It's no better or more effective than other advertising. My kid gets plenty of real toys--the cheap crap McDonald's gives away with their food really doesn't matter to her. She usually throws it away by the time we get home. Taking the toy away on a government level is just another ridiculous nanny-state act that won't have the intended results.
San Francisco Bans The Happy Meal
- 04/11/2010 04:00:12 AM
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Is't it nice that we have the Food Gestapo to tell us what we can and can't eat? 
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- 04/11/2010 04:46:04 AM
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- 04/11/2010 04:46:04 AM
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It doesn't say anything about what you can and can't eat, it just says you can't be rewarded with
- 04/11/2010 11:25:31 AM
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For someone ostensibly obsessed with Germany, you sure enjoy trivializing the Holocaust. 
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- 04/11/2010 11:56:49 PM
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- 04/11/2010 11:56:49 PM
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The term has also come to mean an overly authoritarian and repressive organization
- 05/11/2010 05:54:45 AM
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now, they only really banned the toy that comes with the happy meal if it doesn't meet guidelines
- 04/11/2010 06:32:46 AM
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the government should not have to right to say how I feed my child
- 04/11/2010 01:37:41 PM
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I find feeding happy meals to children far more appalling.
- 04/11/2010 01:39:13 PM
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the government limits the kind of advertising your child sees during saturday morning cartoons
- 04/11/2010 03:36:47 PM
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that isn't even close to the same thing
- 04/11/2010 04:15:09 PM
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Don't forget the removal of more and more activity.
- 05/11/2010 12:32:03 AM
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yeah that is why kids are getting fat
- 05/11/2010 04:26:38 AM
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wow, ever consider that political leanings have nothing to do with my opinion 
- 05/11/2010 11:59:15 AM
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- 05/11/2010 11:59:15 AM
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your the one who wanted to bring your politics into it
- 05/11/2010 12:23:08 PM
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uhm, what? I said no such thing.
- 05/11/2010 12:33:22 PM
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it is exactly the same thing you're just trying to dance around the issue
- 05/11/2010 06:31:26 AM
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saying something does not make it true
- 05/11/2010 12:17:00 PM
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I wouldn't touch the metric system with a 1.038m pole *NM*
- 04/11/2010 10:47:51 AM
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The law is just fighting a small symptom of a much bigger problem
- 04/11/2010 11:24:19 AM
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yes
- 04/11/2010 11:47:47 AM
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But they are confronted with a lot of idiot parents that create a lot of idiot children
- 05/11/2010 08:18:54 AM
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100% agree, in respect to this and other related subjects.
- 04/11/2010 01:42:32 PM
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I don't think the toy is that big of a draw for kids, really.
- 04/11/2010 05:11:10 PM
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The toys were a definite draw for mine
- 05/11/2010 08:20:05 AM
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Perhaps
- 05/11/2010 07:41:17 PM
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You're using yourself as an example at an age when the effect will be less anyway
- 06/11/2010 07:11:11 AM
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Not a big fan of that decision, either. As for introducing the metric system: would be past time.
- 04/11/2010 12:01:41 PM
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- 04/11/2010 12:01:41 PM
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Here in Aus we have fruit bags, and water etc. options for Happy Meals
- 04/11/2010 12:32:16 PM
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The healthier variety is starting to become more common in kids meals.
- 04/11/2010 12:50:44 PM
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milk or juice have ALWAYS been options, and every mcdonalds i've been to has offered the apples. *NM*
- 04/11/2010 01:36:34 PM
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Too bad milk and juice are horrible choices too. 
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- 04/11/2010 10:54:36 PM
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- 04/11/2010 10:54:36 PM
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uhmm, bullshit.
- 04/11/2010 11:39:09 PM
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Juice is nothing but sugar and milk as healthy is debatable.
- 05/11/2010 12:37:34 AM
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juice is not just sugar.
- 05/11/2010 02:11:12 AM
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Here. not the best source, but assuming the nutritionist's analyzer was correct...
- 05/11/2010 02:24:18 AM
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I'm not talking about juicing vegetables and fresh fruit.
- 05/11/2010 03:06:54 AM
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no it was not clear. You merely said "Juice"
- 05/11/2010 03:16:01 AM
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Milk is delicious. And it (when low-fat/skim) isn't actively bad for you.
- 05/11/2010 03:33:53 AM
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I know, but...just...EW.
- 05/11/2010 03:43:49 AM
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Agreed, as long as it's treated the right way (i.e. not the American way). *NM*
- 05/11/2010 09:56:16 AM
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- 05/11/2010 09:56:16 AM
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Please elaborate.
- 05/11/2010 01:27:45 PM
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I remember the first time I came to Northern America (Canada, then) and tried drinking milk...
