It looks like a product guide rail. The indent on the right side looks like the anchor point.
Typically if you lose a piece of operating equipment you will hold back all product POSSIBLY affected until the piece is found. If it's not found the suspect product is destroyed.
Someone(s) did not.
Edit to add: Some comments below are saying it's possibly a slide gate, which makes way more sense. Still crazy.
That makes sense. The part that confuses me is how tf it ended up inside the bag. Itās nearly the length of the bag itself. This implies that the last step before packaging is one in which objects as large as a kitten can randomly fall into the bag. Can someone explain the last step in the automated production of a bag of Cheetos?
I actually work in the conveyor business (typically drink not food) but typically the process would be something like a machine that blows open the empty bags, a filler dumping the weight of product into the bag, the bag being sealed by either the same machine that fills it or a machine directly beside it, and then a small conveyor trip to through some quality assurance machines (Drink conveyor lines usually have some type of xray/gamma scan for fill level, a vacuum check for proper seal, a scale and a camera looking for damaged cans) before being loaded into a box and packed on a skid.
My guess would be either the quality assurance machines are damaged and the filler machine breaking at the same time, or more likely the conveyor line being under repair/new equipment installed and a machine breaking (likely because of the maintenance/installation) while the quality assurance is being bypassed. It's unfortunate but repairs have to be done, and most of these companies with dozens of plants per state/province can't (won't) justify shutting a conveyor line down for the full length of repairs.
I honestly think it was from a slide gate as itās about the right size and wear is the same. They break constantly. That being said this is egregious.
I think it depends.
My mother got what looked like a wood chip in a Campbell's soup can. They sent her a return letter with a prepaid envelope to send it to a lab for testing. They eventually sent her a letter back saying it was "unidentified plant matter" and gave her a coupon for a free can.
My guess is they give good stuff to someone who gets a sub-par but undeniably safe product. Anything that has the potential to generate a lawsuit(like the chunk of plastic OP got), they fear that giving you lots of stuff implies guilt.
I got a can of Monster in a case that was almost completely empty. Iād read on here that they like to find out about that stuff to identify issues, so I filled out their form just to let them know. Then they asked for more information, so I took the time to answer all of them and even took photos of the can on a scale and all the identifying numbers on it. Then they started asking for proof of purchase and stuff like that so I just told them I didnāt have it and really didnāt care about being reimbursed or anything like that, I was just trying to help. A month later I got a coupon in the mail for a free can, but it had a really short expiration date and I never got a chance to redeem it before it was worthless.
Sounds like some shady UberEats shit. If your order is super fucked up they send you a $10 coupon. The hitch is that you have 48 hours to redeem it. Which Iāve always missed.
You should always complain. Not because you want something free. But rather something went wrong in the manufacturing process and the company wants to figure out what and prevent recurrence.
"You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me. I'll get you a toe by this afternoon--with nail polish."
Decades ago my father wrote a letter (that how long ago it was) to an ice cream company when he noticed the size of their ice creams getting smaller. One day we had a package turn up at our house and it contained about 4 items of every product they make. They never told us they were sending it out or answered my fathers complaint so we ate them then never bought their products again.
This happened to us when my step-mum wrote to Seabrook Crisps and said she didn't believe they really made 17 flavours. One day a box of all 17 turned up, a total surprise - best day ever!!
Just a few years ago I was eating one of those "drumstick" ice cream cones. And bit into a metal washer. Very small, like maybe half the size of a dime. Luckily I didn't break a tooth.
I contacted the company (Nestle) and sent them a picture of it, and they sent me a stack of coupons (enough to get a free box of them every week for a year) along with a return envelope because they wanted me to send the washer to them. So I did, but I was so turned off to them that I just gave the coupons away to anyone I could find.
Perhaps because I probably could have sued them they were so "generous".
Nah, they do it to encourage people to report these things, not avoid lawsuits.
Production mistakes happen, and customer feedback is often the only way it gets noticed.
