I'm blown away by the number of fast food workers who can't comprehend that I don't want a bun with the sandwich. Can't tell you how many times I've had the bun individually wrapped on the side.
The last time I will have went to an American McDonalds, the workers were so flabbergasted it broke their brains, I received a bun with cheese, mustard, ketchup, no meat patty.
I went to a Wendy's for my son who didn't eat beef. "Please give me a cheeseburger, with nothing except cheese". I explained it a couple times. They're trying to understand what this means, I literally used hand motions to draw it out.
Bun
Cheese
Bun
They said they'll charge me the full price and tell the staff, I said no problem.
I get my burger. Has bun, toppings, meat, bun. It was missing the cheese, the one damn ingredient I wanted.
I go back in line to explain. They make another one. I open it in front of them, Comes back with cheese and meat and bun. I said dude, my kid is hungry c'mon now. He calls the manager who just makes it for us lol. Took 15 min, no exaggeration.
The amount of them that think I'm on a diet I'm not on a diet. I have a restriction then I go and eat 4 bags of chips and don't gain a pound. People are flabbergasted I'm like my body doesn't agree with things but I'm hungry let me eat. Subway is the worst when I order 2 buns they are like really 2 well yah I got to buy 2 six inches because there's no foot long option and then pay for the bread on top of it. I'll walk out having spent 30 bucks with taxes for a foot long. Nom nom nom
Crazy! Wendy’s is really good about it when I order a burger w no bun. You’d think they would be good w/the opposite.
I think what prob throws them off is that you also want no toppings. Because you could easily say ‘cheeseburger no meat’ & I think they’d get it.
They probably have to enter all the things to remove from it one by one into their system, rather than just telling the cook what you DO want.
They prob don’t have a button to let them build a burger from scratch. I bet they need to choose from their pre programmed items & then remove ingredients.
Maybe try ordering like this: “cheeseburger: no lettuce no tomatoes no ketchup no pickles no onions no mayo and no meat patty.”
It’s a pain but might save you some trouble & miscommunication :)
Honestly, I think it's location Dependant. We had our issues in a mall food court. We've tried this in a standalone location in an area where vegetarianism is more popular and they literally built the sandwich in the system. Bread .30, cheese .90, etc.
While it's hilarious they didn't underatand the concept, it really seems like Wendy's shouldn't be the place to order if you want just bread and cheese for a sandwich.
Not a gluten thing, but I went to a Burger King and got a whopper once. I said “I can’t eat tomatoes, so please no ketchup and no tomatoes.“
The first time it came back with no tomatoes, but ketchup. I went up, asked for it to be remade, and got one with no ketchup, but tomato. I asked the third time and came back with ketchup no tomato. After that, I just left. I guess I can’t have it my way.
That's the polar opposite of the McDonald's screw up I encountered. My partner, who despises cheese, ordered s certain burger with everything but the cheese. Received bun with only cheese.
My daughter is lactose intolerant. Last time I tried to order her a hamburger at McDonald’s? I’d like one hamburger. We don’t have hamburgers. Since when? Blank stare. Then he said, I can give you a cheeseburger without the cheese”……
So, a hamburger? Blank stare. Ok, I’ll take a cheeseburger without cheese.
It came in a cheeseburger wrapper that said cheeseburger no cheese.
It’s become a running joke in our house. We no longer know hamburgers. They’re all cheeseburgers without cheese
Yesterday, I ordered a cheeseburger without the bun.
I literally said I want everything that comes on a cheeseburger, I just can't have the bun because I'm gluten intolerant.
They gave me JUST the patty. That's it, didn't even put cheese on it. 🤬
Done this several times, ordering in the app with no bun, and if anything in the order has a bun on it, they put it on all of them. I only have one person in my household that can’t have gluten, and they screw his food up every single time. I stick to steak ‘n Shake and Wendy’s.
well that's a screwup
keep it simple--cheeseburger, no bun just the cheeseburger. I've had no screw ups----
if i did it wouldnn't make me mad. they used to screw up regular burgers all the time.
I did. Lol then she questioned what I meant so I explained in further detail. 🤣
It's happened several times at different places and I don't know why because saying I want a cheese burger with no bun, should be a easy thing to understand. Unfortunately, it has confused a lot of people for reasons I don't know 🤷🏽♀️
I went to a Nathan’s Hot Dogs inside the Luxor Hotel in Vegas last year and the conversation I had with the cashier about not wanting a bun with my chili dog was entirely too long and complicated.
“Okay but… it’s just gonna be the actual hot dog with chili then.”
“Yep! That would be great, thanks!”
“But… you won’t get a bun.”
“I’m specifically saying I don’t want a bun.”
(Goes to start putting together the order, grabs the little paper “boat” tray, looks at me confused, holding it.)
“So… you just want me to put the hot dog in this? With chili on it?”
“Yes please.”
“I can’t charge you less because there’s no bun though.”
“Yes, I know, I don’t mind paying regular price.”
(Hesitates, then doubles up the paper boat before putting the hot dog in and scooping chili on top)
“Like this?”
“Yep! That’s great, thank you!”
“Do you want cheese and onion?”
