San Francisco passed legislation to change Happy Meals

So now for restaurantsto include toys in kids meals such as happy meals they need to meet these requirements.

To be allowed to offer an incentive -- like a toy, game or ticket -- with a children's meal,a restaurant:

• Must make sure the meal had no more than 600 calories and no more than 640 milligrams of salt.
• Fat makes up 35% or less of the total calories. Exceptions are egg, low-fat or reduced-fat cheese, peanut butter and nuts. Saturated fat can only comprise 10% of the total calories and trans fat only 0.5 grams.
• Must provide a half cup of fruits and a half cup of vegetables in each meal. Breakfast meals must have a half cup of fruit.

To me this sounds like an excellent move and I hope it spreads. Yes you can make they argument that the parents should be taking responsibility, but the problem is, as shown by rising obesity rates in children throughout the country, that they don't take said responsibility.oh and just for funsies

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But how many calories does the toy have?!

Holy crap. It's the Michelin Man!

This is so idiotic. No shock it comes from Frisco. How about you let the parents decide what their kid can or can't have and how many calories it can have. A Toy should have nothing to do with it.

i thought happy meals were supposed to be happy? who wants veg in your goddamn treat?

This is pathetic and I am 100 percent against this. Government trying to tell businesses what they can have in their meals. It is a bunch of BS. Parents should be responsible for this and not some legislation. If a parent can't be responsible than they shoulden't have a kid.

Absurdity of this legislation is the first thing that comes to mind, but I can't say that I care much.

This is pathetic and I am 100 percent against this. Government trying to tell businesses what they can have in their meals. It is a bunch of BS. Parents should be responsible for this and not some legislation. If a parent can't be responsible than he shoulden't have a kid. People are pathetictestfactor888

[QUOTE="testfactor888"]This is pathetic and I am 100 percent against this. Government trying to tell businesses what they can have in their meals. It is a bunch of BS. Parents should be responsible for this and not some legislation. If a parent can't be responsible than he shoulden't have a kid. People are patheticxaos

[QUOTE="testfactor888"]This is pathetic and I am 100 percent against this. Government trying to tell businesses what they can have in their meals. It is a bunch of BS. Parents should be responsible for this and not some legislation. If a parent can't be responsible than he shoulden't have a kid. People are patheticxaos

This is pathetic and I am 100 percent against this. Government trying to tell businesses what they can have in their meals. It is a bunch of BS. Parents should be responsible for this and not some legislation. If a parent can't be responsible than they shoulden't have a kid.

testfactor888

You think you are being witty but you fall flat sometimes. Read the remaining post I have in that thread and you will see where my opinion ended up on that topictestfactor888

McDonalds is going to hate this as its corporate policy that their food tastes the same anywhere you go

[QUOTE="testfactor888"]

This is pathetic and I am 100 percent against this. Government trying to tell businesses what they can have in their meals. It is a bunch of BS. Parents should be responsible for this and not some legislation. If a parent can't be responsible than they shoulden't have a kid.

Stanley09

McDonalds is going to hate this as its corporate policy that their food tastes the same anywhere you go

Cruse34

put my burger back down before I pimp slap your ass

After seeing that picture..when i have kids they ain't going no where near McDonald :|

put my burger back down before I pimp slap your ass

Fuhgeddabouditt

After seeing that picture..when i have kids they ain't going no where near McDonald :|

krazy-blazer

McDonalds isn't the reason that kid looks like a marshmellow.

Holy crap. It's the Michelin Man!

MediumBread

After seeing that picture..when i have kids they ain't going no where near McDonald :|

krazy-blazer

[QUOTE="krazy-blazer"]

After seeing that picture..when i have kids they ain't going no where near McDonald :|

Pirate700

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

[QUOTE="krazy-blazer"]

After seeing that picture..when i have kids they ain't going no where near McDonald :|

Serraph105

This is so idiotic. No shock it comes from Frisco. How about you let the parents decide what their kid can or can't have and how many calories it can have. A Toy should have nothing to do with it.

Pirate700

i thought happy meals were supposed to be happy? who wants veg in your goddamn treat?

gamedude2020

[QUOTE="testfactor888"]You think you are being witty but you fall flat sometimes. Read the remaining post I have in that thread and you will see where my opinion ended up on that topicxaos

personally I wouldn't mind having an easier source of healthy food on the go.

personally I wouldn't mind having an easier source of healthy food on the go.

Serraph105

[QUOTE="krazy-blazer"]

After seeing that picture..when i have kids they ain't going no where near McDonald :|

Pirate700

[QUOTE="Serraph105"]

personally I wouldn't mind having an easier source of healthy food on the go.

Pirate700

sounds good to me. Half the reason kids get that crap is because of the toy. Its good to know it is slightly less poisonous nowweezyfb

Neither of those kids in the pic are eating happy meals? And how does telling a private company what they can or can't sell work again?ferrari2001

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

[QUOTE="Serraph105"]

personally I wouldn't mind having an easier source of healthy food on the go.

