McNanny State Update: San Francisco Bans Happy Meals
**Written by Doug Powers
In the City by the Bay, if you want to roller skate naked down Castro Street wearing a phallic-symbol hat and snorting an eight-ball off a transgender hooker’s chest while underage kids run behind you handing out free heroin needles, condoms and coupons to the grand opening of the neighborhood’s newest bathhouse, that’s your right as a free citizen of the United States. But if you want to put a Buzz Lightyear toy in the same box with a hamburger and fries and sell it, you’re outta line, mister!
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Fast food giant McDonald’s said Wednesday it was “extremely disappointed” at a ruling by San Francisco authorities banning high-calorie Happy Meals, which entice children to eat with free toys.
The response came after the Californian city’s board of supervisors voted to forbid restaurants from giving gifts with meals that contain too much fat and sugar.
Far be it from me to make a suggestion to McDonalds, but if they really want Happy Meals reinstated in San Francisco, they’ll present city authorities with the ultimate dilemma: A Happy Meal containing toys promoting gay marriage.
Update: Reader Joy H. emails an idea: “McD’s sells the toy for 1 penny. You can buy a Happy Meal for $2.30 without a toy or $2.31 with a toy.
The gov’t cannot ban Mc’D's from selling a toy as a separate item. It would be a beautiful protest by the company.”
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…or similarly, they should include a condom in the Happy Meal. It’ll totally blow their minds.
That’s okay, people in SF prefer Angry Meals anyway. They celebrate World Series by rioting, just like Lakers fans (and Tigers fans).
So sell the Happy Meal without the toy and then give a free toy to each child that visits the store. The parent just puts it in the box before they give it to the child.
Right. I say we trade them to France for a player to be named later.
Reminds me of when the taliban banned kite flying in Afghanistan.
Libs hate children.
Forget the fence between Mexico and the US.
There should be a fence between California and the rest of the US.
Remember the movie “Escape from L. A.”? In 2011 its going to be remade as a reality show on PBS.
Rogue????
I need a line from Snake Plissken please.
*I can hear Ronald McDonald say about this ruling, “that’s so gay”, as they pull all chains out from this “city without brains”!
When they outlaw Happy Meals only outlaws will have Happy Meals.
From my cold dead fingers……
Rogue????
I need a line from Snake Plissken please.
Pretty much what I was thinking.
Isn’t that filthy Folsom Street Fair in San Fransicko?
Allowing any kind of public perversion in front of kids while the cops stand around watching…
…AND THEY BAN HAPPY MEALS?
Californians are truly NUTS!
Snake Plissken: Got a smoke?
Malloy: The United States is a non-smoking nation! No smoking, no drugs, no alcohol, no women – unless you’re married – no foul language, no red meat!
Snake Plissken: [sarcastic] Land of the free.
Why, yes it is, and far from wholesome.
…that goes for Happy Meals too I guess…
Maybe S.F. could replace them with S&M “Slap Me!” meals for adults.
Northern Californians there chief!!!
Like I’ve heard: “California really is like a granola bar…full of fruit and flakes and nuts.
How’s that workin out for you guys?
In one write-up I read on this ruling the phrase “Food Justice” was used. Amazing. No satirist could have come up with such a thing. It could only have emerged from real life — to the extent San Francisco can be considered part of reality, of course.
If I were a big cheese at McDonalds, though it would hurt initially, I’d shutter the McDonalds stores within S.F. and re-open just outside their jurisdiction.
IDIOTS
Makes me long for the day of LGM type stupidity. This crap makes him look sane.
What state invented ‘Have a nice day’. Just don’t be happy doing it.
San Fransisco is going to the dumps. The democrats almost go out of their way to encourage drug use and prostitution in the city but put their foot down when it comes to selling toys with burgers and fries – LOL! You can’t make this stuff up, but boy is it entertaining!
California has turned into a foul, stinking, cesspool…you think it’s bad now wait till the illegals control the state, and it won’t be long.
What a shame to see such a beautiful place get so ugly…looks more and more like Mexico everyday.
