Asians Behaving Badly: Japanese American Woman Sues Because Crunch Berries Aren’t Real Berries

Got this link from SFGate and Lowering the Bar, where a judge recently threw out a lawsuit by a Janine Sugawara from San Diego because she believed that the Cap’n Crunch cereal Crunch Berries contained actual fruit called crunch berries.

According to the blog posts, Sugawara admitted that close inspection of the box stated that the “crunch berries” weren’t actual berries, and the box itself states that it only contains cereal and never states that it contains anything called a “crunch berry”, nor could she explain why in the four years it took to file the claim that she couldn’t figure out that Crunch Berries contained no berries.

This wasn’t the first time that she had done this. Apparently, Sugawara had filed a similar suit against Kellogg’s Froot Loops because Froot Loops didn’t contain real, um, froot.

I fully expect her to file a suit against Nabisco’s Cheese Nips or Nestle’s Nips candy because they don’t contain… well, never mind.

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