From Huff Po: Another day, another lesson on things you should not share on social media. A KFC employee was fired after posting a photo on Facebook of her licking (or getting really close to licking) a tub of mashed potatoes, reports The Johnson City Press.
As is wont to happen, the photo went somewhat viral, or traveled enough to at least reach the eyes of KFC parent company Yum Brands, WDRB in Louisville, Ky., reported.
The photo made its way to the Facebook page of WJHL News Channel 11 in Johnson City, Tenn. As the photo gained traction, WJHL reached out to KFC to learn more. Spokesman Rick Maynard responded that the food was never served to customers and both the employee in the photo and the employee that took the photo have been terminated.
While this food safety incident is on the milder side -- especially since the food was never served -- there have been several similar scandals involving fast food and social media. Last year, a Burger King employee posted a photo of himself stomping in lettuce. And who could forget the Taco Bell employee that urinated on nachos?
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Its like people just drop into stupid when posting stuff online. I mean really...where the hell is the filter that tells you that this is stupid and don't post it?!
Posted by: IxenHeart | Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 07:11 PM
It's in the address bar at the top of the window. If it says 'Facebook', then whatever you're about to do is stupid.
Posted by: Techtyger | Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 07:20 PM
Still doesn't top the BK guy from 2008 who took a bath in the sink.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRFwcN_EOSU
Posted by: Jami | Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 07:59 PM
It was incredibly stupid to pull that stunt to begin with.
Putting it online infinitely compounded the stupidity. Moron got what he deserved.
Posted by: The Last Archimedean | Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 08:02 PM
Yeah you shouldn't even joke about food safety in this day and age. Every corporation that sells ready made food products probably lives in fear of lawsuits, justified or not.
Posted by: Skittles | Friday, February 22, 2013 at 01:25 AM
So fun fact only relevant because it has to do with KFC: my great-grandmother was trained on how to cook original recipe chicken by the Colonel himself back in the day when he traveled around hawking his idea.
Yes, she was from Kentucky.
Posted by: Nomnom | Friday, February 22, 2013 at 06:29 AM
I seriously want to know, how, in this day and age of EVERYTHING being on computers, that someone could still be stupid enough to post something like this. Do they not know the golden rule of the information age? "If what you are doing is illegal, stupid or you just don't want anyone to know about it, DON'T POST IT ON THE INTERNET!"
Posted by: NC Tony | Friday, February 22, 2013 at 01:17 PM
NCT, it's because stupidity is the most common thing in the universe, edging out hydrogen by a whisker.
Posted by: The Last Archimedean | Friday, February 22, 2013 at 01:26 PM
Actually I say it's because people want their 15 minutes of fame and stupidity is the #1 way to get it. Heck, it got Snooki and company their own tv show.
Posted by: Jami | Friday, February 22, 2013 at 04:14 PM
Am I the only one wondering how they know it wasn't served to anyone? Did they take the word of the employee in the picture? Did the picture go viral so fast that the tub of mashed potatoes was still sitting in the kitchen when they found it? Or are they lying through their teeth in the hopes that no one even breathes the word "lawsuit"?
Posted by: Diane | Friday, February 22, 2013 at 04:36 PM