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    http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/compa...fcL&OCID=HPDHP

    A Grandmother is suing KFC for $20 million because "she did NOT get an overflowing bucket of chicken like in the adverts. She "claims" false advertising.

    *** SIGH ***** the last time I was at KFC they did NOT sell chicken by the overflowing bucket full BUT by number of pieces IN A BUCKET as specified ON THE MENU. This has been KFC's thing for many decades now.

    AND As enough people in the comments posit we should all sue EVERY food restaurant cause most of the time the food we get IRL is NOT the same as those advertising pics.
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  • #2
    Mostly agree, but having seen the comparison photos on Consumerist, I have to say that the official pic of what you get looks incredibly different, seriously, it looks like you could feed an army on what you get for your money, the real... not so much.
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    • #3
      They sent her gift cards, so I'm guessing this wont' go too far. That, and it's been getting harder and harder to win "False advertising" lawsuits in the past few decades. While ads are, by definition, routinely designed to entice with less-than-honest depictions of the product, judges have to go by "how a reasonable person" would perceive the product. These days, they assume that most people know very damn well that ads tend to exaggerate.

      I do freely admit that there's no way eight pieces will will up a bucket that size. She claims "half" -- with original recipe, maybe, as those are smaller, in my experience...for twenty bucks, though, I expect more than eight pieces >_> F---, I can go down to the local "employee-owned"chain grocery and get sixteen pieces of yummy gas station chicken for eight bucks...
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      • #4
        I want to know why it matters that it's a grandmother? Actually, I wonder about that sort of thing pretty often. When a headline says "mother of two" or "husband" or whatever. I suppose I don't have to wonder. It's listed to make people care more.

        ...Sorry that's off topic. Anyway, I looked it up and it says there should be 12 chicken tenders in the bucket. So as long as she got 12, I'd say she's out of luck. I mean, maybe the picture is terribly misleading, but 20 million seems like a lot of compensation for a disappointing dinner. The public is less sympathetic about these sort of lawsuits nowadays.
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        • #5
          NAR - Seems like a perfectly cromulent relevant question to me

          As for the amount: Simple. Sue for preposterous amount (knowing that you'll never get that much), wait a few months/couple of years for them to get tired of defending it, settle for a tenth of that amount, lawyer takes his cut (up to 1/3, I think), possibly pay 45% or so tax on the balance (??? may depend on lawsuit type), go home with half a mil or more.

          Everybody goes home happy-ish: You get your half a mil, lawyer gets his 600K, and KFC can honestly say that they did NOT lose the suit/were not found liable for any deception/false advertising (because the case was settled instead of completed). In the meantime, KFC's name is on everyone's lips, because "There's no such thing as bad publicity."

          I can see people going in there and ordering buckets just to see how full they are, and hoping to cash in with their own suit. 2 years after the settlement, all most people will remember is that "KFC was in the news a while back." Kinda like the late 80's/early 90's when they changed their formal name from "Kentucky Fried Chicken" to "KFC" because they felt that the word "fried" implied "unhealthy." This spawned some silly urban legend about the meat not actually being chicken, but that died out soon enough, and they wound up with an official name that matched what everyone was calling them anyway. Win-win.
          Last edited by EricKei; 10-25-2016, 11:22 PM.
          "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
          "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
          "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
          "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
          "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
          "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
          Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
          "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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          • #6
            Quoth notalwaysright View Post
            I want to know why it matters that it's a grandmother?
            I don't know about anyone else, but this line reminds me of the Lamilton episode of The Boondocks.

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            • #7
              I think this lawsuit is about as dumb as slugs in a salt convention. Honestly, no one in their right mind expects the box to be overflowing like the commercials. And if it was, how could you get it home without spilling chicken everywhere? You couldn't, could you?

              Argh.

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