I’m not one to Stan a megacorp, but free my boy McRib. He did nothing wrong!
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.
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.
McPorkScraps
McAnuses
I’m loving it.
probably offal, with hooves and horns mixed in.
Jokes on them. I like eating ass.
no reasonable consumer could expect the McRib to contain rib meat
Sounds right to me. People will litigate anything.
The thing is, McDonalds doesnt have reasonable customers
This sounds a bit like people demanding that almond milk should be called “nut juice”.
Also: Buffalo wings have no buffalo.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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…
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.
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?
Anybody eating it that thinks it’s rib meat has never had rib meat.
(I love McRibs, btw)
No. It’s McDonald’s. I would expect tofu mixed with sawdust.
And just enough animal derived seasoning to make it not vegetarian
No, i was expecting condoms actually.
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.
I’m beginning to wonder if the dino nuggets are actually made with dinosaurs
You crazy son of a bitch. You did it.
They’re moving in herds. They DO move in herds
They’re chicken, aren’t they? Chicken’s a dinosaur.
They actually are.
“Made with REAL ORGANIC Dinosaur Crude Oil! 10W-30”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Read The King of Torts
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.
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.’”
How is McRib spelled wrong?
It is the same naming convention as McChicken.
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
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.
basically cat food coming out a tube.
ninjaedit: I’m about to rail on food ignorance on Lemmy. Your comment sparked, but this entire thread and many like it are the cause. Lemmy likes to think we’re smart and yet swallows (har har) so much fucking ignorance without researching or educating, it’s infuriating.
Ignorance about how food works is off the scales.
Pet food is indeed held to a lower standard than food for humans.
You may not like chicken that has been put into a blender and then cooked into a patty, but that is essentially what a McChicken or McNugget is. It’s like ground beef, only a bit finer grind. So if you don’t like the chicken products, you should barely tolerate hamburgers.
But I’m gonna go out on a limb and suggest that you’re probably one of the ones that thinks that burgers by most places are fake. Everything is fake! FAAAAKE!
Well, it largely isn’t.
For example, the rumour that they put wood in grated parmesan cheese. Cellulose is IN wood, yes, but it is a large part of what makes up vegetables, period. And it’s used to keep the cheese from clumping.
It’s like people who put egg and breadcrumbs in meatloaf to give it a certain texture and taste profile. Yes, sometimes “fillers” are added to meat products - FOR THE SAME REASONS. Is meatloaf “FAAAAAAAKE”?
Sure, rail against lower quality meats being used if you’d like and go but some wagyu and grind it yourself and make your own burgers if you want, but a lot of these products are using more of the animal, meaning it wastes less EDIBLE FOOD helping keep cost down and slightly better for the environment as each animal we kill to eat can go farther.
And MOST of the people complaining about all this “bad health” will go out to a sit-down restaurant and consume 1800+ calories of fat and sugar and salt or 1200+ calories for a “coffee” drink and do FAR more damage to their health than any fucking fast food ever could.
The misinformation just gets really fucking old. We can’t fix the ACTUAL problems because people refuse to fucking learn what the ACTUAL problems actually ARE.
This was a really heated response. Are you the Sam Altman of fast food? I think your perspective is interesting. A lot of stuff does say, textured protein in lettering.
Also I don’t where you’ve lived but sugars, fats, and salts are essential. That 1800 calories of fat could mean life or death lol. I could easily do 5000-10000 calories in a day where I used to live.
Wagyu is awesome and I’ve had plenty. Getting food directly from farmers is something I enjoy. And I don’t have a problem with hunting my own food.
“The misinformation just gets really fucking old. We can’t fix the ACTUAL problems because people refuse to fucking learn what the ACTUAL problems actually ARE.”
Maybe, but a lot isn’t misinformation. If it’s banned across the globe, maybe it’s not that good for you?
I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen tenders labeled boneless wings.
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.
Hmm, I always make tenders using the tenderloin, never breast meat
The tenderloin sits just underneath the pectoral muscle that most people refer to as the chicken breast. They’re both breast meat, because they’re both from the chicken’s breast.
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.
And I have some doubts about Tyson’s Dino Nuggets…
Those actually are made from dinosaurs. No joke – it’s true.
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.
Funny enough, the McNuggets actually contain chicken rib meat.
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.
This one is kinda stupid since dino nuggets dont have any… Wait they sorta do have dinosaur meat.
Nevermind.
a mcRib killed my father.
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?
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.
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.
