Nanny state attacks Happy Meal toys
I look back at the world I lived in 40 years ago and then at the world around me and it’s hard to imagine that one sprung from the other. Take Happy Meals, for example. A simple child’s meal with a toy. Now, when I was a teen, the closest McDonald’s was 14 miles away in Geneva, NY. A coke, a burger and small fries for $.99. We were big shots when we had the money for gas and a couple of meals. By the time I was a parent, they’d invented Happy Meals which was the same mela I’d had as a teen with a toy and maybe a special container.
My kids rarely got the opportunity to get a Happy Meal, not because of the cost, but because my wife and I didn’t figure that they needed one everyday. Usually, only if we were on one of our cross-country trips to see family, or some other special trip.
Now, Santa Clara County, California has decided that they want to take choices from parents by outlawing the Happy Meal toys – because, apparently, parents can’t tell their kids ‘no’ in Santa Clara County.
The proposed ban is the latest in a growing string of efforts to change the types of foods aimed at youngsters and the way they are cooked and sold. Across the nation, cities, states and school boards have taken aim at excessive sugar, salt and certain types of fats.
Believed to be the first of its kind in the nation, the proposal would forbid the inclusion of a toy in any restaurant meal that has more than 485 calories, more than 600 mg of salt or high amounts of sugar or fat. In the case of McDonald’s, the limits would include all of the chain’s Happy Meals — even those that include apple sticks instead of French fries.
Apparently, we’re not smart enough to choose for our kids – even though my kids are all healthy and well-proportioned to this day, your’s aren’t without government interference.
Forty years ago, parents would have been insulted by these wild-eyed lunatics who try to legislate our health (remember the Montgomery County, MD proposal to forbid smoking in your own house?). Someone would have been punched for insulting parents that way.
Category: Society
The result of the limited mental capacity of liberals. If they don’t do something stupid they can’t do anything.
San Luis Obispo Ca., my town, has outlawed smoking in public areas…mainly in the quaint, but vibrant, downtown area.
If you recall, my town was also the very first to outlaw smoking in resteraunts and bars, regardless if they had seperate ventilated smoking areas.
Thursday night is our Farmers Market, where the entire downtown main and side streets are closed off. The upper street is filled with farmers and their fresh produce, and the lower is filled with entertainment, political booths, bands, school clubs…. and dozens of great big BBQ pits spewing tons of smoke and grease into the air, filling the street corridors with their evil, vile, cancerous, and deadly fumes of doom. Apparently that smoke is ok.
Just don’t smoke a cigarette near one….
Pretty soon someone is going to pass a law to give people who want to procreate a test on what to feed a kid. And if they fail-
“No sex for you.”
That’s nothing. NY wants your kidneys and other organs.