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Julie Bove[_2_]

"J. Clarke" > wrote in message
in.local...
> In article >,
> says...
>>
>> "Ema Nymton" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > San Francisco banned fast food restaurants from giving away toys in
>> > Happy
>> > Meals, BK Kids Meal, etc. Will this make a difference, because the food
>> > is
>> > still being served as usual.
>>
>> I doubt if it will make a difference. We don't eat much fast food but
>> when
>> Angela was little, we did buy the toys. Most places would just sell you
>> the
>> toy for a dollar or two. The Burger King here where we tried to just buy
>> the toy said they could not do that and we would have to get the meal.
>> Perhaps if we spoke to a manager we would have been told otherwise, but I
>> didn't go in to get the toy. My dad did. He got a diet drink, threw out
>> the meal and gave the toy to my daughter.
>>
>> Thankfully she is old enough now that she doesn't want such toys.
>>
>> So what I am saying is for us, while the appeal *was* the toys, it in no
>> way
>> shape or form led us to eating that crappy food.
>
> On the other hand I remember a 26 year old PhD insisting that we go to
> McDonalds to get the happy meal with the Legos, back when that was the
> toy. And she did eat the food.

I have gotten the toys for myself. I used to like the Madame Alexander
dolls, Hello Kitty and Littlest Pet Shop. I don't get them any more. I
have enough junk in the house.