More Fruit, Fewer Fries: Michelle Obama Might Have Taken the ‘Happy’ Out of McDonald’s Happy Meals
- Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:08pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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A child could once feel excitement over hearing a parent utter those beautiful words: “honey, we‘re going to McDonald’s for a Happy Meal.” But those carefree days are over and that sense of childhood wonderment and abandon is about to be seriously curbed by a new McDonald’s policy that cuts an order of fries in half, throws apple slices, raisins and pineapple chunks around as if they were ketchup, and just generally makes Happy Meals “healthier,” and, less happy. And even though the apples are reportedly not well-received by customers, guess what? McDonald’s is forcing the fruit in its Happy Meals anyway. Whether you want it or not.
And what’s more, politics, perhaps even the White House itself, could be to blame.
The changes reportedly come on the heels of an outright Happy Meal toy ban in San Francisco and threats that other cities and counties will follow suit. The toys, allege legislators, are McDonald’s way of luring children to indulge in the unhealthy treat. Yes, health advocates, who‘ve long seen fast food as the bane of the nation’s existence, have gotten their way yet again.
So after all the years of satisfied customers “lovin’ it,” it is political pressure, including First Lady Michelle Obama’s war on childhood obesity, that reportedly forced McDonald’s hands. CNN reports that Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University, said McDonald’s had to change its menu because of political and community “pressures”:
“I see this as a positive development,” he said. “The companies have recognized the pressures from the public, the community and parents to offer healthier choices for children. They’ve begun to respond. There have been criticisms of what they serve children for many years. In the past years, the pressure has intensified, the White House concern about childhood obesity is one source of that pressure.”
And not skipping a beat, the First Lady has already commended McDonald’s for making “progress today by providing more fruit and reducing the calories in its Happy Meals. I’ve always said that everyone has a role to play in making America healthier, and these are positive steps toward the goal of solving the problem of childhood obesity.”
According to reports, the fast food giant will offer apple slices, half-portions of french fries and the beverages of choice will now include 1% milk and fat-free chocolate milk.
Ironically, since introduced, the apple slices are apparently not even popular in the Happy Meals with only 11 percent of customers — be them children or adults — opting for the fruit. Regardless, McDonald’s is making the fruit a default item in the Happy Meal.
So whether you want apples or not, you are going to get them.
Worse still:
“McDonald’s has been engaging suppliers, government and non-government organizations to determine ways it could play a role in helping society address today’s obesity concerns,” the company’s press release said.
Engaging government and non-government organizations? We are still talking about a burger-joint, whose mascot is a red-nosed clown, right?
Still, whether driven by PR or genuine concern for children’s welfare, McDonald’s is seemingly gun ho for the healthy changes, promising to launch even more menu revisions including additional fruit and vegetable options over…the next ten years? CNN writes:
The fast food giant also pledged to reduce sodium 15% across the board in its menu by 2015. It recently reduced sodium by 10% in most of its chicken offerings, including the Chicken McNuggets.
McDonald’s also vowed to reduce added sugars, saturated fat and calories through varied portion sizes, reformulations and innovations by 2020.
“Reformulations” and “innovations” are perhaps not words one likes to associate with appealing, tasty foods.
But in the end, kids can rest assured, sort of — in an effort to prevent children from getting too confused when being presented with the almost unrecognizable Happy Meals, McDonald’s claims the staple burger or McNugget of choice will essentially remain the same.
You can watch a local news report explaining the healthier Happy Meals below:
McDonald’s: another casualty in the Nanny State’s war on personal choice, or is the fast food giant bringing this on themselves? Will the new, and perhaps not improved, McDonald’s menu affect your decision to patronize the long-time burger institution?
Remember when? Take a walk down Happy Meal memory lane:
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Comments (270)
politicaljunkie09
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:58pmThank you, Michelle Obama. We are too stupid to count calories ourselves, thank GOD we have you!!!
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 12:34amNow we will have to super size and order on the side.
Report Post »Just like everything else the Obamas want, it costs us more money!
