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[–] 3 points 3 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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  • [–] 4 points 2 hours 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 46 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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