Stop the madness: KFC sued over "unhealthy fat" cooking

from JoeUser Forums
Someone please, anyone, stop the madness. Not that I am that big a fan of KFC, but really, where does it all end?

See link here: Link with this headline:

Consumer group sues KFC over unhealthy fat

Fast-food chain accused of using oil that makes arteries 'extra crispy'


First, I have to ask just who this suit is supposed to benefit?

Second, I have to ask why customers shouldn't be entitled to make their own food choices for themselves?

Third, I don't recall anyone forcing people to eat at KFC.


Need I continue?!
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Actually, I'll let other, smarter people than me, continue and really explain why this suit should just get tossed, or why this suit is something that is really needed (I'd really like to see the justification here, as I just can't come up with a reason that would pass the "lets not laugh this suit out of the courtroom" test).
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well, honestly, I think KFC's blog articles are pretty interesting, and...wait, you're talking about a DIFFERENT KFC!

Yeah, it's pretty stupid.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I personally like the crispy fried chicken...and don't give a hoot what its cooked in when I choose to indulge.

Is it me or is America not just forgetting about personal repsonsibility...America seems to be blowing it out of the conversation? Like it is no longer an option?

Bring on the fat! Bring on the BIGGIE, EXTRA LARGE Sugar slushies, and double dipped chocolate fudge brownies....and all Americans have to do is NOT BUY IT.

Our lives are so HARD.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Bring on the fat! Bring on the BIGGIE, EXTRA LARGE Sugar slushies, and double dipped chocolate fudge brownies....and all Americans have to do is NOT BUY IT.


BINGO! I still stand by the contention that since I don't drink, smoke, or do drugs, it is my PATRIOTIC DUTY to contribute to the American health care system by drinking bladder buster sodas and eating artery clogging foods. If I had no vices, I would be contributing NOTHING to that segment of the economy!
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
I think KFC is a great blogger, and I am offended both by the assertion that you don't care much for her, and this lawsuit about how she cooks. How it it any of their business?

...oh, wait. Fast food chain... ah. Never mind.


Anyway, this all started with cigarettes. We allow the government to oversee what we can and can't buy like parents, and as a representitive of all the wackos out there, they will always have different ideas about what is good for us. To me, you should be personally accountable for whatever you do, and not blame the people who make the product you chose to buy.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
I think KFC is a great blogger, and I am offended both by the assertion that you don't care much for her, and this lawsuit about how she cooks. How it it any of their business?

...oh, wait. Fast food chain... ah. Never mind.


I have to ask, baker. Did you read my reply first, or do we simply think that much alike from time to time? I shudder to think the latter may be the case! (LOL!)
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Nope, I hadn't read any of the replies, lol Wish I had, now.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
Wish I had, now.


Well I laughed BOTH times....so there ya go!
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Honestly, when i saw "KFC sued" I thought it was the blogger making a funny.

The cigarette suits were originally based on the fact that the cigarette companies knew they had a harmful product but covered up that fact, mostly dealing with people who began smoking ("became addicted") before the manadatory Surgeon General warnings.

Kentucky Fried Chicken shortened its product name to KFC to avoid the dreaded F-word. Is this that different than the other suit?

I believe fast food chains are required to make nutritional information available, if not in the restaurant, than by mail or online. However, no one ever looks at that stuff. Except for my co-workers and I, when we were bored. We tried to find the least healthy fast food sandwich... I think it was a toss-up between Jack In The Box's Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger and some crazy thing from Carl Jr.'s.

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Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

Well, honestly, I think KFC's blog articles are pretty interesting, and...wait, you're talking about a DIFFERENT KFC!

YOU STOLE MY YUCK!

Incredulity is my only answer.  This one goes hand in hand with the previous one from Gideon.  There is no case here, and no there there.  KFC is not a right, and not a requirement.  You dont like it?  Eat tofu!  As one who has spent the last 6 weeks eating paper, I LIKE KFC chicken.  I do not make it a steady diet, but I LIKE IT, 

My favorite fries use to be Mickey D's.  I would stop at a Mickey D and just get fries.  Until they got the health kick.  now the fries are bland.

As I have learned, if it tastes good, it is bad for you.  But if it tastes bad, it aint going to sell.

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top

Nope, I hadn't read any of the replies, lol Wish I had, now.

Well, I started reading, Saw Gid's and just quoted him.  Yours is good too!  I wish I had been first!

Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
Kentucky Fried Chicken shortened its product name to KFC to avoid the dreaded F-word. Is this that different than the other suit?


The difference, I believe, is that it is a reasonable assumption upon viewing your KFC meal that it's been fried even if KFC wants you to think it's simply "kitchen fresh chicken." On the other hand, I'd be hard pressed to look at a cigarette and assume that rat poison was added--although, as we know now, it probably was.
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
Oh yea, and I forgot

Third, I don't recall anyone forcing people to eat at KFC.

You're right, no one forces KFC on me, but those bastards at Popeye's--you should see the tricks they come up with to get me in their drive thru line. It's too horrible to even write about.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
Geeez, last time I had KFC was in Australia in 2002, anyone feel sorry for me? I havent had 'unhealthy fat cooking' for ages!!!!
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
You're right, no one forces KFC on me, but those bastards at Popeye's--you should see the tricks they come up with to get me in their drive thru line. It's too horrible to even write about.


Bojangles is Better.
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
All of these suits are absurd. The tobacco suits, the fast food suits (sue MCDonalds because you ate yourself to 400lbs). Anyone who doesn't know eating fast food of any kind is less than a healthy diet choice is too stupid to protected in a court of law by a group of pansy ass do-gooders with nothing better to do than stick their noses into other people's business because their own lives are empty shells of masterbation.

OK, now that I got that off my chest...

Personally I neither need nor want the government (in this case the court system) to micro-manage my life for me. I can screw it up just fine without any help from them.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
ok, will the real KFC please stand up?
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
Here's a clue for everyone out there who's concerned about fast food, high caffiene drinks, and other personal habits that are likely to kill you:

Life's a trap!!!! No one makes it out alive!!!

We now return to your regularly scheduled bad puns, wacky jokes, and other inanities.

Thank you.