The morons probably don’t realize we can super size.
And don’t realize that we know that we had that choice before the White House porker got involved…………..
Rational Man
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 12:41amWhats next?….Forcing the women to have plastic surgery on their eyelids? Forced lyposuction? Government run ‘fat farms’ for delinquent overweight kids?
(the eyelid thing is from N. Korea)
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 1:11amMcDonald’s food is crap anyways…
GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 1:11amGuess what Michelle Obama, I am going to go to a Mc D’s at least once a day and I am going to buy the first fat kid I see a Big Mac and Fries. Just to spite you. Stay away from our food. You know what then I am off to Jack in the Box and so on and so on. I know how much you love your fries so I will make it a Super Size Fries just for you. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Or should I say got a light hubby.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 1:21amI ate whatever I wanted my entire life. I ate 2 meals for school lunches because they were too small for me. I drank LOTS of milk. At 13, I weighed about 120 and I could bench press 180 lbs. By the time I was 18, I was eating 5 or 6 large meals a day, I weighed 165 lbs and bench pressed 300 lbs.
I ate at McDonald’s and anyplace that happened to be nearby. Full-time work and college, I was always pressed for time, but I managed to stay fit without government’s help.
In fact, because of the government, unemployment has skyrocketed and I can no longer afford health insurance. The government has worsened my life increasingly over the years.
SpiderPig
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 1:39amInstead of trying to change our eating habits and to prevent us from making our own choices that will affect the health of our bodies, I propose that the government could save a lot of money if they would create a healthy food alternative that we would all be required to eat…perhaps something green…Soylent Green…that’s it, force us…I mean make us…errrr, provide us with Soylent Green.
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 2:04amSend the fat bat a french fry.
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 3:24amsTILL GET BURGERS AND fRIES! THE KIDS NEED FRUIT, and milk?
Report Post »I don’t drink milk, it’s bad for you………………….But laws for this stuff ?…………………..
How many people think We have To many laws NOW ?
HankScram
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 4:23amP.S. Boneheads, McDonalds made this decision to include fruit. It has nothing to do with the government. Anyone like the fact that they can take their kids to a place that serves junk food – and now they have a choice to have something a little healthier? Have we conservatives really become so dense that we can’t even appreciate this?
Report Post »HankScram
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 4:28amWho feeds their kids the junk at McDonalds? Lazy folk who don’t teach their kids what every Christian should know – our body is our temple. I wouldn’t give my kid a bag of greasy fries – even to spite the first lady.
Report Post »Pucci
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 4:38amTry This- take a mcdonalds burger out of its bun, close your eyes and smell….. I kid you not- it smells like a wet dog.
Report Post »H2OBoardem
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 6:40amI guess she wants all the fries for herself.
Report Post »usnavyflyer
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 6:51amThey don’t have a choice to get something healthier, Hankscram. You get the apples and smaller fries whether you want it or not. And the fact that cities are cracking down on them, and the government is on a smear campaign doesn’t mean they are influencing this choice makes you either blind or ignorant.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 7:27amIf the companies recognized pressure from the PUBLIC, they wouldn’t be taking the fries out. this is bending to the government out of fear of repercussions. If it happens in TX, I‘ll boycott McD’s. We have a Burger King nearby.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 7:32am“Hey everybody look! Apples in celophane! Yummy”!
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 7:56amIt time to appeal the commerce clause and take it back to where it was meant to be. the sole purpose of the clause was to stop interstate tariffs and taxes for material moving through states.
Report Post »Washington has used thios to control every aspect of commerce their actions are far from anything Constitutional as the play a rigged game where the courts uphold Unconstitutional actions as the court and the governement are two parts of the same evil. The country needs a reboot
hifi74
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 7:57am“I see this as a positive development,” he said. “The companies have recognized the pressures from the public, the community and parents to offer healthier choices for children
Really? I don’t see them offering healthier choices. This isn’t giving the parents a choice! This is forcing it, more big brother deciding that I’m too stupid as a parent to decide for my kids. Despite both of my kids being healthy active kids I’m too stupid to make choices for them. Hey Michelle, you worry about your own damn kids and let me worry about mine thanks, now butt out.
