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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.

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.

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.

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

You mean America’s dairy farmers?

I wouldn't expect much of any kind of meat in any of the burgers tbh.

The thing is, McDonalds doesnt have reasonable customers

probably isnt meat.

is rib shaped

And also named the mcrib

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.

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.