Guest Accuses Airbnb Host Of Supposedly Putting Dog Food Into Their Spaghetti, Ex-Employee Tells The Horrific Tale
The world is a scary place.
That is besides all of the internal things that are out to get us, like fear turned crippling anxiety or the existential crisis that is inevitably getting old and having to deal with all of that, just to name a few.
But there’s also all of the externals. I’m not talking about the obvious ones. No daylight muggings, no car crashes, no random raccoon attacks. Nope. This is even more subtle than that.
I’m talking about someone messing with your food. Well, not yours, per se, but definitely food that was handed to you as a gesture of welcome to an Airbnb. But the catch here is it tastes funny. And upon further investigation, you find out that it’s not actually meat spaghetti that you’re munching on, but dog food spaghetti. Buon appetito!
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You think your waiter meddling with your food is bad enough? How about dog food as the meat on pasta?
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So, a former employee of Airbnb, Kendall Marie, a.k.a. MsMysteryJones, has recently stumbled upon a video discussing her former employer. Long story short, it’s about how it became the very thing it swore never to be.
But what Kendall actually did was stitch the video to share a horror story of sorts. You see, she used to work at a call center that serviced Airbnb. She one day received a call from one of their hosts’ guests.
The call started off pretty standard. Apparently, the lady that the guest was staying with had the venue marked as “private” when it was actually a “shared space”. Something that can be easily cleared up.
A former Airbnb employee shared her favorite customer service horror story which included spaghetti laced with dog food
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But the call turned really bizarre when the guest explained that this host had a “welcome spaghetti” thing going where she offered minced meat spaghetti as a gesture of gratitude for choosing her home.
How? Well, no, it wasn’t that the spaghetti wasn’t gluten-free or that the meat wasn’t vegan-friendly or something, no. Something actually tasted quite off about it.
So, the guests decided they’d do a little detective work and checked the trash for what was actually used to cook the dish. They couldn’t find any evidence to support the claim of meat being used. However, they found all of the evidence to support one of the main ingredients—dog food. Yep. That happened. Allegedly.
The dish in question was called “welcome spaghetti” and it had surprisingly good reviews on the host’s Airbnb page
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You can check out the now-viral video below
@msmysteryjones #stitch with @ken ♬ Love Is Gone (feat. Dylan Matthew) (Acoustic) – SLANDER, Dylan Matthew
Image credits: Marco Verch Professional Photographer (not the actual photo)
And while one should not joke at the expense of another person’s misfortune, it is still funny to note that this Airbnb had raving reviews praising the “welcome spaghetti”. Kendall, however, thought it was traumatizing.
The video inspired several directions of comments, with the first and foremost being all the things that Airbnb does wrong or the ways it has wronged its clientele. Kendall does address some of this in another one of her videos, but that’s a topic for another day.
But others thought this was a tad bit shady as, #1, why is minced meat canned?, which Kendall elaborated on as she had to somehow justify this reimbursement; #2, finding a can of dog food in the trash isn’t proof, but remember that it was a shared space, so the food was most likely prepared then and there, so the evidence had to be there, right?; and #3, why would you take food from strangers?
For the most part, folks shared their frustrations with Airbnb, but there were also skeptics as well as jokers in the comments
Whatever the case, the video, as of this article, got over 800,000 views, with a bit over 95,000 likes. Besides that, the story made some headlines on the internet here and there.
Kendall continued responding to folks’ comments in video form, but the video that’s worth mentioning, since we’re on the topic, is tips that help folks as guests if something goes awry in their Airbnbs.
Keep communication “on the platform”. This means to try and keep all of the communication using the Airbnb website and app. And if the host is ghosting you, this would help Airbnb make a better judgment and kick their butts about it.
Also, don’t try to pay the host using outside means, so no Venmo, no cash, no nothing. Keep all of the financials inside the Airbnb system, because otherwise, Airbnb won’t be able to help you. Besides, hosts are not allowed to ask for money off the platform. And they know about this.
You can check out the full video here, or you can check out the other videos Kendall posted on the topic here. But before you go anywhere, like to this article about tips on how to stay safe in a hotel room, we’d like you to share your thoughts in the dedicated commentary section found below this very article.
i don't know about other countries, but in the UK, pet food has to be fit for human comsumption. With that in mind, in my younger days, I used bring that up in conversations at parties and them go on to eat a portion of dog and/or cat food, is any was available. Believe it or not, the cheaper "minced up" foods were much meatier than the more expensive stuff that was pressed in to cubes of "whole meat". Too get the meaty chunks look, the food is minced into a real fine textureless paste. Where as the cheaper foods just had the meat ground up, so it still had texture and there was recognisable bits of vegetables in there as well. If I had to pick a favourite, it would have been Co-Op cat food - tasty and chewy.
Just yesterday I was watching this guy on Youtube who travels a lot by simple means (bike, hiking, hitchhiking etc) and he actually brought cans of petfood with him to eat. It looked just like Spam. Idk I can kind of understand, although I can't say how I would feel if I discovered someone fed me dogfood without me knowing about it.
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Once I licked a bit of Whiskas off my hand because I thought it was Nutella (don´t multitask when it comes to feeding cats and yourself). Didn´t taste good at all.
I liked Airbnb in the beginning, before they started with crazy requests and then insane cleaning fees on top of that. I'm not cleaning for you and also paying such a fee. I clean what I use in the kitchen, I don't leave a mess, but I'm not doing the laundry. The ones I looked at for the summer were more expensive than a nice hotel with breakfast included. I'd have to be stupid to choose an Airbnb.
