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And this right here is why people generally have a piss poor opinion of the legal profession. Because this is just dumb.

I never, not once, in all of my existence since I was about maybe 6 or 7 years old thought the McRib was actually a rack of ribs. It's nothing more than chopped processed pork leftovers in the shape of a rib slathered in crappy bbq sauce. I've also, not once in all of my existence, understood the fascination with them because they are absolute crap. Much like the Jack in the Box tacos.

This lawsuit is along the lines of the one a few years back where Lowes or Home Depot or Mccoys or whomever was sued by some idiot because they complained that a 2x4 is not actually 2"x4" and somehow thought they were harmed by that fact.

Sht like this needs to be tossed immediately and the plaintiff lawyer needs to be hammered by the courts for wasting court time and money.

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OH CRAP I FORGOT TODAY WAS 75 Cent 2-TACO DAY

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Moon Shadow said:

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Over two decades ago I heard a radio message that "Boneless Wings" = You don't know where that part of the chicken (?) that came from.
May even be the tail end of the intestinal tract!

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Menudo pollo

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An offal game to play in the pool.

Flagging this post, for forgetting taco Tuesday.

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BusterAg said:

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Things next on the list:

Hot dogs contain no dog meat.
Grape Nuts contain no grapes, and no nuts.
Bac'n bits usually have no bacon.
French Fries don't come from France
Sweetbreads have no bread.
Egg cream contains no egg or cream
Truffle oils contain no truffles
I have no idea how bologna doesn't have a "Y" somewhere in the name, and don't even get me started on spotted dick.

If I was a defense lawyer for McD, I would use each of these terms as often as possible until the judge slapped me down.

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Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island.

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There's an Interstate in Hawaii!

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TA-OP said:

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The boneless wing lobby must be shaking in fear.

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Wait, boneless wings aren't wing meat?

But it all is from flying Buffalo, right???

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Boneless wings are nuggets without the grinding and reshaping steps.

MouthBQ98 said:

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Oh FFS. It's a name of a product, it is like a pork sandwich that looks like a little rack of ribs. It doesn't have bones in it either. I hope the case gets tossed.

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Correct. I have devoted a great deal of my life to developing pigs without a rib cage for this very purpose. Have not had a great deal of progress so far but I am looking for investors.

one safe place said:

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MouthBQ98 said:

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Oh FFS. It's a name of a product, it is like a pork sandwich that looks like a little rack of ribs. It doesn't have bones in it either. I hope the case gets tossed.

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Correct. I have devoted a great deal of my life to developing pigs without a rib cage for this very purpose. Have not had a great deal of progress so far but I am looking for investors.

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Breed them to not have legs, while you are at it. Makes a rib less pig easier to raise. (A joke.)

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one safe place said:

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MouthBQ98 said:

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Oh FFS. It's a name of a product, it is like a pork sandwich that looks like a little rack of ribs. It doesn't have bones in it either. I hope the case gets tossed.

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Correct. I have devoted a great deal of my life to developing pigs without a rib cage for this very purpose. Have not had a great deal of progress so far but I am looking for investors.

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Breed them to not have legs, while you are at it. Makes a rib less pig easier to raise. (A joke.)

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I'm genetically engineering a spherical cow for use in physics simulations.

aggiehawg said:

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one safe place said:

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MouthBQ98 said:

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Oh FFS. It's a name of a product, it is like a pork sandwich that looks like a little rack of ribs. It doesn't have bones in it either. I hope the case gets tossed.

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Correct. I have devoted a great deal of my life to developing pigs without a rib cage for this very purpose. Have not had a great deal of progress so far but I am looking for investors.

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Breed them to not have legs, while you are at it. Makes a rib less pig easier to raise. (A joke.)

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I have already developed pigs without legs. Funny to watch them rolling downhill to the feed trough! Bad part is rolling them back uphill.

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aggiehawg said:

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one safe place said:

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MouthBQ98 said:

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Oh FFS. It's a name of a product, it is like a pork sandwich that looks like a little rack of ribs. It doesn't have bones in it either. I hope the case gets tossed.

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Correct. I have devoted a great deal of my life to developing pigs without a rib cage for this very purpose. Have not had a great deal of progress so far but I am looking for investors.

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Breed them to not have legs, while you are at it. Makes a rib less pig easier to raise. (A joke.)

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I have already developed pigs without legs. Funny to watch them rolling downhill to the feed trough! Bad part is rolling them back uphill.

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Just eliminate the hill.

