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[-] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 days ago

Lmao, “no reasonable customer would expect the thing with the word “rib” in the name and shaped like ribs to be made of rib meat.”

Sure, it’s obviously not literally a rack of ribs but clearly they are trying to associate it with a fancier product by way of naming and shape it like that. Probably wouldn’t sell as well if it was called the McTripe. That’s pretty deceptive and misleading.

Is it that big of a deal? Not really, but also it’s just one example out of a mountain of examples of McDonald’s misleading or manipulating customers.

[-] TWeaK@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

I mean this article is more sensationalist than anything else around it. This is a non-story.

The judge here hasn't implied that the McRib is or isn't deception. They've just ruled that the question is valid enough to warrant a court hearing.

McDonalds tried to dismiss the question as obviously absurd. The judge hasn't even really disagreed with that, except that it isn't immediately obviously absurd. "McRib" + kinda rib shaped = maybe a claim of it being ribs? Worth a bigger discussion, at least.

The facts presented in the hearing will play it out, and realistically McD's will probably win. The McRib is priced the same as their other fast food offerings, and far less than an actual set of ribs would be. I mean, it's kinda like arguing a "Big Mac" implies some special cut of beef, or a McNugget is a special type of chicken (it is, but not like that).

But McD's still have to go to court and argue their case. And who knows, maybe they'll blow it up massively in their face like that time they lost the European trademark for Big Mac.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 192 points 3 days ago

For those as curious as me: The suit is about the fact that the mcrib is rib shaped, yet contains no rib meat.

[-] Pratai@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago

People are litigious over the dumbest fucking shit.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Because USA does not have loser pays laws. One of the few countries that doesn't. This leads to a lawyer tax on everything.

[-] Feidry@sh.itjust.works 93 points 3 days ago

Not to defend a giant corporation but if they do this, they better go after Banquet and all the other frozen food manufacturers that make those fake-ass ribs.

[-] tquid@piefed.ca 82 points 3 days ago

I'm beginning to wonder if the dino nuggets are actually made with dinosaurs

[-] jimerson@lemmy.world 65 points 3 days ago
[-] mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago

They're moving in herds. They DO move in herds

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[-] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 3 days ago

They're chicken, aren't they? Chicken's a dinosaur.

[-] tquid@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah fair point actually

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[-] Duranie@leminal.space 28 points 3 days ago

I wonder how many companies that produce boneless chicken wings actually include any wing meat.

I appreciate that there are those that seek to hold companies to truth in advertising and certain standards, but as an adult in her 50's I've never once thought that a McRib would contain rib meat. It's processed pork that's shaped like ribs. If anything, that's more accurate than chunks of chicken breast sold as boneless wings.

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[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 27 points 3 days ago

is rib shaped

And also named the mcrib

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[-] emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 days ago

Holy shit this thread has a ton of people hardcore simping for fucking McDonald's. Really fucking sad and embarrassing to see.

[-] wizblizz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Yep, folks get defensive when you insult their culture.

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

Maybe they just disagree with you and that's natural and normal

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

This one is kinda stupid since dino nuggets dont have any... Wait they sorta do have dinosaur meat.

Nevermind.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

This sounds a bit like people demanding that almond milk should be called "nut juice".

Also: Buffalo wings have no buffalo.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

See there's a difference here:

Buffalo don't have wings, one can reasonably expect wings to be made of a creature that has wings. Also did you know that they're named after Buffalo, the city where they were first made?

Pigs do have rib meat, so one can reasonably expect a rib sandwich to be made of primarily rib meat, not tripe and stomach. And unless the first place to make such sandwiches was a city called Rib, I'd say McRib is named after ribs or rib meat.

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[-] LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com 14 points 2 days ago

This sounds a bit like people demanding that almond milk should be called "nut juice".

You mean America’s dairy farmers?

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The wild part about the almond milk thing is that is existed since the middle ages and was used as a dairy milk substitute even back then and it's been called almond milk for nearly the whole time. And yet now it's somehow a problem.

[-] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Yet peanut butter is acceptable.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah. It's weird how some of these industries fly into a panic and seek to suppress and mount campaigns against something that is an alternative, often a better alternative in many ways.

They get all litigious over calling something "milk" if it's not dairy. They preemptively get states to outlaw what is likely one of the only serious ways to address global warming: cultured meat. Which is just bonkers - it'd be like Big Carbon getting states to simply outlaw wind and solar preemptively. Imagine, getting prison time for selling cultured meat.

These industries all have assets and the knowledge to get things onto shelves already; they could simply invest in the future as well.

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[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 3 days ago

The courts need to step in and finally force Taco Bell to offer the Double Decker Taco year round.

YOU HAVE ALL THE INGREDIENTS YOU ASSHOLES JUST MAKE IT FOR ME

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[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 days ago

This is just a litmus test case before they take on Big Gummi Bear!

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[-] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 2 days ago

Sounds like the once-a-year Heartburn Sandwich is in trouble.

[-] D_Tom@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I'm not one to Stan a megacorp, but free my boy McRib. He did nothing wrong!

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

no reasonable consumer could expect the McRib to contain rib meat

Sounds right to me. People will litigate anything.

[-] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't expect much of any kind of meat in any of the burgers tbh.

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