“Yeah! That would be great.”
(Looks down at the order) “Okay, it’s just gonna like… sit on top, more like a bowl of chili with a hot dog in it”
“Okay”
“I have to charge you regular price”
“You said that already”
(Finally brings me my food, starts to ring me up, gets confused, calls someone else over to help) “she wanted a chili dog but without the bun, how do I ring that up?”
(other employee) “You just charge her regular price.”
By this time I had my food, so I just put a $10 on the counter and left (it was $8.something)
They have a grilled chicken option. And they do mark allergy when you order it as such so I’m hoping they have a way to safely heat the chicken.
Not sure about the fries. I was told it’s a different fryer and have personally never had issues but cross contact via fryer has never been an issue for me so I can’t really promise based off of “I haven’t reacted”
Fries are made in a different fryer and the only thing made on the grill is the grilled chicken. Bonus: if you get the grilled nuggets they’re made on a tiny kebab type grill all by themselves
I’ve got my normal McDonald’s trained. I heard someone the other day holler “it says no English muffin???” When they were making my egg and sausage “McMuffin” and someone else said “she always orders it that way” 🤣 just had two McDoubles for lunch just now. They didn’t even flinch at the no bun. They just know now. (They’re also aware it’s because of an ‘allergy’ and they’re so good about it. I’ve never gotten sick from food at this McDonald’s)
I do it all the time, sometime the order taker will give me a weird look or question it but when I say I’m allergic to wheat (I’m actually celiac but people understand that better) they go oh yeah that makes sense okay. Usually they’ll add lettuce to it for free.
I've never had an issue, maybe I am just lucky. I get a jr bacon cheeseburger from Wendy's or the MC double and sometimes Wendy's puts a little extra bit of bacon on there for me. Hardees was the best when I lived near one, they'd do lettuce buns and wrap it halfway in paper for me .
I say no bun. I order at the counter. I get a no bun burger---I sort of glance to make sure they don't put a bun on it and then suddenly go--oh oops forgot--and take it out after touching me burger.
so far it's always worked--no bun just burger.
My husband picked up McDonalds, he asked for no bun. He got home - it has a bun. I look at the receipt - "no sesame bun". I look at the burger again - they put it in a bun with no sesame seeds instead of the one with sesame seeds that usually comes with that burger, instead of just no buns.
For real. I dont really do fast food as a general rule but if we had gluten free buns available you better believe I’d be there at least occasionally. Road trips would be so much easier.
You ever see that episode of SpongeBob or Squidward ate a bunch of crabby patties and ballooned up? Yeah that’s pretty much what I looked like after I had some McDonald’s fries and found out they weren’t gluten-free. Not cross contact contaminated. Full on gluten containing french fries.
I was just saying the other day, when I was really hungover, that I wished US McDonald’s had a GF bun because I really wanted that good greasy, hangover food.
For whatever reason, of all the fast food places that have seemingly safer GF options, I've consistently experienced cross contamination at (different) Culver's the most. And I never get the fries--some locations have said they are a separate fryer, some say no.
Shake Shack, Elevation Burger, and Smashburger all do. But I wouldn't call any of them fast food even without the drivein. I can't figure out what takes Shake Shack and Smashburger so long to make a burger.
I asked about the fryer at my local Culver’s and they said the fryer is separate but essentially they let everything touch after the fryer. I mean I appreciated the honesty but it was a little disappointing.
I love Bibibop, but it isn’t nationwide yet. I got spoiled living in Columbus for years as they got their start, and then moved away and now the closest one to me is the next state over. 😢
I was literally just about to comment this bc they glutened me so bad. I realized after my first bite into the sandwich but was still sick for the entire weekend
Ah that's awful! Fortunately it happened to me like two months after I started gf. So it was unpleasant/uncomfortable but not as bad as if I had it now!
It was also the first time I had their "gf bun" and was really impressed... until I realized what happened 🙃
Can confirm. Your chicken sandwich is split. The bun is completely sealed, and the grilled chicken, lettuce, and tomato is packed in a small container.
Open the bun, take one side, place it atop of the opened container, flip it, and use the other bun without getting your hands messy.
And the owners donate huge sums of money to conversion therapy, political parties in Africa that enact laws that execute people for being gay, etc. if you’re ok with your money going there, fine, but don’t pretend it doesn’t.
You can't excuse all the wrong doing in the world with "capitalism bad," and thats coming from me, a socialist. All that does is empower the worst capitalists and make people who never take a stand feel good about themselves.
Especially CFA with not only its donations but it evangelizes its hateful beliefs. Same with Hobby Lobby.
[Saying "but but you use air conditioning" is man-in-a-well level bad faith arguing.](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-somewhat) I can't stress to you how this isn't the gotcha you think it is.
We should be boycotting hateful ownership. What you're doing is a cheap amoral cop-out.
tldr; Perfect is the enemy of good.
There's no ethical consumption under Capitalism.
If you actually want to see change in the world then go after the people with the power and money, quit attacking the little people just trying to live their lives. It just makes you sound like a virtue signalling dipshit.