Serraph105

Neither of those kids in the pic are eating happy meals? And how does telling a private company what they can or can't sell work again?ferrari2001

This is pathetic and I am 100 percent against this. Government trying to tell businesses what they can have in their meals. It is a bunch of BS. Parents should be responsible for this and not some legislation. If a parent can't be responsible than they shoulden't have a kid.

testfactor888

but parents have been proven to be irresponsible. With over 40% of Americans obese, and an even higher number of minors reaching obese levels, parents have, in my opinion, lost the right to treat their kids to fast food.

When parents can establish good eating habits for their kids and family, and the obesity epidemic goes down a significant amount, then we reserve the right to call this legislation bullcrap.

I say this as a fat, former resident of the SF Bay Area.

At the least, this will prove to be an insightful experiment.

you know I see an easy workaround with this. Just offer toys with adult meals and keep kids meals the same.

you know I see an easy workaround with this. Just offer toys with adult meals and keep kids meals the same.

Serraph105

[QUOTE="testfactor888"]

This is pathetic and I am 100 percent against this. Government trying to tell businesses what they can have in their meals. It is a bunch of BS. Parents should be responsible for this and not some legislation. If a parent can't be responsible than they shoulden't have a kid.

mrbojangles25

but parents have been proven to be irresponsible. With over 40% of Americans obese, and an even higher number of minors reaching obese levels, parents have, in my opinion, lost the right to treat their kids to fast food.

When parents can establish good eating habits for their kids and family, and the obesity epidemic goes down a significant amount, then we reserve the right to call this legislation bullcrap.

I say this as a fat, former resident of the SF Bay Area.

At the least, this will prove to be an insightful experiment.

[QUOTE="testfactor888"]

This is pathetic and I am 100 percent against this. Government trying to tell businesses what they can have in their meals. It is a bunch of BS. Parents should be responsible for this and not some legislation. If a parent can't be responsible than they shoulden't have a kid.

mrbojangles25

but parents have been proven to be irresponsible. With over 40% of Americans obese, and an even higher number of minors reaching obese levels, parents have, in my opinion, lost the right to treat their kids to fast food.

When parents can establish good eating habits for their kids and family, and the obesity epidemic goes down a significant amount, then we reserve the right to call this legislation bullcrap.

I say this as a fat, former resident of the SF Bay Area.

At the least, this will prove to be an insightful experiment.

Admittedly, when I was a kid, I scoffed many happy meals just for the toy. So I think this is with the best intentions

[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]

[QUOTE="testfactor888"]

This is pathetic and I am 100 percent against this. Government trying to tell businesses what they can have in their meals. It is a bunch of BS. Parents should be responsible for this and not some legislation. If a parent can't be responsible than they shoulden't have a kid.

Pirate700

but parents have been proven to be irresponsible. With over 40% of Americans obese, and an even higher number of minors reaching obese levels, parents have, in my opinion, lost the right to treat their kids to fast food.

When parents can establish good eating habits for their kids and family, and the obesity epidemic goes down a significant amount, then we reserve the right to call this legislation bullcrap.

I say this as a fat, former resident of the SF Bay Area.

At the least, this will prove to be an insightful experiment.

edit also there are a fair number of jobs that a person needs to be in decent shape to accomplish

[QUOTE="Fuhgeddabouditt"]

put my burger back down before I pimp slap your ass, comrade

Pirate700

Fixed

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]

but parents have been proven to be irresponsible. With over 40% of Americans obese, and an even higher number of minors reaching obese levels, parents have, in my opinion, lost the right to treat their kids to fast food.

When parents can establish good eating habits for their kids and family, and the obesity epidemic goes down a significant amount, then we reserve the right to call this legislation bullcrap.

I say this as a fat, former resident of the SF Bay Area.

At the least, this will prove to be an insightful experiment.

Serraph105

edit also there are a fair number of jobs that a person needs to be in decent shape to accomplish

[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]

[QUOTE="testfactor888"]

This is pathetic and I am 100 percent against this. Government trying to tell businesses what they can have in their meals. It is a bunch of BS. Parents should be responsible for this and not some legislation. If a parent can't be responsible than they shoulden't have a kid.

testfactor888

but parents have been proven to be irresponsible. With over 40% of Americans obese, and an even higher number of minors reaching obese levels, parents have, in my opinion, lost the right to treat their kids to fast food.

When parents can establish good eating habits for their kids and family, and the obesity epidemic goes down a significant amount, then we reserve the right to call this legislation bullcrap.

I say this as a fat, former resident of the SF Bay Area.

At the least, this will prove to be an insightful experiment.

theyre not telling them what to eat

theyre simply limiting the unhealthy options :P A parent can still get their kid a big mac, large fries, and a McFlurry if they want. But theyre also making a healthy option A.) available, and B.) appealing to kids, as it has a toy.

You conspiracy theorists, you people that fear big brother, really crack me up sometimes. You think the government is coming in and trying to change your life; this is a god damn happy meal, and theyre doing the right thing.

Like I said, the government is not telling any individual what to eat, how to eat, and how to live. Theyre telling a corporation that is partially responsible for the American obesity epidemic to start offering healthier meals aimed at children.

It is no different the government mandate telling our educational system what to offer for school lunches, but I dont hear you complaining about that.