Burger King to remove toys from Kids meals (Mcdonalds could follow soon)

Knoyleo wrote:Do we have any idea whether the children or their parents are Labour activists?

Turns out...

It's good to stop making useless tat out of plastic. It's bad that "corporation makes minor concession to environmentalism" is the extent of our environmentalist praxis as a culture. The change of practice required to make headway on the environment will never be delivered by business ghouls making cost-benefit analyses in boardrooms. The government should be enforcing the drastic change we need. CEOs should be waking up in the night screaming because they had a nightmare about the green inspectors coming round.

And their bed should be in a dormitory in a Mandatory Green Education Centre.

Maybe it's also good that children aren't coerced into eating horribly unhealthy food from a young age?

Minty14 wrote:Maybe it's also good that children aren't coerced into eating horribly unhealthy food from a young age?

Interestingly Chile have already banned Happy Meal toys on these grounds.

I do wonder if our view of fast food as a special "treat" comes from well-meaning birthday trips to the cinema and then McDonald's and similar stuff like that.

Even now, when I can't be bothered cooking or feelike I've had a hard day and "earned" it, I do go have a guilty trip to the drive-thru. And it's not even my birthday!

I think that used to be the fact for when I was a kid, the only time I went to McDonalds was a birthday party and it felt like a proper treat.

I’ve got a 4 year old and he’s not once been and to be fair probably won’t for a long time, although I’ve got friends who have kids the same age and they’ve been loads.

Although I’m like Parksey, if I can’t be bothered to cook or work has been non-stop I normally find myself at the Drive-Thru.

Banning Happy Meals isn’t going to stop kids going to McDonalds. If anything it’ll just push them onto the main menu which is even worse for them.

My lad has been to McDonald’s a few times, usually for me and him to share a McFlurry though.

Mmmmm McFlurry…..

Some comments on this story:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49738889

These two have probably never been into Burger King in their lives. More proof of the young generation being utterly brainwashed into believing about climate change. Whilst I agree on plastics per se, it probably won't be long before they morph into the UK version of Greta Thunberg and tour the world telling people how to live their lives.

Babies against plastic packaging for rusks next?

Normal kids don't start petitions.

Lots of middle-class parents wanting their kids to be the next Greta-style social media star, methinks....

Gotta laugh at parents pulling up in big gas guzzling 4x4's or large Audi saloons (because "I have one kid so need a large vehicle") and then not wanting 1 gram of plastic because "muh environment".

That'll save the planet then! Don't give me this 'every little helps or 'person by person we can save the world' when if ANYBODY really cared, we would not be putting our central heating on this winter (OMG using gas and/or electricity, but worse than that, using them to create heat!!!)


Oh well this will help calm down the kids who our schools are terrifying with stories of dying planets!

Great just what we need....more soulless gretas

I wish middle class folk would stop forcing their children into agendas.

2 kids out of millions.

I'm not impressed.

Let's just cancel Plastic Christmas Presents ... Plastic Birthday ones and Pens we can go back to pencils (not lead) chalk boards and only leather shoes.... whoops what about the vegans?

Where will it end, back to living in caves I guess!

The message about plastics is clear and I support any effort to cut carbon and other poisonous emissions. What I don't like is the use of children by parents to get a message across that is clearly rehearsed by the offspring.
The spoilt Greta Thunberg, who is a truant, who is paying her daily expenses and writing her script? N.York to next stop Peru. I don't think that will be done by boat.

As a fit, active, healthy parent of a fit, active, healthy little boy, the occasional bit of fast food for a treat is fine. My son loves the toys.

Self-righteous, snobby prigs are trying to take over the world from behind a smokescreen of false virtue, concealing their misplaced judgement as simply more of the ever increasing din of virtue signalling.

Live and let live is dead. Sad.

65.5 million people Vs 500,00 do gooders.

The same minority of do gooders that cause all the drama.

Your one of them if you if you down vote this.

So middle class mummy and papa pencil a letter to Burger King, get their little ones, bless them, to sign it and Burger King straight away do as they ask. Yeah right. Whenever these people start shouting about saving 'the environment' I think the spotlight should be directly pointed at them and their lives should be scrutinised to see exactly how they live their lives. Squeaky clean. Probably not.

BURGER KING - PICK UP A MEAL ON US!

Drop off a toy, purchase a full priced meal and get a kids meal for FREE.

*Free toys accepted include any King Junior Toy or equivalent competitor free meal toy and free giveaway toys in confectionary items e.g. those included in cereal boxes or magazines. The free King Junior meal is available with the purchase of any adult meal. Terms and conditions apply*

Treat the kids later today. Or tomorrow. Or the weekend.

KK wrote:Give it a few more years, a handful of people will be protesting outside Mattel demanding Barbie be made out of wood.

Gemini73 wrote:

KK wrote:Give it a few more years, a handful of people will be protesting outside Mattel demanding Barbie be made out of wood.

I suggest replacing the toy and the food with dried onion meal.

This is definitely a good move as for the most part the toys were just cheap tat that went straight in the bin when the kid gets home. There have been exceptions to this however Burger King once did a series of Pokemon keyrings that were pretty good and a series of Simpsons figurines which again were pretty good.

McDonalds aren't axing toys entirely just yet but they are making them optional, you'll be able to get a fruit bag instead from what I have read.

Moggy wrote:

65.5 million people Vs 500,00 do gooders.

The same minority of do gooders that cause all the drama.

Your one of them if you if you down vote this.

So, when looking through the comments, were you downvoting the ones in sorry states?

I remember ages back when McDonalds had reversible plushes. Can't remember what franchise they were for, but I do know I was young and at a birthday. I think Burger King were right to have followed up on the request, but did so in a bit too extreme a fashion. It was only to remove plastic from the toys. Now, you couldn't keep soft toys going endlessly, I don't think, but when they did come, it would be more of an event. Maybe that's what they'll start doing eventually.

DarkRula wrote:
So, when looking through the comments, were you downvoting the ones in sorry states?

I expected as much. Not like downvoting a comment teaches them anything, either.

I think it would be better for the environment if we just stuck all kids in maturation chambers like the Borg and just decant them when they reach the age of 18.

Simple solutions for a simpler world!

Could you imaging all the 18 year olds acting like babies? Pissing and shitting everywhere? And being able to legally drive down the street while pissing and shitting everywhere???

Moggy wrote:My lad has been to McDonald’s a few times, usually for me and him to share a McFlurry though.

Mmmmm McFlurry…..

I had a McFlurry once, i didn't like it, it wasn't flurry nice.

Haven't McDonalds given out books with happy meals sometimes in the past? They could go with that more often so long as they make sure the books are made from recycled paper.

Yeah the books option is a good one, as is doing something similar to the Sainsbury's Disney/Lego cards which someone mentioned earlier. Our kids are way more interested in collecting those than the cheap gooseberry fool toys that come with McDonald's.

Making the toy optional is a bullshit move though as the vast majority are still going to request one because they can't/won't stand up to their kids demanding it. McDonald's should have been brave and just removed them entirely