Posted on 12/01/2011 3:07:46 PM PST by ReformationFan
Here’s a story that’ll tickle your McRibs. On December 1 a law seemingly banning McDonald’s Happy Meals went into effect in San Francisco. The “Healthy Meal Incentives Ordinance” prohibits restaurants from giving away toys with meals that do not meet with the city’s approval — namely, meals with too many calories, too much salt or fat, or insufficient fruits and vegetables. Just a few days before the ordinance took effect, SF Weekly reports, McDonald’s announced it had found a simple way around the statute: Charge customers extra for the toys.
Now in order to obtain a Happy Meal toy, parents will first have to buy the meal and then pay an additional 10 cents, which will be considered a donation to Ronald McDonald House charities. With Burger King’s announcement that it will implement a similar policy, the Happy Meal ban has thus effectively been neutralized.
However, for the nanny-state types who thought they were protecting children from dangerous fast food, there is even worse news. Prior to December 1, McDonald’s stores in San Francisco actually allowed patrons to purchase a Happy Meal toy by itself for $2.18 rather than having to buy the meal to obtain the toy. Now that the Golden Arches are going to charge extra for the toys, they are discontinuing the toy-only policy. Henceforth, any parent wishing to purchase a Happy Meal toy for a child will be forced to buy the meal, too. This, the Independent Institute’s Anthony Gregory points out, is “another unintended consequence of a bad law, since now, on the margin, customers will sometimes opt to buy the greasy food targeted by the law just so they can get the toy, when before they would have not bought the food.”
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Poor baby/sarc.
Thank goodness they've outgrown McDonalds. Urp.
Libturds like Mar are all about “feelings.” Hence this kind of nonsensical legislation. Meanwhile, SF is awash in a sea of red ink that they can’t “feel” their way around. I hate to claim San Francisco as the city of my birth, but that was a long time ago when it was run by sane people.
If I were Ronald McDonald, I'd make a new rule: If kids in San Francisco want the toy, their spineless liberal parents have to eat TWO Happy Meals under the watchful eye of restaurant staff. The more libs you can give heart attacks to, the better.
Because I eat very little, I used to always order a kid meal and a coffee. it was pretty funny
The SF Board of Supervisors were never the sharpest knives in the drawer.
There was a much simpler way to fix the problem of children, especially little children, eating too many “Happy Meals.”
The SF Board of Morons could have simply outlawed the issuance of ATM cards and drivers licenses to those children who are eating too many “Happy Meals.” By taking away their money and the way they’d drive themselves to McDonalds, the issue would become moot. After all, if those children can’t drive themselves to the McDonalds and pay for the Happy Meals, they won’t be able to eat them, will they.
Mark
The slippery slope continues. Sooner or later whole milk will be grounds for child abuse.
What right does the government have to restrict the sale of a legal product? The public was duped into accepting this mentality, with cigarettes.
The SF Board of Supervisors were never the sharpest knives in the drawer.
and their heads are exploding at 10 cents a pop
The nimble private sector will embarrass the clanking, wheezing, sclerotic nanny state over and over again. Just one more reason why the private sector must be destroyed.
I showed my six-year-old grandson how, instead of a Happy Meal, he can get a Mc Double, a drink, and a strawberry sundae. He no longer has any interest in the Happy Meal.
Congratulations on being able to eat very little. It's going to do you good in the long run. I have just the opposite problem and the scales tell me about it every morning. (A little birdie told me I might want to think about making out a will and I think he's right!)
>There was a much simpler way to fix the problem of children, especially little children, eating too many “Happy Meals.”<
Put a condom in place of the toy and it should solve the problem. It is San Francisco you know.
Mark
Maybe Mucky Eye would be more appropriate.
I would sell the toy for 2.18 and give away a free meal with every toy.
As long as you’re happy with it, that’s all that matters ;^)
Once the nimble private sector is destroyed, who will pay for the clanking, wheezing, sclerotic nanny state and with what? They probably figure “the government will just print more money!”
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