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thormagni
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Grimhelm said:
The problem with McDonald's coffee is that the company insists on serving their coffee much hotter than any other restaurant's coffee. I assume some company beancounter figure out that it was cheaper to keep their coffee extremely hot and have to pay off a lawsuit now and again, than for every restaurant to have to give out a cup of coffee or two a day because some customer complained it was "cold."
There was the old lady a few years ago who won a large settlement from McD's after getting burned by her coffee. And people like to joke about it cause "how stupid was she?" But what those noble tort reformers don't tell you was that she spilled her coffee and it caused THIRD DEGREE BURNS within seconds. And she tried to get McD's to pay her medical bills and they refused. Medical bills for THIRD DEGREE BURNS TO HER ASS!! When McD's was taken to court, the case revealed that McD's had many, many of these lawsuits. And they still insisted on keeping their coffee hot enough to char human flesh.
I do believe that the company turned down the heat a bit, after her lawsuit. But who knows. In our happy, Republican, personal responsibility world, maybe they have turned it back up.
And McD's cutesy "Caution: I'm hot!" is really a very sweet way of saying "This coffee is hot enough to char your flesh and cause you lifelong, lingering agony but since we warned you, it ain't our fault if you can't go the bathroom anymore or walk like a human being."
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