sigdiamond2000: We are witnessing the endgame of Michelle Obama's diabolical plan to deprive our children the right to be disgustingly obese, illiterate, mouthbreathing notochords.

I hope all you saps who bought into this "healthy eating" shell game will one day understand what you've wrought.

Hope and Change, indeed.


Michelle Obama proves being in shape doesn't stop you from being a double bagger

/will take a chubby cute girl over an in shape hatchet face any day

McDicks' toys are good for about five minutes of light fun before they break. Books... books are forever.

thomps: and the best part is they don't have to worry about printing a whole bunch of different titles because they're all going to end up as grease-soaked mounds of pulp that children suck on after their last fry is gone.

Jeopardy Sean Connery approves.

Yeah, my kids won't care. We take them to McDonald's maybe once a month and we sit by the playground. They eat 3 fries and half a McNugget while enviously watching the other kids play. Then I turn them loose and they run around for half an hour, while I throw away the food and the crap toys.

hbk72777: sigdiamond2000: We are witnessing the endgame of Michelle Obama's diabolical plan to deprive our children the right to be disgustingly obese, illiterate, mouthbreathing notochords.

I hope all you saps who bought into this "healthy eating" shell game will one day understand what you've wrought.

Hope and Change, indeed.


Michelle Obama proves being in shape doesn't stop you from being a double bagger

/will take a chubby cute girl over an in shape hatchet face any day

I'd take Michelle Obama over Gingrich's whore wife.

Yeah, they're gonna rename them "Disappointment Meals"

And it's 100% less Jesusy than ChickFilA's book offerings

hbk72777: Michelle Obama proves being in shape doesn't stop you from being a double bagger /will take a chubby cute girl over an in shape hatchet face any day

Between your firm grasp of reality and your witty banter, I'm sure the ladies are lining up around the block.

The good old days when even nuggets had jobs.

Fat and well-read/skinny and illiterate are no ways to go through life, son.

/drunk, on the other hand...

I'm happy to know that McDonald's will be helping our children to be more well rounded individuals.

MooseUpNorth: McDicks' toys are good for about five minutes of light fun before they break. Books... books are forever.

Jack Black 62: I don't understand how people continue to consume the garbage spewed by this place.

You some kind of commie?

See Mark.

See Mark eat a delicious Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese.

Gorge Mark, gorge.

See Janet.

See Janet enter the ball pit with Ronald McDonald.

Don't tell, Janet. Don't tell!

FOLLOW UP: Fat kid chokes on book, parents sue for millions.

"I hope all you saps who bought into this "healthy eating" shell game will one day understand what you've wrought.
"

Absolutely, it is totally a shell game. I'm working at McDonald's part time while I finish my degree (almost done with both, Thank God). First the Happy Meals come with a choice of fries or apples. Okay, great, now we have a healthier choice if we want it. No, not good enough. They are still too unhealthy and we know that McDonald's is solely responsible for making kids fat, I mean, it's not the parent's fault or anything. NOW they are going to come with BOTH a "Kid's size fry" (approximately half the size of a small) and a smaller serving of apples (no caramel). Each happy meal will come with apples, that should solve all the childhood obesity problems right there, I suppose. Oh, except, if you don't want both, you can get "double apples" OR double the fries...which brings you back to a small fry again. More packaging, more training, more work and it really doesn't change anything. If people don't want the freaking apples, they're still not going to eat the apples.

I remember when there was no Happy Meal. The "Happy" part of the meal was that your parents even took you there to begin with.

/lawn...off.

DROxINxTHExWIND: Anybody remember the story of the little dog on the bridge with the bone who saw his reflection and thought it was another dog? He opens his mouth to steal *that* dog's bone and his bone falls into the water. The message of the story was "if you give up your for sure thing to get something, you'll end up with nothing".

In ancient Rome there was a poem
About a dog who found two bones
He picked at one
He licked the other
He went in circles
He dropped dead (new window)

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The good old days when even nuggets had jobs.

I wish I still had my set....and the swappable Fry Guys.

xxmedium: MooseUpNorth: McDicks' toys are good for about five minutes of light fun before they break. Books... books are forever.

Zing!

I don't know Samwell Tarly was fat and literate but kept getting beaten by everyone from the skinny to the muscular members of the nightwatch. It seems as though one should strive to be more like jon snow and be both literate and in good shape.

