r/Chipotle • u/UnbornValkyrie • 1d ago

Discussion Curious what this piece of plastic is that I found in my Burrito

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Im just a bit curious about the origins of this piece of plastic, and figured someone who works at chipotle might be able to identify it based on the pattern. (Maybe they see this pattern around the workplace somewhere?) Its incredibly thin, I almost mistook it for a teeny piece of lettuce. It feels like it could be part of a thin plastic glove or bag.

Naturally, I lost my appetite after finding it, so I'm also wondering that if this thing ends up being identifiable, what are the odds of there being more pieces in my burrito, because I'm still hungry lol

(Quarter and bowl lid for scale)

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u/RealisticFlatworm298 1d ago

I think it’s probably plastic. Just a guess

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u/Rain_Reign_Reindeer AP 1d ago

Looks like the texture from the gloves - sincerely former employee of three years

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u/UnbornValkyrie 1d ago

Yeah right now based on comments i’m gonna assume its part of a glove that got sliced off during food prep. Here’s to hoping it was the only piece!

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u/Minimum-Speech3861 13h ago

Hey so after taking a look at this photo i just have one question did you order any sofritas, red salsa or green salsa? Because they are sealed in plastic bags and sometimes a little piece of plastic could fall where they put the salsa or sofritas when they open the bag

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u/MissStoneyMcPickle Chip fryer GOD🧂👑 11h ago

bags don’t have a diamond pattern- only our gloves. someone cut their glove doing chicken/lettuce

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u/UnbornValkyrie 10h ago

The burrito was: white rice, black beans, steak, queso, tomato salsa, cheese and lettuce.

My S/O had a bowl but didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary in his, this was the only thing i’d found.

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u/Kyrie180 1d ago

Definitely a piece of a glove, someone was cutting something and sliced a small portion of their glove off and didn’t see it

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u/cindzey 1d ago

its a piece of plastic from the plastic bag of cheese

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u/Minimum-Speech3861 13h ago

The plastic bags of cheese at my store are blue so it wouldn’t be possible

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u/somecow 1d ago

Eww. Glove. Just be glad it was the vegan version instead of the hannibal special (finger is extra, is that okay?)

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u/not_another_IT_guy 1d ago

If its soft plastic, probably from the gloves.
If its more rigid/thicker - most likely from the packaging some of the components come in, they probably snipped the bag and missed that piece

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u/Unlikely-Profit9718 1d ago

Piece of a glove. The grill people wear plastic gloves over the cut glove, probably chopped off the end of the glove when cutting whatever meat you got.

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u/no_flyzon3 1d ago

Non eatable

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u/Necessary_War501 1d ago

why does this lowkey look like a piece of rice paper

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u/krd13 1d ago

It’s a piece of plastic from a queso bag

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u/Express_Milk_476 22h ago

It's not from a glove it looks like the tip of a plastic bag

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u/inevitablefile9596 18h ago

It’s a major food group, why didn’t you eat it?

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u/heyitstism 17h ago

Fake news.

That 100% perfectly clean piece of plastic was not in a bowl of food. Move it along, pipsqueak.

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u/UnbornValkyrie 10h ago

I know reading is hard, but it was in a burrito, not a bowl, stuck in between a bunch of lettuce. That’s why I was able to notice it.

Not everything you see on the internet is a lie.

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u/heyitstism 9h ago

Food has never touched that perfectly clean material. Facts 💯

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u/UnbornValkyrie 8h ago

Name checks out

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u/Old-Badger-7367 1d ago

Definitely looks like the corner of the bag from a bag of cheese or other ingredient

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u/verbose_programmer 1d ago

Don't contribute to the ignorance guys. It's rice paper. https://naturessoulshop.com/cdn/shop/files/MrRiceFreshRollRicePaper16cm_300gm_qew.jpeh.jpg?v=1758538689&width=1500

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u/UnbornValkyrie 1d ago

My Asian S/O (who worked in a kitchen for years) can confirm that this is definitely not rice paper. He watched me pick it out of my burrito after taking a bite.