Report Post »mycomet123
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:28amMcDonald’s is not the problem. It’s lack of exercise & common sense. P.S. To the Blaze–I don‘t know why but sometimes when I’m pulling up articles/stories to read I get locked into a financial Armagedon(?) broadcast, also my PC is telling me I’m going to p/u virsus & computer goes into lockdown?. Is anyone else having problems?.
Report Post »goobert
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:30amShould make bun smaller and add more meat. That hamburger looks flat in that picture.
Report Post »1proudAmerican
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:48amDid anyone see the woman on Bill O’Reilly last night talking about a tax on junk food? She said it’s ok to tax people who eat “food that’s bad for you” because we all have to pay for their medical treatments for obesity-related illnesses. She should be the spokesperson for “liberalism is a mental disorder”. They just don’t get it that they have no right to get involved in what we eat, wear, drive, etc.
Report Post »Miguelito
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:54amIf McDonalds caves, I will never go there again! You can take that to a bank!
Report Post »Sage0925
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 12:09pmDoesn’t matter…most of the kids will chunk the fruit in the trash anyway. If you want your kid to eat healthy, WTF are you taking him/her to McDonald’s for, anyhow?
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 12:22pmThis looks more like a payment for the Obamacare waiver which McDonald’s received than a concern for the vulnable chilrens.
Report Post »tankyjo
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 2:30pmHow did we get by without her? How will we manage when she is gone? LORD help us. TEA!!!!
Report Post »tankyjo
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 2:33pmMichele to the rescue!!!! At least till Al Gore discovers her carbon footprint. TEA!!!
Report Post »Chrono_Sleuth
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 2:51pmThis makes no sense.
1) Who goes to McDonalds to eat healthy food? Especially at the cost it is now compared to just three years ago.
2) Kids NEED fat. NEED it. People forget, the brain is made of fat, kids grow. What they don’t need more of are excess carbs, which is now the diet staple of almost every restaurant.
3) Fat kid? Exercise. Videogames are fine, TV is fine, but everything in moderation. Send the kids out to play, or if you’re unable to take them out, build something in the backyard, or befriend neighbors and work out plans to get them out and about.
4) What scares me even more is the idea they’re going to reduce sugars, calories, etc. for all meals. Are they planning on reducing the size, or are they adding other things to replace it? Everytime something is added to food to replace what we supposedly don’t want, it always ends up being far worse for us than the stuff we sought to avoid. Like Light Mayo…I get sick on that stuff now, so I have to use Mayo, just less of it.
5) What’s even worse is the idea that they claim the people of the US are demanding this. Why didn’t the blaze address that? It’s a very very small sector of the population and certain sections of the government, combined with news to enforce this notion and make it seem like the voice and desire is there.
6) Last point, and it’s a repeat…kids need fat and exercise. If they’re not absorbing their fat, cut out sugar and non-veggie carbs.
Report Post »MCAinSTL
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 2:44pmNo big deal, I’ll just stop buying Happy Meals for my 3 kids, as they like fries, and have the “right to choose” them.
Report Post »LibertariansUnite
Posted on July 28, 2011 at 4:48pm/incoming sarcasm
I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT OUR FUTURE!
You know, I have been thinking, and this whole currency, free choice, Liberty thing, maybe it is overrated?
I really cant wait until I can work at my government designated job, and collect my food and water rations at the end of a hard working day!
I also am so glad that people are now listening to experts, telling them how to live, because I HATE making decisions for myself, I really wish someone would just hold my hand in this temporary existance.
Thanks Big Daddy government, what would I have done without you?
