On Nov 4, 6:21*pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
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> > "Mr. Bill" > wrote in message
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> >> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:31:44 -0700, sf > wrote:
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> >>>I think they already do that. *I've heard that you can go in and buy
> >>>just the toy, no food purchase is required.
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> >> WHO is driving these fat kids to the restaurant?......better
> >> yet....who is in control? * *The most underused word in a fat kids
> >> vocabulary....NO.
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> >> ...and I meant that in the nicest way...bless your chubby little
> >> heart.
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> > Careful, Bill! *You're going to be accused of being a "fatophobe". *I was
> > accused of that back around 2000 when I complained about people at work
> > purposefully gaining weight so they could qualify for gastric bypass
> > surgery at a whopping $33,000. *And one guy disregarded the post-op
> > instructions for a liquid only then soft food diet and downed several
> > cheeseburgers and a pizza the week he was released from the hospital. *I'm
> > not a fatophobe. *I'm against people who abused the system.
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> > ou are what you eat. *I try to eat healthy and at least when cooking at
> > home I know what goes into what I eat. *Fast food isn't included in my
> > diet. *I'm not saying I've never eaten fast food, of course I have. *Just
> > not recently or regularly. *Folks at work wondered why their paychecks
> > were so slim. They were spending half of it on lunch every week, bringing
> > in a McD's bag.
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> > Lose the toys? *How about they close the playgrounds at McD's and BK's?
> > Kids probably wouldn't want to go there if there were no toys and no
> > playground facilities. *Let the parents take their kids to the park to run
> > around instead. *With homemade sandwiches.
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> I do not think fast food in and of itself is a bad thing. *Yes, some fast
> food places do not offer any healthy options at all. *McDonalds and Burger
> King do offer raw apples in various forms. *And Wendy's has mandarin
> oranges. *They also have side salads. *Perhaps not organic fare,. but they
> are options. *Perhaps not a meal either, but at least they are enough to
> tide you over until you can get to some real food.

The bigger problem with the Happy Meal is that they bundle caloric
beverages (sugar sodas) into it. The rest is the stupidity of the
parents, many of whom reject fast food, but who still keep
hydrogenated fats in their pantries. My biggest problem with kids'
meal toys is crappy, Chinese made toys that just go straight to
landfills.

--Bryan