Comments on: Happy Meals Make Me Sad http://plasticless.com/2008/11/25/happy-meals-make-me-sad/ Tips and strategies to help the environment by cutting back on plastic in our everyday lives. Mon, 25 Apr 2011 01:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: SpadeOrtiz http://plasticless.com/2008/11/25/happy-meals-make-me-sad/comment-page-1/#comment-2381 SpadeOrtiz Tue, 11 May 2010 17:29:27 +0000 http://plasticless.com/2008/11/25/happy-meals-make-me-sad/#comment-2381 A few years ago, I could see this happening and not being surprised because back then all we had was burgers, nuggets, fries, and soda. It was all just fatty food. BUT after a few years of studies we found that fast food was the reason why our kids were becoming obese so what did the fast food company do? They said "Fine, your right, we will try to make things better." So they did, KFC changed the oil they used, and now even have grilled chicken, Mc Donald’s uses real Chicken now and a somewhat better tasting "Beef" and even having substitutes like instead of fries you can have apples, and instead of soda you can have milk. Also, they put information everywhere about the fatty foods, like the number of calories, fat, sodium, ECT on the wrappers of the burgers and the menus at the drive through and such and such. So we cannot say that we do not know that if we feed out kids this fat stuff because the information is RIGHT THERE, and if you think it’s too much for your kid you can always do a substitute. And the big argument is that kids are still getting fat, and its Fast Food Industry’s fault. BULL S**T. They say it’s their fault because the toys that are in the Happy Meals entice the kids to buy the fatty food and in turn get fat. OK parents, you’re in the car with your kid, you look in the back seat and see that he has been getting a little chubby lately. We pull up to the nearest Mc'y D's and go to the menu, you hear the voice from the speaker "Hello welcome to Mc Donald’s, can I take your order?"... Your kid yells "I WANT A HAPPY MEAL! THEY HAVE TRANSFORMERS TOYS!"... And what do you do... "One happy meal please..." It’s YOUR fault parents, stop blaming others. Do you know what a sensible parent would say? Here let me give you the same scene but let’s do the RIGHT thing: "Hello welcome to Mc Donald’s, can I take your order?"... Kid yells "I WANT A HAPPY MEAL! THEY HAVE TRANSFORMERS TOYS!"... Turn to your child and tell him or her "Ok, if you want the toy that bad you'll have to give up the fries and soda, you'll get apples and juice". And because the argument said that the kids eat badly because of the toy and the toy is the only thing they care about, then in that since, they would not care if they don't get a soda. So your kids would say "ALRIGHT BUT I WANT TRASFORMERS!"... "Ok yea, I’ll take one happy meal, with apples and some OJ for substitute" TAA DAA! In the words of Chef Ramsays... WAKE UP! A few years ago, I could see this happening and not being surprised because back then all we had was burgers, nuggets, fries, and soda. It was all just fatty food. BUT after a few years of studies we found that fast food was the reason why our kids were becoming obese so what did the fast food company do? They said “Fine, your right, we will try to make things better.” So they did, KFC changed the oil they used, and now even have grilled chicken, Mc Donald’s uses real Chicken now and a somewhat better tasting “Beef” and even having substitutes like instead of fries you can have apples, and instead of soda you can have milk. Also, they put information everywhere about the fatty foods, like the number of calories, fat, sodium, ECT on the wrappers of the burgers and the menus at the drive through and such and such. So we cannot say that we do not know that if we feed out kids this fat stuff because the information is RIGHT THERE, and if you think it’s too much for your kid you can always do a substitute.

And the big argument is that kids are still getting fat, and its Fast Food Industry’s fault. BULL S**T. They say it’s their fault because the toys that are in the Happy Meals entice the kids to buy the fatty food and in turn get fat.

OK parents, you’re in the car with your kid, you look in the back seat and see that he has been getting a little chubby lately. We pull up to the nearest Mc’y D’s and go to the menu, you hear the voice from the speaker “Hello welcome to Mc Donald’s, can I take your order?”… Your kid yells “I WANT A HAPPY MEAL! THEY HAVE TRANSFORMERS TOYS!”… And what do you do… “One happy meal please…”

It’s YOUR fault parents, stop blaming others. Do you know what a sensible parent would say? Here let me give you the same scene but let’s do the RIGHT thing:

“Hello welcome to Mc Donald’s, can I take your order?”… Kid yells “I WANT A HAPPY MEAL! THEY HAVE TRANSFORMERS TOYS!”… Turn to your child and tell him or her “Ok, if you want the toy that bad you’ll have to give up the fries and soda, you’ll get apples and juice”. And because the argument said that the kids eat badly because of the toy and the toy is the only thing they care about, then in that since, they would not care if they don’t get a soda. So your kids would say “ALRIGHT BUT I WANT TRASFORMERS!”… “Ok yea, I’ll take one happy meal, with apples and some OJ for substitute”

TAA DAA!

In the words of Chef Ramsays… WAKE UP!

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]]> By: Maureen http://plasticless.com/2008/11/25/happy-meals-make-me-sad/comment-page-1/#comment-854 Maureen Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:53:26 +0000 http://plasticless.com/2008/11/25/happy-meals-make-me-sad/#comment-854 The fast food places should go back to providing "not so bad for you food"- it hasn't always been laden w/transfats, fragrances and extra calories from "biggie" deals etc. A regular hamburger, regular fries (in a little bag, not a huge box) and a 12 drink were common. Marketing tactics are horrible- weather it be by the fast food giants or food manufacturers. They are just as bad and will market anything that sells despite it's effect on health and environment (remember Lunchables?) The fast food places should go back to providing “not so bad for you food”- it hasn’t always been laden w/transfats, fragrances and extra calories from “biggie” deals etc.
A regular hamburger, regular fries (in a little bag, not a huge box) and a 12 drink were common. Marketing tactics are horrible- weather it be by the fast food giants or food manufacturers. They are just as bad and will market anything that sells despite it’s effect on health and environment (remember Lunchables?)

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