[Closed] Mcdonalds bad parent content...have you ?

As a lifelong vege(and my kids), I have never been in one, except once which I'm not sure counts as I was tripping my nuts off early one Sunday morning. My friend had a big breakfast obsession thing going on. We approached the empty counter, the smell and brightness of the situation was starting to make me nervous. My mate could only repeatedly blub 'big breakfast'. How he paid for it I have no idea. Anyway when it arrived he took one look at it, screamed, and legged it.
I concluded that in a perception shifted state he saw something sinister. He wouldn't talk about it and still avoids maccyd now.

big mac fries to go

I don't really go to McD's myself so our lad hasn't really had an opportunity. If anything its only for their breakies (as their other food has zero content to keep you full).

deadlydarcy - Member
And their double sausage and egg mcmuffin

Had one from Bedminster on Saturday 😳

hora - Member

If anything its only for their breakies (as their other food has zero content to keep you full).

Bollocks. 😀

'Zero content' of what?

Go on then, tell us what magic 'fill you up' ingredients other food has that McDonalds food doesn't.

If you want true middle class hippy angst Crankbrat age 2 keeps eating meat at parties despite our Faux vegetarian beliefs.

Miniest Brassneck does this. Table surfs parties snaffling up as many cocktail sausages as he can. Eldest (7)is achingly self righteous about not eating meat and follows him telling him off.

...I am such a bad parent and welcome any insults !

Is this one of those threads where you just wanted to tell everyone how great you are for not going to mcdonalds

But thought it would sound a bit less smug if you said you had actually been.

But it was just the once..... And you didn't really mean it.

😐

Bollocks.

'Zero content' of what?

Go on then, tell us what magic 'fill you up' ingredients other food has that McDonalds food doesn't.

I think Hora is just inferring he has a large appetite.

Double post.

Oh well you lot are right... McD's is rubbish

They print thier figures 90mins ago and global sales are light.

Trading down 2% before the open

Good

Zero content - 30mins after eating a meal of theirs I sugar-crash and/or I'm hungry again.

Only their breaky-stuff seems to work on me.

Not been in one since the 80's.
kids been in once to use the toilets

Not a huge vegan range

My [vegan] kids are surprised how many kids rate Mc D as their favourite food - about 70% of the school!!!

No real opinion on them one way or the other for taste but, like most large multinationals, they are amoral money grabbing ****s that offend my morality 8)
I added the smugness just for neal !!

On the flipside. I've always liked Wendy's. Its not a million miles from McDonalds but the burgers felt more substantial etc.

Sadly they left the UK years ago 🙁

toppers jnr (3yrs old) goes once every couple of months i suppose. nowt wrong with it. he doesnt eat much when we're there but he sees it as a treat. he doesnt like chips ( 😯 ) so tends to eat fish fingers with carrot sticks.
why people love to berate themselves for taking their kids there is beyond me. if you don't like the food then fine, but avoiding it out of some middle class snobbery i just don't get it. as others have said there are plenty of worse places to go to. as long as they're not eating it for every other meal then whats the issue. its all about teaching them about a balanced diet and exercise.

for what its worth, my boys favourite food is fresh salmon with pasta and tomato sauce (not ketchup, actual sauce). he would get a long way down the list before he thought of maccies. unless you asked him while stood outside one. 🙂

I added the smugness just for neal !!

Cheers squire, I enjoyed it 🙂

Although I wouldn't really expect a vegan to be a regular under the Golden Arches anyway.
So your offended morality is somewhat surplus to requirements 😉

I like McDonalds.

They're only places that don't look at you strange when you ask for "a medium white coffee".

And their burgers taste nicer than those ones you get in Weatherspoons with a pint for a fiver.

hora - Member
On the flipside. I've always liked Wendy's. Its not a million miles from McDonalds but the burgers felt more substantial etc.

BK whopper should do the trick!
It does for me. Double whopper on occasion (if I've ridden 10 miles round a trail centre and the cake I ate at the cafe didn't quite replenish all the calories I must've burnt!)

So your offended morality is somewhat surplus to requirements

I didn't eat in a McD's until my latish teens.
Throughout the 80's my parents wouldn't go there because ..... There were no knives and forks !

And their burgers taste nicer than those ones you get in Weatherspoons with a pint for a fiver.

Sat down amongst the old miserable quiet alcoholics munching on a miserable burger.

One of my mates fuelled up half way through a weekend bender with 12 big macs, one after the other. Which was fine, but then the freak had a a fillet -o-fish to finish, which is just plain wrong

hora - Member

Zero content - 30mins after eating a meal of theirs I sugar-crash and/or I'm hungry again.

Yeah, for the calories involved there's not a lot of actual sustenance
involved.

I've got a client who likes to eat there - can't stand the smell of it anymore.
The coffee is nice though.

And I do like the Beanburgers from Burger King - you can actually taste something - always find McD's very bland.

Zero content - 30mins after eating a meal of theirs I sugar-crash and/or I'm hungry again.

I don't experience this, I have to say.

I had the sugar crash thing

OMG, after my nostalgia post, I just realised that THERE IS NO MACCY D'S WHERE I LIVE! I really have dropped out of the modern world as we know it. I need a mcflurry.

One of my mates fuelled up half way through a weekend bender....

Is that like being a casual smoker?

Personally I thought it was deplorable behaviour. If god had intended us to eat McDonalds while completely leathered, then why did he invent kebab houses? Why?!!!

One of my mates fuelled up half way through a weekend bender....

Is that like being a casual smoker?

