At last, a brilliant idea and easy to implement
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More Nutritious than the food, that's for sure.
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My kid won't eat the food; he only likes the play area.
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I can see it is a good idea in theory but will it change anything? If parents can't be bothered to cook for their children and want to bring them up on fast food then what will that change? As a child I would have loved to go to McDonalds all the time, a happy meal was quite tasty, I would get a nice shake with it and a toy to play with afterwards :omg: . There is a reason I wasn't an obese child though, and that is that my parents didn't mind saying no to me, they would cook me nutritious meals instead. On the rare occasion I would have a happy meal, it was a treat. I see far to many parents around these days that just give the child what they want when they ask for it and can't say no to them, that's what really needs to change. Just my 2p.
- Rob
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The upside of their food: i'm a vegetarian and i can eat everything they serve at Mc Donalds, cause i'm pretty sure none of their meals contains any meat
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I can see it is a good idea in theory but will it change anything? If parents can't be bothered to cook for their children and want to bring them up on fast food then what will that change? As a child I would have loved to go to McDonalds all the time, a happy meal was quite tasty, I would get a nice shake with it and a toy to play with afterwards :omg: . There is a reason I wasn't an obese child though, and that is that my parents didn't mind saying no to me, they would cook me nutritious meals instead. On the rare occasion I would have a happy meal, it was a treat. I see far to many parents around these days that just give the child what they want when they ask for it and can't say no to them, that's what really needs to change. Just my 2p.
- Rob
Totally the way I was brought up too:
merridus wrote:
On the rare occasion I would have a happy meal, it was a treat.
it's a sad thing that nowadays you see people treating fast food as a norm rather than occasional. In the article itself, the guy from McD who protests it makes a point that parents should still be the ones to govern how often their kids get access to it which is also, a completely valid standpoint.
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Which is made from potato starch.
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Totally the way I was brought up too:
merridus wrote:
On the rare occasion I would have a happy meal, it was a treat.
it's a sad thing that nowadays you see people treating fast food as a norm rather than occasional. In the article itself, the guy from McD who protests it makes a point that parents should still be the ones to govern how often their kids get access to it which is also, a completely valid standpoint.
As a child growing up in Pimlico, we would go to a Wimpy on a friday night, and I would get a knickerbocker glory. Ah the joys of childhood!
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In the absence of parental responsibility, legislate. You're right, brilliant :rolleyes:
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Which is made from potato starch.
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I wish it where "California county bans McDonald's Happy Meal toys" or at least "California county bans McDonald's Happy Meal toys". Their "food" is just shredded & flavored cardboard. Ugh! Yech!
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As a child growing up in Pimlico, we would go to a Wimpy on a friday night, and I would get a knickerbocker glory. Ah the joys of childhood!
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I was amazed to find a Wimpy near the corner by our offices. I have no idea if it is part of the chain or not because I thought that had closed down years ago.
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ahmed zahmed wrote:
I wish it where "California county bans McDonald's Happy Meal toys
ahmed zahmed wrote:
Fight Big Government
Hmmm. God forbid people should make thier own choices.
Making choices is hard - and with food, it is not a "once" choice, but this choice has to be made repeatedly, day by day, again and again. What we consider the right choice we are sometimes to exhausted to make - and companies make big money on that.
There is a nice experiment: Ask the people in two groups to remember a number, walk down the hallway, and present the number there. On the way, they pass a tabel where they can choose between (IIRC) a salad and cake - at least, somethign that's considered healthy, and something that's considered not. The only difference: Members of Group A have to remeber a 2 digit number. Members of group B a 7 digit number. In group B, significantly more people chose the cake. Source[^]
I wonder if you ever walked down the street with two kids, one permanently angry because it's growing a new tooth, the other obsessed with that shiny beautiful McDonalds logo, screaming his heart out because you said "no". Of course, that person could choose to walk down a different street to ignore the screams. Of course, that parent could have chosen to be a better parent (because all kids are equal and if you treat them right they behave like relaxed, educated adults). Of course, that person could have chosen not to become a parent. But since making money is more important than all that, you probably have a point.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
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That totally sucks. The toys are the only reason I eat there.
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I can see it is a good idea in theory but will it change anything? If parents can't be bothered to cook for their children and want to bring them up on fast food then what will that change? As a child I would have loved to go to McDonalds all the time, a happy meal was quite tasty, I would get a nice shake with it and a toy to play with afterwards :omg: . There is a reason I wasn't an obese child though, and that is that my parents didn't mind saying no to me, they would cook me nutritious meals instead. On the rare occasion I would have a happy meal, it was a treat. I see far to many parents around these days that just give the child what they want when they ask for it and can't say no to them, that's what really needs to change. Just my 2p.
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And next steps for Arnie are to grow mustache, start prosecution of jews and ban everything else that impede Californians from becoming supreme race.
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Making choices is hard - and with food, it is not a "once" choice, but this choice has to be made repeatedly, day by day, again and again. What we consider the right choice we are sometimes to exhausted to make - and companies make big money on that.
There is a nice experiment: Ask the people in two groups to remember a number, walk down the hallway, and present the number there. On the way, they pass a tabel where they can choose between (IIRC) a salad and cake - at least, somethign that's considered healthy, and something that's considered not. The only difference: Members of Group A have to remeber a 2 digit number. Members of group B a 7 digit number. In group B, significantly more people chose the cake. Source[^]
I wonder if you ever walked down the street with two kids, one permanently angry because it's growing a new tooth, the other obsessed with that shiny beautiful McDonalds logo, screaming his heart out because you said "no". Of course, that person could choose to walk down a different street to ignore the screams. Of course, that parent could have chosen to be a better parent (because all kids are equal and if you treat them right they behave like relaxed, educated adults). Of course, that person could have chosen not to become a parent. But since making money is more important than all that, you probably have a point.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
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There is a nice experiment: Ask the people in two groups to remember a number, walk down the hallway, and present the number there. On the way, they pass a tabel where they can choose between (IIRC) a salad and cake - at least, somethign that's considered healthy, and something that's considered not. The only difference: Members of Group A have to remeber a 2 digit number. Members of group B a 7 digit number. In group B, significantly more people chose the cake.
As an alternate explanation I'd propose that eating a chunk of cake requires significantly less effort than fruit salad and would be curious if the results changed if it was an ice cream sunday vs an apple.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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Of course all parents live under circumstances where they can cook for their children most of the day.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server.Do they need to be available most of the day? Assuming the kids are old enough to be at school, they would have some kind of meal at lunch time and then the parents would only need to prepare a meal for the evening instead of popping out to grab a McDonalds. :)
- Rob
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ahmed zahmed wrote:
I wish it where "California county bans McDonald's Happy Meal toys
ahmed zahmed wrote:
Fight Big Government
Hmmm. God forbid people should make thier own choices.