curly_kate
Almost Self-Reliant
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128010715#commentBlock
I heard this story this morning, and it made me so mad! Not at McDonalds, mind you, but at the food police. Personally, I think McDonalds serves almost-food at best, but it infuriates me that parents aren't expected to say no to their precious little snowflakes every once in a while. When I was a kid, McDonalds was a rare treat, and I NEVER got the Happy Meal (way too expensive, and Mom didn't want us coming home with more worthless plastic crap). She never had a problem saying no. Also, even tho we did see the commercials, etc, we were not conscripted "into an unpaid drone army of word-of-mouth marketers" because my parents taught us that commercials were B.S., and that we should NOT believe what we saw on TV because things were never really what they seemed. And if we did get sucked in, we had to save up our own allowance (earned from chores, mind you) to buy whatever junk we'd decided we'd wanted.
I heard this story this morning, and it made me so mad! Not at McDonalds, mind you, but at the food police. Personally, I think McDonalds serves almost-food at best, but it infuriates me that parents aren't expected to say no to their precious little snowflakes every once in a while. When I was a kid, McDonalds was a rare treat, and I NEVER got the Happy Meal (way too expensive, and Mom didn't want us coming home with more worthless plastic crap). She never had a problem saying no. Also, even tho we did see the commercials, etc, we were not conscripted "into an unpaid drone army of word-of-mouth marketers" because my parents taught us that commercials were B.S., and that we should NOT believe what we saw on TV because things were never really what they seemed. And if we did get sucked in, we had to save up our own allowance (earned from chores, mind you) to buy whatever junk we'd decided we'd wanted.