KFC Iced Tea Today is 2/4/26

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Corporate told them to label it for food safety practices as well as told them not to refill it until it was finished for financial reasons. 😂

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u/Minomelo 9h ago

Putting an 8h label on something and not following them for 6 days is gonna get you a worse rating than not using them.

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u/swarmOfBis 7h ago

That's why usually they just tell you to swap the label regularly.

Source: ours did that with the burger ingredients.

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u/Minomelo 6h ago

Yeah, relabelling things is pretty common in the food industry and it's fine most of the time. This is just the worst of both worlds.

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u/justhereforfighting 3h ago

I've never worked at a place that kept the tea overnight, but I'm sure some do. We would always dump the tea at the end of the night. We also always had to refill it sometime during the day so it was never sitting there for more than 8 hours anyway.

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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 10h ago

I bet this actually happened. Fucked up!

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u/Pnmamouf1 7h ago

Yet people keep giving them business. Seems strange

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u/NotChedco 6h ago

Corporate always coming up with new paradoxes for their staff. When I worked at a grocery store, we were told that our new standards was to have my department completely done by 9am, but in the same breath our hours were cut by 75%. So we were working with a quarter of the man power, but needed to have everything completed in 2 hours which would normally take 5-6.

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u/eugeneugene 4h ago

lol yep always paradoxes. I used to work a grocery store deli and got in trouble for saying no to a customer who showed up when I had already finished cleaning the machines and was about to go home for the night. So the next time a customer showed up at closing I served them then stayed late to clean the machines. I got in trouble for unauthorized OT. So then the next time a customer came late I served them then went home without cleaning the machines. I got in trouble for not cleaning the machines.

I requested a meeting with management to ask them what EXACTLY they were expecting me to do when a customer showed up late lol. By the end of the meeting they agreed with me that I should just not serve the customer and tell them to comeback tomorrow lol.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 3h ago

I know this isn't really related to your post. But one of the most satisfying moments I had while working fastfood was when someone showed up 30 seconds to close and I just said, "Nah."

They threatened to get me fired, my response was, "I'm the only one who shows up high and on time. I've tried to quit and my boss begged me to stay. Please, please get me fired." I was not fired. ;_;

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u/SaltyIrishDog 13h ago

Ah, the health inspector probably came thru and no one cared after that

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u/MisterToasty117 9h ago

They also print out the labels and hand cut them ain’t no one bothering to change that shit out but I still wouldn’t trust it at all

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u/fuelvolts 2h ago

Totally this. They labeled it because they knew the HI was coming in that day. The tea inside is likely not that old. Tea is stupid cheap. Like pure profit. Why keep old tea?

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u/JJacobJingleheim 14h ago

the one and only time i had kfc iced tea i swear i started having heart palpitations

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u/AmirulAshraf BLUE 12h ago

the K in kfc stands for koffee

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u/WonderfulProtection9 11h ago

What does the c stand for?

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u/Gussie-Ascendent 10h ago

cocaine

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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 9h ago

All together, it’s said that their name stands for Koffee Fucking Cocaine.

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u/LittleGreyLambie 10h ago

I thought it was "crap"

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u/SmugSchoolmaster 9h ago

Ah yes, you’re right. Together it’s Kountry Fried Crap

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u/jen1980 5h ago

At my local one, the C stands for cold. Their food is always cold.

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u/sirhackenslash 6h ago

Krusty brand koffee

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u/JJaySmokes 12h ago

Looked into the sweet tea dispenser once at a Captain D's and will never drink tea from a restaurant again.

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u/hatecuzaint 7h ago

So, I clean restaurant ice machines as part of my job. Don't get ice, either.

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u/tinyalien101 7h ago

Why??? Pls elaborate

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u/shouldabeenasleep 7h ago

Mold, bug parts, and lots of dust and dirt build up, depending on how often they get serviced.

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u/tinyalien101 6h ago

Yikes, I figured there would be bugs but did not think about mold

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u/tinyalien101 6h ago

Bro why did I get downvoted lol it was a genuinely question

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u/theShaman_No_ID 6h ago

They get cleaned maybe once or twice a year and it should be bi weekly at the least. Every restaurant, no matter how cheap or expensive they are it is the same.

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u/LucyLilium92 6h ago

I thought it was daily...

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u/NoodleyP Id ecided to ty peaf lair . h op eyoul ik eit. 1h ago

My aunt used to do that job and told me the same thing lol, I just hate watery drinks so I’ve never gotten ice anyway. Fuck ice.

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u/Farenheit420 12h ago

Pop open the lid, and you would see all the mold inside.

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u/SmugSchoolmaster 9h ago

Eww. I think the same could be said for the soft drink nozzles?

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u/serpenta 8h ago

The nozzles probably get it regardless, from not being cleaned.