Where does the city get the authority to tell a business how to advertise and package their product if the is no law on the books covering such?
upNorth, you are so correct. They should be worrying about what is happening to that city. It is now just a dump. It even smells bad.
It would be fabulous if the other 49 states could simply secede from California, and let them fend for themselves. Or, better yet, let Mexico annex it.
And this, after they won the World Series. Liberals are the biggest kill-joys on the face of the earth.
Also on the same day the McDonalds McRib returned nationwide for the first time since 1994.
OK… here you go…
The Federal Government is arguing the Arizona Immigration law, saying that the State cannot enforce a Law that is under Federal Jurisdiction.
Well, the Congress has taken jurisdiction of ALL Commerce, under the commerce clause…
Thus, the State, or City, cannot enforce this issue, if you follow the logic the Feds are arguing in the Arizona Immigration case.
Hee hee hee
Please don’t lump all of us Californians in with the libtards, batrastards and freaks in SF. There are coherent, thinking people here. We’re just trying to fend off the idiots who keep getting elected.
I accept the reason why my comment went into moderation. Combining “tofu” and “turkey” into one word does not automatically make a comment more amusing.
“Locofoco”—now that’s a funny word.
Hell yes; it’s a simple re-branding job. No mister commissar we complied as you can see, these are not “Happy Meals” with children’s toys they are our new “Gay Meals” with sex toys.
I think the kids in S.F. should definitely get a Happy Meal prize because they survived being born and not being aborted.
Interesting, I wonder if this just applies to McDonands or all the other resturants as well as breakfast cerial???
Perhaps McDonalds should save the money and do away with the toy. It may not be the best but it is better than a big gulp and a couple of candybars….
Even in a plain paper bag with no toy, kids will still want it. These morons are just pushing their socialist “We know what’s best for you” agenda.
I wonder if McDonalds can take them to court..
I suspect SanFrancisco would settle for nothing less than the “Man-Boy love kits”, for boys… I don’t know if there is a “woman-girl love” kit but i’m sure Ellen could tell you…
Do the Angry Meals come with little Nancy Pelosi dolls?
You can bet if San Franfreako does it Seattle won’t be far behind.
Yes, but they are flown in one at a time on the biggest jet they can find. Very hard plastic too.
Someone should follow the San Francisco board of supervisors around, catching them gorging on greasy burgers and fries.
Are we allowed to put the supervisors on truck interstate weigh stations for approximate accuracy? Can we get their waist measurements? Body fat index? Drug testing? Unannounced politician drug testing should be the next California ballot initiative.
This would be a fabulous opportunity for McDonald’s to teach (well, OK, technically only attempt to teach) the libidiots in San Fransh*tsco a lesson in market economics. Pull out. Take all the jobs with them. Dry up the supplier business. Turn that God-forsaken place into the desolate wasteland it already is destined to become.
How about hppy meals with a condom and banana?
An end run is required by McDonald’s….instead of including the toy with the Happy Meal, offer it as an add-on for an extra penny.
(from the song “Goodbye Freedom, Hello Mom” by Scatterbrain)
Although this song was released in 1990 and was intended a protest song against conservatism, it’s message is more apt to the uber-liberal way of thinking.
It’s not Big Brother we have to worry about…it’s Big Mother.
If enough SFC citizens don’t like this ruling and others like it, they could vote OUT those city officials.
Otherwise, happy meals sans toys being purchased by men wearing open-butt leather pants, just might be what the people want.
Snake Plissken: Sad story. You got a smoke?
Maybe McDonald’s needs to re-think their marketing in big liberal cities like SF and Seattle…
How about the Proletariat Meal with the commissar trading cards series? There’s Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and many more. Collect the whole set. Be the first on your block to display your progressive tendencies.
Snake Plissken: Your rules are really beginning to annoy me.
I understand that SF is going after McDonald’s Monopoly game next unless they rename Boardwalk and Park Place after some local well known “Glory Holes”!
I have indeed met such sick minds as these: people who really think they have a right and duty to run other peoples’ lives down to the most minute detail. Yes indeed sick minds that see a problem or potential problem and decide to use the police state to solve it–no matter how many people they destroy, no matter how much pain they cause. Yes sick minds who will go through a child’s lunch bag to determine if their mother packed an acceptable lunch.
