Absurd Reasons People Sued Fast-Food Chains - Reader's Digest
Too much ice! Not enough chicken! These customers had all sorts of complaints, and they wanted the offending notable fast-food chains to hear them.
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Beyond hot coffee
You can't talk about fast-food lawsuits without talking about the most infamous of them all: the hot coffee lawsuit. In 1992, 79-year-old Stella Liebeck's McDonald's coffee spilled all over her when she was trying to remove the lid. It's certainly easy to make the "Hot coffee was hot?! No way!" joke when talking about the hot coffee lawsuit, but it was a more serious matter than that criticism suggests. She suffered third-degree burns that required skin grafts, and ended up suing McDonald's after they neglected to reimburse her $10,000 medical bills. So, despite its notoriety, it really wasn't that ridiculous—especially when compared to these other seriously wacky and petty fast-food lawsuits. And if you want to know more about the hot coffee lawsuit, here's how it really went down.
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Tuna travesty
One of the most recent eyebrow-raising fast-food lawsuits involved sandwich juggernaut Subway. In January 2021, a California lawsuit alleged that Subway's tuna was actually made of a "mixture of various concoctions." The New York Times conducted a test of samples from three different Los Angeles Subway locations. The lab was unable to identify DNA from any of five different species of tuna. While the cooking process does denature the DNA of tuna, meaning that it would be harder to detect, the results are still disturbing and thrust the lawsuit onto the public stage. Subway has alleged that "there simply is no truth to the allegations." In early June, the plaintiffs actually scaled back their claim—now they're alleging that Subway is mislabeling the product, calling it "100 percent sustainably caught skipjack and yellowfin tuna" or "100 percent tuna" when it's not 100 percent and might not even be those types of tuna. While another test, this time by Inside Edition, did find that New York Subway sandwiches contained real tuna, this was still some bad press for Subway—especially after a December 2020 court ruling in Ireland that determined that their bread contained too much sugar to be called "bread."
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