Subway Sues TV Network for $210 Million Over Report About Its Chicken

[TexasTowelie]

Subway is not chickening out in its showdown with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

The fast-food chain has filed a whopping lawsuit against the CBC over a claim that the chicken it serves is largely made up of soybean filler.

And Subway is asking for a jumbo-size sum in damages — $210 million, to be exact. Which buys a lot of $5 footlongs, especially with an employee discount.

A spokesman for Subway told TheWrap in a statement on Thursday that the company had filed the complaint over “defamatory and absolutely” false allegations made on the CBC program “Marketplace.”

Read more: http://www.newstimes.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/Subway-Sues-TV-Network-for-210-Million-Over-11008099.php

[Docreed2003]

1. Then prove its chicken!!!

They can't....they're pissed because they got exposed! Their chicken is no more chicken than the meat slurry that makes up a chicken McNugget

[Mosby]

2. they already have

Someone punked the CBC, the chicken at subway is chicken, the idea that it's only 54 percent chicken is just silly.

And FYI, mcnuggets are also chicken.

[Docreed2003]

3. In the sense that spam is ham you are correct...

The chicken in McNuggets is made from the same process that makes spam. The meat is processed from the bone and then forced through a filter to siphon off boney residue. That "meat" is then boiled down into a slurry where additives like soy are mixed in to thicken the slurry. The meat paste is then formed out into whatever form one might wish. The chicken at subway may well be majority chicken but it's made in the same process. They even add fake grill marks to make it look "authentic". I'm not arguing that it's more or less than 54% chicken, but for them to suggest that it's chicken and only chicken is laughable.

[Mosby]

4. most lunch meat is processed

The hormel ham people buy at the grocery store is ground up and reformed. Same for virtually all of the sliced turkey and chicken found in a grocery stores like Oscar mayer, hillshire farms, Jennie o etc.

[Docreed2003]

6. I get that...

That doesn't mean that you can sell that product as being 100% whatever when it's just not the case. I grew up on a farm where we processed our own sausage and bacon and ham and chickens, etc. The vast majority of Americans don't live like that anymore. That doesn't mean that if you bill something as being "all natural chicken" and then get exposed because you lied, that you shouldn't pay the price for that as a business.

[pbmus]

5. Unfortunately today the only thing that is 100% real is out of your own garden...

[Docreed2003]

7. Definitely truth!!

[LakeArenal]

8. I don't believe they get any employee discounts..

I think employee discounts went away quite awhile ago..