Holy shit this thread has a ton of people hardcore simping for fucking McDonald’s. Really fucking sad and embarrassing to see.
Yep, folks get defensive when you insult their culture.
Maybe they just disagree with you and that’s natural and normal
I didn’t even comment. Just reading them.
I’m not one to Stan a megacorp, but free my boy McRib. He did nothing wrong!
Sounds like the once-a-year Heartburn Sandwich is in trouble.
Any Judge who rules against a megacorp in their hometown jurisdiction will likely not remain a Judge in that location very long.
For those as curious as me: The suit is about the fact that the mcrib is rib shaped, yet contains no rib meat.
probably isnt meat.
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.
Hmmm, fake ass-ribs
You had me at ass.
I’m more into hard shells to be honest. But what are they If not an extended rib cage?
With an ass inside 💕
real deep?
Mid
A bargain
The issue here is that apparently McDonald’s is charging a premium price for the sandwich even though it is not being made with premium meat though the advertising implies that it is. Does Banquet charge more for meals with fake ribs? Honest question since I don’t eat any of this stuff.
mcdonalds is far from the only one that uses a similar ‘rib shape’. they all do, from food service to the grocery store freezer to gas station food… many even use ‘rib’ in the name, too.
mcdonalds has been ‘faking it’ for 45 years… how about the others? as long? even longer?
the generic ‘pork’ ingredient listing could very well contain “rib meat”.
there’s no case here.
mcdonald’s only crime is the price they charge for them. the ones literally next door at the gas station here, and which are available all the time not just ‘for a limited time only’, cost less than one-third the price and are at least a mcrib’s equal if not better.
Not surprised. I had one for the first time during the last release, and it was disgusting. I honestly can’t understand why anyone likes it.
So very clearly nothing like a rib, with highly questionable pressed meat and something meant to ‘feel’ like gristle. They try to fool you, but it doesn’t work.
My understanding is that the original “bring back the McRib” campaign was McDonald’s astroturf.
Has to have been. There’s no way actual humans were excited for that thing.
It’s and MRE from a fast food chain. It’s like how my BIL would say MREs are trash and then take a can of chef boyRD to field. Like dude it’s the same shit. lol
While MREs taste gross, they’ll stay edible until the end of time. I think that’s a fair trade. The McRib is just gross with no upsides.
I know, I played the SteveMRE game. I tried out a 65 Vietnam era mre; for the cigarettes really lol; but I feel bad because it had a peanut butter tin inside of a tin that was in perfect condition, as in you wouldn’t be able to tell it was old. Tasted great–probably the best peanut butter I’ve ever had. Talk about some Fallout food. The coconut crackers weren’t bad either.
And I agree the McRub, last I had one already tasted like plastic. It’s like the MRE pizzas, what is this?
The pizza isn’t so bad if you put it in the warmer sleeve
Ugh that thing is end of the world food. Idk what’s worse omelette or that.
I could have sworn that this was already litigated previously and that McDs won. Clearly not given this situation, but it has certainly been a topic of discussion in the past.
Funny enough, the McNuggets actually contain chicken rib meat.
The suit is not about the shape of the rib, it’s about its content. The shape is merely a tactic to deceive. The article describes this in the first and second sentence. Read the article.
But they are ribbed for her pleasure.
This sounds a bit like people demanding that almond milk should be called “nut juice”.
Also: Buffalo wings have no buffalo.
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.
Yes, I think almost everyone knows that about wings? That’s kinda the joke.
Anyway, yes, I understand people might be butthurt to learn that fast food has misleading labeling. Not sure what they expect of an industry that used pink slime, however. It could be they have a legitimate complaint, but if people are shocked to find out they have some strange components being put in their low-cost mystery meat…they might not want to look too closely at a lot of things consumed without too much thought.
Gelatin anyone? 🤣
This sounds a bit like people demanding that almond milk should be called “nut juice”.
You mean the dairy industry lobby group? Because that’s all that ever was.
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.
Yet peanut butter is acceptable.
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.
This sounds a bit like people demanding that almond milk should be called “nut juice”.
You mean America’s dairy farmers?
You fight like a dairy farmer!!
Europe’s too. I’m putting “Oat Drink” on my cereals every morning 🤡
Literally the one plus side to Brexit lmao
Although they’ve been talking about it…
If you look closel, instead of calling it nut juice they just invented a new word: Almondmilk. Check your fridge (if you chug nut juice). The lawyer that came up with this deserves a dinosaur sticker on their hand.
It’s all theater and distraction. Coconut milk has been around an awful long time with no issue. Same with milk of magnesia.
The dairy industry only started caring when the term milk started getting used for viable alternatives to dairy milk. Industrial lobbying is all about protecting market share and that’s it.
Mostly, yeah, but there are also kind of meatmaxxing/proteinmaxxing types that usually simp for the dairy industry, too.
An example would be any fucking moron that calls other people “soy boys” - highly likely to be one of these people that take issue with almond/soy/oat milk…
McPorkScraps
McAnuses
probably offal, with hooves and horns mixed in.
Does that imply such a thing as a “bone in” pig rectum?
Actually never mind, some things are best left unknown.
This one is kinda stupid since dino nuggets dont have any… Wait they sorta do have dinosaur meat.
Nevermind.
no reasonable consumer could expect the McRib to contain rib meat
Sounds right to me. People will litigate anything.
I wouldn’t expect much of any kind of meat in any of the burgers tbh.
The thing is, McDonalds doesnt have reasonable customers
a mcRib killed my father.
This is just a litmus test case before they take on Big Gummi Bear!
Wait, you mean to tell me gummy bears don’t contain actual bear?
Unfortunately true. Burritos also contain no donkey meat, despite the name.
Fuck the bear thing, I just found out there’s no gum either!
Dude wait till you find out about Sour Patch Kids. And Junior Mints. And Reeses Pieces.
And Turtles!
All so, so very disappointing.
I feel like my whole life has been a lie.
Only Gamey Gummi Bears.
I really gotta get better at reading labels. Turns out they are made almost entirely out of…CORN!
The bears are made of corn! With a small amount of cow and/or pig.
Good. Surprised it took this long.
McDonald’s at least gets a scapegoat for killing the McRib for good. Darmok would label this “Heston, seeing Lady Liberty”
