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" ?

Actually, I've just remembered... I had a sausage and egg bap with brown sauce from a burger van for my lunch yesterday. Ate it in the sunshine, sitting on the ground in work car park. And I had a Marathon Snickers for pudding. Would have been perfect but I forgot the can of coke.

In my defence, I've been helping someone move so I had earned it... and DH and DCs will never know.

On the subject of weight, there was a thing on Upworthy about a science teacher who repeated the 'eat nothing but mcDonalds for a month' experiment, and lost loads of weight. His pupils planned his menu to make it nutritionally balanced as part of the course.

Two votes!! hahahaha cower before me all jazz loving psueds! Soon the world will be mine and the only mumsnet threads permitted will be those devoted to discussing the relative merits of Spike versus Angel.

Spike. Obviously.

psueds - that's the word I was looking for - make it 3 votes

I would agree with OP if it was specifically the flurry thingy we were talking about - they are v.strange imo.

McDs is not LCD. Consistent and reasonably priced in fact if you get beyond prejudice.

O yes! I am unstoppable now!

We will have a special island to send those who like Angel best. They can listen to their jazz and eat their organic flavoursome food without annoying the rest of us.

Angel would SO listen to jazz and insist on taking Buffy to some authenic Afghan kitchen.

Whereas that scene outside the Doublemeat palace with Spike remains rather firmly fixed in my mind.

Nurse! more smarties.

Never seen Buffy, but I do I like cricket

The best bits of cricket are the bits when nothing happens, like a good jazz song

But not like McDs, obviously

Cricket is best with beer and sunshine and gentle applause.

Buffy is amazing. Especially the earliest series.

On that basis alone, I'll vote for Spero as supreme arbiter of taste. And for the McDonalds love of course, that went without saying until I just said it

I do enjoy the sound of cricket. Either listening to Test Match Special (ideally when play has briefly been stopped) or sitting in the sun with my eyes shut listening to the clapping and the distant thwack of leather on willow.

I quiet like the teas too - so long as I'm not catering.

Charity the science teacher that ate at McDonalds lost weight because he counted calories and increased his levels of exercise. He did try to eat the healthier options, such as egg white muffins, oatmeal with skim milk and salads, with burger options in the evening.

Equally, an American professor lost 27lbs eating Twinkies, Oreos and Doritos, to prove that for weight loss it is calorie counting that matters most, and not the nutritional value of the food.

There is a man in America that has eaten almost nothing but Big Macs for decades. link.

He is thin because the calories in 3 Big Macs is not enough to make an average man fat.

However, I'm sure that he and the Twinkies man must get hungry, as these types of food are not very filling.

This thread has made me yearn for Burger King. It's been about two years since I last had the chance. It's almost worth waiting hours for a train into the city so I can have one at the station at the other end. I can picture it now; a whopper (which I can't eat without making a salady-mayo mess), fries, giant diet coke and a paper bag of those deliciously salty fake-cheesy chilli bites.

Stupid fucking lentils and vegetables.

We are going to need much bigger island to accommodate all these cricket and jazz aficionados.

I have an extremely fussy 5yo. McDonalds happy meal is one of a very few things he eats up without crying.

Spero makes some good points on this thread.

Mcdonalds food isn't poison it's food.

The fine diners and nut nibblers fortunately don't hold sway in telling the underclass what to eat.

Underclass??

I honestly think McDs is classless. Every one I've ever been to is full of all sorts of people.

I remember watching a documentary on the Woburn Estate years ago and the 14th Duke of Bedford had a bit of a McD habit.

Underclass .

MrsShortfuse

Some posters must have missed the sarcasm aimed at the fine diners on this thread.

Next time i'll spell it out.

Oh.

It's cheap and quick fun and kids love it. They even do milk and fruit so its not all unhealthy.

My teens would agree with you op. DS (16) does go there occasionally with friends but he finds it amusing that one of his friends sees it as a treat. DD (14) dislikes fries (always has) burgers coke etc. so persuades her friends to go elsewhere.

If we are on the motorway and their dad suggests eating at McD's or Burger King they moan.

We brought them to both McD's & Burger King from time to time when they were little.
They do like to eat unhealthy food . DD loves ice cream and her brother probably something savoury such as pork pies.

My children consider it a 'treat' because it is a rare occasion to visit it and its a change from the norm. They eat healthy, fresh food prepared specially for them every day - it's called 'dinner'. Therefor a visit to mcd's every couple of months where they are allowed a small coke and get a toy with their meal is viewed as a treat for them. The price of it is immaterial. I can't quite believe that you find it so hard to comprehend that people will not always feel the same way as you do about things