Dollars to Donuts
by Miki SaxonWhat do you do when you are bored / broke / dim / greedy?
Especially if you live in California?
File a lawsuit, of course.
Not only do you sometimes win, but 40 years later someone produces a musical about it.
In the 1970s, a 29-year-old woman named Gloria Sykes sued Muni for $500,000 (roughly $3.1 million today) for a head accident on a Hyde street cable car that turned her into a nymphomaniac. The widely publicized event and ensuing court battle brought in psychiatrists and the woman’s lovers to testify on her behaviors, and—as might only happen in San Francisco—she won her case.
These days, cable cars are passé and the focus is on food.
From the vagaries of baked dough in Subway’s Foot-long subs to Dunkin Donuts and Krispy Kreme.
The basis of the donut lawsuits is the same.
Both have blueberry donuts that, gasp, don’t actually have blueberries in them. The same goes for
Krispy Kreme’s raspberry-filled donuts and, horrors, the maple bar is not made with real maple syrup.
This, of course, is a cause of major trauma to the millions of people who buy them for their healthful properties.
Now you know what to do when you are bored / broke / dim / just plain greedy.
Hat tip to CB Insights for alerting me to the Krispy Kreme story.
Image credit: Richard Giles