McDonalds CEO: The Clown Stays, Food Nazis!

[Christians4LessGvt]

McDonalds CEO: The Clown Stays, Food Nazis!
   
By Doug Powers  ?  May 20, 2011 04:39 PM

Okay, he didn?t quite put it that way, but that?s how I heard it:

The 48-year-old, red-haired mascot has come under fire from health-care professionals and consumer groups
who, in recent days, have asked the fast-food chain to retire Ronald McDonald. But McDonald?s Chief Executive
Officer Jim Skinner staunchly defended the clown at the company?s annual meeting on Thursday, saying,
"Ronald McDonald is going nowhere".

Shareholders seemed to agree, voting down a proposal to require the hamburger giant to tally the financial
 impact of defending its children?s meals. Just 6% of shareholders voted in favor of the resolution.
McDonalds has been sued, they?ve been lobbied to remove toys from Happy Meals because that makes
them pedophiles or something, and now this.

Can you imagine sitting around all day not only worrying about what somebody else is eating,
but making a concerted effort to tell everybody what to eat and control what restaurants sell
and how they sell it?

**Written by Doug Powers

Twitter @ThePowersThatBe

[Plane]

  The objection to Ronald McDonald is that he is effective at attracting young customers.

Is he being condemmed for doing his intended mission well?

Somewhere Joe Camel is waiting .

[BSB]

When McDonalds first started they were fun and their cheap little burgers with pickles etc. were like a cookie. Now they compete with Burger King franchises in this countries "food deserts", stuffing the financially and educationally strapped full sugar, low grade beef, saturated fats, and astounding amounts calories. America's great unwashed now look like they stepped out from behind the Iron Curtain some 30 odd years ago. They're fat, unhealthy, couch potatoes, that cost us a fortune in health insurance premiums, medicare, medicaid, and emergency room visits.

Eat well. Starve McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, YouNameIt Pizza, etc., etc.,  out of business.

BSB

[kimba1]

the answer is simple, make better tasting vegetables dishes kids like. everytime my jobs has a pizza day the last box of pizza that always get eaten last or has leftovers is the veggie. remember meat is taught as bad and vegetables is always shown as good and still burgers still wins.

[Xavier_Onassis]

The thing is that evolution has not designed humans for the lives that most of us lead. Small children like sweets for a reason.I do not recall that ANYTHING ever tasted too sweet to me when I was a kid. I could not stand tomatoes, radishes, pepper or okra. Now Pepsi tastes far to sweet for me to enjoy it,and I love all those vegetables and pepper.

Ronald McDonald appeals to the smallest of kids: under eight, anyway. The fact is that fresh vegetables are relatively expensive when compared by price to McD's burgers with regard to  the feeling of satiety. McD's capitalizes on that, and of course, going to a restaurant is an experience for a kid. Going to the supermarket and having Mom fix anything is not.

The toys are a sort of bribe. It is rather unethical to have Ronald around anymore, but he is profitable.

After a number of lawsuits by BK franchise holders against BK for advertising the Whopper Junior, it is dead. It was replaced by the Buck Double, which was identical to the Whopper Junior except for the sliver of tomato, and now the Buck double is $1.29, it has shriunk, and is now called the "Stacker", the "single stacker" has one meat patty, the Whopper Junior has two. The "double stacker is $2.29. Stackers have a piece of bacon, which the previous burgers lacked.
 
So Checker's is now the better value in my neighborhood. McD's expensive burgers are not bad, but their cheap ones are pretty awful. 

It is a little known fact that McDonald's coffee at $1.00 is not only pretty good, it is identical and only 69¢ if ordered as "senior coffee", and the checkout person does not ask for ID.

[BSB]

My younger brother used to hide his vegetables in a drawer when my mother wasn't looking. Or if we were eating in front of the TV he would hide them behind the upright piano. Basically if it wasn't between two pieces of bread he wouldn't eat it.

I have no objection to taking the kids to Mickey Ds occasionally but that's not the main problem.

An example: Not too far from me is a town that is split in half by RR tracks. One side of the tracks is fairly well off. They have a Whole Foods market, produce stands in the summer months, and so forth. The other side of the tracks is not very well off. It's made up of people of color, recent immigrants, etc. There were two large markets servicing that community 15 years ago. Now, it's a food desert, and McDonalds, KFC, and BK, have replaced the markets which moved out.


BSB

[Christians4LessGvt]

I have no problem with any citizen deciding for themselves and deciding for the children
to not eat at McDonalds. As long as the gvt is not involved in attemptimng to force the
decision I say.....2EachHisOwn.

[kimba1]

Now, it's a food desert, and McDonalds, KFC, and BK, have replaced the markets which moved out.


that`s unfair . fastfood didn`t replace them. the markets simply didn`t want to stay in that neighborhood anymore. here in S.F. the haight would firebomd a store for opening up there and Macdonalds was the only one brave enough to run a business there.

not fastfoods fault the stores left, sounds possible those place might the fews thing working in that neighborhood.

[Xavier_Onassis]

MacDonalds gets far higher profits than a supermarket chain, and can afford to hire guards. MacDonalds is not brave, they are simply greedy and know how to extract money from the poor more efficiently.

[kimba1]

but that`s not thier fault thier the only game in town. I mention the anti-franchise enviroment in my town and the end result is alot of empty store fronts for it also turne off people wanting to open a businees in general.

i find it interesting  that fastfood is evil but starbucks is ok. in my nieghborhood people boycoot bk which serve different food than the local restaurant. but a starbuck came and literally wiped out half the coffee house here on purpose.

p.s. all the organic food place belly up due to uninteresting food

[Xavier_Onassis]

I see no real difference between Starbucks and MacDonalds, other than their targeted clientele. MacDonald's targets throughfares in areas where there are poor people and families with children, Starbucks targets wealthier neighborhoods where  there are more childless couples.

Making a burger is somewhat more complicated than making coffee, so Starbucks ideal clients are lazier and richer, but more picky.

[kimba1]

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[Xavier_Onassis]

Overeating is not good for you.

Exercise in moderation is.

Of course you can eat fast food and lose weight: it depends on how much and how often you eat it.

My doctor believes cholesterol is related to heart disease.

Watching 90 minutes or more of this guy would not likely be entertaining.

I find John Stossell annoying after about five minutes

[kimba1]

people are bugging me now about what I eat and a I rarely eat fastfood to begin with. I see this anti-meat trend causing some serious health problems

ex. people believing food will stop stress related diseases so people will continue doing more stressfull activities thinking diet will protect them.

[Christians4LessGvt]

kimba....i too rarely eat fast-food
although i do get a craving every once
in awhile for a thin & crispy Pizza Hut pizza!
i have recently discovered I love the bacon bits
on top too!