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:57pmShe has taken the word Happy out of the USA
Report Post »ecurbyy
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 12:47amFor the first time in her adult life she is happy with McDonalds. I’ll bet she has some stocks in apples. I never knew I was capable of such negative thoughts and feelings towards a president and his wife.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 12:53amSOOOOOOOOOOO right! She and her hubby are not only trying to stamp out the word “happy”, they are doing their best to stamp out the emotion in the US. Doing a pretty good job of it too!! That is the only job they have accomplished!!
Report Post »101
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:56pmMy kid wants a Happy meal w/a toy dang it…Pelosi has gone off the deep end!
Report Post »GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 1:29amGuess what Michelle Obama, I am going to go to a Mc D’s at least once a day and I am going to buy the first fat kid I see a Big Mac and Fries. Just to spite you. Stay away from our food. You know what then I am off to Jack in the Box and so on and so on. I know how much you love your fries so I will make it a Super Size Fries just for you. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Or should I say got a light hubby.
Can somebody tell me where I am going wrong here?
Report Post »101
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 1:34am@GBMBulletsSKNRD
Report Post »LMAO
82dAirborne
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:55pmI really wish I hadn’t seen this story! Now at 11pm I am trying to decide between a Whopper and a Big Mac. Leanin’ toward the Whopper.
Report Post »politicaljunkie09
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:59pmI urge you to indulge! If only Michelle were there to witness your sin, bahaha.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 12:04am@politicaljunkie09
Aha! I will blame all future (maybe past) health problems on YOU. So two Whoppers, oninion rings(LG) and a full strength Coke it is.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 1:27amsend her the wrapper
Report Post »101
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 1:37amWhataburger is open 24/7 now. Best burger and fries anytime day or night!
Report Post »In The Right
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:54pmGee, our First “Lady” (a tranny) can eat french fries with gravy while in Africa on OUR dime yet she and her husband the Communist Chump think they can dictate what retailers and the taxpaying public (read: American CITIZENS) can eat?
I guess fast food restaurants better stock up on coconuts, bananas, okra, and watermelons if this silly legislation goes into affect
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 2:05amDid you mean communist chimp?
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 4:03amI will automatically boycott any company that obeys Moochelle Obama. She is poison to the USA.
Report Post »GRAMPA-D-NH
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 7:22amVery disappointed McDonalds buckled. This corrupt, marxist administration has put us on a path for state involvement in private business with the bail outs and cozy selective relationships, like GE. Those who cooperate, get the favors. Those that don’t, will get destroyed.
Why anyone would listen to Moochele about eating healthy boggles the mind. Joe Camel would have more credibility being the spokesman for an anti-smoking campaign.
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:53pmExcuse me Mrs. Obama, but haven’t you, in the past, ordered food for yourself and your children, that would clog the arteries? Haven’t you, in the past, told us, “If I want french fries at 2am, I’m going to get them”? Why do you shovel gobs of high calorie, fat laden, loads of food down your gullet and not see your own b.s.? DO NOT TELL ME WHAT I CAN AND CANNOT EAT WHEN YOU GORGE YOURSELF ON TAMALAS, NACHOS, KOBI BEEF AND LOBSTER! Get the hell out of my life and the lives of all Americans. I pee in your general direction.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 2:07amtotally
Report Post »bondroid
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:21amB.S. standing for “back side”?? : )
Report Post »Belle
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:49pmAs a mother of four non-obese children one of which doesn’t like french fries (yes she’s a freak) this is just about the stupidist thing McDonalds could have done! My kids probably only get a happy meal once or twice a year as I am both cheap & I don’t mind cooking for my family. I really, really, really don’t like that woman they call the first lady much she has mean eyes & she needs to get the frick out of my life!!!!!! Guess we’ll start ordering from the dollar menu & mixing & matching things…suck on that Ms. Obama!
Report Post »REDBLOODEDHUSKER
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 12:58amBelle, you are spot on. This will do NOTHING to curb ANYTHING. If people want fries and a big mac, they’ll find a way to order it. if kids whine for a cheeseburger and fries, the parents will find a way to buy it for them. Typical big gov’t lunacy to think they can force us into all the divisions THEY think are OK. Cass “Mr. nudge” Sunstein, all over again.
