Posted on 11/29/2011 7:27:02 PM PST by Hojczyk
Come Dec. 1, you can still buy the Happy Meal. But it doesn’t come with a toy. For that, you’ll have to pay an extra 10 cents.
Huh. That hardly seems to have solved the problem (though adults and children purchasing unhealthy food can at least take solace that the 10 cents is going to Ronald McDonald House charities). But it actually gets worse from here. Thanks to Supervisor Eric Mar’s much-ballyhooed new law, parents browbeaten into supplementing their preteens’ Happy Meal toy collections are now mandated to buy the Happy Meals.
Today and tomorrow mark the last days that put-upon parents can satiate their youngsters by simply throwing down $2.18 for a Happy Meal toy. But, thanks to the new law taking effect on Dec. 1, this is no longer permitted. Now, in order to have the privilege of making a 10-cent charitable donation in exchange for the toy, you must buy the Happy Meal. Hilariously, it appears Mar et al., in their desire to keep McDonald’s from selling grease and fat to kids with the lure of a toy have now actually incentivized the purchase of that grease and fat — when, beforehand, a put-upon parent could get out cheaper and healthier with just the damn toy.
In other words, they dropped the healthy options from the Happy Meal, split off the toy — which is the only part most kids care about — and now require you to buy a tasty Meal comprised of a lardburger and death fries in order to get the prize for an extra dime. Your kid gets (a) something to play with and (b) fat, and you get momentary piece of mind. And San Francisco gets … a lesson? Nah. They won’t learn.
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Capitalism and the free market at it’s best!
You bet...Seeing how McDonald's gets 1000 their trinket toys from Communist China for about 10 cents...A win win.
Win.
The only way this could be funnier is if McDonalds dropped the price of a happy meal by 10 cents and then charged the ten cents for the toy.
Ha!
I am laughing so hard I'm hurting. Next time I go to Mickey's I'll be sure to say "I wanna lardburger with a side o' death fries. Yeah, supersize that. Here's a dime for the toy, no, you keep it and give it to the next poor kid whose liberal parents are making him order the Tofu 'n' McBroccoli special. If I'm on his jury for parental axe murder he's gonna walk."
[ In a past time, moms stayed at home and clean house, did the washes, ironed the cloths, cooked meals for the little ones and the dad. Greasy hamburgers for most where non existent. People walked stayed trim. Healthy. Now the 300 plus pound moms have to haul their tubs of fat kids out of the vans, and haul them into the slop shops to get a bit fatter. Then the American citizens have to shell out tax dollars to provide the means for the kids to get cardiac, and diabetes care.
Progress. NOT. ]
I am in favor of NOT paying for any healthcare for their “Hippo” kids and just letting nature take it’s course....
I would rather have government pay a one time cost for a piano case coffin for each of them while letting natural selection run it’s course.
Death fries?
I fried some burgers today for two of my grands and made fries to go with them. I use good old Idaho potatoes and have a cutter that cuts them fry size. I deep fry them in my deep fryer with Crisco pure vegetable oil and lightly salt them.
All my g/kids love my fries and all 13 of them and my 4 great grands tell me they're better than McDonald's.
Somebody has a bug up their butt.
I love McD’s death fries. But my favorite McD’s is their Egg McCoffin.
Whoops, I posted this in the wrong thread!!! Doh!
“You what I would do if I was MC D’s? Pull up shop and leave town. Take all those jobs away and tell people they have Supervisor What’s his face to thank.”
That is some great writing right there!
The Sausage Egg McAngioplasty is darn good, too!
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