- 05/11/2010 04:44:01 PM
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You can get UHT milk
- 05/11/2010 04:47:53 PM
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Yeah, no doubt - you can get most anything in the US, but not necessarily easily.
- 05/11/2010 05:46:59 PM
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I live in a big enough city you can get pretty much anything you want
- 05/11/2010 07:02:44 PM
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How about the water?
- 05/11/2010 06:24:09 PM
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I remember when I lived in Germany, I found warm, boxed milk to be one of the stranger oddities.
- 05/11/2010 08:57:42 PM
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so what do you think kids should drink?
- 05/11/2010 04:28:36 AM
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Do this little experiment. Please.
- 05/11/2010 12:53:49 PM
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that is why my kids drinks milk or water and not juice 99% of time
- 05/11/2010 02:03:08 PM
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Of course!
- 05/11/2010 02:11:35 PM
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I am fighting my wife right now over the yogurt in a tube crap
- 05/11/2010 02:35:41 PM
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Ha! You should do the sugar measuring with her. It'll show her how much is in that 1 little tube. *NM*
- 05/11/2010 04:00:55 PM
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they have the option but i'm sure that fruit has 1200mg of sodium in it somehow *NM*
- 05/11/2010 06:35:36 AM
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- 05/11/2010 06:35:36 AM
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I'm going to go set up the black market for happy meals in San Francisco.
- 04/11/2010 01:21:34 PM
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so in otherwords...Happy Meals in San Francisco don't come with toys anymore?
- 04/11/2010 01:38:03 PM
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This is pretty stupid.
- 04/11/2010 02:13:17 PM
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That part was a bit of hyperbole, I'm afraid. *NM*
- 04/11/2010 03:01:52 PM
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- 04/11/2010 03:01:52 PM
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Not very much!
- 04/11/2010 03:04:58 PM
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I feel so exploited now
- 04/11/2010 03:31:26 PM
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*dons detective hat* Very interesting...
- 04/11/2010 03:35:08 PM
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Re: *dons detective hat* Very interesting...
- 04/11/2010 03:57:04 PM
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Another hint
- 04/11/2010 04:02:54 PM
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Re: Another hint
- 04/11/2010 04:23:28 PM
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Ah, Republicans and sex scandals. They go together like beer and kebabs,
- 04/11/2010 04:29:19 PM
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All we need is for someone else to pay for our national defense and we can do it *NM*
- 04/11/2010 04:16:28 PM
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They should ban something which may have effect instead.
- 04/11/2010 02:27:05 PM
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The toys do have effect. It's a positive reinforcer to eating the meal.
- 04/11/2010 10:57:49 PM
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What a bunch of morons.
- 04/11/2010 06:45:31 PM
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these are the same people who keep sending Pelosi back year after year *NM*
- 04/11/2010 06:49:16 PM
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I accidentally posted this in the wrong spot. I reposted below to the original thread.
- 04/11/2010 11:22:32 PM
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- 04/11/2010 11:22:32 PM
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Re:
- 05/11/2010 12:02:41 AM
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I'm not sure what your point is.
- 05/11/2010 12:42:14 AM
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That fast food is not inherently bad/unhealthy.
- 05/11/2010 01:16:51 AM
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Re: That fast food is not inherently bad/unhealthy.
- 05/11/2010 04:17:27 AM
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In that case: Yes, there's always a new meat sack/flesh puppet around the next corner. *NM*
- 05/11/2010 09:38:57 PM
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Many here don't seem to understand the purpose of the toy.
- 05/11/2010 12:43:27 AM
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kids of the happy meal age should not be deciding what they get to eat
- 05/11/2010 04:37:43 AM
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Re: kids of the happy meal age should not be deciding what they get to eat
- 05/11/2010 06:27:21 PM
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without a doubt parents need to be aware of marketing used to influence their kids
- 05/11/2010 07:29:06 PM
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Your overly-simplified psychology is wrong
- 05/11/2010 01:58:55 PM
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raw milk is banned because of the potential of illness.
- 05/11/2010 06:20:01 PM
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You miss my point (or helped me make it)
- 05/11/2010 07:58:59 PM
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because raw milk SALE AND DISTRIBUTION does not only affect the individual.
- 05/11/2010 08:37:10 PM
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Excuse me, I have a degree in psychology and I have oversimplified nothing.
- 05/11/2010 06:42:24 PM
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Like others have said...
- 05/11/2010 08:03:09 PM
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if they wanted to have a real impact they would ban drive throughs *NM*
- 05/11/2010 04:39:52 AM
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Yet again government not letting people make their own decisions
- 10/11/2010 03:01:15 AM
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