😆

Goddamnit, I want a McDonalds now!

nealglover -

"its useful to point out how unhealthy some of the Mcd clients look and discuss why."

No it isn't.It would be far more useful to use positive role models (like Olympic athletes for example) and explain how they achieve what they do. Through good diet, exercise and hard work.But pointing at fat people and using them as convenient negative role models to look down on is easier I suppose. 

Did I say fat? No. I said unhealthy. Plenty of junk foodies are very thin and have poor completions, lack of nutrition... did I say I look down on them? No, didnt say that either.

As for the positive role models they loved the olympics, my eldest wants to compete in the swimming but cant decide whether for Spain or the UK. Their dad runs a small business and earns a living riding road and mountain bikes and does the odd tri, good food, sport and exercise is very much in thier lives. However, I think its equally valid to discuss examples of negative role models, if they happen to crop up, as well as positive... Politically correct or not.

You can't label someone a negative role model just because they are eating in a MacDonalds and look like they have poor skin. You have no idea what their story is.

You run the risk of teaching your kids to judge on appearances, which is a bad thing imo.

Politically correct or not.

Would have been easier just to say that and admit it really.

We sometimes take the Beavers there on the last evening of term.
(With parents consent, obviously).

Try rocking up at a charming trendy Bistro & feeding 24 kids & 6 adults inside 10mins, for £80. 😉

i took my eldest at for a treat after we'd climbed a big hill. He wanted a happy meal, i went to pieces ordering as i had no idea what you get in a happy meal. TBH he only wanted the smurf toy and the coke he bearly touched the meal. He was full up on Haribo i'd bribed him up the hill with.

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We sometimes take the Beavers there on the last evening of term.
(With parents consent, obviously).

Try rocking up at a charming trendy Bistro & feeding 24 kids & 6 adults inside 10mins, for £80.

If ever there was a reason for me not to go to McDonalds, that was it.

They don't even have Radio 3 or 4 on in those places.

Bugger the kids - I got the world's worst brain freeze last weekend when trying to drink a frappelatte caramel malarkey. The pain was almost unbearable.

(It was the second trip to McDs for our two 4.5 yr olds and only because there was a 1hr wait at the Pizza Hut next door).

Nothing against them really, just don't particularly enjoy them.

...and so it goes on, middle class angst, dinner party justification, but-we're-not-like-the-people-who-go-to-McDonalds....

Singlemiddleclass****world at it's finest... 😆

They're always good for a free paper and a fistfull of free tissues for the car though.

but-we're-not-like-the-people-who-go-to-McDonalds....

This summed up this thread perfectly.

Spot on.

I predict a few ****ed up attitudes towards food for those on the thread who've almost banned Mcdonalds from their kids lives.

I buy a cappuccino there nearly every day, it tastes nice, I sometimes take the kids for an ice cream, it's not part of our staple diet, and more importantly, the kids have no overwhelming desire to go there, unlike a friend of mine who's kids are 'not allowed'

Middle class angst is a much underestimated thing.

Don't disregard the suffering we endure. For goodness sake, I don't even have access to Waitrose.

The horror of having to shop in Sainburys is truly dreadful

You run the risk of teaching your kids to judge on appearances, which is a bad thing imo.

PC nonsense.

Child; why dont we eat in mcdonalds all the time.?
Adult; Do you want to look like that shambles of a person over there and die young?
Child; no
Adult; do you want diabeties and to have your legs amputated?
Child; no

Job done.

I predict a few **** up attitudes towards food for those on the thread who've almost banned Mcdonalds from their kids lives.

Do you want to look like that shambles of a person over there and die young?

Still teaching kids to judge. Still bad.

Child; why dont we eat in mcdonalds all the time.?
Adult; Do you want to look like that shambles of a person over there and die young?
Child; no
Adult; do you want diabeties and to have your legs amputated?
Child; no

My first trip to mcdonalds was after I was diagnosed diabetic, I'm certainly not a shambles but I'm glad my legs will fall off and I'll did young. Great to let your kids know that too, so they can tell their friends about it as well.

My mum never let me have a maccies when I was growing up.
Now I have one a few times a month maybe, and quite like it. What I did, once a young adult, was get out from my parents overbearing shadow and make my own mind up about stuff myself.
Rarely talk to them nowadays.

Let your kids have a happy meal or they will disown you later in life. Who'll wipe the dribble from your mot ability car dashboard then, eh?

They sell food in there?
There's one in my high st that I have seen people going in/out of. I thought it was some kind of welfare center? 😕

There's not much that beats 20 nuggets or a fistful of cheeseburgers halfway through a pub session. Or a few of the breakfast muffins and a milkshake the morning after for that matter.

I don't know why people are so down on McDonalds, they provide cheap food in a clean environment. It's not exactly gourmet dining but honestly who cares. I'd wager that the stuff served there is no worse for you than anything served at the likes of Starbucks or Subway. Actually you could check yourself, they provide a full nutritional breakdown and ingredients at http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/meal_builder.html

My children don't like McDonalds. Tough! I force feed it to them anyway.

I feel no shame about it - like most things it's fine if you don't over-consume it. Children like it occasionally, often they prefer to go to a cake and a drink at a cafe or coffee shop but that's no healthier.

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shermer75 - Member

Viaducts of North London- sounds awesome! Where are they? The only one I know is the disused railway line from Finsbury Park to Archway....

There are a few near me...

I quite like the burgers, and getting food that hits the spot fast in a clean environment sometimes has a lot going for it!

I am another 80's child that sees mcdonalds as a viable birthday party venue 🙂