McDonald’s sued over allegations of fake cheese in mozzarella sticks

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Source: Fox News

A California man says the McDonald's falsely advertised its mozzarella sticks as being made with “100% real cheese” when instead they're made with fillers.

Chris Howe of Riverside County, the suit’s lead plaintiff, wants his $1.27 back and wants other people to get their money back, too.

He is seeking $5 million in damages from the company for himself and 40 other consumers involved in the suit," according to Law360.

The complaint, which was reported earlier by BuzzFeed, says that Howe would not have purchased the sticks from a California location in December “if he had known they were misbranded and adulterated.”

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I'm luvin' it

[In_The_Wind]

1. Good luck on the lawsuit.

[out400]

2. its not a restraunt

McDonalds is bad for health

[cstanleytech]

3. I do alot of baking so I am betting that its more likely that they are using the starch as a binding

agent so I suspect this suit will be tossed, the guy best start worrying though that McDonalds doesnt counter sue him for their legal fees.

[Tab]

5. This is sort of driven by

recent news that people bite into their mozz and findthere's no cheese waiting there. "It must have leaked out during the baking process" to paraphrase McD's.

So, something's wrong.

[FSogol]

6. Anyone how has ever been a fry cook knows what happens to the cheese if it is

overcooked. It turns to grease and disappears into the fryer.

[cstanleytech]

7. Or if it leaks out of the bread crumbs coating which is probably why they are using a binder.

[Tab]

11. Yeah, but it's pretty obvious in the fryer

what happened.

[Earth_First]

4. If you walk into McDonalds, expecting the food not to be largely synthetic fillers and binders...

...you're an idiot.

[Major Nikon]

15. Calling food starch "synthetic" is not exactly brilliant

You can make it yourself at home with no more ingredients than potatoes (or any other starchy vegetable) and water and get a result which is identical to commercially produced starch.

[NV Whino]

8. They actually found cheese in the mozzarella sticks?

Fake or otherwise.

[KamaAina]

12. One order of mozzarella sticks!

;P

[retrowire]

9. Not real cheese?

So is it vegan then? If so, YAAY.

If not then ewwww...

[hibbing]

10. two words...chicken mcnuggets

[Monk06]

13. 100% Beef means everything including the Mooo

[jberryhill]

14. This is unlikely to go anywhere

In all probability, the cheese in their cheese sticks is real cheese, but because the product has the breading, the entire product is not "100% cheese" in a strictly literal sense. I'm pretty confident that McDonald's did not intend to suggest the breading and binding agent were also "cheese".

But that's not the relevant standard.

There were two similar mislabeling suits along these lines which also failed.

One was a suit claiming "Froot Loops" was deceptively labeled, because it did not contain fruit.

The other one was a suit against Taco Bell for calling its beef burritos "beef burritos" under a state law that was being read to suggest that anything called "beef" can't contain anything other than beef. The suit was brought by a horrified consumer who learned that the "beef" in Taco Bell beef burritos included spices and other ingredients mixed in with the beef, and thus was not "beef" under the relevant statute.

[olddots]

16. if you find a fly on your burger

they charge you extra for the actual meat .