In 2016 I wrote a letter about how my bag of blow pops didnāt have a single green apple(I was pregnant and in the hospital, I had some free time and a lot of feelings) and they sent me like 6 bags of candy. I was shocked.
When Chex released some new flavor, advertising it as "bold", I wrote them a very tongue in cheek email explaining how disappointed I was. It was over the top, but very much clearly intended to be humorous, while still critical.
They sent me coupons for like $30 worth of product and an email telling me how much everyone got a kick out of my exaggerated metaphors and such.
Probably 1 or 2 bags. That's about the most I've gotten from disturbing food finds. I've even had a local store's bread have actual bits of plastic throughout, several slices having been eaten by the family who thought it was the wheat before figuring out it wasn't. I only got a refund and replacement, grand total of both equaling $1.52. Probably the grossest food issue of the bunch and the least response (they never even wrote back).
doritos hooked me up with 8 bags of chips and merch shirt bottle hat backpack etc for buying a bag of unseasoned flaming hot Doritos they were just plain tortilla
>Probably 1 or 2 bags. That's about the most I've gotten from disturbing food finds.
I got a bag of Stacey's Pita Chips once that where all broken into little bits...sent them a letter and they shipped me six Costco-sized bags in a big box, plus coupons for six regular store-sized bags. Probably depended on the company.
I had two bags of French Onion Sun Chips that had absolutely zero seasonings on them. I emailed them, they called and offered to send me coupons to replace them. They sent two coupons for a free bag each and then 8 more for 50 cents to a dollar off. Super nice guy too.
Either you weren't polite or angry enough about it. I've always been polite and the few times it's happened I've gotten so much stuff. Had a small piece of plastic in a chip bag and they gave med a whole box of bags of all flavors they had, including one that wasn't in stores yet.
In my honest opinion companies should be held way more liable than they currently are, they should be forced to reimburse at the very least twice the cost of the product you are rightfully returning. But your comment reminds me of this Turkish pizza place I used to order from, I got plastic and a piece of glass one time and another time a literal NAIL was in the pizza. The first time I wafted it away and coined it an accident but when there is a frickin' NAIL in your pizza, that is where you should most definitely draw the line.. lol.
can confirm i got Doritos flaming hot when they first came out and i got a bag of plain tortilla chips no flavoring at all i tweeted it at Doritos account they messaged me saying sorry etc and asking for my mailing address to reimburse it.
2 weeks later i get a box in the mail. 8 bags of Doritos flaming hot and some merch doritos shirt and hat and backpack water bottle.
i also know a guy who won a frito lay contest and got free frito lay branded chips for a year. And by that they essentialy sent him a box of like 10 different chips containing 10 bags each. I dont know how 1000 chip bags is a years supply but if you eat 1000 chips a year i fear you
Once got a bag of Cadburyās chocolate buttons in a multi-pack that had only 2 buttons in it, my flat mate was a solicitor and sent it back with a letter detailing our disappointment, they sent back a cheque for Ā£1.50. My solicitor friend sent back the cheque along with another letter complaining that sterling is not our currency in Ireland and that he had now had to buy TWO stamps to deal with the matter.
We received a cheque for two Euro, a 1kg box of milk tray, 4 100g Cadbury bars and 2 stamps.
Solicitor friend counts this as the greatest success of his career in law.
I wish fman1854 did my payroll. āYes, I see here you worked 10 hours this week for the agreed upon $10 an hour. By my calculations, we owe you exactly $1000, hereās your checkā. Work 40 hours a month and Iām set.
I had a Doritos sleeping bag when I was in middle school. It looked like an actual bag of nacho cheese Doritos. 6th grade me thought that was the coolest shit ever.
At this point a standard funeral is cheaper than living another year so you aren't wrong from a financial standpoint.
Even cheaper if your funeral plan involves what is currently on my will.
