15 Times Fast Food Companies Were Caught Lying, Cheating, and Being Generally Shady

And these are just the times they got caught.

Yes, ignorance is bliss… But what if it’s slowly killing you? Shucks, we didn’t mean to get so deep off the hop there. The topic of fast food’s shady practices has always lived in that realm though. Do we actually want to know? While we’re craving it, maybe not. But when that inevitable tummy ache comes around, yeah, forget those clowns. Well, the one actual clown, and his buddies — The king, the colonel, the bell, the submarine, and that freckled little redhead.

At one point or another, they’ve all been caught cutting corners on the neverending hunt to keep production costs low. And worse, their financial success is a bad influence on once higher quality options. Lookin’ at you, Bareburger. Mass production is a slippery slope like that. The quality dips low enough that they don’t want us to know about it. Cus if (and when) we find out, class action lawsuits and the public’s general disgust will set them straight. Well, until our guards are down again. Here are 15 times that fast food companies were caught lying, cheating, and just being downright shady.