Taking children to McDonalds, is it child cruelty?

[vixen1700]

Everynow and again if I have a stinking hangover I may venture into the Duxford McDonalds for a filty Big Mac or chicken sandwich. I gobble it all up and feel slightly dirty about myself.

But it's my choice to perform such an act.

When I visit that McDonalds I see parents with very young children buying it for them and making them eat it, surely at that age they can't make informed decisions about that food.

The first one I went to was at the age of twelve, our noncey looking form teacher took us on an ice-skating trip and the eveing was rounded off by visiting the new fangled McDonalds in the West End near the ice-rink. Gherkins in burgers seemed odd and alien to us.

But at 12 at least we seemed old enough to just say no, unlike some of the youngsters I've seen recently.

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Spanna said:

I don't see what's wrong with the odd McDonald's every now and then for a child. It's a treat.

When the parent is giving it the child every other night, then it's a problem.

A treat? I've missed the point of when it becomes a treat, maybe that's the problem.

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monthefish said:

I think the OP should, in detail, explain exactly what his problem with McDonalds is.

Thread isn't entirely serious if you read it, but I'll bite.

Look at obesity, people are calling it a treat, you can eat better/healthier for the money, I don't like the McDonalds corporation and their targeting at a really early age, kids are being sujected to this 'treat' at an early age. 'Treats' replacing healthy diets.

/waits for all the parents to start screaming at me.

Edited by vixen1700 on Friday 5th October 14:13

[vixen1700]

monthefish said:

Or is it (as I suspect) some attempt to make out that you are in some self-defined 'upper class' in which a McDonalds restaurant is beneath you?

Hardly, couldn't be less 'upper-class'.

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GTIR said:

I didn't realise you're local.

Local-ish, but not in the same county.

[vixen1700]

The word treat keeps appearing, do people consider their local Dixie or Kansas chicken seated franchise a treat or plain old unhealthy food?

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GTIR said:

Sfunny, Essex boi's love junk food don't they, bro?

Maybe they do, but I'm a Londoner living in Essex.

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bhstewie said:

You know the more I read this thread the more I have to ask - does anyone really believe that taking a child to McDonalds is child cruelty?

More to the point does anyone believe I was being entirely serious.

[vixen1700]

Great thread resurrection.

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TheHeretic said:

What was his name, and didn't he have a sex change?