McDonald's sues food critic

reuters ^ | Christian Plumb

[StatesEnemy]

...its burgers taste of rubber and its fries of cardboard

Sounds about right...

[isthisnickcool]

"To me this looks like the usual, very American effort to destroy criticism and destroy people," Raspelli said. "I didn't defame anybody, not even their French fries."

This guys starts a fight then gets upset when the other side doesn't just stand their and take it?

[ErnBatavia]

The other day, when it was a bit over 115 here in the desert, I took my car to Jiffy Lube for an oil change.

I had every intention of walking 200 yards down the street to Taco Bell for a quicky, but the heat got me so I stopped at the Mac-place which was a hundred yards closer...big mistake; I'd forgotten how garbagey their stuff is.

Welcome to Free Republic, by the way.

[TAP ONLINE]

Miki dees always changes things, super this, super that, Never faces the truth that their burgers are terrible, and their rolls fall apart. Mc Dondalds is proof communism could have prevailed.

Why you ask???

With a spokesman in a clown suit with a smile, pandering to the children, and a fortune in PR you can sell crap to the public and cause them to say Lets Go to ..... without a thought of quality or its consequences on the general taste of the masses. (sheeple)

Gee sounds like the DEMS

[StatesEnemy]

Welcome to Free Republic, by the way

Ohh, I've lurked here for many a moon. Agree with about 65% of the posters.

I'm prolly a bit too libertarian for many resident tastes...

[Normal4me]

What is a so called 'food critic' doing in a McDonalds in the first place? This would be like Roger Ebert going to a grammar school play.

[ricpic]

If this chef is anti-Anerican, so what? Why shouldn't he have the right to call cr*p cr*p?! Unless McDonalds has bought the judge in this case, what possible legal leg do they have to stand on?

[StatesEnemy]

Does it matter?

What is McDonald's doing by suing folks who express an opinion?

Why don't they just do a blindfolded taste test - julienned corrugated boxes, and Micky 'Fries'....

"See! Folks can distinguish between our 'food' and packaging material!"

[ErnBatavia]

I'm prolly a bit too libertarian for many resident tastes...

Having lurked, then you know that "Libertarian Threads" get heavy hits....hot and heavy hits.

[Mister Baredog]

Welcome to Free Republic, by the way

Ohh, I've lurked here for many a moon. Agree with about 65% of the posters.

I'm prolly a bit too libertarian for many resident tastes...

65% is a landslide in an election, LOL

There are WAY TOO MANY different opinions at FR for most anyone to get much higher than that.

When I visited the DU(strictly opposition research) there were NO opinions I could agree with, LOL.

[spoiler2]

"..... without a thought of quality or its consequences"

The STENCH of corporate hubris has kept me out of those 'big M' places for years.

[StatesEnemy]

Ya... I think the 'pure' freeps look upon us as traitors to the cause.

I simply feel that the government should only stick its nose where our Constitution allows it. And frankly, I cannot understand why we have 'full time legislators' at both the state and federal level... Did the founding fathers envision a laundry list of laws that ever grows?

[StatesEnemy]

When I visited the DU(strictly opposition research) there were NO opinions I could agree with, LOL.

You're right on there! Where do those folks come from</i???

[txzman]

...I'm prolly a bit too libertarian for many resident tastes...

LOL. Don't worry, you'll soon turn into a curmudgeonly paranoid conservative like the rest of us - it just takes time to absorb all this truth at once! :)

[mvpel]

McDonald's position is that if it were really "cr@p," and if it really tasted like cardboard and rubber, then over half a million Italians every day wouldn't fork over their hard-earned Euros to eat it, they'd just go rummage in the dumpsters behind appliance stores.

Publishing false statements about a person or company is defamation under the law.

[sticker]

"This guys starts a fight then gets upset when the other side doesn't just stand their and take it?"

Sounds like he is a card carrying democRAT

[VOA]

What is a so called 'food critic' doing in a McDonalds in the first place? This would be
like Roger Ebert going to a grammar school play.

Your point is good.

But my guess is that many times these days I'd get a better value for my
entertainment dollar by going to see a six-grade play than to plunk down $8-$10
for some of the dreck from Hollywood.

McDonalds may be just passable...but it was a McDonalds that kept me alive; it was the only
reasonably priced and convenient food near my college...and my college cafeteria
was awful and often closed by the time I got out of lab classes.

[Old Professer]

As your former law teacher, I find myself embarrassed to serve you with this subpoena; however, the outrageous libel you just committed leaves the university no choice.

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

"To me this looks like the usual, very American effort to destroy criticism and destroy people," Raspelli said. "I didn't defame anybody, not even their French fries."

Oh, nonsense. It's Italian law that permits big business to attack their critics through the courts. In America, this suit would never have been filed, and would have been immediately dismissed (and probably declared frivolous) if it had been.