I think its a great idea and my kids love the apple slices and havent even noticied the smaller size fries.

sigdiamond2000: Liliac_Hill: "I hope all you saps who bought into this "healthy eating" shell game will one day understand what you've wrought.
"

Absolutely, it is totally a shell game. I'm working at McDonald's part time while I finish my degree (almost done with both, Thank God). First the Happy Meals come with a choice of fries or apples. Okay, great, now we have a healthier choice if we want it. No, not good enough. They are still too unhealthy and we know that McDonald's is solely responsible for making kids fat, I mean, it's not the parent's fault or anything. NOW they are going to come with BOTH a "Kid's size fry" (approximately half the size of a small) and a smaller serving of apples (no caramel). Each happy meal will come with apples, that should solve all the childhood obesity problems right there, I suppose. Oh, except, if you don't want both, you can get "double apples" OR double the fries...which brings you back to a small fry again. More packaging, more training, more work and it really doesn't change anything. If people don't want the freaking apples, they're still not going to eat the apples.

See, this is exactly what I'm talking about. What kind of a country do we live in where the FLOTUS is forcing a restaurant to change their menu just to slake her insatiable thirst for power over our childrens?

LOL. You sound fat.

hbk72777: Michelle Obama . . . hatchet face

I happen to agree, but I bet some people are going to scream "RACISM!!!" at this.

Personally I think every child should get Farenheit 451 or Martian Chronicles in their Happy Meals.

Or perhaps the dinky size of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam!

Wendy's is already doing this ... my daughter got a Peanuts book in her kids' meal last time I took her there. For the record, she didn't seem to care that it wasn't a piece of made-in-China plastic crap.

mike0023: hbk72777: Michelle Obama . . . hatchet face

I happen to agree, but I bet some people are going to scream "RACISM!!!" at this.

How about screaming "This is not the politics tab, you complete hack!"?

I worked at McDonald's when I was in high school and to be honest I don't understand the hate for it.

Is their food gourmet? No.
Is their food healthy? No.
Is it generally cheap and more likely to be clean and hot when compared to other fast food places? Yes.

If I'm out on the road want a fast cheap burger or some such I go through a McDonald's drive through they are usually located near off ramps and I can get a burger and a coke for like 3 bucks. I'm not looking for a transcendent dinning experience just some calories and caffeine with a minimum of time and expense. That's what they provide. I don't go to farking McDonald's expecting to have pickled sheep's livers sauteed in a mushroom sauce in the first place.

Doesn't seem to be a cow on Mudpuddle Farm.

Good thing. Might be a bit awkward.

Today's adventure is "Bossie Meets Mr. Captive Bolt".

Like when those fat stupid farks from NYC(I know, redundant) sued McDonald's because they got fat.

DROxINxTHExWIND: MaxxLarge: Look, I'm all for reducing childhood obesity AND promoting reading. But getting a book in your Happy Meal is like getting a pencil or toothbrush on Halloween. Not only do the kids hate it, but word gets around FAST that some houses are just to be avoided. Nobody wins.

You are so very wrong.

This isn't new


McDonald's used to put little books in their happy meals. I think they were called "Golden Leaf" books or something like that. They were short stories with little messages and the did have an effect.

They also did this when I was a kid. I remember they came out with special editions of classic books. I had Tom Sawyer...maybe others, but for sure Tom Sawyer with McDonald's branding on it. Yep, I knew I wasn't imagining it (new window).

Noobian Noob: I think its a great idea and my kids love the apple slices and havent even noticied the smaller size fries.

We haven't started the new meals yet, and when they told us, it merely brought out a groan because it's a little extra work for us as employees. As a mom, two of my girls prefer the apples, but they'll probably be happy with a little of both, too. I just feel like the whole thing is just for show, since you can "double the fries" and end up with the exact same meal as before.

Maybe McDonalds needs to put food in the happy meals and leave the books for the libraries and schools.

But if they give books, we have to READ to them. UGH! I just wanted to be lazy...

Cup_O_Jo: Well the sales of Happy Meals will go down. WHY--because I am a collector. Collectors buy Happy Meals. You almost lost collectors when ya made the fries smaller. No one is going to collect Happy Meal books.

Good?

How about we reserve the term "collector" for people who are acquiring things with actual value instead of people hoarding cheap plastic in their basement.