Taco Bell sued

Beerina said:
Pineapple upside-down cake is partly not cake at all, it's actually part pineapple! And don't even get me started about the upside-down part! :mad:


Some brainiac in the EU regulatory department decided he had to define what jelly was so he said it was fruit and pectin and sugar and stuff and the carrot jelly people were all like wtf and the hard-ass rather than back down instead redefined carrots as fruit.
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I thought 3BP was in Canada, not the EU.
 
With Fast Food, It's Tough to Sort the Beef From the Chaff

Restaurants' food-content claims can be difficult to verify. When asked for the composition of several of their own dishes, most of the nearly 20 chains contacted by The Wall Street Journal declined to share numbers, citing the proprietary nature of their formulas. Federal regulations don't require restaurants to disclose such information, and there are no rules stipulating minimum meat content in menu items. While determining nutrient information, such as calories and protein, is relatively straightforward, food-testing laboratories say they can't definitively identify the composition of prepared food because the cooking process blends ingredients in a way that is tough to undo.

Unless a food lab knew for sure which ingredients were present, "there is serious potential to be seriously flawed" in estimating just how much of those ingredients are being used, says Kantha Shelke, an independent food technologist in Chicago. "It's a guesstimate at best."
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According to several food scientists, conducting tests to determine precise meat content would be unusual and difficult to do.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703786804576138231191606482.html
 
BenBurch said:
Imitation Pasteurized Processed Ground Fish Cake Food in Heavy Syrup (water, high fructose corn syrup)
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Don't forget the bacon. Because it just wouldn't be an Imitation Pasteurized Processed Ground Fish Cake Food in Heavy Syrup (water, high fructose corn syrup) without bacon.
 
BobTheDonkey said:
Don't forget the bacon. Because it just wouldn't be an Imitation Pasteurized Processed Ground Fish Cake Food in Heavy Syrup (water, high fructose corn syrup) without bacon.
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Unless it was imitation Pasteurized Processed Ground Fish Cake Food in Heavy Syrup (water, high fructose corn syrup) with soy bacon.
 
It would be nice if we could sign up for the MDC for predicting the outcome of nonsensical lawsuits such as this. Alas, that's not the case. And this one is so bound to fail that predicting the outcome is pretty much a walk in the park.

ETA: Unfortunately, recognizing the blatantly obvious won't net me a million bucks.
 
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Here's an opinion piece, FWIW:

When you take a close look at the class action lawsuit filed by Alabama Jere Beasley's law firm against Taco Bell, you begin to realize that several aspects of this case are hard to swallow.
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First, class action lawsuits are little more than an avenue to make personal injury trial lawyers wealthy at consumers' expense.
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Second, a Taco Bell taco has far more meat in it than Beasley's lawsuit, with which there are myriad things questionable. Beasley is after the deep pockets of the food industry, with evidence of his own manufacture. He admits that his firm produced the "study" that says Taco Bell is shorting the public in regards to beef in its taco, but he refuses to say who actually did the study. Call me cynical, but I find it suspicious when a trial lawyer produces the very evidence over which he is bringing suit.
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Third, the Beasley firm loudly asserts that its plaintiff is not seeking monetary damages but that the firm "might" ask to be paid for its time and expenses. Oh, please. Beasley is after millions. If I were forced to wager on whether the sun will come up tomorrow or that Beasley will seek millions in compensation for this lawsuit, I would play it safe and bet on Beasley.
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Fourth, the Beasley lawsuit is being brought in one of very worst climates for class action lawsuit abuse: California.
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http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20110212/OPINION0101/102120304/1006/OPINION
 
3bodyproblem,

You insist that Taco Bell is deceptive when it calls its taco filling "Seasoned Ground beef."

Can you offer a specific example of someone who was surprised because their tacos contained "taco filling" instead of plain ground beef (with maybe a little salt added)?

-- Roger
 
3bodyproblem said:
All I said is the judge will need a reference to determine if Taco Bell is misleading calling its taco filling "seasoned ground beef".
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No, the judge will not need any reference beyond the controlling statutes that are being cited in the suit. Judges are limited to deciding the case brought before them, not the case they would like to decide.

The plaintiffs have cited specific laws that they feel the Defendants have breached. You have brought in all sorts of other laws that are not a part of the case.

It would be like me suing VW because they advertised the Taureg as towing a particular travel trailer when in fact towing such an load would necessarily void the warranty on the Taureg and you citing the regulations on how to determine the GVWR of a truck. It is tangentially related and probably good to understand if you are in the business, but completely unrelated to the false advertising suit at hand.

Therefore Taco Bell is misleading its customers calling anything but "taco meat filling". That's the case.
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Is it? Is that really the case?

Seriously, I thought the case was that their "taco meat filling" didn't meet the required meat percentages for "taco meat filling." Something about 40% being the minimum and them only having 36%. I must be off on the wrong case after all.

Please show me where in the pleadings it is about the USDA definition of "seasoned ground beef" so we can get back on track.
 
Dr. Keith said:
Is it? Is that really the case?

Seriously, I thought the case was that their "taco meat filling" didn't meet the required meat percentages for "taco meat filling." Something about 40% being the minimum and them only having 36%. I must be off on the wrong case after all.

Please show me where in the pleadings it is about the USDA definition of "seasoned ground beef" so we can get back on track.
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It's a false advertising case, as was pointed out to 3body since the start of the thread.

The FTC has not said a thing about the case.
 
Arus808 said:
It's a false advertising case, as was pointed out to 3body since the start of the thread.
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Yeah, I know. But I thought as we approached post 1000 we could ask 3B to actually look at the case.

What is the complaint?

What is the plaintiff claiming?

Is that too hard to focus on when discussing a case for almost 1000 posts?
 
Dr. Keith said:
Yeah, I know. But I thought as we approached post 1000 we could ask 3B to actually look at the case.

What is the complaint?

What is the plaintiff claiming?

Is that too hard to focus on when discussing a case for almost 1000 posts?
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Apparently it is. :D
 
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