Report Post »auntmoxie.com
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:48pmMy bet is that it will be just like “free” school-lunch programs: the kids they’re designed to help toss them away. The market spoke: only 11% wanted apples. I don‘t know what’s more sad: that the government pressures private business to this extent… or that they eventually cave.
Report Post »REDBLOODEDHUSKER
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 1:10amHaha, exactly! Kids take their free lunch, and throw most of it away, then just sneak junk food in and eat that, or don’t eat lunch at all.
Sad, that McD’s sees that 11% and chooses to cave to politics instead of market demand. Would make more sense to keep fries as default and offer the apple slices as a alternative.
Report Post »KingDork
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:47pmAh goodie the nazi’s in office are tightening the leashes on our necks… they don’t really care about the health of children, if they did they would put less restrictions and laws that makes it hard for them to go outside and play. This is just another excuse for them to control us more and bring this country into a socialist cesspool.
Report Post »264win
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:44pmHello Mom I just hung with the White House Michelle said that I can stay overnight at Marys house tonight even though you said I could not.
I also told Michelle that you are making and selling food baskets for cash and not paying the 89% federal taxes.
She said that she will send over the IRS for a complete audit with fines and posible prison time.
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:58pmAll the power to them. Just as long as they keep making the qtr 1/4, Big Mac and fries, I really dont care. Let them throw their money and apples away. Just as long as they can continue (for now) to offer what made Mc D’s their money, I really dont care.
Report Post »BeingThere
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:43pmDon’t you just love it when FAT people tell you how to eat healthy. Maybe that cow Moochelle should start a war against communists, or maybe even fat communists? Nah, all of them!!!
Report Post »Browncoat359
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:40pmWhy is it bad that they want to make this healthier? I fail to understand the purpose of offering an extremely small fry AND the apples at the same time,it’s idiotic.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:46pmMO wants all the fries for herself!!!
Report Post »drumsalot5
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:40pmI go to the arches so i can feel my arteries clog and my heart speed up. . . Because it‘s my choice as an American to eat myself into a sodium and cholesterol coma if that’s what I want to do. . . And while I’d always look out more for my kids in this respect and make sure they eat well, there’s nothing wrong with an occasional nutrition free meal as a treat. . . DC needs to get their dirty claws off the rights and responsibilities of parents and get out of my fridge. . .
They’ve turned the Happy Meal into the Crappy Meal. . .
Report Post »PapaJohannesPatriot
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:35pmDoesn’t affect me. I prefer Burger King anyway.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 12:56amWhoa!…When was the last time you went to BK? I went there the other day, and it will be the last time I go there…….maybe ever. Their portions got smaller and prices are up. The specialty burger I got was lousy and with small fries and small drink, it was over 8 bucks! OH YA, they changed the fries too!…. One of the reasons I liked them…………
Want a good burger, go to the Outback and get an Outbacker!
Report Post »edubble21
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:34pmUmmm….Mrs. Obama, I don’t tell you what to eat, so please stop telling us (or in this case, trying to force us) what we should eat. And seeing how your husband can‘t seem to order anything less than a chili dog smothered in cheese sauce whenever he’s out of the White House, I think it‘s safe to say that even your own family isn’t exactly ‘thrilled’ about these new menu choices. So, please do us all a favor, and leave us alone. If I want a Big Mac, I get a Big Mac. I don’t want to be lectured to about how “unhealthy” it is, and I certainly don’t want my options to be limited. If you want sprouts and tree bark, then by all means, you can have sprouts and tree bark.
Though, Mrs. Obama, I certainly have a hard time believing that you regularly eat this crap, yes…I called it crap…that you suggest we eat. We all have seen what you ordered when you took a trip to Colorado (Short Ribs, I believe), and how you ordered some nice, deep fried, “Fat cakes” when you were in South Africa. And guess what? I don’t care that you ate that stuff…and you also don’t hear me telling you what I think you should eat. But I do find the level of hypocrisy to be quite telling. So, to wrap up my rant, please, for the Love of Pete, please leave McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Rally’s…you get the drift…….alone.
