# McDonalds - what is in the meat patties? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 20, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-what-is-in-the-meat-patties/115014 "2002-06-20T05:01:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-what-is-in-the-meat-patties/115014/21 "2002-06-21T10:31:35Z")
No **Shalmanese** , it’s considered to be _very_ long: 1990 – Writs served June 1994 – Trial began December 1996 - Trial ended after 335 days in Court June 1997 - Judgement Or: [http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/msc\_29oct96.html](http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/msc_29oct96.html) The extraordinary thing for me is that they conducted their own defence _and_ had no legal (financial) aid – some would argue, ruefully, that the former may have contributed to the length. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-what-is-in-the-meat-patties/115014.md?page=1)