Happy Meals soon will include fruit or veggie | The Columbus Dispatch

That's a step in the right direction, but parents should be looking at the ingredients in the hamburger & fries too. The stuff never breaks down or decays--what is it doing in the bodies of children? If you don't know what I am talking about, google it and you'll find lots of links where people have experimented by leaving out a happy meal for years and it still looks like it was bought yesterday and has not decayed at all. Scary.

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I bet some union thug or teacher requested this! Why can't my kids have raw sugar like we had in happy meals in the good old days!

No wonder this country has a $14 trillion debt! Like apples are going to solve this problem? Why can't McDonalds do something useful like lower my property taxes.

How about just skipping the Mickey D's entirely?
Parents are so lazy these days. If the little buggers get hungry, mom just whips it into Mickey D's, orders up at the drive-thru window, and they're on their way. And Mom never even had to get off the cell phone.
Ya gotta love it.

This is actually a smart move by McDonalds. Kids will whine their parents into buying an extra side of fries since the one in the happy meal is "too small." Brilliant!

Wendys used to be my favorite fast food place until Dave died and the corporate goons shrunk the servings, decreased the quality, and raised the prices. I haven't ate a McDonalds in at least 10 years, so I am sure their food as only gotten worse in the last decade. Although I dislike fast food I don't understand how a group who doesn't care for the quality of fast food makes this into a legal issue with McDonalds. I guess being childless, I didn't realize that people with children were forced into taking their children to McDonalds. Maybe this is one of the reason America is in the shape it is today, we have put too much garbage in yet expect more than garbage out.

Dan Gleesack wrote:

How about just skipping the Mickey D's entirely?
Parents are so lazy these days. If the little buggers get hungry, mom just whips it into Mickey D's, orders up at the drive-thru window, and they're on their way. And Mom never even had to get off the cell phone.
Ya gotta love it.

So true! I can't begin to count the number of mom's in soccer vans who cause near accidents while rushing home to get supper for the kiddies, talking on the cell phone, and slamming on the brakes to turn in to McDonalds.

Eat what you want and die like a man.

so glad that the government can tell a private institution what they can serve America's children... can they also tell us when to use the bathroom too.... If a kid want a fry give them a fry use some common sense people dont give any kids Mcdonald's every night of the week they will be fat even if they ate the apples.... Fast food one time a week would never hurt anyone....

pussification wrote:

Eat what you want and die like a man.

Amen.

Crash 12 wrote:

so glad that the government can tell a private institution what they can serve America's children... can they also tell us when to use the bathroom too.... If a kid want a fry give them a fry use some common sense people dont give any kids Mcdonald's every night of the week they will be fat even if they ate the apples.... Fast food one time a week would never hurt anyone....

I thought Ronald McD made this decision on his own? Didn't realize the govt told them to serve apples with Happy Meals....

no caramel sauce? outraged.

Critic wrote:

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I thought Ronald McD made this decision on his own? Didn't realize the govt told them to serve apples with Happy Meals....

Apparently "child advocacy groups" are now considered government employees. For tea partiers, everyone belongs to a union and is a government employee except for them.

they are also renaming it, it is not called the "unhappy meal"

Crash 12 wrote:

so glad that the government can tell a private institution what they can serve America's children... can they also tell us when to use the bathroom too.... If a kid want a fry give them a fry use some common sense people dont give any kids Mcdonald's every night of the week they will be fat even if they ate the apples.... Fast food one time a week would never hurt anyone....

I think you just read the headline to the article and then made the story up in your head that this was a decision forced on McD's by big government and added the tidbits of the spin jocks you most likely listen to.

All that was said was that a couple of cities and a county stipulated that fast food places couldn't entice kids into buying their unhealthy food with the cool little toys that they put into the kids meals.

Gvernment needs to butt out of our freedoms!

No one wants a Frowny Face Meal. Fries make us happy, don't they Fatty Arbuckle.

Sure do, Commentor!

Happy Meals come with fries but apple slices can be substituted.

"... only 11 percent of kids meals are ordered with apples instead of fries."

Nothing more needs to be said.

A friend of mine - a big guy - told me recently that going to McDonald's for a healthy meal is like going to a hooker for safe-sex advice.

Jen of Columbus wrote:

<quoted text> All that was said was that a couple of cities and a county stipulated that fast food places couldn't entice kids into buying their unhealthy food with the cool little toys that they put into the kids meals.

It's not McDonald's job to monitor the food children eat. That would be the parent's job. Maybe we should offer cool adult toys to parents to make them give a damn about their kid's health. You can't legislate morality or intelligence.

You know what? If I want a Happy Meal with fries for myself (an adult), I should be able to get one. This is my way of limiting my intake of beloved fast food that I know is not good for me, but I love it! So now, there's no way I will order a Happy Meal - I'll just go ahead and order a combo and ingest 1,000 more calories so that Susie and Johnny don't get fatter.