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" ?

I love McDonalds. I say love, that's a slight exaggeration, but I get a craving for it now and then. So do I go all the time? No, about three times a year. Haven't taken my DS yet though imagine I will in the next year or so.

Cheap TASTY (to me) food most certainly can be a treat.

I find it really genuinely odd when people think their personal opinion on something subjective like the taste of food is a fact.

I love a big mac

yum, extra pickles

lovely salty chips

freezing cold fanta

no cooking, no cleaning up

kids love it, the toy is fun

I cant wait till we can go for a maccy ds

Well, I think I have the answer. Everyone who has said that they enjoy McDs and find it to be a treat must simply remind themselves next time they're there that they should not be enjoying it, in fact they can't be enjoying it, because someone else has decided for them that it is simply Not A Treat. Fact.

That should do it

About 4 times a year I enjoy chicken nuggets medium fries & bbq sauce

oh I love the sweet chilli dip

lol @ treacle

I take my kids there pretty much all weekend as the food is delish the prices are great and the staff so frendly.

Terri

Fucking zombie thread.

Ethel

Its not cheap.

You are hungry an hour later.

Because I like the taste and know it's unhealthy so I have it as an occasional treat?

Not every family can afford to eat at the Ritz or the Hilton. like you.To some people McDonald's Is a treat.

This thread started 18 months ago.

I wouldn't go there for a treat for me but will take dd as a treat for her. A happy meal is only £3 and comes with a toy and she gets to use the tomato ketchup dispenser which is her absolute most favourite thing. The food itself isn't even that terrible for you. There's worst things then chicken nuggets and chips every now and then. I think the foods gross and usually just have a coffee but why not let dd have something she enjoys rather than something I enjoy sometimes.

This thread is 18 months old.

Terri, why have you searched for a thread about this just to post an inane comment.

Do you work for McDonalds?

They go because they like it. Hth.

I don't think food should be used as a treat

ds loves McDonalds so do I and we have it occasionally

we eat out a lot, for him it is not something special but even if we didn't the eating out is the treat not the food

Yeah it does seem pretty strange for a zombie thread about Maccies from the olden days to be resurrected. It's hardly the most interesting topic in the world is it. Mind you says me, who's posted twice on the thread

I often wonder how these get resurrected? Google?

It's Terri's only post too.

Strange.

To me, McDonald's is disgusting. My daughter, now 11, doesn't like it anymore and prefers healthier stuff but my son, almost 7, loves it and sees it as a treat so we take him. Is that really so wrong? It's not as if we go every week.

Love a mcd now and again

I must be the only person who finds IKEA food disgusting .. People go on about the meatballs etc .. It's all gross. I don't overly like macdonalds but I'm not a snob about it . The kids like it , it's just chicken and potatoes and it won't hurt them once in a while.. Get over yourself !

Terri, why have you searched for a thread about this just to post an inane comment

Standard procedure. This person will almost certainly now start a whole bunch of soup/nutrition threads. Or bump another zombie and then start the food threads because she's been called out on this one.
God - so fucking tedious.

Indeed, TwoSmelly.

And people are already posting on this thread just based on an OP from 18 months ago. Just proves that people don't check what they're reading or read the whole thread.

Too many bitch ploppers on this site.

Because it's yummy. Fattengingly, tooth rottingly yummy. There. I like fruit and veg a lot but a McD's is awesome every once in a while. That is key, the occasional nature of it.

Too many bitch ploppers on this site

Ain't that the truth. As Descartes might have said "I post, therefore I am"