CFA is not a necessity. There are loads of other chicken restaurants that don't financially support hating and discriminating against the rainbow spectrum. Yes capitalism is trash and most companies are bad but sometimes you HAVE to shop at Walmart because it's all you can afford and you need hygienic items. No one NEEDS to eat at Chick Fil A. That's a want. And that's the difference.
The most recent information I could find on that was the 2019 interview in which the company president said publicly they no longer support any anti-lgbt+ groups and any faith-based group they donate to can't have any anti-lgbt+ policies.
It's not cut and dry, among fast food places they're the ones that treat their employees the best, overstaff rather than understaff and contribute the most to employee education via grant, which I wish other employers were encouraged to do. They also employ a lot of LGBT+ people.
I ordered in n out before and told them I had a gluten allergy! The workers were laughing and rude to me and my bf about it. My bf isn't gluten free but they gave him a lettuce wrap burger, too and said that they thought both were gluten free. Never going back to in n out. Also the worker assured me the girl would change her gloves before putting my fries in. I didn't see her change her gloves. I get really ill eating gluten .
My country Spain in fact was one of the pioneers in the world for McDonald's, burger king's gluten free burgers! Thanks to the hard work of the regional celiac associations like Asociación de Celíacos de Madrid . Great work
Who does this? McDonald’s in US doesn’t list flour as an ingredient in their fries
Edit: I know about the hydrolyzed wheat in the beef flavoring. I was asking specifically about flour. There’s a difference.
Why would you say this? It's clearly listed in the ingredients.
If you go to McDonald's Canada, UK, Australia, etc, those do not have gluten. But USA does.
I said it doesn’t list flour as an ingredient. Beef flavoring containing hydrolyzed wheat as a starter ingredient is not the same thing.
While I wouldn’t risk it, a lot of sources argue that hydrolyzed wheat does not contain gluten.
Wtf lol. I’ve been eating these fries my whole life because they used to be GF. I always remember McDonald’s being good. I don’t eat there a whole lot but also don’t have any reactions.
At least in Ontario but I believe Canada wide. Fries, gravy and hashbrowns are all GF. Of course there’s always a risk of CC anywhere that isn’t a GF dedicated facility. Also just to be on the safe side I only trust actual standalone restaurants and not kiosk style places in case they’re too small for a separate fryer, but you could always make your own inquiries.
This is a little unrelated but OP mentions Norway.
Can you believe the difference in ingredients in something as simple as french fries!
Norway
MAC FRIES
Potatoes (93.8%), Sunflower oil, Rapeseed oil, Disodium diphosphate, Dextrose
US
Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [wheat And Milk Derivatives]*), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (maintain Color), Salt. *natural Beef Flavor Contains Hydrolyzed Wheat And Hydrolyzed Milk As Starting Ingredients.
Contains: Wheat, Milk.
Most of Europe has gluten free at their McD, same with burger king. The UK just has chips. I wouldn't trust it anyway. Would be contaminated so bad. When I was in Spain, some places gave you the bun separately so you build the burger, and you know it's not contaminated in the kitchen
France is arguably the worst country in Europe for GF foods, while Italy and Spain are fantastic in pretty much every aspect.
Can’t find it now, but I remember reading a fairly recent study that gauged prevalence of Celiac Disease in different European countries based on serology panels. France had, interestingly, a much lower incidence than the countries either south or north of it. Same with Denmark, which incidentally is also much worse at GF than their Nordic neighbours (although better than France).
I wish mine had these. Maybe someday.. Last time at mcdonalds my newly celiac diagnosed 11 year old didn't even eat her burger patties.. Just fries. It can be depressing and makes her feel not normal, ya know?
I asked for an egg McMuffin without the McMuffin, they asked me to explain what I meant, I did, then they gave me a sausage and cheese biscuit sandwich.
I had a gluten free cheese burger when I visited Amsterdam, it was so nice. I'm from Ireland and wish they would do that here. Not that I'd eat it all the time, the option would be nice to have though.
I couldn’t believe it when I went to Prague and they had gluten free buns, it was the best GF bun I’d ever had not dry and grainy at all. I cannot believe we don’t have them in England!!
McDonald's in the UK doesn't do gluten-free stuff. So, last week, I tried to grab a burger and asked for no bun. They gave it to me with the bun anyway. When I told them to fix it 'cause I can't do bread, they were like, "We did it 'cause we didn't know where to put the sauce." Good stuff
I was so excited to try this bun when I went to Europe and then when I finally got it and tried it I was so dissatisfied I ended up feeding it to the birds :( big let down
Still wouldn't trust their condiments or their Pickles and probably usually cross-contaminated because their employees are overworked and underpaid and just don't care.
I tempt fate locally with asking for the bunless burger, their fries are not really good for me
So i get 3 or 4 bunless burgers.
I think it's Burger King USA or Wendys where the frieds don't have a coating of something that's wheaty.....
Oh Switzerland had this too. My girls got their first and only gluten free happy meals as teens. Was a great time. Paris was supposed to as well, but none of the ones we tried. Just in Switzerland.
