A mother has accused McDonald's of pouring excessive amounts of salty and white pepper on her three-year-erstwhile son's burger as a petty act of "revenge".

Samantha Holland, 40, told Gloucestershire Live that she believes the profligate food chain's Hardwicke branch in Gloucestershire sabotaged her family's order after her son Shift's papa made a complaint.

Her partner Shaun Lowery, 33, asked staff to replace their initial order after the food had grown arctic, having been left on the counter for 20 minutes.

IT is apprehended that the home had erroneously opted for counter collection rather than set back Service simply, when staff agreed to provide replacements for their order of two triple cheeseburgers and a cheeseburger Laughing Meal with a portion of chicken nuggets, Miss Holland was shocked to discover their solid food had been seasoned and so extremely that IT was pretty much unpalatable, especially for Teddy.

Telling the story of their Friday night chaffer, Miss Nederland said: "We thought our food was attractive quite an a long time so Shaun went capable the counter then asked what was on with the order.

"The person portion explained to us the order had been Sat connected the counter for about 20 minutes, so he asked them for the food to live cooked refreshed again. We and then sat down to corrode the fresh order and, when I started to eat my burger, I noticed lots of black and Patrick White bits on the burger.

"I restrained my son's food and his was too covered in salt and pepper. All of our food was covered in salinity.

"I am just now really angry. I spirit look-alike it was retaliate on us for asking for the order to be remade.

"For that to bump to my immature is really skanky. I know they may season the burgers but I did non think they even did that to the children's food.

Samantha Holland

Samantha Holland is upset and angry that her McDonald's food order of cheeseburgers arrived covered in common salt

"I stopped him eating his. Information technology could have made him ill and the exposure I took really does not do IT justice.

"You hear sometimes that food gets squabble in or messed about with if you complain but you act up non require it to happen to you. I spoke to the manager about it happening the way out and he said it must have been the salt and pepper shaker which was the government issue.

"I called the head office and they transmitted a generic reception of oblation us 20 per cent remove our next order. However, I am really disconcert and angry they would make that to my son."

McDonald's denied the food was tampered with on purpose with a interpreter saying: "Food quality is of the utmost importance to USA and we place big stress on superior control, following rigorous standards to invalidate any imperfections, and we'Ra sorry to hear we fell short of these happening this occasion. We apologised to the client in question for their get and understand they are currently in conversation with our Customer Services squad."

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