When I have leftover pork ribs, I'll shred the meat then mix with ground pork and rib rub to make homemade McRib patties. They are really good unlike McDonalds and not subject to frivolous lawsuits

Dinosaur nuggets aren't made from real dinosaur, news at 11.

schmellba99 said:

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This lawsuit is along the lines of the one a few years back where Lowes or Home Depot or Mccoys or whomever was sued by some idiot because they complained that a 2x4 is not actually 2"x4" and somehow thought they were harmed by that fact.

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It's not.

While it may be confusing that a "2x4" isn't, it's legal because NIST has a handbook (incorporating definitions from the American Lumber Standard Committee) defining what a "2x4" actually is. And because the sign at the store has fine print saying "actual dimensions 1 5/8 x 3 5/8 in" or whatever it is these days. So the hardware stores aren't committing fraud by giving the "wrong" lumber sizes, they're just using an official (albeit confusing) standard size.

This is more like Frito-Lay's case against Pringles in the 1970's claiming that Pringles having "potato chips" on the label was deceptive because a "potato chip" is an actual slice of potato, and not a thing molded from dehydrated potatoes and wheat starch. The FDA agreed with them, hence Pringles being labelled "potato crisps" today.

Or Velveeta being a "pasteurized cheese product" instead of "cheese" (which must be made from actual cheese curd).

It may seem silly, but I'm sure there's a BBQ restaurant owner somewhere who would love to force the "McRib" to rebrand to avoid detracting from actual ribs.

They're McRibs, not ribs. No rebrand necessary.

Pretty sure this was a big "find" like 30 years ago.

BigRobSA said:

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This is stupid as hell.

Only an abject moron would think it was actual rib meat. It's ****ing McDonald's, not Rudy's. Idiots.

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Rudy's is just barely better than McDonalds. Let's tap the brakes on this comparison there cowboy.

Science Denier said:

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Loser Pays should be the law of the land. **** like this wouldn't exist.

And, yea. I get there are alot of lawyers on here that hate Loser Pays.

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Or at least have a scale based on absurdity. This suit and many like it are ridiculous.

A California man has sued McDonald's, claiming he contracted AIDS from one of its pork sandwiches.

McDonald's disputes his charge. But the man insists, quote, "That sandwich gave me AIDS just as sure as I'm a male prostitute." pic.twitter.com/IuxgoveseS

— Norm Macdonald Joke of the Day (@NormSNLJokes) January 7, 2026

BonfireNerd04 said:

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schmellba99 said:

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This lawsuit is along the lines of the one a few years back where Lowes or Home Depot or Mccoys or whomever was sued by some idiot because they complained that a 2x4 is not actually 2"x4" and somehow thought they were harmed by that fact.

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It's not.

While it may be confusing that a "2x4" isn't, it's legal because NIST has a handbook (incorporating definitions from the American Lumber Standard Committee) defining what a "2x4" actually is. And because the sign at the store has fine print saying "actual dimensions 1 5/8 x 3 5/8 in" or whatever it is these days. So the hardware stores aren't committing fraud by giving the "wrong" lumber sizes, they're just using an official (albeit confusing) standard size.

This is more like Frito-Lay's case against Pringles in the 1970's claiming that Pringles having "potato chips" on the label was deceptive because a "potato chip" is an actual slice of potato, and not a thing molded from dehydrated potatoes and wheat starch. The FDA agreed with them, hence Pringles being labelled "potato crisps" today.

Or Velveeta being a "pasteurized cheese product" instead of "cheese" (which must be made from actual cheese curd).

It may seem silly, but I'm sure there's a BBQ restaurant owner somewhere who would love to force the "McRib" to rebrand to avoid detracting from actual ribs.

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Is this the opposite in the UK, since potato "chips" there are known as "crisps"...

Leave Jack in the Box tacos out of this!

Next, you'll tell me that the McNugget isn't chicken...

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BonfireNerd04 said:

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schmellba99 said:

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This lawsuit is along the lines of the one a few years back where Lowes or Home Depot or Mccoys or whomever was sued by some idiot because they complained that a 2x4 is not actually 2"x4" and somehow thought they were harmed by that fact.

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It's not.

While it may be confusing that a "2x4" isn't, it's legal because NIST has a handbook (incorporating definitions from the American Lumber Standard Committee) defining what a "2x4" actually is. And because the sign at the store has fine print saying "actual dimensions 1 5/8 x 3 5/8 in" or whatever it is these days. So the hardware stores aren't committing fraud by giving the "wrong" lumber sizes, they're just using an official (albeit confusing) standard size.

This is more like Frito-Lay's case against Pringles in the 1970's claiming that Pringles having "potato chips" on the label was deceptive because a "potato chip" is an actual slice of potato, and not a thing molded from dehydrated potatoes and wheat starch. The FDA agreed with them, hence Pringles being labelled "potato crisps" today.

