The McDonald's Misconception “Caution: Contents Hot.” This warning is everywhere. It’s on a waffle maker, a bowl of soup, on a McDonald’s coffee. The origin of this label is fairly widely known, some old lady spilled her coffee and sued McDonald’s for a bunch of money. But is that the whole story? Not quite. Yes, a woman did spill her coffee, but that coffee was given to her at a temperature between 180 and 190 degrees fahrenheit (McDonald’s). When a liquid is that hot, it “causes third-degree burns...in two to seven seconds”(McDonald’s). If coffee that temperature is spilled, a person must get any coffee off himself/herself in seven seconds or less. The woman who sued McDonald’s, Stella Liebeck, was almost 80 years old, and sitting in a
