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Fast Food "restaurants" should be free from lawsuits forever

LordOpie

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Oct 17, 2002
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at this point in time, if you don't know McDonalds is bad for you or you think you can dance the line within your questionable personal ethics... well, you need a boot upside your head.
Big Mac sued for having milk, wheat in french fries

www.chinaview.cn 2006-02-20 09:35:32

BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- At least three people in the United States have filed lawsuits against McDonald's, related to its disclosure last week that its french fries contain wheat and dairy products.



At least three people in the U.S. have filed lawsuits against McDonald's, related to its disclosure last week that its french fries contain wheat and dairy products. [Photo: Yahoo]
Debra Moffatt of Lombard, Illinois seeks unspecified damages in a suit filed on Friday in Chicago. Her attorney said his client has celiac disease, which causes gastrointestinal symptoms set off by eating gluten, a protein found in wheat.

Also on Friday, Mark and Theresa Chimiak of Florida allege in their suit that their five-year-old daughter, Annalise, became seriously ill from eating the fries because she has an intolerance to gluten.

On Wednesday, Nadia Sugich of Los Angeles sued McDonald's, saying she is a vegan and would not have eaten the fries if she had known they contained dairy products.

The fast-food giant, which previously said its fries were free of gluten and milk or wheat allergens, quietly added "Contains wheat and milk ingredients" to the french fries listing on its Web site.

McDonald's said on Feb. 13 that wheat and dairy ingredients are used to flavor its fries. Jack Daly, McDonald's senior vice president, said the company is testing its fries for gluten through a food allergy research program at the University of Nebraska.

Earlier this month, McDonald's also acknowledged that its fries contain a third more trans fats than it previously knew, citing results of a new testing method it began using in December. Enditem
 

Changleen

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Jan 9, 2004
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I think it's funny that you post this but still defend Israel.

at this point in time, if you don't know Israeli beahviour is bad for ME stability or you think you can dance the line within your questionable personal ethics... well, you need a boot upside your head.
 

valve bouncer

Master Dildoist
Feb 11, 2002
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fluff said:
So lying's OK if you're selling unhealthy food?
Agreed, they said it was gluten/dairy free and it wasn't. It's not like it's the first time for McDonalds to f*ck up like this. They used to cook their chips in beef lard- in India. Morons.
 

ohio

The Fresno Kid
Nov 26, 2001
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Sorry Opie, this one isn't about them being fattening or unhealthy. For someone with allergies, if they specifically said the fries were dairy and gluten free, this is really dangerous and negligent.

The fast-food giant, which previously said its fries were free of gluten and milk or wheat allergens
I do find it funny that a vegan was eating McDonalds though. Ooh, ooh, I'm so careful about what I put into my body, and I'm so against the needless slaughter of animals, but I'll go eat french fries made from the vile-est synthetic **** from a company that slaughters more beef than any other institution on Earth.
 

kidwoo

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ohio said:
I do find it funny that a vegan was eating McDonalds though. Ooh, ooh, I'm so careful about what I put into my body, and I'm so against the needless slaughter of animals, but I'll go eat french fries made from the vile-est synthetic **** from a company that slaughters more beef than any other institution on Earth.
Oh you bltch. You beat me to it.

It's like the fatass hippy chics I knew in college that were vegans. Soooo concerned with fruit of the earth goodness for their bodies but ignore the fact that their 300lb fupas were more detrimental to health than a piece of turkey. Mm carob candy is sooo good for me.
 

jimmydean

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Sep 10, 2001
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In defence of McDonalds, I doubt anyone who works there has any idea what gluten, milk, or wheat even look like. So by saying they didn't have it wasn't lying if they had no idea what it is.
 

MudGrrl

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Mar 4, 2004
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I'm a vegetarian...

I used to eat the fries... then it came out that they were dipped in beef fat.... dmn it.

I won't eat at McD's, because I am sure that everything in there has been doused with beef fat.... including the workers.
 

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
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MudGrrl said:
I'm a vegetarian...

I used to eat the fries... then it came out that they were dipped in beef fat.... dmn it.

I won't eat at McD's, because I am sure that everything in there has been doused with beef fat.... including the workers.
The only thing better than food doused in beef fat, is food wrapped in bacon...

Great, now I'm hungry.
 

kidwoo

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narlus said:
me too, but mainly because their products taste like sewer run-off.
oh snap!

I've tasted lots of sewer run-off. It's different.

Now I'm gonna fill my mouth full of hamm's next time I see you and give you a big passionate blue collar kiss.

I can't find maudite or black butte at costco foo
 

MikeD

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Oct 26, 2001
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My wife has Celiac's disease. Her brother has it very, very bad...he's got what amount to not-quite-Parkinsonian symptoms from it, since the neurologists didn't diagnose him correctly for over a year once it manifested itself.

He'd feel like ****, and go home and have a pizza and a beer and try to feel better. Now we call him 'hopalong.' He's still got a loss of coordination and his speech is still a little wierd, but he's coming along and feeling better. He still won't play football or anything, anyhow.