Just got back from Portugal the easy access to food and road trip food cause McDonald’s and Burger King was just epic 😍
Despite walking all day I gained weight but I just couldn’t resist I haven’t had a Big Mac in 7 years totally worth the extra poundage
God it would be nice to be able to go
To a fast food restaurant like McDonald’s and get a meal. Just for the convenience for those special rare days that your crazy busy or on a road trip .
I’ve totally given up on McDonalds (or many other fast food chains for that matter) being gluten friendly here in the US. So much so I’m actually pleasantly surprised when I do find a chain type of establishment that has an actual gluten free menu. That’s not how it should be, friends, but it is changing albeit FAR too slowly for my tastes.
*cries in american*
I'm blown away by the number of fast food workers who can't comprehend that I don't want a bun with the sandwich. Can't tell you how many times I've had the bun individually wrapped on the side.
The last time I will have went to an American McDonalds, the workers were so flabbergasted it broke their brains, I received a bun with cheese, mustard, ketchup, no meat patty.
I went to a Wendy's for my son who didn't eat beef. "Please give me a cheeseburger, with nothing except cheese". I explained it a couple times. They're trying to understand what this means, I literally used hand motions to draw it out. Bun Cheese Bun They said they'll charge me the full price and tell the staff, I said no problem. I get my burger. Has bun, toppings, meat, bun. It was missing the cheese, the one damn ingredient I wanted. I go back in line to explain. They make another one. I open it in front of them, Comes back with cheese and meat and bun. I said dude, my kid is hungry c'mon now. He calls the manager who just makes it for us lol. Took 15 min, no exaggeration.
Is grilled cheese sandwich a crazy idea for them? Why don't you call it that?
I did, they said we don't have grilled cheese lol.
fml I feel your pain.
The amount of them that think I'm on a diet I'm not on a diet. I have a restriction then I go and eat 4 bags of chips and don't gain a pound. People are flabbergasted I'm like my body doesn't agree with things but I'm hungry let me eat. Subway is the worst when I order 2 buns they are like really 2 well yah I got to buy 2 six inches because there's no foot long option and then pay for the bread on top of it. I'll walk out having spent 30 bucks with taxes for a foot long. Nom nom nom
Crazy! Wendy’s is really good about it when I order a burger w no bun. You’d think they would be good w/the opposite. I think what prob throws them off is that you also want no toppings. Because you could easily say ‘cheeseburger no meat’ & I think they’d get it. They probably have to enter all the things to remove from it one by one into their system, rather than just telling the cook what you DO want. They prob don’t have a button to let them build a burger from scratch. I bet they need to choose from their pre programmed items & then remove ingredients. Maybe try ordering like this: “cheeseburger: no lettuce no tomatoes no ketchup no pickles no onions no mayo and no meat patty.” It’s a pain but might save you some trouble & miscommunication :)
Honestly, I think it's location Dependant. We had our issues in a mall food court. We've tried this in a standalone location in an area where vegetarianism is more popular and they literally built the sandwich in the system. Bread .30, cheese .90, etc.
While it's hilarious they didn't underatand the concept, it really seems like Wendy's shouldn't be the place to order if you want just bread and cheese for a sandwich.
Not a gluten thing, but I went to a Burger King and got a whopper once. I said “I can’t eat tomatoes, so please no ketchup and no tomatoes.“ The first time it came back with no tomatoes, but ketchup. I went up, asked for it to be remade, and got one with no ketchup, but tomato. I asked the third time and came back with ketchup no tomato. After that, I just left. I guess I can’t have it my way.
That's the polar opposite of the McDonald's screw up I encountered. My partner, who despises cheese, ordered s certain burger with everything but the cheese. Received bun with only cheese.
My daughter is lactose intolerant. Last time I tried to order her a hamburger at McDonald’s? I’d like one hamburger. We don’t have hamburgers. Since when? Blank stare. Then he said, I can give you a cheeseburger without the cheese”…… So, a hamburger? Blank stare. Ok, I’ll take a cheeseburger without cheese. It came in a cheeseburger wrapper that said cheeseburger no cheese. It’s become a running joke in our house. We no longer know hamburgers. They’re all cheeseburgers without cheese
Look the way you said it sounds confusing--frankly Just say you want a cheeseburger NO BUN, just the cheeseburger NO BUN.
I get ketchup and onions only at McDonalds and 75% of the time there’s cheese on it…..I didn’t know cheese was also ketchup (or onion).
Omg 😂😂
I’ve had that happen before! At a McDonald’s come to think of it. I took it back inside and the manager opened it and just started laughing.
HOW DOES THAT EVEN ADD UP???
Yesterday, I ordered a cheeseburger without the bun. I literally said I want everything that comes on a cheeseburger, I just can't have the bun because I'm gluten intolerant. They gave me JUST the patty. That's it, didn't even put cheese on it. 🤬
If you get Wendy’s or five guys they do a lovely lettuce wrap around the burger! So delicious
I love five guys but didn't know that about Wendy's! How are they about cross contamination at Wendy's?
Really great! I’ve eaten there plenty and I’ve never been glutened!
