She'll just bribe the judge with fries and win.

I would have thought that extended feeling of bloating, nausea, and stomach ache that follows eating a fatty, sugar and sodium loaded cheeseburger, especially when she was not used to it, would have been ample self-flagellation to compensate for her sin.

If she feels she needs more suffering to atone for her moral failings, perhaps McDonalds could be persuaded to provide her with another cheeseburger.

Should have ordered the Unhappy Meal, which comes with a free cilice.

Well since this was a McDonalds burger, then she doesnt need to worry about having eaten Meat. Well at least anything I'd recognise as such...

Not sure about there cheese's either. They always looks so... artificial?

So, the argument is that she did not break the fast because the supposed "meal" was neither food nor edible. Therefore, the case must be dismissed.

Somehow I doubt the McDonald's will be presenting this argument in court.

On the other hand, didn't a pizza chain run a campaign "You were right - our pizza did taste like cardboard. We are proud to introduce our new recipe!"

Or, with a tech twist, take this letter from a vendor my company received after POODLE (or BASH) had the world in a mad panic about SSL. In the letter the vendor explained that we had nothing to fear from these CVEs. The reason? They only used good ol' plain HTTP for their SAAS. No SSL vulnerabilities to worry about.

"So, the argument is that she did not break the fast because the supposed "meal" was neither food nor edible."

The end result was a foodstuff almost indistinguishable from any other except for two things. Firstly, the price, which was slightly higher, and secondly the nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman.

- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman.

Coat icon, because there isn't one of a hat.

GNU, Sir Pterry

As I understand it, the period of Lent is supposed to represent the 40 days when Jesus is said to have gone into the desert to fast and resist temptation.

Surely therefore McDonald’s is actually providing a service, enhancing the experience by providing a temptation that the lady failed to resist, and she should be paying them for the service rather than suing them.

IIRC from Sunday school some decades back, while jesus was in the desert he was tempted by the devil, so I assume you are saying MacDonalds is evil.

Ever since they stopped doing the crispy volcanic fruit filled pies, I have not been tempted to even go into a MacD's.

In the Jewish tradition (see the book of Job) the Devil is more like a secret shopper employed by Yahweh to keep people on their toes. Which, in my book, makes the comparison unfair to the Devil.

Well... the resemblance between Ronald McDonald and Pennywise The Evil Clown is not purely coincidence, surely?!

But surely this just brings the nonsense all back home. The message I take from that is that Jeebus only lasted 40 days in the desert before he gave into the physiological limits of thirst and hunger. The fact he came back at all only presses home the fact that he never really had the conviction to die for his purported beliefs and should be roundly ignored.

Thank heavens for those Romans who really did the initial experimentation of money vs mouth.

"Ovichinnikova said she had successfully fasted through Lent for the past 16 years, but suffered a complete failure of willpower on seeing the ad"

So, McDonald's has just arrived in Omsk? Or, at least, they didn't start advertising until 2019 - otherwise how does Ovichinnikova explain her lack of willpower for 2019 and not for previous years? At least she's being "sensible" and suiing for $14; just imagine how many millions a US-based plaintiff would sue for.

Icon because, well, it's a big mac, innit?

Shows it didn't happen in the USA: In the USA that woman would had added the word "millions" to those $14.

That been said, wouldn't it be nice to be able to make money simply from living a life of indulgence: "Hey, I did take a third helping, besides I started smoking again, and had one too many yesterday evening, that will be $180 please." I could get used to it, and I guess most other people too...

Ronald should pay up - $14 for the amount of publicity they've received seems like a bargain.

Wouldn't be totally surprised to find the whole thing is a put-up job by their marketing people TBH.

McDonalds should offer the lady a 1000 Rubles voucher for use in any of their stores. But only applicable during the period of Lent...

Give her a voucher, for use in Burger King.

Maybe get a CT scan in case you have a brain tumour ... need something awry in your brain to convert heavily processed McD "junk food" (being polite) into something I would find irresistible (or in my case, even edible - did have a McD once, a friend worked there & gave me a freebie from their allowance, it was one of the vilest things I have ever eaten)

She was supposed to be fasting for Lent, and instead committed the sin of gluttony by eating McDonalds. If she'd been smarter, she'd have eaten some pie instead, since the sin of pi is always zero.