And Stephanie loves Guiness, far more than McDonald's fries. How much of a tragedy is THAT? (She still has one every year on her birthday, though...her case is far milder than her brother's.)

So yeah, **** McD's if they're not gluten-free...on more than one desperate occasion, Steph's had an order of them for dinner.

MD
 

Ciaran

Fear my banana
Apr 5, 2004
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I find it sad/funny that people actually think that anything at McDonalds is what they say it is. Does anyone really think that the french fries are merely cut potatoes? Or that the meat contains only meat? (Or only one type of meat?) Who knows what the hell is in the sauces and "cheese".

Personally I don't trust fast food places. I eat at them but beat myself up for it after and really do try to not eat fast food if I can avoid it.

I took a couple of nutrition classes in college. Scared me right off of fast food and junk food for about a year. Made me realize that fast food ain't food.
 

DirtyDog

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narlus said:
me too, but mainly because their products taste like sewer run-off.
You beat me to it. New Belgium must be the most over-hyped yuppie beer in America.
 

kidwoo

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BeerDemon said:
You beat me to it. New Belgium must be the most over-hyped yuppie beer in America.
Yeah no sh1t. Fat tire.

But the Black ale roxxors.

I made my own beer from freakin grain sacks for about 4 years because I couldn't find squat that I liked drinking that I could afford in college. Now I get the snoot from a bunch of you dorks.

There must be a smiley for this somewhere.....


:banghead:

yeah.....there we go.......
 

jaydee

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Jul 5, 2001
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I've eaten MacDonalds crap twice in my life, and only because I was on the verge of going into a coma from starvation after a race and the guys I was with had to go there. I got really sick both times. Now I would choose the coma over the vomit.
 

BurlyShirley

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Jul 4, 2002
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I eat McDonalds probably 5 times a year. Its trash, but I dont get sick like you pvssies.
 

Old Man G Funk

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jimmydean said:
In defence of McDonalds, I doubt anyone who works there has any idea what gluten, milk, or wheat even look like. So by saying they didn't have it wasn't lying if they had no idea what it is.
Actually, they have some very high-tech chemical labs working to make their products taste good to a large range of people. They are well aware of the ingredients they put into their products. The person behind the counter might not know jack, but the corporate office does.
 

Andyman_1970

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Apr 4, 2003
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LordOpie said:
at this point in time, if you don't know McDonalds is bad for you or you think you can dance the line within your questionable personal ethics... well, you need a boot upside your head.
What are you doing defending McD...........isn't their food like the most non-Kosher on the planet?
 

def

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kidwoo said:
Oh you bltch. You beat me to it.

It's like the fatass hippy chics I knew in college that were vegans. Soooo concerned with fruit of the earth goodness for their bodies but ignore the fact that their 300lb fupas were more detrimental to health than a piece of turkey. Mm carob candy is sooo good for me.
HA! I haven't heard FUPA in years!
 

def

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Andyman_1970 said:
Dare I ask what FUPA stands for................
Fat Upper Pussy Area

Similar to a double chin, its like a double gut. A common occurance on many fat chicks. This characteristic is brought out by those who try to wear the tight black sorriety girl pants, but are too fat.
 

kidwoo

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d.e.f. said:
Fat Upper Pussy Area

Similar to a double chin, its like a double gut. A common occurance on many fat chicks. This characteristic is brought out by those who try to wear the tight black sorriety girl pants, but are too fat.

Fatty uper PUBIC area. Don't tell me you've never seen the male sans-a-belt version. FUPA knows no gender limitations.
 

def

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Feb 12, 2003
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kidwoo said:
Fatty uper PUBIC area. Don't tell me you've never seen the male sans-a-belt version. FUPA knows no gender limitations.
Ahhh. My appologies. I don't have the latest edition of that dictionary. It is still more prevelant on the females of the species as the males generally have a big stomach and then the belly crease where it folds over, similar to sagging boobies. There is just something about the fupa on a girl that just draws your attention and you can't help but stare.
 

ohio

The Fresno Kid
Nov 26, 2001
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kidwoo said:
Fatty uper PUBIC area. Don't tell me you've never seen the male sans-a-belt version. FUPA knows no gender limitations.
I side with DEF on this one. The FUPA (or GUNT, as it is sometimes known) is definitely located lower than can occur on men, and is heavily accentuated by low-cut designer jeans and high-cut baby shirts, which every girl over a buck fiddy seems to have convinced themselves they look just like Christina Aguilera in. On girls with even a vague sense of reality, the FUPA is often accompanied by the SOFA (sweater-over-fat-ass).
 

dan-o

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Is the phrase 'muffin-top' the same as FUPA? How could something so right, the low rise jean, go so wrong?
 

ohio

The Fresno Kid
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dan-o said:
Is the phrase 'muffin-top' the same as FUPA?
Hmmm... I don't think they're the same. Though I've given one a good feel, I've always imagined the FUPA being sort of firm... like the fat is deep down (in their souls). A muffin top is squishy surface fat that gets mooshed out. A FUPA is impervious to mooshing. Also FUPA is always in the front, the muffin-top is generally more towards the sides like love-handles, no?