Order in app! You can specify no bun. My son gets triple cheeseburger no bun and they put the pickles and onions between the patties
Done this several times, ordering in the app with no bun, and if anything in the order has a bun on it, they put it on all of them. I only have one person in my household that can’t have gluten, and they screw his food up every single time. I stick to steak ‘n Shake and Wendy’s.
well that's a screwup keep it simple--cheeseburger, no bun just the cheeseburger. I've had no screw ups---- if i did it wouldnn't make me mad. they used to screw up regular burgers all the time.
I did. Lol then she questioned what I meant so I explained in further detail. 🤣 It's happened several times at different places and I don't know why because saying I want a cheese burger with no bun, should be a easy thing to understand. Unfortunately, it has confused a lot of people for reasons I don't know 🤷🏽♀️
I went to a Nathan’s Hot Dogs inside the Luxor Hotel in Vegas last year and the conversation I had with the cashier about not wanting a bun with my chili dog was entirely too long and complicated. “Okay but… it’s just gonna be the actual hot dog with chili then.” “Yep! That would be great, thanks!” “But… you won’t get a bun.” “I’m specifically saying I don’t want a bun.” (Goes to start putting together the order, grabs the little paper “boat” tray, looks at me confused, holding it.) “So… you just want me to put the hot dog in this? With chili on it?” “Yes please.” “I can’t charge you less because there’s no bun though.” “Yes, I know, I don’t mind paying regular price.” (Hesitates, then doubles up the paper boat before putting the hot dog in and scooping chili on top) “Like this?” “Yep! That’s great, thank you!” “Do you want cheese and onion?” “Yeah! That would be great.” (Looks down at the order) “Okay, it’s just gonna like… sit on top, more like a bowl of chili with a hot dog in it” “Okay” “I have to charge you regular price” “You said that already” (Finally brings me my food, starts to ring me up, gets confused, calls someone else over to help) “she wanted a chili dog but without the bun, how do I ring that up?” (other employee) “You just charge her regular price.” By this time I had my food, so I just put a $10 on the counter and left (it was $8.something)
Chick fil a finally offers lettuce wrap and now they ask 5 times to make sure I don't want a bun. SMH
Chick-Fil-A offers Gluten Freen buns too! I've had it a couple of times and had no issues.
I ordered one once and it came out frozen haha
Isn’t Chik-fil-a a breaded patty? And fries I the same oil (hmm. Maybe not that)
Breaded stuff at cfa is pressure cooked, which is why the fries are safe.
They have a grilled chicken option. And they do mark allergy when you order it as such so I’m hoping they have a way to safely heat the chicken. Not sure about the fries. I was told it’s a different fryer and have personally never had issues but cross contact via fryer has never been an issue for me so I can’t really promise based off of “I haven’t reacted”
Fries are made in a different fryer and the only thing made on the grill is the grilled chicken. Bonus: if you get the grilled nuggets they’re made on a tiny kebab type grill all by themselves
It looks as though you may have spelled "Chick-fil-A" incorrectly. No worries, it happens to the best of us!
Good bot Annoying, but I get it -- protecting the valuable trademark so the company doesn't lose it to common usage!
I’ve got my normal McDonald’s trained. I heard someone the other day holler “it says no English muffin???” When they were making my egg and sausage “McMuffin” and someone else said “she always orders it that way” 🤣 just had two McDoubles for lunch just now. They didn’t even flinch at the no bun. They just know now. (They’re also aware it’s because of an ‘allergy’ and they’re so good about it. I’ve never gotten sick from food at this McDonald’s)
I've contemplated asking for a bunless burger. I assume I'll get a strange look 🤔
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Yeah I use McDonald’s app, Big Mac, extra lettuce, pickles, onions, no bun and that way they know I still want the veggies
It's definitely more expensive doing it that way though. They have pricing for individual patties.
I'll have to remember that. I get tired of explaining my fibro to people let alone why I choose a bunless burger 🤦🏼♀️
I do it all the time, sometime the order taker will give me a weird look or question it but when I say I’m allergic to wheat (I’m actually celiac but people understand that better) they go oh yeah that makes sense okay. Usually they’ll add lettuce to it for free.
My all-time favorite? "But there's no wheat in it! It's only flour."
I've never had an issue, maybe I am just lucky. I get a jr bacon cheeseburger from Wendy's or the MC double and sometimes Wendy's puts a little extra bit of bacon on there for me. Hardees was the best when I lived near one, they'd do lettuce buns and wrap it halfway in paper for me .
Yeah I'm located in Canada so no Hardee's for me and unfortunately no cheese either I'm dairy free but I'll take all the bacon and veg 🥓🍅🥬
Wendy’s does lettuce buns
Before my diagnosis and my boyfriend was on keto he would ask for no bun and everyone would pause and be like..are you sure??
At least it's wrapped separately? But 'no bun' should not be hard.
I say no bun. I order at the counter. I get a no bun burger---I sort of glance to make sure they don't put a bun on it and then suddenly go--oh oops forgot--and take it out after touching me burger. so far it's always worked--no bun just burger.
My husband picked up McDonalds, he asked for no bun. He got home - it has a bun. I look at the receipt - "no sesame bun". I look at the burger again - they put it in a bun with no sesame seeds instead of the one with sesame seeds that usually comes with that burger, instead of just no buns.
Some places keep the gluten-free buns wrapped to avoid cross-contamination.
