Hot Nacho lawsuit

sadhatter said:
I mean, what if the kid fell off a chair and landed, randomly on a fork, driving the fork through some soft bit of his body ( eye, throat, etc.) should we now look into making forks harmless? Or can we chalk it up to **** happens, and that we cannot protect everyone from every situation without living in a preschool.
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If the fork was laying on the floor where he could have landed on it, then yes, I would say that is in fact a justified suit for negligence. Also, they're suing for damages, not to make the cheese less hot or harmless.

Off-topic, but that's the second time you've brought up the "genitalia as temperature gauge" test. Strange fixation.
 
Looking at the image of the child, I noticed something that strikes me as odd, but I have no idea if it would make a difference....you know, if it matters...or even if it's true. But that burn looks to me more like one you'd get if you'd tried to drink the cheese, rather than a "splash" gotten while trying not to fall.

I don't see why it couldn't have happened as the article says, don't get me wrong. It just looks more like he tried to drink it. The article says "paper cup." Drinking cup? Or restaurant service cup, like a small dish or bowl?

Anyway, I find it kind of...odd.
 
Meh. I've had cold sores worse than that. It'll heal.

Still, if it keeps lawyers off the streets, I guess there is value in the lawsuit*

*No, I don't really think this. Suing for every little thing that life throws at you is just pathetic in my view.
 
slingblade said:
Looking at the image of the child, I noticed something that strikes me as odd, but I have no idea if it would make a difference....you know, if it matters...or even if it's true. But that burn looks to me more like one you'd get if you'd tried to drink the cheese, rather than a "splash" gotten while trying not to fall.

I don't see why it couldn't have happened as the article says, don't get me wrong. It just looks more like he tried to drink it. The article says "paper cup." Drinking cup? Or restaurant service cup, like a small dish or bowl?

Anyway, I find it kind of...odd.
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I thought that as well. But I will go on record as saying that I know of no culinary reason for nacho cheese in a paper cup to be all that hot. You probably want it over 130 or 140 for reasons of sanitation, and as a thick substance that could lead to worse burns that you might think at that temp.
 
slingblade said:
Looking at the image of the child, I noticed something that strikes me as odd, but I have no idea if it would make a difference....you know, if it matters...or even if it's true. But that burn looks to me more like one you'd get if you'd tried to drink the cheese, rather than a "splash" gotten while trying not to fall.

I don't see why it couldn't have happened as the article says, don't get me wrong. It just looks more like he tried to drink it. The article says "paper cup." Drinking cup? Or restaurant service cup, like a small dish or bowl?

Anyway, I find it kind of...odd.
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Good observation!

If it splashed you would expect it to be on other parts of his body and face..
I can imagine the wobbly chair story coming later, after the kid fell out of chair, reacting to the burn ..


Either way, hot dishes should be kept out of the reach of a child..

Nacho cheese doesn't work all that well when it is cold...
 
Skeptical Greg said:
Good observation!

If it splashed you would expect it to be on other parts of his body and face..
I can imagine the wobbly chair story coming later, after the kid fell out of chair, reacting to the burn ..
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Thank you. And...yeeee-ahhh...me, too, a bit. Said very cautiously, mind you. I wasn't there. The burn just looks odd, considering the story.



Either way, hot dishes should be kept out of the reach of a child..

Nacho cheese doesn't work all that well when it is cold...
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No argument here.
 
sadhatter sees this:


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and says, "**** happens."

I think about Disney having to pay for it, and think much the same thing.

I guess we're both having a failure of sympathy...
 
Count me in the "suspicious story to go along with those burns" camp.
Nothing on the forehead?
 
The blemish on the bridge of the nose looks like the upper edge of the cup.
Kid tried to drink the glop.
I doubt I'll be dipping anything in nacho sauce, even for science, but I'd expect hot nacho cheese can retain heat very nicely.
Extensive experience with coffee heating :) showed me that even the 180° stuff, while not drinkable in any quantity, can be safely sipped.
 
Aoidoi said:
Then someone will spend hundreds of posts arguing that they are not in fact serving "nacho cheese" because the rules for tortilla chip manufacturing does not mention cheese, therefore such a product cannot possibly be marketed or sold without violating Canadian laws.

Then someone will blame the Jews.
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http://balanceoffood.typepad.com/balance_of_food/2010/11/us-standards-need-to-limit-labeling-cheese-for-actual-cheese.html

"The Canadian commercial mentioned that the sandwich contained "processed cheese."
"The U.S. ads say cheese without mentioning that it is processed. It's the same "cheese" so why the difference? United States' standards from the FDA and USDA to the FTC allows processed cheese product to be labeled as "cheese." Canadian standards don't allow you to do that."

The nice thing about the internet, you can type with your foot in your mouth.:rolleyes:
 
Alferd_Packer said:
That's a heck of a burn.

nacho cheese should NOT be that hot.
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I had worse burns from a pizza slice (the pizza had just come out of the oven, and the cheese just came right off, with the HOT tomato sauce under it, landing on my chin). My parents didn't sue the restaurant because it was my fault for grabbing a slice before it had time to cool.
 
SOdhner said:
100% agreed, if the guy is with someone they should be allowed to stay with him. If he is alone a Disney employee should hang out.
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the disney case, he was with his fiancee in the boat. He has posted a video of him enduring the long wait, and you can hear him speaking with his fiancee
 
Arus808 said:
the disney case, he was with his fiancee in the boat. He has posted a video of him enduring the long wait, and you can hear him speaking with his fiancee
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Ah, thanks! I was guessing as much, Disney is normally good about that sort of thing. Anyway, I think that while a 40 minute wait is unfortunate it doesn't seem unreasonable under the circumstances. For what it's worth, my roommate agrees.
 
Well I think that any time anything bad happens to anybody, somebody ought to be sued.


(FWIW, if I were actually on a jury in the nacho trial, I would be perfectly willing to listen to arguments about why that cheese was so darned hot and all the rest, but my first instinct is to say that melted cheese is hot, and parents should be cautious when their children are around it.)
 
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