Is advertising to children wrong?

I feel bad for the weak minded people in this thread like @RickDeckard that are unable to change the channel when a commercial is on or not look at that ad in the bus stop while they’re waiting for the short bus

Or maybe his own fat ass.

They've really upped their coffee game. It's palatable now.

Not much on the burgers, but the breakfasts are comparable in price and quality as any other franchised fast food.

The problem is consistency. One day I’m a teenager, the next I’m a child. Then he still doesn’t get it right because I said once a month and he’s saying which day of the week. If you’re going to make a joke, at least get it right.

1) A teenager is a child; and

2) It's a pretty harmless line of teasing. It's obviously meant as a friendly dig. That you can't spot that only adds to the immature child meme (which wasn't even started by me FWIW).

excuse me? Arguably the most humorless, thin skinned member of wordforge is telling somebody else about harmless teasing?

Seriously, they are toys for kids. Who the fuck are you supposed to advertise to? There are certain products who have a target audience that are mainly children. That is where your money is so you advertise to children. Perhaps some kids things should be advertised to their adult consumers also, but the kids are the ones who are going to be your largest people desiring those products.

Sorry to the fucking adults who do not want to say no to their children, but you need to start. Yes, your children will see things they want and pitch a fit when you say no, but that is being parents. You have to be strong and tell your kids no. I am tired of having to curb myself because you cannot be a fucking parent. We simply cannot give up all adult things because your child migbht see them and want to do them, and you are too much of a wussbag to say no.

Advertising happens and maybe you should take the time to educate your children on the reality we don't get everything we want simply because we cry about it. Think about how much better our toddler in chief would be if his dad knew how to say no?

Don't forget one of WF's biggest post stalkers. But just so I blame the victim the boy could do without saying such stupid juvenile things and promoting his image of being a child just like chuppie could pull the stick out and stop being one of the most humorless, think skinned members of WF.

I think the general idea is to make you out to look like the classic 13 year old edgelord who pretends to be much older online so he can look like he knows what he's talking about. So "teen," and "child" are consistent if that's the case, and he can correct me, but I'm pretty sure that's what @El Chup is going for.

Also, I bought a Happy Meal a few years back because I wasn't very hungry, and plus I like doing it just to do it to make life interesting.
Anyhoo, what a shitty little meal. I mean, the food tastes awful, the portions are sad even for a kid, and the toy was crap. I remember being a kid and the food tasted much better, the toys were exciting. So either it's just my memory of being a kid, and the rosiness that accompanies it, or they've really gone downhill. Maybe both.

About once every 2-3 months, I'll go to Arby's and get the Meat Mountain along with an order of loaded curly fries and large Jamocha Shake. It comes to almost 2800 calories.... that seems like a lot.

I’m overweight, not obese, but overweight and I should be eating about 2,000 calories a day.

I used to have a habit of getting McDonald's Bacon Egg Cheese Biscuit thing two, maybe three times a year. They're such gut grenades that's all I could...stomach.

It's been so long since I bought one, though, that I literally can't remember. Many years, for sure.

It's definitely been more than 20 years since I had any of their burgers, though. Around here there are so many better fast food options than McDonald's. Their food tastes fake and plastic to me.

If you think about it McDonalds has always been a kids oriented chain. They are supposedly run by a clown who is supported by a big purple glob, a talking bird, a mayor with a cheeseburger head, and their primary nemesis is the hamburglar. They have had toys forever, and their smaller items are all kids sized. The only place that sold a smaller burger when I was young was white castle. They are always connected with the kids movie franchises. About the most adult they ever got was rick and Morty and as we can see from their fanbase they are pretty much toddlers with driver's licenses. The only fanbase I know of that is worse is Steven universe fans which probably has a lot of overlap.

I think getting mad at mcdonalds for advertising to kids has got to be one of the stupider things. I suppose they should sue the Disney channel or Nick kids for children's advertising too.

At least when I eat at Arby's I am not still hungry after spending 10 dollars on one of their meals.

Their burgers are awful. I had one a few weeks ago on the way back to the house. I stopped in, got a cheeseburger and unsweet tea (you know, so I don't die). Got home, took a bite of the cheeseburger, and it just tasted terrible. The bun was greasy and chewy, the burger was dry like a puck, and had no taste. The onions? Nothing. It was like biting an old carpet sample.

So anyway, I took a drink of my tea to wash down the horror, and it was sweet, and not just sweet but SUPER sweet, like they just dumped the whole damn sugar bag in the tea. There was no tea flavor, just sugar water. Sugary sugar sludge water. Nasty as hell.

because it is a lot!

In the mid-90s I used to work with a reporter who always wanted to eat at McDonald's for some reason. Fortunately for me, back then they had a "Texas Burger" or somesuch thing on their menu that approximated the way I like burgers. It still didn't taste as good as easily a half dozen other places would've been, but it was tolerable.

Plus the reporter was a really good writer so I liked to keep him happy.

McDonalds just ripped off what the cereal companies were doing.

I used to be that way, McDonalds was good, and I liked some of the food items, like the quarter pounder with cheese. These days, they just charge way too damned much for what they offer. They have burgers for $7. There is no burger on that menu worth that. $3? Maybe, but $7 is too much.

Part of it for me was growing up in a small town that didn't have a McDonald's. The only chain burger places were Dairy Queens.

The first time I had McD's I remember thinking, "What's the big deal about this shit?"