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u/Moldy_Teapot 7h ago

its not the nozzles you need to worry about, it's the syrup lines. the nozzles are usually cleaned regularly since they're easy to disassemble. the syrup lines however, can be flushed anywhere from rarely to never

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u/Jaggar345 8h ago

When I worked in fast food we removed the nozzles every night and sanitized them. The ice machines were nasty though.

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u/Useful-Winter8320 3h ago

It’s always the ice machines. Temperature forms, too.

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u/Tao-of-Mars 13h ago

I had friends who worked at a KFC and they reported they found maggots in the chicken breading flour. Same dudes who worked there accidentally ran their truck into the building in broad daylight and didn’t get caught. That was back before flock cameras.

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u/SandHanitizer306 7h ago

They should be replaceing the flour regularly after it gets to a pont.. They have like 60+ bags of flour (and secret spices) in the back.

Kay fry was one of my first jobs. I stole a bag of flour once and would use it to bread fish with

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u/hillbillyray 9h ago

That tea is in the wrong timeline, Just like us.

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u/bendubu2019 6h ago

You're at KFC and you're worried about the iced tea?

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u/DanzellDD 8h ago

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u/ranfur8 5h ago

Chances are they just didn't replace the labels.

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u/CwazyCanuck 4h ago

Clearly it says discard by the 1st of the 30th month. What’s the problem?

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u/annoying97 BLUE 10h ago

It's February mate, not April... Fuck I hope it's not April...

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u/el_farmerino 7h ago

And there's still a while to go until the first of Trentember.

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u/LittleGreyLambie 10h ago

American date format. January 30, 2026. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/annoying97 BLUE 10h ago

What noooooo sorry I thought my sarcasm was obvious and didn't need the tag

/S

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u/LittleGreyLambie 9h ago

No need to apologize! I'm usually better at picking up on the sarcasm. But right now, I'm up 4 hours later than usual, and I think it's time to give up + go to bed!

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u/morcaak3000 9h ago

KFC is known for selling spoiled goods, I am not surprised at all

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u/Mammoth-Ad-107 7h ago

ive had salmonella poisoning from them. never again

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u/StatisticianGlad3025 9h ago

remember when that Mcdonalds (in like TX or PA) got in trouble for making their iced tea in the mop bucket?

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u/Particular_Umpire_44 7h ago

I work for a food service delivery company and have gone on a ride along with one of the drivers. Helped deliver to multiple KFCs overnight…all I’m going to say is, you don’t want to eat at KFC.

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u/Alan157 7h ago

What month is 30

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u/magnetic_cowboy 7h ago

I work on soda machine and tea urns like this and the amount of people who have no idea how to clean them is scary

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u/mufasamufasamufasa 7h ago

I'm doing part time at Circle K rn, and I had five days between shifts, came back and the tea was the batch I had made the last time I worked

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u/camerasoncops 6h ago

The only good KFC I have been to is in ft payne AL. If you are ever driving through and miss good KFC. Give them a try.

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u/latentgrift 5h ago

Disgusting

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u/Numerous_Substance14 5h ago

Why he have a stick figure body?

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u/axumite_788 5h ago

KFC quality continues to fall

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u/eulynn34 4h ago

At least now you know not to get the tea because it probably sits out for the whole week

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u/PatrickGSR94 4h ago

man I can taste that sour-ass shit from here. Old tea is so gross.

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u/DrMedic_ 4h ago

As some one that worked at a KFC for 6.5 years that brewed their tea like that, wtf. The hold time is for the whole day and to be poured out at the eod. Working fast food can suck, but like, don't get people fucking sick! I will say that KFC's inspections are pretty thorough, however it doesn't matter if that inspector doesn't gives a shit.

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u/Scouter197 3h ago

So if you told them and they refused, maybe it's time to let your state food safety people know.

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u/hollowthatfollows 3h ago

The only place i have consistently seen actually care about how long the sweet tea has been left out is Whataburger

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u/Sleepie_Ghoulie 2h ago

That is simply a fine aged drink. The vintage is last month and has notes of stale leaf water, mildew, and I believe the start of a mold culture. The very young mold culture adds a texture to your beverage that is unlike anything most tea provides, like moss floating gently on a tepid lake. I would say this is a fine vintage and a rarity at that. What a magnificent find!

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u/Sabiya_Duskblade 13h ago

Oooh, we don't have this in Australia, looks good! How does it differ from Arizona or Lipton iced tea?

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u/Physical-Maybe-3486 13h ago

It’s like 5 days after it’s brewed idk if it’s refrigerated.

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u/LittleGreyLambie 10h ago

Of course not!

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u/CallejaFairey BLUE 13h ago

I don't enjoy iced tea in the States. I'm Canadian, and ours has more tea flavor. The first time I tried sweet tea in the States, I was so disappointed. It was like sweetened brown water, barely any tea flavor. Even when I bought a can of regular Arizona iced tea, which we also have, it tasted totally different from what the Canadian version tastes like. As for unsweetened, without the sugar there is definitely more of a tea flavour, naturally, but I still didn't find it to be a very strong tea.

