... that are either hollow and contains only air:

http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds...medium=webfeeds

or are filled with some kind of cheese looking filling but it's not real mozzarella by Federal Guidelines.

http://www.eater.com/2016/2/2/10898588/mcdonalds-mozzarella-sticks-lawsuit-class-action

http://uproxx.com/life/mcdonalds-mozarella-sticks-lawsuit/

I never knew there was a Federal Guideline for mozzarella:

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=133.158

I saw this, many shots of just batter, no cheese in the middle.. oops

I don't have an electric deep fryer at home or I would love to make my own mozzarella sticks.

Using a regular pan/pot filled with oil just gets the kitchen counter and stove top too messy.

You will never catch me or my wife frying chicken and fish or making chicken fried steak in this house.

I've purchased the pre-made mozzarella sticks in the frozen section and you reheat them in the oven but they just don't taste the same.

Mac deserves what it gets in this lawsuit - they had a chance to correct the issue and they chose to ignore it and brush it off with a "sorry some customers didn't get what they expected" apology. The product will probably be discontinued due to this. Piss poor management going on here, they had a potential cash cow product on their hands and completely blew it to bad QC

From one of the links,

"Now, a man in California is looking to get $5 million in damages from the company for himself and 40 other consumers involved in the suit, all because of the chain's claim that the sticks are "100 percent real cheese" and "real mozzarella," according to Law360."


Yes because we all know that 5 million is a reasonable recompense for getting fried sticks with fake mozzarella.


I wonder which blood sucking opportunist law firm took his case?

People still eat at McDonald's?

Here there's practically a Culvers or Jimmy John's in every town. Plenty of alternatives that blow them out of the water.

In fairness to McDonald's, those advertising tricks are done for all fast food chains and even some restaurants.

There's a difference between photography tricks and outright deceiving customers. The sticks are either empty or are not using actual mozzarella cheese.

I think the attempt at $5mil is outrageous but do you think Mac would move for a $1 lawsuit to cover the actual cost of the deceitful food?

Just because it's cheap doesn't make stealing acceptable - paying for something for a product and receiving something different from what you ordered always has been and will remain a form of theft.

I haven't eaten at McNasty, ahem, McDonald's in like 20 years.

But back then when I did, I always make them make my Big Mac or Quarter Pounder fresh by special ordering it with extra pickles or no onions.

Then I will stand at the counter and watch them like a Hawk.

This way I won't get one that was made 6 hours ago and has been sitting under the heat lamp.

LOL people complaining about cheese.

Isn't that about (literally) Fried Air?

Ever since they adopted a 24/7 breakfast menu their sales have risen sharply.

Actually, as fast food restaurants go, McDonald's is doing quite better financially than other chains.

Until this lawsuit was brought, their stocks were rising and they even reported a better than expected earnings for last quarter, which no other franchise did.

Last time I saw a McDonald's menu, it seems very limited. Except for the Big Mac, everything else is a quarter pounder with different ingredients. Then the McChiken and the fish filet sandwich, plus chicken nuggets. Breakfast items now fill up the rest.

None of that would interest me, and I would look elsewhere, even if I was hungry.

I can do the fries and maybe a burger, but people that can stomach their breakfasts without projectile vomiting aren't human

Their menu is too much.

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/food/full_menu/full_menu_explorer.html

It costs a great deal of $ for the franchisee to keep all the ingredients necessary to make all those items on hand.

Then some of the items don't sell well, the ingredients spoils and goes to waste.

McDonald's and many other fast food chains are not doing well for this reason: too many menu items requiring too high of an overhead cost to keep those ingredients on hand and resulting in a lot of $$$$ lost due to spoiled and wasted ingredients.

Have you look at Pizza Hut's menu lately?

Absurd!

I remember when they only had thin pizza and pan pizza and salads. No breadsticks. No wings. No stuffed pizza or special crust pizza or whatever.

Same for Taco Bell menu! I don't know how the folks who work there preparing the food can remember what goes in every menu item and to be able to make it fast and accurately when it gets busy.

Reminds me of the scene in 'Falling Down' with Michael Douglas when he goes into the local Whammy Burger and compares the picture of a burger on the display wall and with what he unwraps at the counter. "Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this picture?"



The last time I went to McDonald's it was only to take a dump.


EDIT: What the heck. Here's the scene.

I just get the buffet whenever I go there.

"You pay for this, and they give you that". Neil Young

No buffet here. I haven't seen a Pizza Hut buffet here in 20 years.

The Pizza Hut here are all little store front with delivery only or there are a few that are combined Taco Bell/Pizza Hut stores with dine in but the pizzas are still to go only.