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Originally Posted by Katie
There's all kinds of issues at play here. However, the op point was banning Ronald McDonald because it encourages kids to want to eat at McDonalds.
Well, if you are such a crappy parent that you can't tell your kid no......you have bigger problems.
When I was a kid I wanted McDonalds every day. Every time I saw the sign. (Maybe they should ban that). My parents said no every day. I accepted it and ate what was given to me. My family was poor as crap back then. My parents couldn't even afford to buy my brother and I McDonalds. $20 a week was our food budget. I remember it well.
All kinds of issues for sure.....but parents have to be able to say no.
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Thats what I'm saying.
My parents, too, were very poor and we had the same thing to eat days at a time (which is probably why I dislike leftovers so much now) My parents would make a huge pot of something like beans and rice and we would eat that for a week! I very seldom got fast food or went out to eat and after hearing a trillion times that we simply couldn't afford it I accepted the fact.
Of coarse now it is cheaper to buy a fast food meal in some situations.
They should just have them make it more healthy. Banning this or that character will not stop children wanting fast food! Children want tons of things that they shouldn't (or can't) have and that will never change.