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[–] 90 points 4 hours ago (18 children)

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

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  • [–] 47 points 4 hours ago (16 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 13 points 3 hours ago (10 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 2 hours ago

    I think there is some rule for US grocery store products they have to label them "Wyngz" instead of "Wings". Restaurants seem to be allowed to call them whatever they want though.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 hours ago (6 children)

    Someone did sue them once, iirc, which is why they are often called Wyngs or some such nonsense. I'm not sure about other products but for some reason as long as it's one letter off it's fine?

    The irony to me is if you think there are wing meat in that or rib in a McRib, you might not be literate enough to even notice it's spelled wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

    This attitude of taking pleasure in calling people who fall for false advertising stupid or illiterate is why we're in the golden age of scams. Intellectually disabled and illiterate people do exist, yes, and they deserve to be protected by society not mocked. It's not ironic that they wouldn't notice the wrong spelling; it's the whole point of doing it. That's exactly why the regulation is necessary.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 minutes ago

    Oh come on, who is really doing the scamming here?

    Who's going to make most of the money on this? It will be scummy lawyers, that's who. We shouldn't be handing a whole bunch of money to scammy lawyers just because they can imagine a hypothetical idiot that doesn't know that the McRib is processed meat. Just do an image search on McRib and tell me that there is any way someone could think that isn't processed meat. How the fuck would you have a sandwich that has bone in the meat?

    What are even the damages on this? How would you determine who are the idiots that bought a McRib thinking it wasn't processed meat?

    If you're really against scams, you should be against these lawyers using the legal system to scam a bunch of money for themselves.

    What's next, the makers of Goldfish crackers should be sued because hypothetically there could be an idiot out there somewhere that thinks they contain goldfish meat?

    We aren't fighting back against the corruption and scaminess in our society by just allowing some other group of people run the scams.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure if I've ever seen tenders labeled boneless wings.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 hour ago*

    Well tenders are breast meat, so I’d certainly hope nobody is mislabeling them as wings. But I guess that’s the point of the entire conversation, because fake boneless wings (or wyngz, or whatever the fuck companies call them to avoid being sued) can contain whatever is cheapest and easiest for the company.

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