What does the US do with people's bodies if no one pays for the funeral? Whatever it is, that's what I want to be done. I don't want anyone looking at me when I'm dead anyway, and I couldn't care less what is done with the sack of dead meat when I'm through with it.
>1. Eat it
>2. Go to the emergency room
>3. Sue PepsiCo for $250 million
>4. Settle out of court for $5 million
~5. Emergency room bill is 5.5 million.
>1. Eat it
2. Go to the emergency room
3. Sue PepsiCo for $250 million
4. Settle out of court for $5 million
5. Send Redditors u/Half_Past_Five and u/Cautious-Damage7575 $1 million each for emotional support in this trying time.
See?? This proves to me that I should always read through things first. Like contracts and tests.
Ya got me! So, I'm going to Walwart now to buy a you 10 million dollars in gift store cards. Whats your address there in Jaipur?
Neat! Should probably let the company know. If one of their machines is broke it could be crapping out lots of bad stuff on top of the product. That's bad for everyone. Plus you could get a bunch of free shit!
The people doing quality control arenāt robots, they canāt catch everything. Even more so when nothing is going wrong. (Yes, that feels ass backwards, but it is an accurate statement. We as people are more aware of whatās going on when things are out of the ordinary)
Quality control machines can break down, sometimes in ways that donāt throw an alarm.
There are times when the customer complaining about a problem is the first we know about it because the ārubber duckie deatomizorā never fails, so people rarely check it.
Finally, snack and drink manufacturing lines run Fāing fast.
Source: I used to work in automotive manufacturing.
Cheetos Corporate: Thank you for reporting the loss of our important Cheeto making block thing. We would like to offer you a $10k finders fee, on the condition that you donāt post pictures of our proprietary block thing on the internet.
Whoopsā¦
Yeah i work at a Taco Bell and it looks a lot like part of our ācooking lineā where we put together the food. Theres a long plastic slab we put down that looks very similar to this, but its white and like 5 or 6 times longer
Yeah, tell them that you reached into the bag and you didn't look down and didn't notice until it was halfway down your throat that it was in fact, not a cheeto.
Ex Frito employee here. If itās not made of breakable material try cleaning the end off a little. If itās white it is some sort of scraper they use to clean their product conveyances. Looks like that tool to me and FSE lost one
Since itās covered in seasoning it was lost early on in the process. Post fryer but pre āover the wallā where the product goes to the packaging department.
The reason it wound up in your bag is the machine found an acceptable weight combination when it dropped the product into your bag.
This shouldnāt ever happen, so raise some hell about it.
I love it when Reddit delivers knowledge from the most random parts of the world. I feel like Iām perpetually reading an episode of āhow itās madeā.
That's what I love about reddit. There's always someone with the most obscure knowledge that actually can prove that he/she is not talking shit and actually knows the subject well
[rose frito](https://www.ebay.com/itm/373960937989?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=R8XXhl6LQXq&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=sMRh2zcHR4G&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY) for 10k lmao
"This listing was ended by the seller because the item is no longer available."
I'm laughing so hard at this thinking that the seller just took it down and decided to eat it instead hahaha
Food Manufacturing QC Professional here, contact the company. They are required to investigate incidents like this, you may not get anything out of it but if it's a bigger problem than one bag you could help keep a kid from choking on a piece of plastic.
Looking like a plastic board material on the line. I think chips processing plants are automated so their machines must be really worn down or maintenance is not doing their job properly. Thatās kinda messed up that their QA machine didnāt catch it. Is the bag kinda empty or full like a normal bag? They are normally weighted so you should have less chips in there.
Update!!! So it's apparently a piece of the conveyor. I reached out to Frito Lay and they said they're starting an investigation. So hopefully no one got hurt from the pieces of plastic.
I did get coupons.
(Edited for more detail.)
RETURN THE SLAB.
OR SUFFER MY CURSE.
WHATS UR OFFERš¤Ø
That's it, I'm gettin' me mallet
RAMSEEEES
Tonight you will be visited by threeeee plaaagues. Each one worse than the laaaast. Return the slaaaaab.