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:32pmThis woman takes happy and slam dunks it into the boilers!
Report Post »beverlee
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:32pmSo…they’re going to force the apples on you whether you want them or not? How about people (such as myself) who are allergic to apples? Would they place peanuts on the happy meal knowing of peanut allergies? I think not.
Can I sue? Will they give me a discount for not being able to eat the apples? How about I just call it a day and not partake in mcdonalds at all.
Report Post »BlazingBlaze
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:29pmUp yours, McDonalds. I think people are just going to quit buying them, or else will also buy a small fries with them.
Report Post »ICANHANDLETHETRUTH
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:21pmWhy does the government have their fingers in McDonalds ??????? Are parents to freaking stupid to decide what their kids eat ?????? Do you really think by throwing in a few apple slices [ probably from china where the fruit is probably full of pestacides ] will make a big differance ?????? LMAO Wake up America !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:30pmso now we know how Mcdonalds got their health care waiver ,they had to obey the government,or they would have to pay more for health care per employee.just one of many companies that are willing to sell the souls to save a dollar, they have to know that when you give an inch to the government,they will take everything,but yet they continue to play the game and support a government that is willing to destroy this great country.well,Mcdonalds has not got any of money for years,and will not any time soon.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:37pm1) They have nothing better to do. (Don’t pay attention to the 3-5 wars, debt, deficit, job climate or the future of the Nation)
Report Post »2) A lot of the young parents……YES.
3) Of course it won’t but that “group” of people will be very pleased with themselves at the expense of the majority of us.
4) Don’t worry – your kid will get another childhood…right? No wait a minute……………..
ecurbyy
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 12:52amNever before, and please God, never again.
Report Post »moriarty70
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 8:39amThe only direct involvment from a government was the city of San Fran setting their personal standard within their city limits. After that, McDonalds has simply looked at trends, seen more of a “social awareness” about healthier eating for the youth and decided to capitalize on it. They had two choices, be stubborn or change early.
I see no government intervention here, only a business choosing to follow social trends.
Report Post »mrmikejohnson
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:19pmPeople don’t go to McDonalds for nutrional value. They go there for an occasional treat. I’d get Burger King or McDonalds about 5 times a year as a kid. That’s not unhealthy.
What‘s unhealthy is the bad parents who let their kids pork up and the bad government that’s trying to make citizens dependent them.
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:42pmIt use to be when your dad would get paid on Friday he would take the family out for a treat, now when the welfare check comes in on the 3rd, and after mom gets her weave and her nails done the rest of the month is fare game.
Report Post »davecoolworld
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:19pmNow we know how they got the waiver.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:18pmNext mission: Teach adults how to fill in ballots.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:17pmthe less fries for everyone,means the more for her. do as i say,not as i do, only communist dictators rule this way.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:16pmThis is too funny. Michelle Obama tells kids to eat fruit while she shovels handfuls of fries in her mouth.
Report Post »ErinLindsey
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:11pmGreat, the Happy Meal of my childhood (and my first job after graduating high school) has been ruined.
It’s now the UnHappy Meal.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:16pmIf I were in a position to do so I would: Buy a bunch of little cheap toys (the kind you used to get in the old Happy Meal) & the largest bottle of Hershey’s syrup I could find. I would then stand outside of a MickyD’s and give some of each to every kid who had his parent’s permission!
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 11:19pm282,with this communist ruling party,he just might get shot for giving food and gifts away, you know the democraps want to tax everything and control everyone.
Report Post »GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on July 27, 2011 at 1:19amGuess what Michelle Obama, I am going to go to a Mc D’s at least once a day and I am going to buy the first fat kid I see a Big Mac and Fries. Just to spite you. Stay away from our food. You know what then I am off to Jack in the Box and so on and so on. I know how much you love your fries so I will make it a Super Size Fries just for you. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Or should I say got a light hubby.
Get it, got it, good.
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