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One helpful video from FB to explain it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants
Fact-checking the video, the only mistake I found in it is the assertion that McDonalds reduced the coffee serving temp after the lawsuit. According to Wikipedia, they didn't (hence the "coffee is hot" warnings).
And before anyone chimes in with "duh, coffee is hot", consider this:
The point of "fast food" is that it is served quickly and you get to eat it quickly, strangely enough. Imagine sitting down to eat at a fast food restaurant, and instead of waiting 20 minutes for your food to arrive (like you would at a normal restaurant most of the time), you have to wait 20 minutes for it to cool down beyond scalding temperatures. Who would buy into that?
So you have a situation where a corporation prefers to serve products at harmful temperatures because it works better with their workflow, ignore the consequences as best they can and then run massive media campaigns to make people think they shouldn't complain, and the media as we know swallowed the BS hook, line and sinker, and even invented BS to disparage the injured person. The obvious conclusion is that we have a mostly left-wing liberal media!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants
Fact-checking the video, the only mistake I found in it is the assertion that McDonalds reduced the coffee serving temp after the lawsuit. According to Wikipedia, they didn't (hence the "coffee is hot" warnings).
And before anyone chimes in with "duh, coffee is hot", consider this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants#cite_note-lectlaw-3wikipedia said:McDonald's claimed that the reason for serving such hot coffee in its drive-through windows was that those who purchased the coffee typically were commuters who wanted to drive a distance with the coffee; the high initial temperature would keep the coffee hot during the trip.[2] However, it came to light that McDonald's had done research which indicated that customers intend to consume the coffee immediately while driving.[3]
The point of "fast food" is that it is served quickly and you get to eat it quickly, strangely enough. Imagine sitting down to eat at a fast food restaurant, and instead of waiting 20 minutes for your food to arrive (like you would at a normal restaurant most of the time), you have to wait 20 minutes for it to cool down beyond scalding temperatures. Who would buy into that?
So you have a situation where a corporation prefers to serve products at harmful temperatures because it works better with their workflow, ignore the consequences as best they can and then run massive media campaigns to make people think they shouldn't complain, and the media as we know swallowed the BS hook, line and sinker, and even invented BS to disparage the injured person. The obvious conclusion is that we have a mostly left-wing liberal media!