Slow clap for you Sir! Not so much because of the amazingly nerdy quality of your answer, but because of me having to clean the peanut butter off my mechanical keyboard.

'cos the sin of pi is always zero.

FTFY

Not quite fixed as the 'cos the sin of pi is -1, (cosine pi) in which case she should have turned around and walked away.

Why are you being so negative?

cos the sin of pi is 1.

Thank you and kindly leave the planet!

Talk about going off on a tangent...

To be fair, the angle he's taken has struck a chord.

Their adverse after-effects been known previously to persist for quite some time, but two years is probably a record so far.

I now hear it in this voice... [1]from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (one of the greatest films of all time, IMHO).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgxqmzCVCVs

First I though that she should have stayed with the nuggets, with birds now officially recognized as the descendants of dinosaurs, and lizard flesh being allowed.

But unfortunately, I read that it's warm-blooded flesh that's no-no, so even dinosaurs and their offspring are off-limit.

Pretty sure that whales and dolphins were classified as fish at some point for religious purposes, though.

They were the religious porpoises.

Barnacle geese were classified as fish...

https://awingandaway.wordpress.com/2014/10/05/the-bird-that-was-a-fish/

Penguins are classified as chocolate.

"Penguins are an essential ingredient in making Guinness: you boil them up and the white stuff floats to the top." Al Murray

Please stay on-topic.

No such thing as dinosaurs. Don't you know that Earth is only 6,000 years old? The bones were buried by the Intelligent Designer to test us. If you were able to check the dinosaur bones in the Natural History Museum (now replaced by a blue whale) you would have found that they were cast in plaster.

Plaster? Slartibartfast did not do cheap!

one of the popes classified beaver as 'fish'... so, along with bears in the wood, popes are allowed to eat beaver on Fridays

Does this help them to talk in tongues?

Many of the Italian Popes were cunning linguists. The recent German one wasn’t, that’s one reason why he was replaced by the current, Argentinian, one… who has Italian ancestry.

The court should have found in her favour and ordered McDonalds to deliver her a cheeseburger every year for the rest of her life. In the middle of Russian lent.

How about a paid service to block all ads during Lent?

There's an evil clown meme in there somewhere.

What does she think Eucharist is made of?

Don't go there. I have a friend who has coeliac disease (gluten intolerance). She can't eat the standard eucharist, it makes her ill, but asking why transubstantiation hasn't safely converted it into meat (body of Christ) doesn't go down well.

Transubstantiation freaks me out. Yes, your ritual cannibalism is really real cannibalism!

There was this a few years back - purchased in 2009, from just before McDonalds closed down in Iceland

[1]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-50262547

[2]https://metro.co.uk/2015/12/10/theres-a-live-stream-of-the-last-mcdonalds-burger-in-iceland-and-it-goes-on-day-trips-5557328/

Had Ovichinnikova taken a moment to think before she bit into the burger, she could have stored it to be consumed after Lent

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-50262547

[2] https://metro.co.uk/2015/12/10/theres-a-live-stream-of-the-last-mcdonalds-burger-in-iceland-and-it-goes-on-day-trips-5557328/

I had to search, not a simple case

Too expensive and they now have BK

I suppose also their eating of very strange fish dishes.

...film at 11...

I get the humor in which your post was made, but I'd remove 'devoutly.'

I mean whether you (the reader of this comment) believe in the teachings in the Bible or not, *she* claims to yet the whole basis of her case is anathema to what the book actually teaches, so I'd argue she can hardly be devout.

One would expect a *devout* believer of *any* religion to have at least cracked their primary religious text and read a few pages. You'd he hard pressed (outside of a few long genealogies) to find a single page which doesn't say that you alone are responsible for your own thoughts and actions.

In the multi-billion dollar world of advertising, which makes everything we buy more expensive than it needs to be, seeing is believing. The cheeseburger ad for example, and just the sight of a pack of cigarettes is enough to make kids take up smoking; so the smokes must be locked and shuttered out of sight. And still we're told that seeing violent images on TV, the movies, and in video games has absolutely no effect whatsoever. Funny, that.