A California woman has started a class-action lawsuit against Yum Brands due to Taco Bell’s beef not having much…well, beef. While most reasonable people expect fast-food meat to have a certain amount of fillers, this woman believes that 65 percent of the ingredients in beef not being beef is a problem. Here are the details from The LA Times:
The class-action suit, which does not ask for money, objects to Taco Bell calling its products “seasoned ground beef or seasoned beef, when in fact a substantial amount of the filling contains substances other than beef.”
It says Taco Bell’s ground beef is made of such components as water, isolated oat product, wheat oats, soy lecithin, maltodextrin, anti-dusting agent, autolyzed yeast extract, modified corn starch and sodium phosphate, as well as some beef and seasonings.
Just 35 percent of the taco filling was a solid, and just 15 percent overall was protein, said attorney W. Daniel “Dee” Miles III of the Montgomery, Ala., law firm Beasley Allen, which filed the suit.
Hmmmm, it’s lunch time. I’m hungry. This lawsuit makes me want to go to Taco Bell for some of its fake beef.
Are any of you surprised that Taco Bell’s seasoned beef is comprised mostly of non-beef products?
http://www.theonion.com/video/taco-bells-new-gree…
haha! good link lookatthisguy.
Frankly, I'm surprised it's not 85% rat meat and 15% dead cockroaches.
@Nightshade
that is the ratio of the 34%.
I'm not surprised that it is low, but being less than 50% I can understand why people would have a problem calling it beef. I think at least 50% should be beef, they made Kentucky Fried Chicken changes its name to KFC because they declared that the meat they used couldn't legally be called "chicken." Eventually KFC changed, so maybe Taco Bell could do the same sort of thing.
The KFC name change is a myth. It had nothing to do with the food and everything to do with the state of Kentucky trademarking its name. It was changed to KFC because Yum would have to pay licensing money to the state of Kentucky if it kept the name "Kentucky Fried Chicken".
This makes sense being that all the KFC's I saw in Kentucky were still called Kentucky Fried Chicken.
How do you have less than 505 chicken when it's cooked on the bone? I thought that was a measure of authenticity? lol
505 chicken? Is that the "Chicken Not Found" error?
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Doh!
One more reason I'm glad I never have used a Taco Bell. Woot.
I can taste the difference. I am fortunate enough to access to fresh beef, like small farm, slaughtered, and ready to eat in a few hours. My moms gf's bro has a small farm in Maine and after eating naturally grown cow fast food beef tastes like plastic and gets me nauseous.
So does that mean fresh bone-in rib eyes at PAX East??? Ha!
Honestly dude if he slaughters something around then I could get some, any part you want.
Very true. Same goes for fish and such. We have fresh alligator sausage as well…there is no substitute.
very lean btw, so it's pretty good for you.
There's actually a great sausage place in downtown LA that specializes in exotic sausages. I've had alligator, rabbit, and rattlesnake there. Good stuff.
http://www.wurstkucherestaurant.com/index.html
I've always wanted to try snake how was that?
Tastes like chicken?
I actually had Taco Bell for lunch because this news made me thinking about it. I think I'm good until June.
No, it doesn’t surprise me. I was wondering how they sold their meals at such low prices.
i wonder what the woman is asking for since she is not asking for restitutions.
She's asking for people to waste time and money.
yeah she is! if she wins i'm going to start a class action lawsuit on every food chain for not giving me a 100% drink container full of "pop"!
I think this case is indicative of the guy who was suing about Oreos containing Transfat. He wanted no money, just to get the message out there.