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[–] 183 points 1 week ago (57 children)

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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  • [–] 89 points 1 week ago (41 children)

    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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  • [–] 79 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 27 points 1 week ago (25 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago* (10 children)

    How is McRib spelled wrong?

    It is the same naming convention as McChicken.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    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.

    The average human needs around 2000 calories per day. Soldiers might need more like 4000+ during combat operations. Unless you used to live in a hard labor camp, 10,000 calories per day would probably have caused you to become obese within months.

    Consuming a day's worth of calories in one meal while consuming other meals is why many in the world are obese.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Consuming a day’s worth of calories in one meal while consuming other meals is why many in the world are obese.

    You're not wrong there.

    But -40 will burn you up so fast. I was constantly hungry.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    The cold by itself does not affect calories, if you are sufficiently clothed.

    If you are exposed to the point of actively shivering, you might burn something like 100-200 calories per hour. HOWEVER, you would succumb to hypothermia and die.

    If you are talking about performing heavy labour, you could perhaps double your daily needs. But 10,000 calories is still wildly unlikely and anyone needing 10,000 calories per day is probably going to die quickly from that much exertion.

    -40

    -40°F or -40°C? Trick question, of course, as those are equal. heh. Unless you mean -40° Kelvin, in which case you have other problems like possibly breaking the laws of the universe.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    -40° Kelvin, in which case you have other problems like possibly breaking the laws of the universe.

    You got a giggle out of me.

    Yeah I did physical labor in the winter, so it was gamble of staying warm and not too warm.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago (5 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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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I'm not sure if I've ever seen tenders labeled boneless wings.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    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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    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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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago*

    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.

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