Eat up, kiddies!
Posted on 07/26/2011 6:41:21 PM PDT by tobyhill
Bowing to pressure from health advocates and parents, McDonald’s is putting the Happy Meal on a diet.
The company announced Tuesday that it would more than halve the amount of French fries and add fruit to its popular children’s meal in an effort to reduce the overall calorie count by 20 percent.
But McDonald’s appeasement only went so far. A toy will still come with each Happy Meal despite criticism that the trinkets, often with tie-ins to movies like “Toy Story,” foster a powerful connection between children and the often calorie-laden meals.
While Happy Meals account for less than 10 percent of all McDonald’s sales, the signature box and its contents — first introduced in 1979 — have become a favorite target in recent years. Lawmakers and consumers have rallied around breaking that childhood link between toys and fast food, with the efforts increasing as Michelle Obama and national public health officials point to the estimated 17 percent rate of obesity among the nation’s youths.
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America is being torn apart by hateful Marxists, and this is news at the NYT.
eat your peas
McDonalds adds OBESITY WARNINGS:
Any dumbass parent who buys their kids that crap deserves what they get: fat unhealthy kids. Government shouldn’t force you to eat what you don’t want to, but you’re an idiot if you eat this stuff.
We do the dollar menu...
Thanks, Michelle.
I generally stop at McDonald’s twice a year, on the way to and from Maine. So I don’t figure a few fries will hurt me.
The cheeseburger was tiny. And my usual side order of small french fries was even tinier. I guess next time I’ll have to order the medium size. or maybe the large. And, no doubt, end up paying more, thanks to Muchelle.
I don’t go to McDonald’s for apples...
I would just go to the store and buy a bag of apple for the same price.
I know funny...
And that is funny!!
What’s next, the government gets to tell McDonald’s to call them Melancholy Meals? Calorie counts have already been made available for parents to make the decision.
O’Reilly has some loud-mouthed ditzy blonde on tonight advocating for this bull****. Nag! Nag! Nag! I guess she can’t get a job or a life. Now she wants to make life miserable for the rest of us.
I guess that overweight and quite thick wife of that muslim in our White House is affecting a private business . . . too damn bad. McDonalds should get Her Royal Broad Hind-Ass a mirror in her happy meal.
The Happy Meal has had the Apple and Milk option for years. This is nothing new.
Why haven’t we banned that forest killing enviromental menace, the newspaper ???
Dang! That is one ANGRY MEAL guaranteed to curb your appetite!
try their chicken sandwich and iced tea.
I saw that segment...all I could think as I watched (when I wasn’t yelling at the TV) was that she has GOT to be single.
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