I am an Airbnb host in the mountains of North Carolina. Always read the reviews. Best way to decide. I have been doing it almost 3 years A 4.99 rating. Cheaper than the local motel for a whole house. No cleaning fee unless you leave me a mess. I do it because I love meeting people. Retired teacher and miss the interaction with people. I want my guests to have a great experience and come back.( which they do) There are some of us out there who love what we are doing. Again, read the reviews. Best advice.
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Use a bnb if it's for an overnight not near a city or hotel. Otherwise use a hotel and avoid this mess
To be fair, if I cook pasta with ground beef (ragu) you won't find a can in my trash. I only use fresh ground beef and pork when I make mine. I actually have the butcher ground it for me.
Same, but the butcher then wraps it in paper and labels it. So if someone looked in my trash, they'd see something that said "ground beef" on it. I've seen pre-ground in plastic packages, too. I've never seen ground beef in a can, though. Maybe they were looking for a can for a pre-made sauce? Maybe ground beef is sold in cans elsewhere?
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1# was there a dog/dog hairs/had a dog been visiting? 2# here we separate our trash, and minced meat comes in various packaging. Maybe the packaging was somewhere else? 3# maybe it came out of a storage container. From the freezer. 4# asks which spices have been used or what kind of meat out is.
Sounds like an urban myth. But it is part of a bigger problem that definitely exists with AirBnB. In the UK they are often some old couple, empty nesters with little clue as to modern expectations. Either that or a pile 'em high conversion of thin-walled bedroom warrens and shared shower rooms. You are either afraid to step out of the room because you will feel obliged to be friendly to a lonely homeowner, or you're just afraid to step outside the room. When the chain hotels are cheaper and standardised, taking the gamble out of the stay, why would you do Airb&b?
Maybe it is a local thing, but who would have canned meet in the trash after cooking? I get the styrofoam thing but ours from our local grocer comes in butcher paper. Because the butcher does it. I think you can get some packaged in a premeasured plastic wrap, but the styrofoam thing is out.
i don't know about other countries, but in the UK, pet food has to be fit for human comsumption. With that in mind, in my younger days, I used bring that up in conversations at parties and them go on to eat a portion of dog and/or cat food, is any was available. Believe it or not, the cheaper "minced up" foods were much meatier than the more expensive stuff that was pressed in to cubes of "whole meat". Too get the meaty chunks look, the food is minced into a real fine textureless paste. Where as the cheaper foods just had the meat ground up, so it still had texture and there was recognisable bits of vegetables in there as well. If I had to pick a favourite, it would have been Co-Op cat food - tasty and chewy.
Just yesterday I was watching this guy on Youtube who travels a lot by simple means (bike, hiking, hitchhiking etc) and he actually brought cans of petfood with him to eat. It looked just like Spam. Idk I can kind of understand, although I can't say how I would feel if I discovered someone fed me dogfood without me knowing about it.
Load More Replies... Once I licked a bit of Whiskas off my hand because I thought it was Nutella (don´t multitask when it comes to feeding cats and yourself). Didn´t taste good at all.
I liked Airbnb in the beginning, before they started with crazy requests and then insane cleaning fees on top of that. I'm not cleaning for you and also paying such a fee. I clean what I use in the kitchen, I don't leave a mess, but I'm not doing the laundry. The ones I looked at for the summer were more expensive than a nice hotel with breakfast included. I'd have to be stupid to choose an Airbnb.
I am an Airbnb host in the mountains of North Carolina. Always read the reviews. Best way to decide. I have been doing it almost 3 years A 4.99 rating. Cheaper than the local motel for a whole house. No cleaning fee unless you leave me a mess. I do it because I love meeting people. Retired teacher and miss the interaction with people. I want my guests to have a great experience and come back.( which they do) There are some of us out there who love what we are doing. Again, read the reviews. Best advice.
Load More Replies... Use a bnb if it's for an overnight not near a city or hotel. Otherwise use a hotel and avoid this mess
To be fair, if I cook pasta with ground beef (ragu) you won't find a can in my trash. I only use fresh ground beef and pork when I make mine. I actually have the butcher ground it for me.
Same, but the butcher then wraps it in paper and labels it. So if someone looked in my trash, they'd see something that said "ground beef" on it. I've seen pre-ground in plastic packages, too. I've never seen ground beef in a can, though. Maybe they were looking for a can for a pre-made sauce? Maybe ground beef is sold in cans elsewhere?
Load More Replies... 1# was there a dog/dog hairs/had a dog been visiting? 2# here we separate our trash, and minced meat comes in various packaging. Maybe the packaging was somewhere else? 3# maybe it came out of a storage container. From the freezer. 4# asks which spices have been used or what kind of meat out is.
Sounds like an urban myth. But it is part of a bigger problem that definitely exists with AirBnB. In the UK they are often some old couple, empty nesters with little clue as to modern expectations. Either that or a pile 'em high conversion of thin-walled bedroom warrens and shared shower rooms. You are either afraid to step out of the room because you will feel obliged to be friendly to a lonely homeowner, or you're just afraid to step outside the room. When the chain hotels are cheaper and standardised, taking the gamble out of the stay, why would you do Airb&b?
Maybe it is a local thing, but who would have canned meet in the trash after cooking? I get the styrofoam thing but ours from our local grocer comes in butcher paper. Because the butcher does it. I think you can get some packaged in a premeasured plastic wrap, but the styrofoam thing is out.
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