Vox Humana wrote:

>
> Hot and dangerously hot are not the same.

No. All hot is dangerous. Hotter things are more dangerous because they burn
faster, but you can get burns from lower temperatures with longer exposure.


> The plaintiff established that
> other restaurants served their coffee at lower (safer) temperatures. I think
> the fact that she sustained such sever burns shows that the coffee was far
> too hot.

And I think that is where McDonalds defense was weak. Do some web searching to
see the temperatures recommended for brewing and keeping coffee. You'll see
numbers like 200 and 185, not 140.


> Even the whiteness for McDonalds testified that the coffee was
> unfit to drink as dispensed.

I wonder what words actually came out of his mouth to get twisted into that
comment. I made a pot of coffee this morning and poured myself a steaming cup
of coffee. Do you think I gulped it down? No. Of course not. I let it cool off.
I know coffee is hot. I know that it
will burn me if I drink it like that.

McDonalds sells food to go. What you do with it after that should not be their
responsibility. If someone gets a hot hamburger at the take out window, drives
off, opens up the package, bites into the hot burger, burns his mouth and loses
control of the bar, is that MacDonalds' fault?