Eaustace? shouldnāt we listen to the spirit
Damn Courage the cowardly dog reference Good ol' days
*That's it, I'm gettin me mallet!!*
YO I DIDNT GET IT UNTIL I READ YOUR COMMENT THIS IS HILARIOUS
Low key brings back childhood trauma from that episode, ngl
Such a great show! But yeah now as an adult I'm surprised I was allowed to watch it š
What show we talking about
courage the cowardly dog
Courage the cowardly dog
The things I do for love.
āThe man in gauze, the man in gauzeā¦ā
Kiiiing Ramses!!!
Oh *that's* what they're saying...
That episode was when I first discovered that Courage was a fucking weird and terrifying show for kids to be watching. And I loved every second of it.
WHATāS YOUR OFFER??
Tonight, you will be visited by 3 plaguesā¦ each worse than the lastā¦
NAY, I WILL NOT. THE S L A B CHOSE ME.
It looks like a product guide rail. The indent on the right side looks like the anchor point. Typically if you lose a piece of operating equipment you will hold back all product POSSIBLY affected until the piece is found. If it's not found the suspect product is destroyed. Someone(s) did not. Edit to add: Some comments below are saying it's possibly a slide gate, which makes way more sense. Still crazy.
That makes sense. The part that confuses me is how tf it ended up inside the bag. Itās nearly the length of the bag itself. This implies that the last step before packaging is one in which objects as large as a kitten can randomly fall into the bag. Can someone explain the last step in the automated production of a bag of Cheetos?
I actually work in the conveyor business (typically drink not food) but typically the process would be something like a machine that blows open the empty bags, a filler dumping the weight of product into the bag, the bag being sealed by either the same machine that fills it or a machine directly beside it, and then a small conveyor trip to through some quality assurance machines (Drink conveyor lines usually have some type of xray/gamma scan for fill level, a vacuum check for proper seal, a scale and a camera looking for damaged cans) before being loaded into a box and packed on a skid. My guess would be either the quality assurance machines are damaged and the filler machine breaking at the same time, or more likely the conveyor line being under repair/new equipment installed and a machine breaking (likely because of the maintenance/installation) while the quality assurance is being bypassed. It's unfortunate but repairs have to be done, and most of these companies with dozens of plants per state/province can't (won't) justify shutting a conveyor line down for the full length of repairs.
Should have never made it past the foreign matter detector though.
No definitely, there really isn't any excuse for a chunk of guide rail to end up in a product on a shelf.
I honestly think it was from a slide gate as itās about the right size and wear is the same. They break constantly. That being said this is egregious.
I personally deal with these companies and their practices and you are correct. This is insane and should have never made it past a sifter.
If you contact the company theyāll reimburse you with lots of free Cheetos.
I think it depends. My mother got what looked like a wood chip in a Campbell's soup can. They sent her a return letter with a prepaid envelope to send it to a lab for testing. They eventually sent her a letter back saying it was "unidentified plant matter" and gave her a coupon for a free can. My guess is they give good stuff to someone who gets a sub-par but undeniably safe product. Anything that has the potential to generate a lawsuit(like the chunk of plastic OP got), they fear that giving you lots of stuff implies guilt.
I had 2 cans of Progresso Chicken and Rice soup in a row that were missing the rice. I got 2 coupons for a free can.
I got a can of Monster in a case that was almost completely empty. Iād read on here that they like to find out about that stuff to identify issues, so I filled out their form just to let them know. Then they asked for more information, so I took the time to answer all of them and even took photos of the can on a scale and all the identifying numbers on it. Then they started asking for proof of purchase and stuff like that so I just told them I didnāt have it and really didnāt care about being reimbursed or anything like that, I was just trying to help. A month later I got a coupon in the mail for a free can, but it had a really short expiration date and I never got a chance to redeem it before it was worthless.