Where I live we had the big chains: McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Little Caesar's, Wendy's, and then a few small local restaurants which couldn't really compete with them because at the time they were much cheaper options. I was a kid, so of course the pizza places were the best, and Pizza Hut did have good pizza, and it was nice to visit on a Friday night with other members of our extended family. The smell of the pizza, the checkered tablecloths, the Outrun arcade cabinet that my beady little 10 year old eyes would stare at all night until my dad relented and gave me a few quarters. That was fun.

Pizza Hut today is an abomination to the very notion of pizza. Little Caesar's is horrid. Wendy's is okay, but too damned expensive. I mean shit, their value menu starts at just under $2 per item. That's not a savings for what you get.

McDonald's, though, is the worst. They've gone higher in pricing, and their quality continues to plummet. I've seen the film Founder, and aside from Michael Keaton's brilliant acting, I really liked the idea of a burger place that served only burgers, only fries, and only drinks. No fancy anything else. Burger. Fries. Drink. Go. So it was no wonder Ray Kroc loved the idea. Then he fucked it up, as most assholes do, and nowadays it's just a kludgework of food items and marketing slogans.

Our local diner used to serve the best damn burger around, but they were bought out, and the new guy who owns the place makes the burgers different, using a sweet roll instead of a buttered bun. Remember that great looking burger I posted a few months back?

(THIS ONE)

Yeah, all gone. No more of those. So now we're all kind of waiting around for a good burger joint to move in. There's a place that's moving in to the old Dominos building up the street, and they sell burgers and fish, so I'm... not really excited. I'll withhold judgment, though because they may end up being awesome, and since they're only a block up the street, I can walk there, get a tasty burger, and walk back in just a few minutes. Now that's convenience!

Some of the best hamburgers I've had were at places where they weren't the main menu item (like Mexican restaurants and such). And I'll take a burger from an independent place over even the chains that I like every single time. The only time chains win out are when I'm on the road for work because most mom-and-pop places don't have drive-throughs.

This is currently my favorite burger place in town, though it appears they've changed their name since I last visited. It used to be called Hawx Burger Bar and Electro-Lounge.

That looks delicious.
Also, why would you get rid of a cool name like "Electro Lounge" and replace it with "Sports Lounge" because that's a dumb change!

It still comes up as that on Yelp and other review sites, but maybe they haven't caught up with the name/theme change.

When I asked what the name meant, the bartender told me it was because on weekends they turned much of the building into an EDM club while still serving burgers.

EDM makes me get stabby so I've always limited my visits to weekdays and weeknights.

EDM makes me get stabby, too, but the good kind of stabby. The wholesome kind.

Trying to sell Happy Meals based on the toy is probably an issue. I remember being a kid and wanting to keep going to get all the toys for a set. Mainly that BTTF the animated series set. But the food? If they can sell that shit, more power to them.

When I first moved to where I am now, there were a few small mom and pop type places. Unfortunately they weren't all that great. They kind of thought, or seemed to think that if they presented themselves as a mom and pop type of place they'd do well. But they would use premade, frozen patties or just from eating the food, you could tell it was all frozen bulk type food. Once place advertised itself as homemade type food, tried it once. The homemade food was obviously not, they had canned vegetables, heat and type rolls, etc.,

The really bad thing, there's a local BBS, and on there people would rave about this new place, or that existing place. I tried them, none were really great. One place in particular, advertised their wings and domestic bottled beer specials as in "All Domestic Bottles $1.50!". Went there once, ordered the wings and I think either a 42o or Sweetwater, the owner rang it in (you order at the counter then they bring it out), it was $3.50 or so. I said something about it, he said it wasn't domestic. Dumb fuck, it's made and bottled in Atlanta. And also ordered some wings, so he gives me a receipt and said if I wanted anything else that I tell the waitress and she'll add it. You do pay on the way out. They bring out the wings, they're about the size of my thumb. So I said something about the size of them to the waitress, she gets the owner and he tells me that they've been running small. I ask if they buy them by the pound or by each wing, he starts bitching at me about. I wound up walking out.

But on the bright side about 20-30 minutes from me, and about 10 minutes from my sister there's several great non chain places.

I can make my own burgers, wings, pizza, etc., that tastes better than any place around here. And it's not me saying that. I've had many people tell me that what I've made for them is the best they've had. My sister loves the calamari I make, and her boyfriend and his son and wife do as well. A couple years ago, they had a holiday party where everyone brings a dish or two. I brought some etouffee and wings, and made calamari there. Those three dishes were completely emptied, the only ones that were emptied.

A lot of places only consider industrial beers like BudMillerCoors to be "domestic".

Which reminds me of my favorite beer quote from the owner of a local brewpub/brewery. A customer was having a hard time deciding what to order and asked the guy behind the bar (who happened to be the owner) if they had any "domestic" beer. The owner put one hand on one of the tanks behind the bar and the other on the beer taps and said, "Sir, the beer will travel this far by the time it gets in your glass. It doesn't get any more 'domestic' than that!"

Yup, and those are places I never go back to. And that place I talked about, it closed 2-3 months after I was there.

I've found that if place only offers BudMillerCoors type, it's best to walk right back out. If a place has a pretty good beer selection on tap and bottle, then the food tends to better pretty good or better than most. Two weeks ago when I was on vacation I did find a place with amazing good burgers, and it was cooked perfectly to medium rare as well.

Not really into the burgers, but egg mcmuffins have a special place in my heart. Food of my childhood.