to wear my HUGE judgypants in MacDdonalds.

[burgercat]

Took dd to MacDonalds today. For us this is a holiday treat as we enjoy the odd burger, although dd is really just lured by the plastic tat in the happy meal TBH. She is slim and eats normally rest of time.

But, bloody hell, the people in there were beyond belief really. Makes me realize how other families actually live and why the health of the country is as it is.

Family 1- all huge, and the youngest dd (aged about 9) was definitely the fattest and not only that she was eating a full sized meal, and worst of all was wearing a full red velour lipsy tracksuit with gold embroidery!!!!!

Family 2- Two boys with their dad, all sat vacantly staring at their food and munching away. First boy opens his (supersize) fries and says "wheres the salt?" Dad doesn't say anything, just fishes in the papers on his tray and passes packet of salt to child. The chips are ALREADY covered in far too much salt, especially for kids, and if the child asks for salt this makes me think this is a regular thing for him, to cover his food in salt.

Don't these people take any responsibility for their health AT ALL?

Is 'we only go to McDonalds for a treat' the new 'I'm not being [insert ism], but.....'?

I might have a judgy moment OP but my internal twatometer would kick in waaaay before I got near enough to a computer to post about it.

iklboo yes.

Burger - yes, I do sometimes see people in something and think it looks a bit stupid/tight/daft or whatever. It is generally a fleeting thought more or less forgotten about straightaway though.

Again, I look through family albums (I was born in 1981) and CRINGE at my clothes, I really wonder wtf my mum and dad were thinking in letting me out of the house But, my mum died when I was 10. My clothes were bought after that by my dad and believe me if mum was bad my dad had NO sense of style, colour or suitability. I was wearing crap from the market aged 13 and I really did look awful but it wasn't my fault!

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I might have gone with that till she announced that she didn't believe health problems like cancer could make children larger.

Wind up or not that was massively cunty, and an awful thing to say in response to Kinkys post.

Still I got a decent name change from the thread.

Warmed up left over pizza is The Best for breakfast IMHO...
Now off to work out whqt class we are because I genuinly don't know. The children who are actually up are wearing a mixture of George, next and second hand Boden and I'm channelling Joe Browns. DS will be head to toe in sports brands and DH will be haunting an executive box at a sporting event this afternoon but will still look like a scruffy bastard, so I have no idea! We're all quite thin though so does that make us middle class? Will.DH be an acceptable McD's customer if I make him get a drive through on his way home?

That's what I mean slarty - I think if I had a plump child - and it is all very well starting with the your fault, your fault, YOUR fault! thing - but some children put weight on easily while others don't. That's difficult to manage when you've got two or more children with differing tendencies in the same house. I think it's kinder to be relaxed around food than to set your child up believing they can't have treats.

One meal at McDonald's will not cause dramatic weight gain and it's daft to claim it would.

I swear McDonalds start these threads, the outcome is always the same. We all go.

Honey, you need to reread what I said. And it wasn't in response to Kinky
I didn't say that i don't believe health probems can cause weight gain, you are twisting.

OP ypu obviously have never seen the damage judgy people like you do to a childs confidence. My mum was a larger lady because despite dieting it wouldn't shift. She'd become sleepy and odd. It turned out she was diabetic most of her life. Once that was under control she was fine and has lost weight. But all her life she has been the but of proples jokes which not only hurt jer but hurt me and my sister. My sister ate ecactly the same as me and she was larger. The same people tried yo destroy her confidence and hurt her. My niece is going through the same - and there are reasons why she is her size.
So yes, judge, snigger and say they should be denied yhe same as their friends. Does it feel good destroying people?

What a nasty person you are to have gone to McDonalds yesterday, made a load of assumptions about people you don't know and then post about it this morning...

Be careful with judging fat kids. My DD is overweight - this is because of the steroids she took for 3 years during her chemotherapy for leukaemia.

