I just can't believe this!

[jorjef]

Well if the toy is the major hook, try this.....I have a LARGE weekness for collecting....just about anything... You can go into just about any Mcd's and buy just the toy... no happy meal. I did it weekly for a long long time...lol I had a collection that would make kids pass out...lol..Well it was only time before my own kids thought it would be cool to rip open all the bags and line o'le dads Mcd's toys.... oh well... That day the hot wheels collection was hidden very well.. PASS THE WORD, JUST BUY THE TOY.....ya like that will work lol.

[globaldesigns]

Originally Posted by DiverDude

Ricky, Ricky.....they're not banning the Happy meal -all they're saying is stop using toys as 'kiddie crack'. The Happy meal isn't going anywhere -but it won't have a toy in it anymore.

Plus, while you argue that won't stop people currently buying Happy Meals, new kids are being born all the time and maybe if there's no toy, they won't be so drawn to START eating Happy Meals (and that's what Micky D is worried about).

Besides, like I said before, this goes way beyond burgers. Booze, smokes, drugs (prescription and recreational), Starbucks.....these are all things that, when consumed to excess, create problems. Problems for the consumer and society as a whole (through costs to the healthcare system). Yet these are all legal (except perhaps the recreational drugs but work with me here !).

And even if it DID step on someone's 'rights' somewhere, would you rather have an obese kid with his 'rights' in tact and in the hospital at age 12 for bariatric surgery (you wanna know how many tax dollars one of THOSE costs ?); or a relatively healthy kid with his nose 'out-of-joint' because there are no toys in a Happy Meal ?

I'm not in favour of losing civil liberties, but we have more liberties than we need and WAY more than we can handle. You want to censure the vote or tell me how many children I can have -we'll be talking ! But toys in some corporate giant's meal boxes !? Pffft..... we all have better things to do.

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I don't personally feel the toy is the hook, sure they may play with it, but they still eat the crap food, and why are they eating the crap food, because the parent took them their. Without the toy, they will still go. So who's fault is it? I don't think it is the fast food chains.

Instead of governments banning silly things like a toy or a fast food item, they need to look at why girls are starting to menstrate as early as 7 years old, why are they maturing at that age. It isn't the fast food I am worried about, it is all the chemicals in every food item. They use steriods to get the meat to your table in record time, they use chemicals to get pretty looking vegetables to us. GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO REALLY SPEND THEIR TIME TACKLING THIS AREA OF OUR FOOD CHAIN.

[DiverDude]

Originally Posted by globaldesigns

GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO REALLY SPEND THEIR TIME TACKLING THIS AREA OF OUR FOOD CHAIN.

You can say that again !

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by DiverDude

The issue is giving TOYS with the meals. No one said the kids menu was going away or anything like that.

The point is that the TOY is what the kids want and the parents put better judgement aside for sake of the toy. While this may sound ridiculous to any decent parent, you'd be amazed how well the toy works in getting families to Mc D's for a Happy Meal.

I still don't understand the logic. you order a grilled cheese happy meal with sliced apples instead of fries and get a apple juice and a toy.. whats wrong with that?

Steve

[DiverDude]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

I still don't understand the logic. you order a grilled cheese happy meal with sliced apples instead of fries and get a apple juice and a toy.. whats wrong with that?

Steve

Nothing.

Since it would likely meet the guidelines, the toy is allowed.