Stalin and Hitler were such sick minds. I am quite sure the San Francisco Board of Supervisors think they are good people. Stalin and Hitler thought they were good people. In each case they were wrong.
===
Let your sidearm be like American Express:
Don’t Leave home without it.
Why is it that with RINOs, the answer for everything is to run away? You guys seem to want the borders secured (CA did that but TX? AZ?) but you keep sending your illegals our way. You want to fight in Iraq but would surrender CA to Mexico. That’s why the GOP is the stupid party. It’s populated by stupid people. Hey! You guys won North Dakota! Let’s all move there! (idiots).
And for the record, CA sends more taxes to you guys than we get back.
Maybe a high-energy FAE…
Easy Phil. I love SoCal…
It’s funny and dismaying how a flippant quip has a grimmer counterpart in reality! My brother’s friend who works at Game Stop in Oakland says there are local petitions up on the city board that’ll require various games (including “Halo” and “Call To Duty”(? ome of you would know) to only be sold over the counter (non-shelf or demo) with I.D. This goes even beyond what Bloomberg’s city council was proposing her in NYC.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
The main entry point for illegals into CA is the AZ/CA border. Maybe we should build a wall there since AZ re-elected McCain, the protector of the drug cartel traffic corridor? Our border fence is working.
I’m all for CA going independent. It would end the money drain to DC and shut everyone up once they realize that RINO noseholders end up living in the worse places that no one wants to fight for.
Good one!
At first, I wondered if it was a conflation of “Can’t You Hear me Knocking?”, by the rolling Stones; and “Hey, Big Brother”, by Rare Earth!
Yep.
It’s the “soft paternalism” discussed by Lee Harris in his book, “The Next American Civil War”.
…’Course, sometimes not so soft….
I remember when I believe Chicago went to war against Walmart. The leftists refused to allow any Walmarts in the city.
Walmart’s response was to build Walmarts in the surrounding towns and cities right on their border with Chicago. Chicagoans flocked to those stores and spent their money there, thus depriving Chicago of jobs and tax revenue. Oooooops!
San Francisco will likely have a similar experience with McDonalds. McDonalds did not become number one by luck.
Er..Could we make a deal? We send you McCain and take 500 illegals? Would that work? I could throw some Happy Meals into it if that would help.
After some of our failures Tuesday Montana is looking better as a permanent home all the time.
You’re 100% right. Those uneduated rednecks in flyover country just aren’t smart enough to know what’s good for them. Why do we even let them vote?
/Dem
(I’m an Ex-pat Californian) Are there actually any children – other than stoned-out raggedly-dressed runaways on the street or those whose mother was artificially-inseminated – still living within the jurisdiction of San Francisco?
Off topic – I saw the notification from the Dept of Defense that the newest Virginia-class sub: the USS California, is about to be christened. Please, Pray that it won’t suffer the fate of its namesake (other than operating ‘under water’) or become the stand-in for the remake of “Operation Petticoat”
How’s this for an even better idea:
McDonald’s removes all business from the San Francisco jurisdiction.
They won’t have to actually do it. As soon as they announce the plans, SF will cower like a scared puppy.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Okay, it’s simple:
Sell a Toy for $2.50 and get a Happy Meal with it Free!
Poke. Them. In. The. Eye.
So, the fascists in charge of SF protect a women’s right to choose to murder her unborn child because they say if you ban abortions in one state, people will just go to another. Yes, that is their justification for nation-wide abortion on demand. They don’t want it left to the states.
But then only one city bans including toys with fast food meals for children. Don’t they think the people will just go to another city to get them?
Oh, silly me! I made the assumption that the liberal fascists in SF think!
I think ‘christen’ has a different meaning in SanFransicko.
I’ve always been a video gamer, when I got married back in the early 80′s we lived in her hometown Marshfield MA for a while, the only town in the nation I believe at the time, to actually ban video games. How nazi was that?
