To think KFC is fine for an 11 year old?

Your 'friend' is bloody lucky that you were able to have her kid, let alone her feed her.
You did a good thing.
Your 'friend' was rather rude.
Did she thank you for looking out for her kid, or was she too busy pouting about 'fast food'.

She should be grateful you looked after and fed her child at short notice. Next time I’d tell her to shove it!

Ungrateful cow. Food snob as well.

No even if it's a place I don't take mine, there's two I don't like for very different reasons. I would just be glad of help and my child was fed, safe and happy.
Hopefully when less stressed ( hospital appointments can be ) they see this too

Yep, sorry. Forgot this was mumsnet, land of the obtuse.

I don't give my son junk food but my brother takes him to McDonald's, and so do his friend's parents sometimes. I actually like that he gets junk food elsewhere. Makes it so much easier for me to say no - 'not today darling but it'll make it even tastier when your uncle takes you'. Honestly don't care as long as it's not all the time. Just glad to have some time to myself!

They are all MN tropes. And the first two are well represented on this thread.

But it’s a bit harsh to say that taking a child at short notice (“emergency childcare”) is the “tiniest favour”. No doubt we’d all do it, but it’s not exactly giving a cup of sugar or lending your gardening gloves.

I’d be very, very thankful if a friend looked after a child of mine for several hours because I had a hospital appointment.

Quite right, chicken bones are risky for dogs. Don’t feed your dog Hotel Chocolat, Sunmaid raisins, or sugar-free polo mints either.

None of that is really relevant to OP though is it?

I don't think KFC will hurt occasionally and your friend is being incredibly ungrateful and unreasonable. You were kind enough to look after her child at the drop of a hat and to provide food. It wasn't your fault that Bella Italia was closed - did she seriously expect you to drive to a supermarket and then start cooking? I don't think I'd be willing to help out again in a hurry.

Haha this. So rude when you were doing her a favour it's fried chicken fgs

@Nonitor

the mum was being ridiculous, end of. All she needed to say was ‘thank you, OP”

It would be the last favour I'd be doing her!

Are you for real? KFC=heroin. Only on MN. Get a grip ffs.

When someone watched my wee boy in an unplanned situation they fed him a McDonalds. It was his first one and not something we would have given him as he is 4. But... they were doing us a favour, probably thought they were giving him a nice treat when he was away from his mum and dad and it made life easy for them. So we kept shut! It really won't derail any healthy eating we do at home.

Your friend is over-reacting. But I am sure we have all acted silly at times.

My answer to her comment "I thought you were going to Bella's" would have been:
"We did but they've closed down. I made sure that your kid was included where we did finally end up which was KFC's so they've been fed and aren't hungry. Hope your appointment went well for you. Talk again soon....bye"

Fast food also has a hierarchy of snob level

Who knew?

Yanbu at all, she was very rude.

Their salad dressings are delicious

Given that you helped her out in a fix she has NO RIGHT to comment on where you took her to eat.
(Although I would rather starve than go to KFC hahaha)
You did fine OP

Yes, I always assume any UPF is in ny batter, spice mixes, condiments, sauces, bread etc. But therefore it's not extreme and occassional enjoyment really is completely fine.

Actually the reason I prefer KFC or a burger as my fast food of choice is that at least there is some meaningful nutrition in the form of the meat/chicken protein. Much as i LOVE a pizza and will happily enjoy one, even, gasp, from a less-than-brilliant-takeway - the volume of the tomato or odd vegetable doesn't add much nutrition.

Thinking about my childhood in the 70’s and early 80’s. No real fast food apart from a Wimpy in the town centre.
If someone’s mum took you in for tea it involved a chip pan. With lard. Egg and chips. Corned beef and chips. Unless it was a Saturday and you’d get some sort of casserole.
If we were lucky we got ‘afters’ - usually tinned fruit and evaporated milk.
And orange squash.
I don’t know how we did it but me and every kid in my family and street were like whippets.
However, there was hardly much in terms of money for snacks, sweets, biscuits and soft drinks.
I can remember my mum used to buy a whole packet of chocolate digestives on a Thursday to last the week and they would get eaten during Top of the Pops.
I am not looking back with rose tinted specs. We did actually eat veg, I can remember having fruit, but there were no huge portions and we were outdoors running around constantly.
I can just imagine my mum saying to a neighbour…
Marg, you never gave Peggy an extra buttered bap with her chips, did you?!!!

Like all that type of junk food, it should be eaten as a treat , and best in moderation,🙂

Neither would I due to the bones. My DC can have it though.

This! How rude and entitled.

Is it? Where is the objective fast food hierarchy. Personally from what I know of their supply chain and controls I think McDonald’s is really good, I’d pick that or BK ahead of others. Certainly ahead of Bella Italia. I don’t know much about kFC and I didn’t like it when I tried it so I’d not be inclined to go myself but if someone was feeding my child in an emergency I’d just be glad they fed them. Food is food. I think I’d only be upset if they gave them endless sugar and no proper food but I couldn’t get upset about some fast food.