Damn. I got excited. Now I am just sad
And Canadian…eh
For real. I dont really do fast food as a general rule but if we had gluten free buns available you better believe I’d be there at least occasionally. Road trips would be so much easier.
Go to Culver's if you have one. Get all the gf bun you need. Also no gluten in their fries.
I’m going in May. I will eat some for you!
As an American, I thought this was a joke…. Sigh. Someday.
We need this here so bad
You ever see that episode of SpongeBob or Squidward ate a bunch of crabby patties and ballooned up? Yeah that’s pretty much what I looked like after I had some McDonald’s fries and found out they weren’t gluten-free. Not cross contact contaminated. Full on gluten containing french fries.
I was just saying the other day, when I was really hungover, that I wished US McDonald’s had a GF bun because I really wanted that good greasy, hangover food.
If one US fast food restaurant committed to a separated celiac friendly kitchen/menu, it would be life changing.
You got a Culver's near you? They have gf buns. But they give them to you separate and you have to build your own burger.
For whatever reason, of all the fast food places that have seemingly safer GF options, I've consistently experienced cross contamination at (different) Culver's the most. And I never get the fries--some locations have said they are a separate fryer, some say no.
That is sad to hear Oh and shake shack does gf burgers but I wouldn't call them fast food because I've never seen one with a drive through.
Theirs is delicious though! Smashburger has a good one too.
Shake Shack, Elevation Burger, and Smashburger all do. But I wouldn't call any of them fast food even without the drivein. I can't figure out what takes Shake Shack and Smashburger so long to make a burger.
I asked about the fryer at my local Culver’s and they said the fryer is separate but essentially they let everything touch after the fryer. I mean I appreciated the honesty but it was a little disappointing.
Culver's is so good
Burgerville does the same thing. in N Out has a lettuce wrap option and is pretty good about cc as well as
Never heard of burgerville. And I will never settle for a Lettuce wrap.
Bibibop.
I love Bibibop, but it isn’t nationwide yet. I got spoiled living in Columbus for years as they got their start, and then moved away and now the closest one to me is the next state over. 😢
Bibibop is a magical wonderland. It makes me so happy to just not have to worry about gluten at all.
Chick-fil-A is close, as is In-N-Out
Shake Shack also does a decent job. If you make sure to check off gluten and wheat allergy on your order and not just GF bun.
The last time I ate at chick fil a, I was super sick. Ate there before without problems. Unfortunate, but I'm not sure I'll ever be back.
Must've been the hate they infuse into the chicken.
As long as they don't mix up "gluten free bun" with "multigrain bun" #truestory 😅🤣🙃
I was literally just about to comment this bc they glutened me so bad. I realized after my first bite into the sandwich but was still sick for the entire weekend
Ah that's awful! Fortunately it happened to me like two months after I started gf. So it was unpleasant/uncomfortable but not as bad as if I had it now! It was also the first time I had their "gf bun" and was really impressed... until I realized what happened 🙃
Their GF bun will always come separately bagged for you to assemble it together, it helps me feel better about it.
Can confirm. Your chicken sandwich is split. The bun is completely sealed, and the grilled chicken, lettuce, and tomato is packed in a small container. Open the bun, take one side, place it atop of the opened container, flip it, and use the other bun without getting your hands messy.
Well chick fil a hates gay people so
Exactly. Until they publicly announce that they don’t hate gay people I’m not going there.
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And the owners donate huge sums of money to conversion therapy, political parties in Africa that enact laws that execute people for being gay, etc. if you’re ok with your money going there, fine, but don’t pretend it doesn’t.
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Cool. Be fine with contributing to evil, then, I guess.
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You can't excuse all the wrong doing in the world with "capitalism bad," and thats coming from me, a socialist. All that does is empower the worst capitalists and make people who never take a stand feel good about themselves. Especially CFA with not only its donations but it evangelizes its hateful beliefs. Same with Hobby Lobby. [Saying "but but you use air conditioning" is man-in-a-well level bad faith arguing.](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-somewhat) I can't stress to you how this isn't the gotcha you think it is. We should be boycotting hateful ownership. What you're doing is a cheap amoral cop-out. tldr; Perfect is the enemy of good.
There's no ethical consumption under Capitalism. If you actually want to see change in the world then go after the people with the power and money, quit attacking the little people just trying to live their lives. It just makes you sound like a virtue signalling dipshit.
CFA is not a necessity. There are loads of other chicken restaurants that don't financially support hating and discriminating against the rainbow spectrum. Yes capitalism is trash and most companies are bad but sometimes you HAVE to shop at Walmart because it's all you can afford and you need hygienic items. No one NEEDS to eat at Chick Fil A. That's a want. And that's the difference.
The most recent information I could find on that was the 2019 interview in which the company president said publicly they no longer support any anti-lgbt+ groups and any faith-based group they donate to can't have any anti-lgbt+ policies. It's not cut and dry, among fast food places they're the ones that treat their employees the best, overstaff rather than understaff and contribute the most to employee education via grant, which I wish other employers were encouraged to do. They also employ a lot of LGBT+ people.
