Posted on 07/25/2024 3:06:05 PM PDT by DFG
Please read post #9.
Ah, a Gary Larson classic indeed.
My take is its the same as chicken fingers. Chickens don’t have fingers, and boneless wings aren’t meat from actual chicken wings but other parts of a chicken.
I do as well.
If your product is not boneless you should not advertise it as boneless.
If it says dairy free it should be dairy free. If it says gluten free it should be gluten free. Etc.
Sadly, too many people think being "conservative" is the equivalent of "anything bad that happens to you is your own fault."
I do as well. It means you de-boned them not that the chickens have wings with no bones. It also does not refer to a style of cooking.
Don’t be a Pig when you eat Chicken
I join the dissent caucus
They may or may not have sued the producer for negligence. However, as an alternative theory is strict liability. If a product is defective the producer, distributor and retailer are all liable
I read it earlier, and at your urging I have now read it again.
This doesn't answer my question. You said you thought the court was correct.
Yes, chickens are born with bones in them, but when someone says they are selling "boneless" chicken, no one thinks they came from chickens without bones, they think the bones have been removed through a de-boning process.
In this particular case, they had not been removed, or at least not sufficiently.
Their process failed. How often does it fail? In my experience, it has never happened.
I have never bitten into any chicken labeled "boneless" and found a bone. Nor would I expect to ever find a bone.
The legal system likes to use the "reasonable man standard." What would a "reasonable man" think of this?
Well you think the plaintiff should expect to find bones, even though this, in my experience, "never happens", and I think the man should not expect to find any bones, because again, in my experience this never happens.
What strikes me as ultimately silly is a court decreeing that "boneless chicken" can have bones in it. Well it wouldn't be "boneless" then, now would it?
Well, this is interesting: If I buy boneless filets (of any meat, fowl, or fish) at the grocery, is it really free of bones?
If you hedge, it’s pretty much guaranteed producers will max out the hedge, and every other cut will have some small piece of bone hiding in it.
CRUNCH!
Oh, well, I didn’t really need that molar anyway.
This is reminding of a funny from a recent road trip with my family. I’d moved to a rear seat to eat, and popped the cover off a new storage container. It made a series of loud pops, startling my wife in the front passenger seat:
“What was that?!”
Me: “Oh, that was just a couple of my front teeth popping out when I bit into this dang hard carrot.”
For about 3 seconds she actually believed me. The look on her face was “priceless”.
I don’t find the chicken finger analogy correct. To my mind, boneless means boneless. Chicken fingers are shaped like fingers.
When I get wings, I get bone-in.
i agree with the court, it is a cooking method
calling it boneless wing, and it’s neither boneless or wing in his case.
people is going to come out of woods to sue because ‘boneless wings’ isn’t wing.
Boneless implies predominantly without bones. That does not exclude a small fragment of bone.
If one chews food properly and thoroughly, it is very easy to detect even a 2 mm size bone.
If you want 100% bone free, then the item will have to hand prepared. Machine processing makes food affordable.
I would think that it would exclude any bones of sufficient size to cause an injury.
If you want 100% bone free, then the item will have to hand prepared. Machine processing makes food affordable.
The average man doesn't know any of this. They simply assume "boneless" means boneless.
I am reminded of the puffer fish which the Japanese eat. You have to remove the poison sack or it will kill you. Even a small amount of poison left behind is fatal.
Chefs there are very skilled and expert at removing the poison sack from the puffer fish, but occasionally they make a mistake.
The average consumer of puffer fish expects the poison to be out of the fish before they eat it.
When the chef fails, it is a mistake.
Nobody thinks it's okay if the chef leaves some poison behind. They don't say "well its hard to get it all out". They simply expect that it will all be removed before it is served.
We should be responsible for our own actions. Never forget to use common sense. May be why I am healthy with zero medical expenses in my mid-80’s. I never assume everything I buy in grocery stores is safe. There are plenty of people get sick from listeria or other organisms. It is in the news frequently. I focus on eating only cooked veggies. I wash fruit thoroughly before eating, especially berries, apples and grapes. I cook any meat thoroughly. I don’t want government to play role of my mother, to protect me. God gave me a brain. He wants me to use it.
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