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Hello and welcome back to another episode of American Gravy, the only show where we mix food, family, and freedom in the same pot, and somehow don't burn it.

I am Lauren Grohl.

And I'm Andrew Grohl.

Whether it's a shared meal or a shared moment, every story adds flavor to the table.

So welcome home, everybody. That sounds weird, right? Welcome home. That's a little weird. It's all right. Well, you know what, welcome back. And look, today we're going to be covering a lot of stories, just a couple high-level items. We've got the tiramisu championships. Well, pretty exciting stuff.

We got, we're talking, well, we'll talk a little bit about food outbreaks, some Thanksgiving talk.

Obviously. championships. Well, pretty exciting stuff. We got, we're talking, well, we'll talk a little bit

about food outbreaks, some Thanksgiving talk. Obviously, food facts that are going to blow your

biscuit in 86 it, which are all the items that we think need to go. We're going to start off

today with our WTF segment, which is what the fork. And I came across this article the

other day, and I absolutely

loved it. These are five times that people sued fast food restaurants for the wildest reasons.

Now, I want to say one of the reasons I bring this up is because in the political or policy

context, I've been very critical of many of the bills that are being passed in California related to food and restaurants.

And what I say, let's use, for example, the recent food allergen law that mandates restaurants

list all of the top 10 allergens on their restaurant menus. And the bill wasn't very well thought

out because it doesn't take into consideration cross-contamination, which most of those allergens are subject

to. So what I've said in my conspiratorial mindset, this opens up a cottage industry for

lawsuits. Once something is legislated, then you can actually create lawsuits based on the legislation,

and there's always going to be a bevy of lawyers that are out there, slip and fall, ambulance chasers, trying to take down restaurants, especially, and in many cases, retail. So we had talked about that in previous episodes, and then I saw this article, and I thought, you know, let's cover a couple of these. So, Lauren, why don't you kick us off with the first one here? This is a good one. This is from back in 2016.

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