167. The McDonalds Hot Coffee Case
Who Did What Now
Katie Charlwood
4.6 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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In the mid-nineties a woman made headlines all over the world bcause she sued McDonalds for having hot coffee... Now that seems ridiculous right? A ridiculous news story that turned an elderly woman into a laughing stock, a greedy instigator of "frivolous lawsuits" but behind he headline is the story of a reasonable woman with a reasonable request from a gluttonous corporation...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, delicious friends and welcome to Who Did What Now? |
| 0:12.8 | The History Podcast, that's not your history class, with me your host, Katie Chalwood, History |
| 0:18.5 | Highlet and Reader of Books. Part of me is really tempted to just get |
| 0:23.9 | like a bunch of my friends and acquaintances and mutuals from all across the globe to just do |
| 0:30.1 | their own little, who did what now? Like, what? It just like had that and snip at that in |
| 0:36.6 | the beginning of every episode because like |
| 0:38.5 | that would amuse me. Nobody else probably. But I'd find it funny and I wouldn't tell you |
| 0:43.9 | whose voice is who. So like if it was somebody, you'd be like, do I? Do I know that voice? |
| 0:50.9 | It's just my own amusement and I might never do it but I think it's funny but it is my |
| 0:57.1 | birthday month because apparently that's a thing and so I decided to use that as an excuse to make |
| 1:03.7 | the theme of this month stuff Katie likes to talk about and considering my like official area of expertise, my speciality, some |
| 1:14.6 | might say, is the rise of sensationalism and the use of print as propaganda in the late |
| 1:19.7 | morning period. One would assume that misinformation, disinformation, sensationalism and |
| 1:25.7 | propaganda in history would be something that I'm interested in and you would be correct. |
| 1:31.3 | And so that's like this week's particular theme. |
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