No Toy for You! San Francisco Bans Happy Meal Toys

Posted Nov 3rd 2010 9:30AM by Kevin Kersten
Filed under: McDonald's (MCD), Burger King Hldgs (BKC)

In a move sure to be incomprehensible to children in the San Francisco Bay area, free toys included in McDonald's (MCD) "happy meals" have been banned by the thoughtful and considerate San Francisco Board of Supervisors. I wonder if the supervisors will be on hand in December to explain this move to little customers first hand.

It seems incomprehensible that any politician would steal toys from children, but the move effectively does just that unless the meal meets certain health requirements. I understand that childhood obesity and proper nutrition are important issues, but it seems to me that parents are more qualified to handle them than a city's board of supervisors.

I am not a lawyer, but I feel the kids need someone to stick up for them here. For their sake, I hope that McDonald's marketing and legal departments do some swift thinking and find a loop hole in the ban. Maybe they could sell the "happy meal" toys and give away a burger, fries and drink with them? Maybe they could reduce the price of the "happy meal" by one cent and then charge one cent for the toy. Maybe they need a new marketing campaign launched next April 1 that includes an adult "happy meal," featuring a burger laced with a little marijuana (or a free joint) to remind the San Fransisco Board of Supervisors what individual personal responsibility means in a way that they might understand. I bet that would be a hit in the Bay Area!

Other fast-food outlets, like Burger King (BKC), are also affected by the restrictions. It just seems so wrong to put kids at the center of this controversy. And to steal the toys!

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11-03-2010 @ 11:42AM

Kevin said...

It kills me how so called "liberals" are all about letting people do whatever they want to do...smoke pot, gay marriage, aborting children, illegal aliens voting, etc. etc. So why is it that they can't let people do whatever they want to do when it comes to eating or smoking cigarettes, etc. If you are really liberal, let people make their own decisions when it comes to their own lives and childrens lives. This is just more of the elite democrats telling American citizens that they are too dumb to make their own decisions. They are trying to take over our lives, including deciding how our money is spent. If you work hard and are successful they will take money from you and give it to the people that don't work hard.