People who work with food all day every day can have a hard time choosing what to eat – when you’ve eaten everything on the menu more than a few times, and have access to all of the ingredients, well, you get creative.
That’s what these 13 people did, anyway, and I’ve gotta say, I like the way they think.
13. Basically a beignet.
Back at KFC/Taco Bell where I worked in high school, we used to make doughboys out of the chalupa shells. If you toss it the fryer by itself and just let it float, it gets kinda puffy and doughy.
Then you’ve got the butter they usually put on the biscuits, and cinnamon-sugar for the cinna-twists. BOOM doughboy
12. A real Frankenstein.
My friend works at Burger King, his girlfriend works at Wendy’s. At the end of the night they take scraps to feed the friend group.
From this the land (cow), air (chicken), and mud(pig) burger was invented which is a Baconator made with Burger King’s patties, Wendy’s bun and cheese, with chicken fries on it and bacon from whoever was able to get bacon.
We’ve also had a small trash bag of Wendy’s nuggets once which was great.
Unfortunately they are doing health kicks now so they’ve only been bringing salads and a few things tossed in a bag if they know someone is coming.
11. I don’t think I like Doritos that much.
When I worked at Dominos, my friend and I made a Doritos pan pizza. It was kind of slow, and she asked if I wanted to have a pan pizza. I forget why she offered a pan pizza specifically, but hey, she was offering to make us one. She also happened to have been snacking on a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos. So I told her that we should incorporate those chips into our pizza.
I then proceeded to pound and smush that Doritos bag until the chips were fine flakes and powder. First, I had my friend (she was the front store worker, so she knew how to make all the pizzas. I was just a delivery driver) re-knead the pan pizza dough. Except while she did it, I kept sprinkling the Doritos flakes into it.
Then we put the pizza sauce on it. I sprinkled Doritos onto that sauce as well. Then the cheese, as well as some toppings (I think it was pepperoni and onions?), and then sprinkled MORE Doritos on top of that.
That was definitely the best pizza I’ve ever tasted in my entire life.
10. Chocolate covered strawberries are life.
I used to work at Jamba Juice in high school.
I’d make this chocolate smoothie with fresh strawberries which was amazing!
9. You gotta stay awake.
I couldn’t do much because I wasn’t kitchen crew, but I still had all the ice cream (we maintained our machine properly) and McCafe stuff to work with.
Add some Oreo McFlurry mix-ins to the Shamrock Shake? Mint Oreo goodness.
I had a long shift and a blueberry red bull. I took the blend pitcher, dumped in the Red Bull, added some extra shaved ice and yogurt, then made a blueberry pomegranate smoothie on top, slapped it in an large cup and called it good.
Wasn’t as a good as a regular smoothie, but better than Blueberry Red Bull.
8. Yaas Queen.
Apple pie (or right now, strawberry) mixed in a cup of ice cream.
7. She’s been waiting years for this question.
Oh i have the perfect one.
I used to work at Togo’s Sandwich/Baskin Robins 31 place (slightly more upscale of Subways Sandwich for anyone that doesnt know) and an ice cream place 2 in 1 spot.
Seasonally they served BBQ pulled pork sandwiches, they were fine, nothing crazy. Well the thing was, when we got our produce shipped, the pork is separate from the bbq sauce, and thats when the idea hit me. Carnitas burritos!
We had to get pretty creative for it to work. First we used the industrial sandwich presses as our “grill” as we dont have a stove top or anything like that, grilled some onions and the pork on it. Then we used the smoothie blender to blend tomatoes, jalapeños, cilantro, lemon juice (used to preserve avocados) and salt to make the salsa. Then we heated up the tortillas used for salad wraps. At the end we had a pretty good salsa, grilled onions, carnitas, and corn and beans mix used in the santa fe salad, all wrapped up in the tortilla for a nice mexican burrito. It was a yearly tradition we did for 3 years before i finally left. Best food off the menu we ever made.
Bonus Round: i also used to work at an asian tea cafe place: i invented a drink called the Gummy Bear, it was an icy slush with a mixed shot of pineapple, strawberry, lemon, orange, and lychee with boba. Literally tasted like you took a handful of gummy bears and shoved them in your mouth, the mix of fruity unidentifiable flavors with chewy boba was great.
Also another custom drink was the kettle corn popcorn slush, it was just cookies and cream mixed with taro flavor, tasted just like kettle corn for some reason, i didnt like it, but the guy i made it for as a joke loved it and only ordered that from then on.
6. Lavender coffee is the BOMB.
My dad owns a coffee shop and he’s made himself all kinds of weird concoctions but I think the weirdest would have to be the lavender coffee.
He would put one shot of espresso into a fairly large coffee mug and fill alsmost the rest up with a mixture of whipped cream and heavy cream. Then he would our in an obscene amount of lavender syrup.
I would do something similar but in a much smaller cup with two shots of espresso and a reasonable amount of pistachio syrup. Sometimes we got offered new syrups by the company that distributes them so for a while my dad’s daily coffee had quite a large amount of cotton candy syrup in it.
5. Soooo a calzone?
Back in my Domino’s days I used to make a ‘pizza-dilla’ for me and the crew. I’d make all kinds of things but this was my favorite:
Take one large thin crust shell Fill with various cheeses, bacon, chicken, Franks red hot sauce. Fold in half, butter the outside. Run through the conveyor oven. Cut and top with more sauce and ranch
Got d**n I miss that snack.
4. Go big or go home.
Burger diner employee here. A work mate from back in the day had his regular mid shift burger called the dirty double.
From bottom to top it contained; bun, sliced tomato, lettuce, mayonnaise, 2 bacon rashers, egg, cheese, grilled chicken breast, 2 more bacon rashers, another egg, more cheese, beef patty, tomato sauce, another 2 bacon to complement another egg with another slice of cheese and then finally the bun on top.
3. I’d try that. If their crust wasn’t awful.
Used to work at papa John’s. We made breakfast pizzas.
Someone would pick up eggs at the store, we cracked them onto the crust, plus cheese, ham, sausage, onions, and green peppers.
Like a giant pizza omelet.
Sooooo good.
2. Every bag should be like this.
Movie theater person here, we doubled the salt and butter during the cooking process and then layer the butter.
Meaning fill bag half way with popcorn, butter it and then popcorn to top and butter again.
Every bite will be the same and the butter is spread evenly
1. Brownie shakes are my jam.
While working at Chick-fil-A I made a quesadilla using the tortilla from the grilled wrap, shredded cheese from the salads, and adding shredded chicken.
I also made a brownie shake by crumbling up a brownie and adding it into the shake before mixing it together.
I would never have come up with most of these, but they sound delightful. For the most part.
Which one would you order if you could? Confessions in the comments!