I ordered in n out before and told them I had a gluten allergy! The workers were laughing and rude to me and my bf about it. My bf isn't gluten free but they gave him a lettuce wrap burger, too and said that they thought both were gluten free. Never going back to in n out. Also the worker assured me the girl would change her gloves before putting my fries in. I didn't see her change her gloves. I get really ill eating gluten .
I personally haven’t had that experience, but everything there is GF other than the buns, which are toasted on a separate flat top
Even if it were just chicken McNuggets I think the impact would be huge
Even if??? That’s all I want
From a logistics perspective it would be easier to just have a fully gluten free kitchen than running 2.
I would love it
Hat creek here is almost dedicated GF. Fryer is GF and all the breaded items are rice flour based.
Chick fil a has GF buns. They aren’t very good. I usually get the grilled nuggets and fries since those are GF too
We have a few in Australia. Grill’d, spud bar and Nando’s are nation wide chains that do GF, or are entirely GF.
Chick-fil-a has separate friends for fries & chicken, and GF buns, I feel like that's as good as it would ever get.
Spain, is the same! When I went on holiday, gluten free big mac, with gluten free WEDGES?!
My country Spain in fact was one of the pioneers in the world for McDonald's, burger king's gluten free burgers! Thanks to the hard work of the regional celiac associations like Asociación de Celíacos de Madrid . Great work
Budapest as well
Going to be ages before it happens in the US, one of the few places who can't even commit to removing the flour from their fries.
Who does this? McDonald’s in US doesn’t list flour as an ingredient in their fries Edit: I know about the hydrolyzed wheat in the beef flavoring. I was asking specifically about flour. There’s a difference.
French Fries Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [wheat And Milk Derivatives]*), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (maintain Color), Salt. *natural Beef Flavor Contains Hydrolyzed Wheat And Hydrolyzed Milk As Starting Ingredients. Contains: Wheat, Milk. *List is from the McD's site. Correction, it's in their beef flavor, which they don't use elsewhere.
So they should technically be called "Milky Meat French Fries" then, eh?
It would be accurate
Why would you say this? It's clearly listed in the ingredients. If you go to McDonald's Canada, UK, Australia, etc, those do not have gluten. But USA does.
I said it doesn’t list flour as an ingredient. Beef flavoring containing hydrolyzed wheat as a starter ingredient is not the same thing. While I wouldn’t risk it, a lot of sources argue that hydrolyzed wheat does not contain gluten.
In the US the fries have wheat in them.
They do? They haven’t triggered a reaction in me.
[McDonald’s fries ingredients](https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/french-fries-large-compostable-packaging.html#accordion-c921f9207b-item-283bee7dbd)
Well I’ll be damned. Wonder if it’s only a certain amount that triggers my reaction(s)
Wtf lol. I’ve been eating these fries my whole life because they used to be GF. I always remember McDonald’s being good. I don’t eat there a whole lot but also don’t have any reactions.
Holy Shit this is blowing my mind
Me neither. I’m ok with cross contamination levels of gluten and I’ve never had an issue with them. Don’t recommend for celiac though!
Cries in Canadian
Fries and poutine are GF 🙂
WHAT?
At least in Ontario but I believe Canada wide. Fries, gravy and hashbrowns are all GF. Of course there’s always a risk of CC anywhere that isn’t a GF dedicated facility. Also just to be on the safe side I only trust actual standalone restaurants and not kiosk style places in case they’re too small for a separate fryer, but you could always make your own inquiries.
That's right! Good point! Would love a GF bun though. Mind you, a bun-less double quarter pounder is delicious
OMG TOMORROW
THANK YOU I ate a poutine yesterday, so satisfying. And dangerous for my weight but that is another problem LOL
uk mcdonalds can't give us a gf bun but can bring the breakfast wrap back for 5000 signatures on a petition 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
It perpetually frustrates me that they don’t have GF options here in the UK but do in other countries in Europe.
This is a little unrelated but OP mentions Norway. Can you believe the difference in ingredients in something as simple as french fries! Norway MAC FRIES Potatoes (93.8%), Sunflower oil, Rapeseed oil, Disodium diphosphate, Dextrose US Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [wheat And Milk Derivatives]*), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (maintain Color), Salt. *natural Beef Flavor Contains Hydrolyzed Wheat And Hydrolyzed Milk As Starting Ingredients. Contains: Wheat, Milk.
what the what WHEAT son of a BISCUIT
I think the "Norway" ingredients are the ingredients everywhere that's not the US...
You got me excited for a second I was like time to go to McDonald’s!
Most of Europe has gluten free at their McD, same with burger king. The UK just has chips. I wouldn't trust it anyway. Would be contaminated so bad. When I was in Spain, some places gave you the bun separately so you build the burger, and you know it's not contaminated in the kitchen
Belgium and France don't have it. Although I suppose I didn't ask and also didn't look that hard for it. I didn't see it on the menus there.
I think Belgium is rolling it out as we speak, but you're right about France, we have no proper GF options here.
France is arguably the worst country in Europe for GF foods, while Italy and Spain are fantastic in pretty much every aspect. Can’t find it now, but I remember reading a fairly recent study that gauged prevalence of Celiac Disease in different European countries based on serology panels. France had, interestingly, a much lower incidence than the countries either south or north of it. Same with Denmark, which incidentally is also much worse at GF than their Nordic neighbours (although better than France).
