Chipotle Employees Are Sharing the Most Unhinged Shift Meals They Make for Themselves

These meals are both eye-opening and mouth-watering!

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If you want to know the weirdest food options at any restaurant, it’s always best to find out what the employees eat. (I can confess that when I worked at a Pizza Hut, we used to gorge ourselves on Meat Lover Pizzas covered in the sugar and cinnamon mix we used for dessert breadsticks. It was a sweet and salty mixture that I’ve never been able to completely recreate since.)

That’s why it was fascinating to stumble across a Reddit thread where current and former Chipotle employees were answering the question: “What’s your most unhinged guilty pleasure meal?”

Here’s some of our personal favorites:

Fried taco shells

Redditor lomosaltado333 had this delicious sounding suggestion: “Right before we had to change the oil, we would fry the flour taco shells and drizzle honey after. We would also grill a folded flour taco filled with barbacoa, cheese, and cilantro for a pseudo-quesabirria.”

Homemade birria

If you’ve never tried birria, it’s a delicious Mexican stew made with marinated meat in a spicy broth. And Redditor troop129 managed to make their own version that sounds amazing. They wrote, “Taking Barbacoa juice in a red cup, adding lime juice, onions, cilantro, chipotle Tabasco, and mixing it up to make a birria like concoction. Then making a few kids quesadilla, extra cheese, barbacoa and barbacoa juice, and dipping it in the sauce. Absolutely fire.”

Fried jalapeños

Recent-Accident8659 wrote, “The grill lady at my restaurant would throw 5 or 6 jalapeños in the fryer and then douse them in citrus juice and add salt and they got all wilted and I would break the stem off and put the whole thing in a soft corn taco with chicken and cheese and corn and guacamole yummy.”

Just straight-up limes

There were several replies using the cut limes from the chip station. Redditor DML Wizard wrote, “Not my favorite, but I’ll steal a couple lime half from chip fryer and eat them straight up lol.” And they weren’t the only one tossing back limes, as utpryo34 explained, “I did lemon/lime shots to wake me up during a long shift.”

But the most creative use of limes came from Recent-Accident8659, who gave this recipe: “Just remembered an unhinged drink combo: juice like 4 extra lime halves into a water cup … Add a packet of sugar in the raw and the tiniest pinch of salt and a splash of citrus juice. Fill to the top with seltzer water from the spout underneath the sprite (idk if everyone has that). Sooo good and refreshing.”