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McNanny state sues McDonalds over toys in happy meals
2010-12-15
A mother of two from Sacramento, Calif., says that McDonald's uses toys as bait to induce her kids to clamor to go to McDonald's and to develop a preference for nutritionally poor Happy Meals. With the help of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, today the mom, Monet Parham, is filing a class action lawsuit aimed at stopping McDonald's use of toys to market directly to young children. The suit will be filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco shortly after the court opens for business Wednesday morning.

According to Parham, the main reason her six-year-old daughter, Maya, asks to go to McDonald's is to get toys based on Barbie, i-Carly, Shrek, or Strawberry Shortcake. The food seems almost beside the point to the kids, says Parham, because the toy monopolizes the attention of Maya and her two-year-old sister Lauryn.
How about you exercise good parenting and actually be a PARENT to your kid instead of a self-entitled fucktwit? These people need to be shipped to China or any other authoritarian country and kept out of ours.
Posted by:DarthVader

#7  dunno about Mickey D having the guts to actually shut this pos off: it didn't work for the coffeein the crotchbitch (twice) now we get little warnings that tell us : Warning coffee may be hot.
Posted by: USN,Ret   2010-12-15 23:54  

#6  Why doesn't she have the kid sue? She seems to run the show in the Parham household.
Or, here's an idea, how about you eat someplace else...Monet?
Posted by: tu3031   2010-12-15 22:10  

#5  Same playbook they went after tobacco companies.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2010-12-15 22:05  

#4  sorry about the stuttutter
Posted by: Frank G   2010-12-15 22:03  

#3  surely McDonalds has the financial backing and lawfare expertise to crush this woman, her attys and demand compensation. Just DO IT
Posted by: Frank G   2010-12-15 21:54  

#2  surely McDonalds has the financial backing and lawfare expertise to crush this woman, her attys and demand compensation. Just DO IT
Posted by: Frank G   2010-12-15 21:54  

#1  Princess, let me introduce you to a word my boy says often. It's "NO".

Really, you can use it, too! Sure, the kid will have a spaz, probably out in public. But here comes the really clever part....you ignore the temper tantrum and wait 5 minutes.

Then you can feed the twerps some real food (no, not that gawdawful texturized vegetable protein crap....something that came from a farm, not a lab....). Lather, rinse, repeat.

And turn off the damn telly while you're at it.
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2010-12-15 21:32  

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