Posted on 12/30/2020 10:25:59 AM PST by mylife
King’s Hawaiian sweet rolls are not Hawaiian enough, a new lawsuit charges.
The class-action suit, filed Friday in Manhattan federal court, accuses the maker of the popular baked products of defrauding consumers by suggesting they’re still made in the Aloha State.
In fact, they’re made in California.
“King’s Hawaiian has been known as the most authentic purveyor of its eponymous Hawaiian rolls,” Long Island attorney Spencer Sheehan, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of a Yonkers man and others, told The Post on Tuesday.
“Unfortunately, they’re labeling gives consumers the impression that it’s made in Hawaii,” he said. “It’s not.”
The lawsuit, which names Yonkers resident Robert Galinsky as the chief plaintiff,
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Would they taste any different if they were?
I want a refund. There are Mexicans running the kitchen in many Chinese restaurants.
Don’t tell this guy about Arizona Iced Tea...
(it’s made in New York)
Hey Sheehan, I heard they were making bagels in Ca Too!!
And Wine! and Vietnamese hot sauce!
Should I be offended? I’m White and confused...
When one is stuck in traffic on the 405 in gardena you can smell the wonderful aroma
How can anyone be so stupid as to ever believe they are made in Hawaii, especially in New York; never mind.
And Chinese working in the Mexican taco shop.
What's the world coming to.
Should I be offended? I’m White and confused...
Further proof that we’re drowning in a sea of lawyers.
Jeez. The epitome of the frivolous lawsuit. Of course it will go ahead. We have so many lawyers now and they all need to get rich.
Great Neck attorney Spencer Sheehan said that since the beginning of the year he has filed 27 lawsuits on behalf of consumers related to yogurt, cookies, oatmeal, almond milk, soy milk, cream soda and ice cream labeled as "vanilla."
And buffalo don’t have wings.
5.56mm
“Hawaiian” bread is not even Hawaiian. It’s Portuguese.
KFC is shaking in their boots.
And this here cheese I’m eating isn’t made in Cheddar, England. Never mind this other cheese with holes in it not being from Switzerland . . .
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