• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

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

    Also: Buffalo wings have no buffalo.

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      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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        59 minutes ago

        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…

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    5 hours ago

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

    Nevermind.

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    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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        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!

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      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.

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      5 hours ago

      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.

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          2 hours ago

          Has to have been. There’s no way actual humans were excited for that thing.

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        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

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          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.

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            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?

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      12 hours 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.

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        11 hours ago

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

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        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.

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        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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          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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          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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            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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              I said it’s ironic, I didn’t say I’m taking pleasure. The legal decision on Wyngs ultimately doesn’t help people who get scammed, which is ironic.

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              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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                the fuck would you have a sandwich that has bone in the meat?

                FWIW I have had a beef short rib sandwich before. The ribs were slow braised until falling off of the bone and then given a rough chop before getting put on a bun. Granted, that makes more sense for beef than pork and is never gonna happen at McDonalds and can’t happen at a McDonalds price point. Sorry, I’m extremely pedantic about food.

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              Obligatory fuck Ronald Reagan.

              “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.’”

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              It’s one of those scenarios where it should just be called some pork some textured protein “product”

              I did buy a mcchiken without know it was basically cat food coming out a tube.

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              I’m not saying it is, I’m saying it will have to be if the lawsuit wins. My comment is in regards to Wyngs, though

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            10 hours 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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      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.

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    McDonald’s at least gets a scapegoat for killing the McRib for good. Darmok would label this “Heston, seeing Lady Liberty”

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    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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        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.

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          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.

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          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.

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          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.