Do Not Eat the Display
I work at a Sharis restaurant, which is basically like a regional IHOP in the PNW. In our front display case with fresh pies, we also had a tray of caramel pecan cinnamon rolls that were at least four years old, because they were sprayed with food preservatives and other stuff.
Calcified/hardened, impossible to do anything with. Apparently, we had a host (was eventually fired for good reason) that sold one of those rolls to a customer. A lady asked him for a roll, and pointed at the one in the display case.
Instead of telling her that those rolls were for display purposes only, he apparently took the tray into the back of the kitchen (how no one noticed is beyond me) and hacked at it with a steak knife and god knows what else.
He boxes the roll up, and sells it to the lady – meanwhile no one has noticed that the tray of rolls in the front display case is gone. Several hours later, this lady calls back and demands to speak with a manager. Apparently she had no idea what she was supposed to do with this “fossil.”
Was she supposed to call the health department, the police, or what? I don’t think she tried to eat it, though reportedly she microwaved it and it started smoking.
Needless to say, we gave her a full refund, as well as a free pack of cinnamon rolls. You’d think the guy cutting into it would have realized that if it takes that much effort to cut into the rolls, there’s probably something amiss. Story credit: Reddit / goldy496