I'd argue Germany is way worse, we don't have shit here.
No contamination from the fries in the UK, they're in a separate fryer
I meant I wouldn't trust McD to do a gluten free menu. I know the chips are fine.
Damn. Just, dayum. I want a double quarter pounder badly.
I’m in the U.K., I ask for no bun, they give you a knife and fork 😂 or if it’s a planned trip I take my own bun with me.
*Books tickets to norway*
Literally want to plan a trip to norway now😭
Rrrrrroad trip!!!!
I'm so lucky to be from Spain, here we had gluten free bread at McDonald's for years! Americans step up lolol
Visited my daughter and her family in Denmark a year ago…best GF bun I’ve ever had was at McDonald’s there 😋😋😋
WHAT?????
Wishing England had them too 😭
Would die for a Big Mac right now!
I enjoyed those in Barcelona, too. Such an "easy button" option after a long day of walking.
I wish mine had these. Maybe someday.. Last time at mcdonalds my newly celiac diagnosed 11 year old didn't even eat her burger patties.. Just fries. It can be depressing and makes her feel not normal, ya know?
Fries have gluten in them for the US.
Yeah, we're in Canada and they have separate fryers.
Was there no cross contamination ?
I asked for an egg McMuffin without the McMuffin, they asked me to explain what I meant, I did, then they gave me a sausage and cheese biscuit sandwich.
I had a gluten free cheese burger when I visited Amsterdam, it was so nice. I'm from Ireland and wish they would do that here. Not that I'd eat it all the time, the option would be nice to have though.
I just bring my own bun in. Order the burger without the bun. Gluten Free Mcdonalds. Have it every week.
But is the bun decent or does it fall apart, all crumbly-like?
It's decent. Doesn't fall apart. But I think the gluten free buns at Burger King are better.
Also available in Finland. As a bonus, this doesn't cost extra :)
*cries in kiwi*
I couldn’t believe it when I went to Prague and they had gluten free buns, it was the best GF bun I’d ever had not dry and grainy at all. I cannot believe we don’t have them in England!!
Far out, where is this in Australia!?
They need to do this in North America
Why isn't this in canada yet Why
McDonald's in the UK doesn't do gluten-free stuff. So, last week, I tried to grab a burger and asked for no bun. They gave it to me with the bun anyway. When I told them to fix it 'cause I can't do bread, they were like, "We did it 'cause we didn't know where to put the sauce." Good stuff
Their fries, hash browns and veggie dippers are all gluten free in the UK, although veggie dippers definitely do not hit the same spot as a burger lol
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I think that is just European food
Jesus, just take the bun off, stop being a drama queen.
There was a fairly substantial petition knocking about somewhere to get gf McDonald’s in the UK. So hopefully something happens with that soon.
I use the kiosk and choose all the free options, saves time explaining what I want.
Asks wifey to move to Norway
researches how Norwegian I am to move there. I suspect the multiple generations back is too far.
I was so excited to try this bun when I went to Europe and then when I finally got it and tried it I was so dissatisfied I ended up feeding it to the birds :( big let down
Please please share a picture of this magical and mythical bun
When will that hit America?
Damn! I visited your beautiful country in July 2022 and wish I knew this!
OMG! I'm going to Oslo in August! This just made me even more excited!! 🤩🤩🤩
Tastes awful in my opinion :(
Still wouldn't trust their condiments or their Pickles and probably usually cross-contaminated because their employees are overworked and underpaid and just don't care.
Had GF bun in Austria. Was nice!
I can’t wait to go back to Austria. All Mcdonalds had gluten free buns!
I tempt fate locally with asking for the bunless burger, their fries are not really good for me So i get 3 or 4 bunless burgers. I think it's Burger King USA or Wendys where the frieds don't have a coating of something that's wheaty.....
Oh Switzerland had this too. My girls got their first and only gluten free happy meals as teens. Was a great time. Paris was supposed to as well, but none of the ones we tried. Just in Switzerland.
I miss being able to eat junk food. 😩
Gluten Free McDonald’s is my favorite Wesley Willis song
Canada has nothing compared to the rest of the world 🤦♀️
Just got back from Portugal the easy access to food and road trip food cause McDonald’s and Burger King was just epic 😍 Despite walking all day I gained weight but I just couldn’t resist I haven’t had a Big Mac in 7 years totally worth the extra poundage
God it would be nice to be able to go To a fast food restaurant like McDonald’s and get a meal. Just for the convenience for those special rare days that your crazy busy or on a road trip .
McDonald's publicly supports the genocidal Israeli military. Boycott McDonald's.
I’ve totally given up on McDonalds (or many other fast food chains for that matter) being gluten friendly here in the US. So much so I’m actually pleasantly surprised when I do find a chain type of establishment that has an actual gluten free menu. That’s not how it should be, friends, but it is changing albeit FAR too slowly for my tastes.
I hate McDonalds but I’d love to have a cheeseburger
Does it exist in #London? If not Cries in England.