On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Steven Schveighoffer <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:00:02 -0400, Yigal Chripun <yigal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> people in the US sued MacDonald's because their coffee was hot (and they >> even won the case!). other people sued a company since their peanuts >> contains nuts. > [...] > Other examples of lawsuits are definitely frivolous. If that peanut case is > true, I'd use that one instead (it sounds too ridiculous to be true, I'd > appreciate a citation).
Peanuts aren't actually nuts, you know. They're legumes. So there might well be a case where the lable said "100% peanuts" and someone allergic to nuts ate up, knowing that peanuts aren't in fact nuts. --bb