Or Velveeta being a "pasteurized cheese product" instead of "cheese" (which must be made from actual cheese curd).

It may seem silly, but I'm sure there's a BBQ restaurant owner somewhere who would love to force the "McRib" to rebrand to avoid detracting from actual ribs.

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Is this the opposite in the UK, since potato "chips" there are known as "crisps"...

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Looking up UK Pringles label on Google Images, it seems that their preferred term is "savoury snack".

BonfireNerd04 said:

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aggiehawg said:

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MouthBQ98 said:

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Oh FFS. It's a name of a product, it is like a pork sandwich that looks like a little rack of ribs. It doesn't have bones in it either. I hope the case gets tossed.

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Correct. I have devoted a great deal of my life to developing pigs without a rib cage for this very purpose. Have not had a great deal of progress so far but I am looking for investors.

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Breed them to not have legs, while you are at it. Makes a rib less pig easier to raise. (A joke.)

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I'm genetically engineering a spherical cow for use in physics simulations.

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Great idea. They would obviously be easier to get to market if you can just roll them there.

BonfireNerd04 said:

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It may seem silly, but I'm sure there's a BBQ restaurant owner somewhere who would love to force the "McRib" to rebrand to avoid detracting from actual ribs.

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I'll take that bet.

If your BBQ restaurant serving pork ribs at a price that is competing with McD, no amount of food labeling is going to save your business.

I think that the legal standard here is whether or not a reasonable person would actually be confused by the advertising.

To prove your case, you typically have to hire a survey expert to prove that they asked a bunch of people whether or not they thought that McRibs were made with Rib meat, and whether or not that impacted their decision to buy the McRib at the price that they paid.

I am skeptical that you are going to find any amount of actual confusion in the marketplace.

BonfireNerd04 said:

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aggiehawg said:

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MouthBQ98 said:

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Oh FFS. It's a name of a product, it is like a pork sandwich that looks like a little rack of ribs. It doesn't have bones in it either. I hope the case gets tossed.

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Correct. I have devoted a great deal of my life to developing pigs without a rib cage for this very purpose. Have not had a great deal of progress so far but I am looking for investors.

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Breed them to not have legs, while you are at it. Makes a rib less pig easier to raise. (A joke.)

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I'm genetically engineering a spherical cow for use in physics simulations.

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Why, it's already more aerodynamic than my Jeep...

BTW, if I don't get my damn McRib every year, there will be hell to pay.

I celebrate when it comes out, even above Festivus.

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BonfireNerd04 said:

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aggiehawg said:

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MouthBQ98 said:

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Oh FFS. It's a name of a product, it is like a pork sandwich that looks like a little rack of ribs. It doesn't have bones in it either. I hope the case gets tossed.

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Correct. I have devoted a great deal of my life to developing pigs without a rib cage for this very purpose. Have not had a great deal of progress so far but I am looking for investors.

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Breed them to not have legs, while you are at it. Makes a rib less pig easier to raise. (A joke.)

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I'm genetically engineering a spherical cow for use in physics simulations.

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Why, it's already more aerodynamic than my Jeep...

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Farm humor is the best.

Science Denier said:

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Loser Pays should be the law of the land. **** like this wouldn't exist.

And, yea. I get there are alot of lawyers on here that hate Loser Pays.

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I can guarantee you that large defense firms DO NOT want exclusive loser pays. Anything that decreases the number of suits that they may handle, they'd be against.

There are ways to deal with this, but I don't think the public wants to hear them.

I can't get enough of the humor in this. I'm surprised he isn't going after hamburgers for not having ham.

TA-OP said:

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I can't get enough of the humor in this. I'm surprised he isn't going after hamburgers for not having ham.

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Honestly somebody should go after the shakes and flurries machines being down all the time.

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TA-OP said:

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I can't get enough of the humor in this. I'm surprised he isn't going after hamburgers for not having ham.

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Honestly somebody should go after the shakes and flurries machines being down all the time.

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There was a related lawsuit. It resulted in a late 2024 rule change by the copyright office allowing franchisees and repair shops to bypass digital locks on their food prep equipment.

Coincidentally, the original McDonald's, owned by Maurice and Richard McDonald in San Bernardino, CA, was a barbecue restaurant. They switched to a burger joint in 1948 to allow faster service.

BonfireNerd04 said:

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Coincidentally, the original McDonald's, owned by Maurice and Richard McDonald in San Bernardino, CA, was a barbecue restaurant. They switched to a burger joint in 1948 to allow faster service.

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Rumor has it that their brisket rivaled that of Senator Cornyn so they had no choice.