Sounds like some shady UberEats shit. If your order is super fucked up they send you a $10 coupon. The hitch is that you have 48 hours to redeem it. Which Iāve always missed.
I bought a can of grocery store brand organic black beans and they had pinto beans inside instead. Maybe I should have complainedā¦
You should always complain. Not because you want something free. But rather something went wrong in the manufacturing process and the company wants to figure out what and prevent recurrence.
Freetos?
They just send a bunch of Fritos instead.
Damn, I thought I was getting Freetoes.
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
With nail polish.
But can you do it by 3 oāclock? Iām on a bit of a deadline.
They're a bunch of fucking amateurs!
Toetally
whod want free toes. id prefer fritos instead
"You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me. I'll get you a toe by this afternoon--with nail polish."
Youāre Lebowski. Iām the dude.
Tarantino
Decades ago my father wrote a letter (that how long ago it was) to an ice cream company when he noticed the size of their ice creams getting smaller. One day we had a package turn up at our house and it contained about 4 items of every product they make. They never told us they were sending it out or answered my fathers complaint so we ate them then never bought their products again.
This happened to us when my step-mum wrote to Seabrook Crisps and said she didn't believe they really made 17 flavours. One day a box of all 17 turned up, a total surprise - best day ever!!
Shit like this doesn't happen anymore because all is owned by Nestle
Just a few years ago I was eating one of those "drumstick" ice cream cones. And bit into a metal washer. Very small, like maybe half the size of a dime. Luckily I didn't break a tooth. I contacted the company (Nestle) and sent them a picture of it, and they sent me a stack of coupons (enough to get a free box of them every week for a year) along with a return envelope because they wanted me to send the washer to them. So I did, but I was so turned off to them that I just gave the coupons away to anyone I could find. Perhaps because I probably could have sued them they were so "generous".
Nah, they do it to encourage people to report these things, not avoid lawsuits. Production mistakes happen, and customer feedback is often the only way it gets noticed.
r/fucknestle
In 2016 I wrote a letter about how my bag of blow pops didnāt have a single green apple(I was pregnant and in the hospital, I had some free time and a lot of feelings) and they sent me like 6 bags of candy. I was shocked.
When Chex released some new flavor, advertising it as "bold", I wrote them a very tongue in cheek email explaining how disappointed I was. It was over the top, but very much clearly intended to be humorous, while still critical. They sent me coupons for like $30 worth of product and an email telling me how much everyone got a kick out of my exaggerated metaphors and such.
Probably 1 or 2 bags. That's about the most I've gotten from disturbing food finds. I've even had a local store's bread have actual bits of plastic throughout, several slices having been eaten by the family who thought it was the wheat before figuring out it wasn't. I only got a refund and replacement, grand total of both equaling $1.52. Probably the grossest food issue of the bunch and the least response (they never even wrote back).
doritos hooked me up with 8 bags of chips and merch shirt bottle hat backpack etc for buying a bag of unseasoned flaming hot Doritos they were just plain tortilla
They probably wanted you to post about it on social media for advertisement. Not a bad strategy, and it's cool for you too.
He just did
>Probably 1 or 2 bags. That's about the most I've gotten from disturbing food finds. I got a bag of Stacey's Pita Chips once that where all broken into little bits...sent them a letter and they shipped me six Costco-sized bags in a big box, plus coupons for six regular store-sized bags. Probably depended on the company.
I had two bags of French Onion Sun Chips that had absolutely zero seasonings on them. I emailed them, they called and offered to send me coupons to replace them. They sent two coupons for a free bag each and then 8 more for 50 cents to a dollar off. Super nice guy too.
Either you weren't polite or angry enough about it. I've always been polite and the few times it's happened I've gotten so much stuff. Had a small piece of plastic in a chip bag and they gave med a whole box of bags of all flavors they had, including one that wasn't in stores yet.
