And you thought the hot coffee suit was crazy.

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Woman Sues Food Company Over Mac-and-Cheese Taking More Than 3.5 Minutes to Cook

Amanda Ramirez of Hialeah is suing Velveeta's parent firm, the Kraft Heinz Foods Company, for falsely advertising that Velveeta's microwavable Shells & Cheese cups are ready in 3.5 minutes. She has filed a class-action lawsuit worth $5 million!

Ramirez filed the suit in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida’s Miami Division on November 18. As the plaintiff, she has alleged that the claim that the company has indulged in false advertising and in propagating misleading information via its claim that the Mac and Cheese is ‘ready in 3 1/2 minutes’. The suit has quoted the four steps the customer needs to follow to prepare the meal, highlighting that microwaving the food for 3.5 minutes is only one of the steps, UNILAD reported.

The lawsuit states that customers who read the ‘ready in 3½ minutes’ stamp on the product packaging “will believe it represents the total amount of time it takes to prepare the product, meaning from the moment it is unopened to the moment it is ready for consumption.” Ramirez further states that she would not have made the purchase had she known that the product’s preparation time was longer than 3.5 minutes. The Florida resident further noted that she would either 'not have purchased' the product at all or 'paid less had she known the truth'. Ramirez believes that she shelled out 'more for the [box of eight 67-gram cups] than she would have paid' if she had known the actual time it took to make the meal was longer than advertised.

Aqua Letifer

I wish her the best of luck in her social engineering brinksmanship.

Mik

Again, Mik's Dumbass Doctrine.

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One paper I had to write for a legal class (part of the MBA program) was a deep dive into a negligence case, specifically, the McDonalds coffee case.

I don't remember all the details, but sure the coffee was hot, but it was an older lady, who was sitting in the passenger seat, of a parked car, who put the hot cup of coffee between her legs (didn't have cup holders) and tried opening the lid from the far side, which caused the cup to open and spill all over her groin/pelvic region. Ouch.

Anyway, before writing that paper I presumed the McDonalds Coffee lawsuit was from someone who was pulling away from the drive thru and spilled the coffee as they tried to drink it.