets. We used them or tossed them I guess.

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LonestarBabs — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:13:03 GMT

There is a neat show on LX (I get it over-the-air) called "Frankie's Struggle Meals." The host is very creative in showing how to make great food on a budget, and one of his key methods is to use sauce and seasoning packets he keeps organized in a kitchen drawer. I was so impressed I decided to do the same -- bought plastic organizer bins and can now see those packets at a glance so they don't languish in some hidden corner.

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chrystaltree — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 22:44:26 GMT

Why didn't she ask for more sauce?