Accord to their website that are 35 McDonalds within SranFran. Assuming each has a minimum of 30 employees that would be 1,050 employees looking for work. Many of the employees probably are libs anyway, so most wouldn’t get why they are out of work.
I really love the ideas about either giving the toys to all the kids, or selling them for a penny when you buy a happy meal. Great protest and there is not a dang thing they can do about it. LOVE it!! Those “unintended consequences” always seem to plague the regressives, don’t they? Something about thinking ahead…or, just thinking in general, escapes them.
It is good to see that the San Francisco city government is so very busy protecting it’s citizens against the despicable and heinous acts of Ronald McDonald et al.
Chunky Cheese, you’re next buddy.
I like the idea of selling the toys for 1 penny. That was the fastest loop hole ever found.
My first reaction though was hoping that McD would just pull out of the city completely. Bye-bye jobs, bye-bye tax revenue. Now that would really be a protest.
Pass the word on every grade school playground in America: liberals and democrats want to ban toys. This is a great teaching moment.
Yes, since all of the potholes have been filled, the police and fire departments have all the manpower and equipment they need, schools are turning out “A” studends with a 90% graduation rate, there are no more homeless in the city…
I hadn’t thought of that! Protesters should be at every elementary school in SF with signs saying liberals banned the Happy Meals. That’d go over like a lead balloon!
They shall henceforth be referred to as:
Harpy Meals
Oh, so that would explain the budget shortfalls.
I think McDonalds, et.al. should threaten to leave SF. Then see what the city council does. They’ll probably want some kind of common ground. If the liberal fascists won’t budge, then just do the 1 cent sale.
But I still think a protest at the elementary schools would anger them the most.
San Fran is one of the few places where the people are just as crazy and the politicians. They deserve each other. The only way that the people there will rebel against their politicians is if they ban Botox and marijuana.
A person in SanFran goes to a McDonalds outside the city and purchases a Happy Meal for their child. Would the food police arrest them if they brought the contraband food across the SanFran border?
On November 04, 2010 at 08:59 am, Dexter Alarius said:
WIN!!!!1!!!!!
No, they are a sanctuary city. The toys would be safe to go anywhere they please even if they kill someone.
Actually, the politicians are typical brain-dead socialists. The people voted (70% for) to have the USS Iowa BB-61 berthed in SF as a museum. The city council rejected that and refused to allocate funds for anything with a gun.
The USS Pampanito SS-383 is at Fisherman’s Wharf so I’m not sure of the distain for the Iowa; the Pampanito has a deck gun. Of course, that vote was taken during the Bush administration. If it was taken now, they’d probably go along with it citing Obama and the common ground.
“Actually, the politicians are typical brain-dead socialists. The people voted (70% for) to have the USS Iowa BB-61 berthed in SF as a museum. The city council rejected that and refused to allocate funds for anything with a gun.”
Yes, but the people keep electing the brain-dead socialists.
A city has the authority to determine whether a toy is included with a sandwich? REALLY?
I think not. I’d ignore the law, let them sue. Micky D has plenty of moola for lawyers.
Side effect of this: if a kid wants a toy in his or her Happy Meal, the parent can take them to a McDonald’s in neighboring Daly City or South San Francisco.
This, of course, leads to driving and usage of fossil fuels, which the SF lefties hate.
Added note: once the SF politicians learn of citizens driving to Daly City or South San Francisco to get Happy Meals, they will then enact measures to prevent that.
First they’ll put up tolls on outbound traffic. If you want that toy, you best be prepared to pay the price.
Then people will circumvent the tolls to get to McDonald’s. It will be at that time that SF will build a wall around the entire city, cutting itself off from the outside world.
Hmm, maybe this will lead to good things?
I know, kinda lame. I’m tired, it’s Friday, and I’m already sick of work..
If you’re going to San Francisco….be sure to order some veggies with your meal…..In the restaurants of San Francisco….you’re gonna get some “nutrition” there…..
That’s because McD calls it the Happy Meal. Perhaps if they drew a down-on-the-mouth character on the bags, SFO would commend rather than disallow it. Misery loves company – and the SFO pols are miserable SoBs!