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.
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.
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.
McPorkScraps
McAnuses
I’m loving it.
probably offal, with hooves and horns mixed in.
Jokes on them. I like eating ass.
Does that imply such a thing as a “bone in” pig rectum?
Actually never mind, some things are best left unknown.
Sounds like the once-a-year Heartburn Sandwich is in trouble.
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
Any Judge who rules against a megacorp in their hometown jurisdiction will likely not remain a Judge in that location very long.
I’m not one to Stan a megacorp, but free my boy McRib. He did nothing wrong!
a mcRib killed my father.
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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Because USA does not have loser pays laws. One of the few countries that doesn’t. This leads to a lawyer tax on everything.
probably isnt meat.
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.
is rib shaped
And also named the mcrib
You’re telling that my ribbed condoms don’t contain any rib meat?
Next you’ll tell me that a McMansion isn’t a real mansion!
What meat is in the condom is up to you, buddy.
Are you eating your condoms and expecting rib meat?
Are you eating a McRib expecting rib meat?
No. It’s McDonald’s. I would expect tofu mixed with sawdust.
Uh nah, that would be healthier.
And just enough animal derived seasoning to make it not vegetarian
Anybody eating it that thinks it’s rib meat has never had rib meat.
(I love McRibs, btw)
I would expect some rib meat, yeah. I wouldn’t expect it to be entirely from a rack of ribs, but I would expect it to have at least some ground up rib meat.
Hell, they do that with the chicken nuggets.
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.
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.
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
when they removed the gordita, but kept the chalupa, I was devastated.
That makes no sense. Did they really do that? Gorditas are/were wildly unpopular (except for the CGC), but it took so much less effort to warm those up than it did to deep fry it into a Chalupa.
Yep. At least around me they did. And they refuse to make a gordita, and you can’t order a raw chalupa. They did bring it back this fall for a limited time, but I can’t go to my local taco bell anymore because they have flock cameras in the parking lot.
:c
Flock cameras
in places isare gross. Blech.
Some locations still will, others won’t so I just order a soft taco sub beans remove lettuce and make my own.
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?
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.
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.
Unfortunately true. Burritos also contain no donkey meat, despite the name.
This one is kinda stupid since dino nuggets dont have any… Wait they sorta do have dinosaur meat.
Nevermind.
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.
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!!
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.
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…
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…
McDonald’s at least gets a scapegoat for killing the McRib for good. Darmok would label this “Heston, seeing Lady Liberty”
Good. Surprised it took this long.