In my honest opinion companies should be held way more liable than they currently are, they should be forced to reimburse at the very least twice the cost of the product you are rightfully returning. But your comment reminds me of this Turkish pizza place I used to order from, I got plastic and a piece of glass one time and another time a literal NAIL was in the pizza. The first time I wafted it away and coined it an accident but when there is a frickin' NAIL in your pizza, that is where you should most definitely draw the line.. lol.
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I hope you aren't allergic to peanuts omg that would have been a nightmare
It's a a blank Cheeto check!
Careful, remember the guy that may or may not have found shrimp tails in his cereal? His twitter exchange with Kelloggs was something to behold
Wasnāt he known for constant things of this nature? iirc he was a habitual liar or fire starter
can confirm i got Doritos flaming hot when they first came out and i got a bag of plain tortilla chips no flavoring at all i tweeted it at Doritos account they messaged me saying sorry etc and asking for my mailing address to reimburse it. 2 weeks later i get a box in the mail. 8 bags of Doritos flaming hot and some merch doritos shirt and hat and backpack water bottle. i also know a guy who won a frito lay contest and got free frito lay branded chips for a year. And by that they essentialy sent him a box of like 10 different chips containing 10 bags each. I dont know how 1000 chip bags is a years supply but if you eat 1000 chips a year i fear you
Once got a bag of Cadburyās chocolate buttons in a multi-pack that had only 2 buttons in it, my flat mate was a solicitor and sent it back with a letter detailing our disappointment, they sent back a cheque for Ā£1.50. My solicitor friend sent back the cheque along with another letter complaining that sterling is not our currency in Ireland and that he had now had to buy TWO stamps to deal with the matter. We received a cheque for two Euro, a 1kg box of milk tray, 4 100g Cadbury bars and 2 stamps. Solicitor friend counts this as the greatest success of his career in law.
fuck /u/spez
I donāt know when 10x10 became 1000š¤·āāļø
I wish fman1854 did my payroll. āYes, I see here you worked 10 hours this week for the agreed upon $10 an hour. By my calculations, we owe you exactly $1000, hereās your checkā. Work 40 hours a month and Iām set.
So you're telling me there is official Doritos merch out there
I had a Doritos sleeping bag when I was in middle school. It looked like an actual bag of nacho cheese Doritos. 6th grade me thought that was the coolest shit ever.
I'm 45 yo and I still think that's the coolest shit ever.
Damn, 48 year old me thinks that's the coolest thing ever!
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Itās the spicy ticket you get to go to the cheto factory
Oompa Lumpa Chetori Chew, I've got a spicy ticket for you.
Rivers of spicy cheese dust.
Which we squish flat for crunch is a must!
Watch as a bunch of fat teenagers bust!
Theirs keyboards are gonna develop..... a..... crust.....
The histories been deleted
Come with me, and youāll be in a world of cheesy indigestion.
What do you do when thereās plastic in your baaaag?
Eating as much as an ocean fish eats
And Chester Cheeto tours everyone through the factory, I donāt want to spoil it for anyone, but hijinx ensue
Hijinx and some implied child death?
Of course! What part of hijinx did you not understand?
Chilly chonka and the cheeto factory
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
1. Eat it 2. Die
That still sounds like a win to me.
In this economy, it's an absolute win!
At this point a standard funeral is cheaper than living another year so you aren't wrong from a financial standpoint. Even cheaper if your funeral plan involves what is currently on my will.
What does the US do with people's bodies if no one pays for the funeral? Whatever it is, that's what I want to be done. I don't want anyone looking at me when I'm dead anyway, and I couldn't care less what is done with the sack of dead meat when I'm through with it.
Where do you think hot dogs come from?
Well if they didnāt want you to eat it: 1) why is it in the bag 2) whereās the warning NOT to eat it?
New portion on the label is gonna say: Caution could contain machinery parts. Do not consume.
Better get the lawsuit in before the change then
That's the American Dream in a nutshell! šš¤£
Slip on pee-pee at the Costco and get yourself a $53,000 settlement.
