Your Brain on Facts/ Food, Dubious Food

In 2011, an Alabama law firm sued fast food chain Taco Bell for dishonest business practices, claiming Taco Bell’s seasoned beef filling couldn’t be called beef under USDA standards because they had it tested and it only contained 35% beed.  The rest was oats and other fillers. Taco Bell pulled out all the stops to refute the allegations, at a cost of more than $3 million, including a parody of a Saturday morning superhero cartoon that they already had: Super Delicious Ingredient Force fighting Baron von Bland.

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