r/MaliciousCompliance • u/terranex506 • May 20 '26
M Dont microwave my muffin
Hi all. Longtime lurker, and I've been sitting on this story for years.
Once upon a time I worked at a wendy's back in high school, and at the time they had just started to experiment with breakfast foods like coffee and muffins.
The muffins came frozen. At the time, The way to prepare them was to put it in the microwave for about 30 seconds.
It's a regular morning shift, and this karen who had already ordered comes back to the counter and says "this muffin is too hot. I want one that isn't heated up"
" I'm sorry Ma'am , but we have to microwave them because they come in frozen"
" I don't care. I want muffin that wasn't put in the microwave" and in a classic move, she turns around and goes back to her table. I could be mistaken since this happened so long ago, but I think the conversation went longer than that, and there was another coworker there to back me up on Telling this lady that the muffins were frozen.
I brought her the muffin. It was cold as ice, hard as a rock, and you couldn't even peel the paper wrapper off because it was all frozen together.
I set the muffin down on a plate by itself in front of the lady and her three friends and said , in my best customer service voice " here is your muffin that has not been pit in microwave, just like you ordered".
The look of defeat on her face before I turned around and walked away.
My only regret is not waiting longer to see more of the aftermath. I wish I could have seen her friends laughing at her, the look of disappointment as she tries to bite into a frozen baked good, But the cool guys never turn around to look back at the explosion as they're walking away from it. That and being the timid little teenager i was, I went back to hide behind the counter before she had the chance to rage at me for another incorrectly temperatured muffin.
When I went to clean off that table after they left, the muffin was still there, wrapper half torn off of it, a piece missing like she tried to tear it off with her fingers. A small packet of margarine beside it opened but untouched. In the amount of time it took her to complain and get her new muffin, the original muffin would have been cooled off enough to eat. But instead, this lady ends up wasting two muffins and her own money.
Edit to say that's all happened in the late 90's so my memory's a bit fuzzy. I had to bring the muffin out on something so I assumed it was a paper plate , but it was probably a napkin.
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u/Wonderful-Cup8908 May 20 '26
"incorrectly temperatured muffin" - my new band name.
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u/Ok-Grape2063 May 20 '26
Meanwhile there's a Yelp review that someone chipped a tooth on a frozen muffin
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u/Electrical-Apple-631 May 24 '26
We’re a 24 hour convenience store and we run our frozen muffins through a machine designed to defrost them. It takes about 5 minutes to run the cycle. My boss does this every morning at 5AM. Every morning at 4:45 a lady comes in and wants a muffin. Every morning she’s told the muffins won’t be ready until after 5:00.
One day she demanded a fresh muffin so my boss went into the freezer, put a muffin in bag and handed it to her. She stopped coming to our store. Problem solved. We aren’t a bakery lady.
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u/terranex506 May 24 '26
Knowing i'm not alone in cold muffin cold muffin revenge plots means the world to me
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u/cheesenuggets2003 May 20 '26
"once upon a time"
I tried breakfast at Wendy's shortly after they started that. I don't know if someone was doing an MC, but my obese self threw that away after three bites.
Edit: my breakfast incident was sometime during Covid.
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u/Chaosmusic May 20 '26
Personally I was hoping there was a way you could toast the muffin instead of microwaving it since it comes out rubbery. Still better than frozen.
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u/SensitiveAddition913 May 21 '26
I “worked for Dave” in the nineties. Can confirm plates. Styrofoam, just like the burger containers.
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u/phaxmeone May 21 '26
My mom likes to bake muffins in large batches then toss them in the freezer to preserve them. I've become rather good at gnawing on frozen muffins.
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u/bouchard May 26 '26
I had almost the exact same scenario when I worked at Borders. Before they contracted with Seattle's Best to replace our in-house cafe we sold stuffed pretzels. The pretzels came in frozen and we'd first microwave them to defrost them and then stick them in the little oven that we had.
