Wendy’s and McDonald’s have emerged victorious from a lawsuit that accused the fast food chains of false advertising.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against the two companies accusing them of selling smaller hamburgers than advertised and alleging the food didn’t look as appetizing in person as pictured on their websites.
Only because ‘everyone does it’
"US District Judge Hector Gonzalez ruled that Wendy’s and McDonald’s food images “are no different than other companies’ use of visually appealing images to foster positive associations with their products.”
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Ahh yes the rarely used “jump off a bridge reversal” defense. If everyone jumped off a bridge would you do it too? Of course!
At the very least I’d start checking for a monster chasing them off the bridge.
“Systemic problems are OK!”
If you replace your underscores with asterisks, emphasis/italics should work as intended.
I am posting this from Voyager, does it not look correct? I did not underscore anything and added the italics for his quote.
It looks fine on Boost for Lemmy
Here’s what I see:
Interesting, I do not see the underscores in Voyager.
let’s test another theory
This comment is in italics on Voyager
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Holy shit… That’s me making italics with underscores instead of asterisks…
And it shows up right for me in Sync.,
Shit is weird
Interesting indeed
Nothing in your comment is italicized in Sync.
Does this line show up in italics for you?
Yes it does
GTK…
Lemmy is weird
😂
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Not really, that’s a minor part of the opinion. The more important part is they tell you how much food you’re going to get of what kind and then they give you that food. I don’t think anyone would be able to win a case on “my burger didn’t look like the burger in the ad” because every burger looks a little different. Lots of things that are the same don’t look the same and let’s not suddenly pretend we get McDonalds for the appearance. They’d win false advertising if, say, a quarter pounder was only 2 oz.
Lots of things that are the same don’t look the same
…and that’s false advertising, that’s the point of the lawsuit.
yeah this lawsuit is stupid and anyone who thinks McDonald’s would lose is also stupid
have we forgotten what advertising is? its idealized, its artificial, its eye-catching. thats the point. like the suit says everyone does it, thats just good marketing.
frankly i think it makes commericals a bit more tolerable if theyre at least aesthetically pleasing. but marketers marketing in a system that requires advertising for anyone to be relevant cannot be infringed on for just two companies doing the marketing the exact same. blame capitalism for ads not the companies.
(unless we’re taking excessive ads on websites or whatever then blame the sites they’re just greedy)
like the suit says everyone does it
And they should not be allowed to.
what is the line then
how bout this. we ban ALL film. cameras are no longer allowed and any sort of media should be burned as its all idealized and any picture of anything wont look like a picture of something else therefore all media should be banned due to false advertising.
wait that doesnt make any sense. youre not gonna take a shitty video of yourself and post it online youre gonna take a bunch of attempts so it looks better than you actually are. that’s marketing its no different that a company is doing it. therefore if you want to be angry at a company “false advertising” then be mad at every picture in existence too.
try to at least be consistent with your cynicism. dont judge others based on their actions if youre gonna judge yourself only based on your circumstance.
wait that doesnt make any sense.
Well you at least said one sane thing in that rambling cacophony
lol so u dont have any idea and ur just yapping got it
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America proves once again that we will allow just about anything if it makes corpos money.
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The advertising angle is likely what sank their case. Proving the food does not meet a technical specification, like not having a quarter pound of beef in a fully cooked patty, is easier to prove. But advertising has always been hyperbole.
A very important aspect that I think people overlook is that they use similar/same marketing photos of the food on their menu. That’s not advertising, maybe that’s what they will argue. If I look at a menu and they have a picture of the food, I’m going to expect I get what I see (within a margin) vs when I see an advertisement I expect it to be a bit hyperbolic.
The law favors corporate giants rather than real people? How surprising. Fuck McDonalds and Wendys
I feel a little guilty because while I rarely eat fast food anymore Wendy’s is my favorite
I’ll never understand the Wendy’s fandom. I knew a couple other people who were the same. The only fast food they would eat was Wendy’s. I don’t get it. It’s not like they do anything unique or different from any other fast food restaurant. Please explain yourself.
It’s the fries.
I like grilled chicken sandwiches and I just think Wendy’s tastes the best. I eat fast food probably less than half a dozen times a year.
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quality is better than McD or BK
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with the biggie bag deal they’re the last affordable option
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Now, just to add more shit to that sandwich, remember what you said when you read that the Supreme Court has ruled several times that police officers ONLY duty is to uphold the law, and they have no duty or obligation to protect the citizens they police.
Hurray, they can keep showing us inedible objets d’art in food adverts!
“Case dismissed”
The judge said through a mouth full of big mac before banging his gavel and taking a completely unrelated briefcase full of money that the defendants just happened leave around.
That’s an amazing visual
“This is so backwards” one would think and then one realizes that all advertising is deception.
The judge tacitly acknowledges this truth.
I dunno, seems like the judge is explicitly acknowledging it.
Just, uh, stop giving these shitty companies your money and uh, problem solved!
Ah yes, if only we did this one easy thing! It so easy!
If it was that easy/simple they would be out of business already. Unfortunately reality doesn’t always line up with these “simple” solutions, as evidence by… reality.
IDK, I stopped going to McDonald’s and Wendy’s: So far it’s going great and their misleading ads no longer affect me.
No. I’m, I’m simply saying that life, uh… finds a way.
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I doubt there’s any bribery involved just good old fashioned, “c’mon bro everyone does it”
