We weren't poor but growing up McDonald's was like a once a month thing and road trip food and it was always a treat. Just give the little tykes a small fry and soda once in a while, it aint gonna kill them.
They do it to trick parents into thinking it's healthy(er) and it's okay to feed your kids it more often. The problem was never the tallow fried french fries or the 16oz "small" soda. The problem is parents who take their kids to McD every other day instead of cooking them homecooked meals.
I don't have data or statistics to back it up but I bet the parents who regularly feed their kids the new happy meal twice a week feeds their kids all sorts of other garbage as well. And the kids who eat happy meals twice a week most likely leaves the apple slices untouched like the touchpads of the steam deck.
Kids are resilient, my post was in reply to adults ordering them and an adult complaining about milk and apples vs a turbo jumbo fatass fry package and a soda.
they really should take a page from old snl and just make a fatass sized meal option and be done with it... heck if its cheap enough it may be able to be ate for a few days if you like that kinda thing
We weren't poor but growing up McDonald's was like a once a month thing and road trip food and it was always a treat. Just give the little tykes a small fry and soda once in a while, it aint gonna kill them.
They do it to trick parents into thinking it's healthy(er) and it's okay to feed your kids it more often. The problem was never the tallow fried french fries or the 16oz "small" soda. The problem is parents who take their kids to McD every other day instead of cooking them homecooked meals.
I don't have data or statistics to back it up but I bet the parents who regularly feed their kids the new happy meal twice a week feeds their kids all sorts of other garbage as well. And the kids who eat happy meals twice a week most likely leaves the apple slices untouched like the touchpads of the steam deck.
Kids are resilient, my post was in reply to adults ordering them and an adult complaining about milk and apples vs a turbo jumbo fatass fry package and a soda.
they really should take a page from old snl and just make a fatass sized meal option and be done with it... heck if its cheap enough it may be able to be ate for a few days if you like that kinda thing