to not understand why people consider McDonalds to be a "treat"

[TalkinPeace]

if I want a family "treat" meal I go somewhere with fresh, favoursome food made especially for us.

Why do people take their kids somewhere that sells the lowest common denominator of food and call it a "treat" ?

that is why i like it sometimes

it is very easy to eat, it is sweet and salty and has an artificial taste

i cook for scratch at home and i am quite a good cook with a varied diet

but i do like crap food

there is many so called good foods that taste nothing like food but because they are organic they are considered good food organix carrot stick things and many of there other snacks do not taste like real food but that is ok they are organic (have you looked at the ingredients)

While I have not eaten in a McDonalds for about 15 years, since my kids outgrew the occasional "treat " there, I accept that for some people on low incomes etc this WILL be a treat.

OP I have worked in a michelin restaurant, eaten in more michelin places than i care to think about, including one meal that cost around £700. I cook from scratch 6 days a week. From homemade char siu buns to bacon ice cream.

I also take my DD to macdonalds once a week as a treat after gymnastics. To be honest your OP sounds like rather self congratulatory and smug. look how much more sophisticated i am than you plebs.

If it's good enough for Pierre Koffmann and Albert Roux, it's certainly good enough for you dahling

Well you see, there appears to be a shocking dearth of places that sell fresh, favoursome food round my way at 7pm when my daughter has finished swimming and I am tired and don't want to cook.

So we go to MacDonalds. She enjoys it. I don't mind it. Food pretty tasty actually.

As long as you don't eat there EVERY night what on earth is the problem? Anyone who shops in a supermarket is complicit in the horrible ways we manufacture and distribute food, so please, only yurt dwelling vegans are allowed to get on their moral high horses ta v much.

Eatshitderek I have eaten plenty of McDs in the past when I was younger, it was always disgusting, but is a cheapish hot meal if you are a student

I certainly won't be going as an adult, I am lucky to live in a city with a wonderful choice of food options and children are welcome everywhere

The masses always have poor taste whether it be reading The Sun, watching soaps or eating very poor highly branded food. What surprises me is that so many people on a pretty middle class forum like mumsnet who should be a little bit educated with options of where they can eat, keep going on about how they would "kill for a Maccy Ds". Has modern life in Britain really got this bad? Then God help us all

I love going to McDonald's. it is a treat for us and we probably go once every six weeks. This costs us about £15-20 for five of us to have a meal and a drink. We also like to go to nice pubs/restaurants but these cost far more than macdonalds, more like £50 for five of us, you may or may not be able to see why we go to macdonalds more often, depending on your budget. £50 is quite a lot of money to the majority of people I know.

Oh and a cautionary tale for you "my precious pfb will never eat mcdonalds" types. I wasn't allowed it when i was a child, my mum thought it was a dreadful place.

When i moved out to go to university i ate mcdonalds at every possibly opportunity - because it was like forbidden fruit.

Happiness is found in moderation

tell you what i love about macdees tho' - it is light, bright, clean, doesn't matter if your little ones make a noise or drop their food, and you can afford to go there.
what is not to like?
shame the food is shite.
luckily my dd will only eat the fries and the apple pie, although ds does go the whole hog.
one thing i have noticed tho, apart from the fact that if you eat one big mac you want another, the food is really not mood lifting in any way, in fact it makes you bad tempered.
weird.

Mijas99, how is the view from your lovely high horse?

Bet its far nicer than anything us plebs can see isn't it?

Good thing we are not allowed up there with you, we would only spoil it with our horrible chavtastic food.

The masses always have poor taste whether it be reading The Sun, watching soaps or eating very poor highly branded food

I'm not middle class, far from it, but I think.we have a generally good diet, maybe its shit and I don't know, although people often comment on the kind of.food my dc eat, as their dc wouldn't eat it.
Meh, the dc are happy and healthy, that's all that matters surely?

wtf has being educated or mc got to do with liking macdonalds

are the poor with bad taste not educated

You know, I used to get a bit scared in the Bedminster Asda MacDonalds when it was all kicking off, but I would take the screaming and threats over the attitudes of Mijas99 ANY DAY.

IKEA food was found to have poo in it wasn't it?

Just saying...

And it wasn't as bad as the Brixton MacDonalds where people were sometimes murdered.

You see, there are worse things in the world than some chips, I know it is hard for some people to believe.

Poo AND horse.

i have often been in the Brixton md's with ds

not seen any dead bodies lying around mind you we have to dodge the bullets walking up the high street

I lived almost directly above the Brixton MacDonalds for nearly two years; the month before I moved in, someone was killed with a machete in the queue. Or shot. Or something.

But my daughter loved it, so we went once a week. She certainly considered it a 'treat'.

And guess what? I also eat quinoa. Sometimes. Surely, everything in moderation?

The masses

Nice

Failing to see how taking the children to mcdonalds once every 6 to 8 weeks means that I've got to hand my MC badge in but fair enough

I love the fries, it's probably the salt as I don't use salt at home...healthy diet and all that

But I can see I am a VERY BAD parent for worrying more about the chance of imminent random murder, rather than exposing my daughter to such filthy muck foodwise.

it was a shooting i think spero if we are recalling the same incident....freaked me out that did had been down there getting happy meals some time before that incident.

EatShitDerek

I wish I was Ronald McDonald

I bet he can afford to eat at the Fat Duck (or whatever its called)