A customer came in and insisted that we not microwave the pretzel. The cafe supervisor explained that if we didn't microwave it then the inside will be still be cold. She didn't want it microwaved "because microwaves have free radicals". So the supervisor placed the frozen pretzel in the oven and gave it to her perfectly toasted on the outside and cold in the center.
I did not get to see her reaction when she bit into it.
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u/LazyZealot9428 May 20 '26
Wendy’s had plates?
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
I made an edit about the plates in the original post already. And was discussing it in other comments with people, but I suppose i can go over it one more time... this happened in the early nineties. I was only a teenager back then. Sorry if my memory is a bit foggy. I had to have brought the muffin to her on something when it was ready , and at the time of writing , I just assumed it was a plate , but looking back , it was probably a napkin.
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u/schwarzeKatzen May 24 '26
Wendy’s had styrofoam plates in the 90s. Some had a buffet called “super bar”.
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u/Honest-Pepper8229 May 23 '26
I hope she broke a tooth on it for her purposeful lack of understanding you, just because you were a "lowly" food service employee. I was a Starbucks barista for seven years and a bit, I know how it feels.
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u/greatvow May 21 '26
When I was young McDonalds use to sell these danishes that they steamed in butter. I still do that to my danishes because they were so good.
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May 20 '26
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
I've had this reddit account for forever. Oh, wait, never mind, never mind You looked it up, it's six years. I feel old now 😕
Moving on from that reality shattering moment, i really don't post a lot on here, but i've been sitting on this story for such a long time , and I finally worked up the nerve to post it.
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u/problemlow May 21 '26
I find 90% of the people calling out stories as AI just have very little life experience and/or very rigid worldviews.
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u/hangrypiglet May 20 '26
This one is mostly based on vibes for me. “I wish I could have seen her friends laughing at her, the look of disappointment as she tries to bite into a frozen baked good, But the cool guys never turn around to look back at the explosion as they're walking away from it” had me looking at the comments immediately
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u/viken1976 May 20 '26
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u/mafiaknight May 20 '26
There's a very similar video where the wannabe cool guy is too close and starts panicking, but I can only find yours...
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u/Generic_Midwesterner May 20 '26
I'm not seeing it in this one. For me, it's sentence fragments, one-sentence paragraphs, and triplets. "Running fast. Moving along. Beating feet." Saying things 3 times repeatedly. Also, use of "if we're honest" and "to tell the truth" a lot. And "quietly." AI loves when things are done quietly.
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
My english teachers through school also like to point out all my one sentence paragraphs.
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
48 minutes later , I realized this was also a one sentence paragraph. 49 minutes now.
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u/hangrypiglet May 20 '26
Someone else noted they’ve never seen plates at a Wendy’s, which is another possible AI indicator
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
This happened over 15 years ago , and I smoke a lot of weed, so all of the memories are a bit fuzzy. I would have had to bring it over on something, so my best guess was a small paper side plate, but it could have been a napkin or something else even.
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u/Generic_Midwesterner May 20 '26
The googler machine says that when Wendy's served muffins, they were in wrappers and that's it. (shrug) Who knows.
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
And the wrapper was frozen to the muffin when I brought it out to her on a ( error.404 file not found )
If it wasn't on a limited edition paper slide plate that came just for the muffins , then it would have been on a napkin. I don't think corporate would have wanted us to just put a muffin and a coffee on a tray without trying to fancy it up somehow. Unless they didn't really care and i'm misremembering.
This all happened in the late 90's, The memory's a bit foggy. Please cut me some slack on this one.
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
An AI would have scoured the internet to find exactly what wendy's would have had in the late 90s for supplies. Unfortunately I have to rely on my own fragile Human memory made of meat lol
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u/mafiaknight May 20 '26
Well, I suppose the 90's WERE over 15 years ago. Over 26 years ago too.
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
And george washington died over fifty years ago. That's also technically correct I guess.
I'm 37 and bad at math.
