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 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.

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.

probably isnt meat.

Funny enough, the McNuggets actually contain chicken rib 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.

But they are ribbed for her pleasure.

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.

Wait, you mean to tell me gummy bears don't contain actual bear?

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.

when they removed the gordita, but kept the chalupa, I was devastated.

Some locations still will, others won't so I just order a soft taco sub beans remove lettuce and make my own.

Yep, folks get defensive when you insult their culture.

Maybe they just disagree with you and that's natural and normal

McAnuses

probably offal, with hooves and horns mixed in.

It was killed for other reasons