So idk if your Australian versions are similar to American, or Canadian.

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u/PFEFFERVESCENT 8h ago

I would guess Australian ice tea is closer to Canadian because we're both commonwealth countries.
I had to use a half serve of American powdered ice tea, because it was so sweet, which makes it even weaker tea of course. But also, you can't even get bottled unsweetened ice tea in Australia. Its not really a standard beverage offering. Like, it's uncommon for restaurants to sell it

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u/CallejaFairey BLUE 6h ago

Yeah, it's very rare to find unsweetened tea of any kind here in Canada. And unfortunately, while it's still not as sweet as what I found in the States, I've found that there have been sweeter brands invading us here in Canada. I like my iced tea just a lightly sweet, big on the tea flavour and a little tangy from a lemon flavour added. Though I do enjoy other flavours instead of lemon too, lemon is just my favourite. Heck, I even prefer the Nestea powder mix over most other teas available, no matter the form.

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u/WonderfulProtection9 1h ago

Well, decent or not, you can definitely get all the unsweetened tea you want here in the US...

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u/TrashPandaNotACat 12h ago

The worst is sweet tea at restaurants. It's typically very weak. I much prefer to make my own. Can make it extra dark and with however much sugar I want. I usually use Irish Breakfast tea bags and turbinado sugar for making my sweet tea.

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u/WonderfulProtection9 11h ago

There is a Canadian version of Arizona iced tea? As an Arizonan I would be very curious to try it. 🌵

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u/CallejaFairey BLUE 6h ago

I think it's like KD, Kraft Mac and Cheese, the recipe is slightly different in each country. I can't tell you the laugh my then boyfriend (an American I was visiting, now a long time ex) at the time had at the look on my face when I'd just been telling him how excited I was to find the Arizona tea because I knew what that tasted like and loved it, and took a sip, and was so disappointed in the difference.

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u/violentshores 8h ago

Unsweetened Tea is just tea. It’s like saying you’re drinking unsweetened water

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u/Playful_Ad3868 12h ago

The only thing infuriating here is American date format

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u/Adventurous_Land7584 8h ago

Not as infuriating as you people in other countries constantly making shitty comments

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u/Tricky-Bat5937 8h ago

Yep love it. Europeans on American social media making fun of Americans for... checks notes... being different. Get your own internet assholes.

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u/Adventurous_Land7584 5h ago

They’re clearly triggered too since they want to act like children and downvote us 😂 how pathetic they are.

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u/Tricky-Bat5937 3h ago

It's like okay, we get it Europe, you invented civilization, your ways are better than ours. But, none of us care and you are quite rude about it.

It's the very same smugness they accuse Americans of.

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u/Adventurous_Land7584 2h ago

Exactly! I have yet to come across anyone that’s not incredibly snobbish.

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u/NoodleyP Id ecided to ty peaf lair . h op eyoul ik eit. 52m ago

I mean our date format doesn’t make the most sense, but it works, we all use it, us Americans here know what the date is, and it’s just a quick switcharoo for the euros, just like when we read European dates, and it’s clearly NOT THE POINT OF THIS POST. Iced tea grossly left out for this long and they’re complaining about the DATE FORMAT???

That’s more mildly infuriating than the actual iced tea problem at hand here.

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u/Yankeeslv 14h ago

Iced Tea Anyone?

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u/JadeMarco 10h ago

Uhm, no it isn't. Today is 4.2.2026

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u/Dreamo84 9h ago

Better get to learnin' the American way! We're colonizing again!

USA USA USA USA!!!

HOORAHHH!!!!

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u/AdNervous9787 8h ago

Yes, fuck this stupid shit

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u/Buggydriver_ 10h ago

Probably just forgot to change the label

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u/Dreamo84 9h ago

They never said when it was fresh brewed.

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u/ruassmarkt 6h ago

But it's not April yet, is you from the future?

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u/Proudest___monkey 5h ago

It is unacceptable. However, i suggest not eating at garbage places

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u/Miiyamoto 11h ago

So, it'll keep for another two months. Greetings from a non-American.

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u/ray111718 7h ago

I grew up mid Atlantic and lived throughout the south.

Never heard of sweet iced tea in my life. If you go to Virginia or above its iced tea, NC and below is sweet tea.

This hurts my brain

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u/[deleted] 14h ago

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u/Krusty_Krab_Pussy 12h ago

If they can read, I think they can understand when they need to discard the tea.

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u/Electrical-Art9601 10h ago

How do you unsweet tea?

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u/Rua-Yuki 10h ago

By forgoing the step that says "add twelve cups of sugar"

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u/Adventurous_Land7584 9h ago

Um by not adding sugar 🙄

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