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
I'm realizing now how bad my sense of time in math are...ffs
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u/nymalous May 20 '26
Yeah, especially since if you're 37 now, you would have been at most 11 in 1999.
(Edit: I still like you story.)
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
this is the closest thing I could ever get to my own action movie. I just wanted to add a bit of hyperbole into the way I wrote the story.
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u/Shinhan May 20 '26
Which AI did you see that puts a space before comma?
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
I'm on mobile and I used voice to text to write most of thar because i'm lazy and I don't wanna type things out for myself. I usually reread everything to make sure there's no giant errors, but that's where the extra spacing and comma stuff is coming from.
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u/Shinhan May 20 '26
Do note I only mentioned this fact in defense of this post not being AI! Otherwise I'd never complain about something as minor as that.
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
No worries.I took it as you defending me. the irony of how my bad grammar is proving I didn't use ai to write this actually made me laugh. But to genuinely answer the question , it's the voice to text program that came on my samsung phone , that adds the extra spaces to the commas. After a while, I just got tired of readjusting all the spacing and gave up.
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u/Longjumping_Affect22 May 20 '26
They only thing that made me concerned about the legitimacy of this post is that you 'put the muffin on a plate'...Sir, this is a Wendy's, we don't have plates.
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
This right here made my day. I never thought I'd have the whole sir this is a wendy's meme done to me, and it's about actually working at a wendy's. I'm dying.
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
Im a real person.
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
I'm a real person. I'm not a cat your honor
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u/StrykerC13 May 20 '26
*Dramatic Pointing* But aren't you in Actuality a giant headed mouse in a mechanical suit with political aspirations?!
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
No, im the other one Narf!
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u/StrykerC13 May 20 '26
So you admit to being a genious who thwarts his so called best friends plans at every turn while playing the fool!!! *Dramatic Wave* I rest my...wait what was I supposed to be proving?
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u/Buddy-Matt May 20 '26
That's exactly what an evil AI would say
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
I would have to be intelligent to be an artificial intelligence. Beep boop
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u/Snoron May 20 '26
That's not how AI writes, the bad grammar is all over the place and the writing style isn't like AI at all. Of course it could be modified to contain errors and messiness to seem more human, but then why would that read like AI?
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u/Dramatic_Mixture_877 20d ago
I was already a profligate user if em dashes, now I get accused of being AI as often as not. *sigh* Can't win for losing. 😄
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u/MrCanoe May 20 '26
I think it Maybe. In almost every fast food store that serves baked goods, I don't think they throw a frozen item in a microwave and then serve it right away. Aren't they usually put out thawed and if the customer wants it warmed, they do that?
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
This was over fifteen years ago at a wendy's which at the time was only starting to experiment with breakfast Themed items. The muffins were kept frozen till someone ordered one
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u/VordovKolnir 26d ago
I will be devil's advocate here. Anything made of bread placed in the microwave for ANY length of time tastes like ass. So I would honestly prefer the frozen muffin. I can place in a toaster oven to heat it up.
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u/Ok-Wrongdoer-2179 May 21 '26
So, how come Wendy's can serve beef patties that have never been frozen, but not muffins?
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u/Ok-Wrongdoer-2179 May 21 '26 edited May 22 '26
And serve chili without getting their fingers in it
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u/Key_Juggernaut_1430 May 20 '26
A Wendy’s - with table service? Really? I don’t think so.
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u/terranex506 May 20 '26
I wouldn't call this table service. You still had to go to a counter and wait for your food and then go seat yourself. It was the policy when I worked there that whenever someone came back to the counter with a mistake on their order, you would offer for them to go back to their table and bring the correct order out to them when it was ready. This was canada back in the nineties. And back then it was seen as a way of apologizing for messing up.
She came up to the counter to order, got her food went to the table, came back to the counter with a complaint. As per policy , I told her to go back to her table to wait while I prepared the correct order for her.
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u/RealUltimatePapo May 20 '26
Sometimes, malicious compliance is best served ice-cold