Since McDonald’s introduced mozzarella sticks as its new menu item, the company has been receiving plenty of complaints concerning the cheese inside. Some customers have said that when they bite into the fried snacks that there is very little or no cheese at all while others have said that the cheese, or lack thereof, is fake. Well now a customer is fed up and has decided to sue the company asking for his $1.27 back plus a whole lot more in “damages.”
Law360 reported that Chris Howe of California filed the lawsuit on Jan. 29, claiming that the cheese in his mozzarella sticks was not 100 percent real cheese like the company’s website states. In addition to asking for his money for the sticks back he’s also asking for $5 million in damages for himself and 40 others involved in this suit.
According to the suit, Howe ate the mozzarella sticks on Dec. 24 and upon ordering the snacks, did his own investigation of the core of the sticks by removing both ends.
"Testing the core 'mozzarella' cheese of the sticks reveals that the substance contained within their breading is not mozzarella cheese at all," the suit claims. "It contains non-permitted substances which render it outside the standard of identity of mozzarella cheese."
The samples taken from within the sticks contain 3.76 percent starch by weight. In other words, the starch becomes a cheap substitute for permitted ingredients and a vehicle for an even cheaper ingredient: Water."
McDonald’s responded to the suit and said that the fried sticks are made with “100 percent low-moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese.”