The decline of the Happy Meal

[Piratecat]

God, I feel old. I was already past the Happy Meal age by the time they were invented.

Holy crap. Seriously? You, my friend, are frikkin' ancient.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Fortunately, I eat healthy unfun food, so the issue has never affected me!

FIFY!

Anyways, that sucks Aurora. I remember I used to always get Happy Meals when I was younger.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Holy crap. Seriously? You, my friend, are frikkin' ancient.

Hey, I got your *happy meal* right here, pal, IYKWIMAITYD(BPDHMWTBS).

 

[crazy_monkey1956]

I was upset when they did away with the boxes for a while. When I was a kid, part of the fun was not only the little train cars you could collect, but also making the train station out of the Happy Meal box. Then they went to bags by the time my kids were getting Happy Meals. Thankfully, in my neck of the woods, the boxes are back. Not that I can afford fast food.

 

[Harmon]

CDs instead of toys?!?! Wow, lets help the people of the world settle into their fat-ness, at least with a toy a kid might crawl about the floor and get a little exercise.

God, I feel old. I was already past the Happy Meal age by the time they were invented.

I remember them coming out. I was like you, to old for them, and to top it off we seldom ate at such places.

 

[Merkuri]

CDs instead of toys?!?! Wow, lets help the people of the world settle into their fat-ness, at least with a toy a kid might crawl about the floor and get a little exercise.

You can still do that with a CD! It's like how colonial kids used to roll hoops for fun! Use a straw and see how long you can keep the CD rolling!

Or you can throw it like a frisbee!

Or you can be like my sister and get out some energy by standing on boxes and chairs as you attach worthless CDs to your wall. She had plenty of AOL CDs and things people failed to burn properly all over her wall. It looked like a modern record store.

 

[Glyfair]

Holy crap. Seriously? You, my friend, are frikkin' ancient.

I was beyond Happy Meal target age when they were introduced (1979). Of course, that hasn't stopped me from buying them for certain toys (the Animaniacs toys come to mind).

 

[frankthedm]

And while we're at it, what's with McDonald's asking "boy or girl?" with each happy meal? Just tell me what the toys are, and let the kids choose.

Last i checked most toys are still sold down the gender divide. Most fast food don't even do split gender toy lines unless one toyset is very heavy towards one gender.

To most parents all the burgerjocky needs to know is boy or girl. Even entertaining the possibility someone's son might want a disney princess is not amusing to most of the burgergoing public.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

I just got one of those audio CDs today. On the bright side I was in the drive through so we could listen to it - but the Kahuna Meatball KNOWS what it means when I order a kid's meal and was yelling "toddler toy! toddler toy!" from the backseat as I look at this shrinkwrapped CD and say "well, sort of honey..." (on the other unbright side, the story SUCKED!)

And to add my own little rant, why do they advertise "special toys for under 3!" if they aren't going to actually give it to me when I ask??? Yes, miss drive through lady, "with a toddler toy" is my secret code for "please give me a disc shooter that my son will promptly aim at his face" thank you for figuring that out! (though it was amusing when the hubby said "uh honey, do we own a Wii?" when he saw the remote shaped toy on the couch later.)

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Yes, miss drive through lady, "with a toddler toy" is my secret code for "please give me a disc shooter that my son will promptly aim at his face" thank you for figuring that out!

Pfftp. Kids today.

I would have aimed it at my brother.