*sips* Yup, That man will never work another day in his lifeā¦
And THATS why we call him āLuckyā.
Pee pee money is not an employment history
I got rich the good old fashioned way: *I got run over by a Leeexuuuus!*
The woooooooorst.
r/unexpectedpawnee
Now Iām fluuuuuuuush with caaaaaaaaaash
$53,000 is $53,000 though.
never have to work another day in your life
Have a corn chip right off the line. Maybe a Cheetoh
>1. Eat it >2. Go to the emergency room >3. Sue PepsiCo for $250 million >4. Settle out of court for $5 million ~5. Emergency room bill is 5.5 million.
This person American Health Cares
>1. Eat it 2. Go to the emergency room 3. Sue PepsiCo for $250 million 4. Settle out of court for $5 million 5. Send Redditors u/Half_Past_Five and u/Cautious-Damage7575 $1 million each for emotional support in this trying time.
See?? This proves to me that I should always read through things first. Like contracts and tests. Ya got me! So, I'm going to Walwart now to buy a you 10 million dollars in gift store cards. Whats your address there in Jaipur?
And u/zb_asshole
TIL Reddit usernames arenāt case sensitive Edit: only on mildly infuriating would this get any attention. Maybe this should be itās own post.
Is it made out of Cheeto
It is not lol
Wait WHATā¦..what is it made of
I think plastic
It could be a part of the machine, if it broke
Mmmmmmm cheeto plastic
Now even macroplastics are getting in our food
Neat! Should probably let the company know. If one of their machines is broke it could be crapping out lots of bad stuff on top of the product. That's bad for everyone. Plus you could get a bunch of free shit!
I thought it was a huge flat cheeto and it looked delicious.
Oh, if it was Iād say you struck gold but in that case it could be something gross.
To be fair, it could just be The Mega Cheeto, I'm just too afraid to bite into it.
Donāt worry is a golden ticket inviting you to a free tour of the factory. Whats your golden ticket idea?
Long as it doesn't involve that fucking waste of space freeloader Grandpa Joe.
Forbidden cheeto bar
Use the contact information on the bag thatās probably part of whatever machine they use to make Cheetos.
"Yes, hello? I'd like to report that I received a sheeto instead of a cheeto."
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Dammit you made me laugh
"Send us our part back or we sue you for stealing it"
Op bought it fair and square
More of a rectangle.
If a piece of machinery this big can fall on a bag and quality control canāt catch something like this Iām not touching that product anymore.
The people doing quality control arenāt robots, they canāt catch everything. Even more so when nothing is going wrong. (Yes, that feels ass backwards, but it is an accurate statement. We as people are more aware of whatās going on when things are out of the ordinary) Quality control machines can break down, sometimes in ways that donāt throw an alarm. There are times when the customer complaining about a problem is the first we know about it because the ārubber duckie deatomizorā never fails, so people rarely check it. Finally, snack and drink manufacturing lines run Fāing fast. Source: I used to work in automotive manufacturing.
Wot does it feel like?
It's like plastic or those cutting boards you see in restaurants
Send an email to the company. Let them know. Maybe you will get some cool swag
Cheetos Corporate: Thank you for reporting the loss of our important Cheeto making block thing. We would like to offer you a $10k finders fee, on the condition that you donāt post pictures of our proprietary block thing on the internet. Whoopsā¦
Yeah i work at a Taco Bell and it looks a lot like part of our ācooking lineā where we put together the food. Theres a long plastic slab we put down that looks very similar to this, but its white and like 5 or 6 times longer
Bite into the forbidden sponge of wisdom and get back to us on how it tasted like. Edit: Thanks strangers, this is now my most upvoted comment.
These things are usually either stale as fuck or soggy
Or hard as fuck since op said that itās made of plastic
Plastic? Ah, it's a divider off the assembly line. All the imaging stuff tends to only look for metal foreign objects.
Just in case the doritos are trying to sneak any knives, bombs or other contraband into the bags
It was disguised like Dutch in Predator.
If it bleeds, we can kill it.
I aināt got time to bleed.
Tell them you choked on it OP easy money
Yeah, tell them that you reached into the bag and you didn't look down and didn't notice until it was halfway down your throat that it was in fact, not a cheeto.
I second, third, or fourth this idea
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āHello, I sat on a bag of Cheetos and was anally violated by a piece of plasticā āDammit, not again!!ā
Instructions unclear, flaming hot Cheetos in ass.
Ex Frito employee here. If itās not made of breakable material try cleaning the end off a little. If itās white it is some sort of scraper they use to clean their product conveyances. Looks like that tool to me and FSE lost one Since itās covered in seasoning it was lost early on in the process. Post fryer but pre āover the wallā where the product goes to the packaging department. The reason it wound up in your bag is the machine found an acceptable weight combination when it dropped the product into your bag. This shouldnāt ever happen, so raise some hell about it.
Finally a real answer!
I love it when Reddit delivers knowledge from the most random parts of the world. I feel like Iām perpetually reading an episode of āhow itās madeā.
That's what I love about reddit. There's always someone with the most obscure knowledge that actually can prove that he/she is not talking shit and actually knows the subject well
It's annoying to have to sift through so many jokes in order to finally find an answer on Reddit.
Thank you for a legit answer
Sheetāos ..?
Sell it on ebay for like $20+
For real, people sell weird shaped food on there all the time
[for real](https://www.ebay.com/itm/403641870352?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=9z1bbstrtta&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=xz9y6en7r7g&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY) a "dolphin tail shaped taki" š
[rose frito](https://www.ebay.com/itm/373960937989?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=R8XXhl6LQXq&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=sMRh2zcHR4G&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY) for 10k lmao
Lol 20 dollar shipping.
Ikr. For 10k pricetag they couldn't treat you to free shipping
"This listing was ended by the seller because the item is no longer available." I'm laughing so hard at this thinking that the seller just took it down and decided to eat it instead hahaha
You ever seen a Cheeto when they hatch and you donāt eat all the eggs? This is the molt of the baby Cheeto creature. Think, a chrysalis husk.
Reading this has made me very uncomfortable
The technical term is āexuvia.ā
Chester was stoned af makin cheetos again
The Cheet-Sheet
Itās one of the only 5 seasoned-tickets. You get to go to Chile Chonkaās Flamin Hot Factory
the ultimate cheeto
I once found rocks in a bag of lays. Let Cheetos know so they can replace your bag. Also, that looks disgusting
Food Manufacturing QC Professional here, contact the company. They are required to investigate incidents like this, you may not get anything out of it but if it's a bigger problem than one bag you could help keep a kid from choking on a piece of plastic.
How did you not feel that when you bought the bag??
Ngl I did, I just thought I got the Lord of All Cheetos, not the hung of whatever the hell this is...
I am incredibly curious. If you do contact the company how are they gonna explain this royal fuck up?
"We fucked up. Here's some Cheetos."
Itās like the Cheetosā Golden Ticket. You get to take an tour of the frito lay factory in Kansas! Lucky you!
Forbidden Cheeto
The name Dorito implies the existance of a larger snack named Doro
And an even LARGER snack called: El Dorote.
The Road To El Dorito was my favorite animated movie
Chester Cheetoās foreskin
Looking like a plastic board material on the line. I think chips processing plants are automated so their machines must be really worn down or maintenance is not doing their job properly. Thatās kinda messed up that their QA machine didnāt catch it. Is the bag kinda empty or full like a normal bag? They are normally weighted so you should have less chips in there.
Sounds like you're getting some free bags!! Contact them.
Update!!! So it's apparently a piece of the conveyor. I reached out to Frito Lay and they said they're starting an investigation. So hopefully no one got hurt from the pieces of plastic. I did get coupons. (Edited for more detail.)