^^ Just one reason not to judge those you see that are overweight... there are many health reasons why someone may be overweight and you have no idea what's going on behind the scenes and to mock what a child is wearing is just cruel. My niece has leukaemia at the moment and would be one of the children you would judge because of the steroids she is taking and McDonalds is probably something she would love as a treat once she is allowed out of hospital.

Hope your DD is doing well kinkydorito

Am I the only one impressed by the feat of getting to McDonalds, judging the other punters and posting about it all before 8 in the morning?

I often wonder if the same people who gasp and tut at a fat child and shake their heads and blame the parents do the same if they find out a child has anorexia. I bet they don't!

I love a Big Mac. So do my kids.

You sound like a twat op.

oh op - you are the gift that keeps on giving aren't you. Was your DD dressed like Nellie Olsen from little house on the prairie, complete with ribbons? i bet she was wasn't she.

I bet that other family were fucking pissing themselves - oh, no, hang on they weren't because they were busy living their own lives, enjoying their meal (ok maybe not enjoying it is mcD after all) but they don't have to make themselves feel better about themselves by looking down their noses at others. I bet they went home and watched BGT as a family and had a bloody good laugh, as a family and enjoyed each others company and were happy

Are you happy OP? only you sound like there is something missing in your life.

Oh no of course not OP. You just happened to have posted it right after kinkys post. No ones twisting anything. Also if you genuinely did miss kinkys post. Then this is why MNHQ need to put a huge neon read the fucking thread! Sign up! Ss

You sound like a nasty cow OP. You have basically written off the family based on where they were, what they ate and what they looked like on the the basis that you are what they should aspire to.

You do realise that many families have not had the chances and opportunities that many of us here have.

In the town I live in for example...
41.4% of families are living in deprivation
23.3% (13155) children are living in poverty
11.6% of adults are long tern unemployed
24.6 % of adults eat healthily

Many of these people have been badly let down for several generations.

Instead of judging, have a think about the lives behind the imagine and have a think about just how crap life might be for them - and then think what the hell YOU can do to make a difference. I will guess you will do nothing, not one thing that could help the more deprived communities in your area; you will continue to judge from a difference and thank god that your "super slim" children don't have to mix with them.

Why doesn't my local McDonald's have a drive through?
Why is life so cruel to good people?

I do actually prefer BK, those cheesy jalapeño things are bloody marvellous, but I want McDonald's damn it!

Add message | Report | Message poster burgercat Sun 13-Apr-14 08:53:33
Well, I did ask if I was unreasonable to wear my judgypants? A lot of you say yes I am. Fair enough.

I don't believe those that assume medical conditions when they see a fat family feeding their child a large meal in McDonalds though.

How am I twisting that? Kinky said she goes to McDonalds hand her child is large for their age due to steroids to treat cancer. Kinky was the only poster to mention health issues and weight with children.

You have said you don't believe those that assume medical conditions when they see a fat family.

Me, i'll do anything for a big mac - and i mean ANYTHING

except i'm on a bastard diet and haven't had a mcD for months and this thread is bringing on the craving

LEMing I bet they stopped on the way home to to get Doritos and family sized chocolate bars...one each. Dreadful slatternly family eh?

Ooo we went for a treat yesterday...we went in our tracksuits (quite plain ones we sit about in) otherwise we only wear them when we are actually doing sports/activities. We were playing a guessing game.

I though to myself how someone may look at us as its not how we normally dress to go out but thats all we were doing going there, tbh if DH hadnt suggested we go in, the kids and I sit in the car post drive through looking at the bikers and trucks that stop there.

I have no qualms about going to Mc D's because I cook from scratch most nights, normally meat and two veg dinners. I also think Mc D's gets demonised a bit when many people feed their kids tinned processed stuff or meals made using sugary jar sauces which is just as bad nutritionally.

Over the course of the week they get their five a day at least as they eat a ton of fruit.

Im a bit overweight...

I was busy judging people in stinky smokey asda - wearing faux fur and uggs....i thought the sweat must be fantastic.

You went to McDonalds & judge the people who go there...

OK!!

Ooh, you've made me desperate for a Big Mac and fries. Slightly hungover, that would just hit the spot.

I don't understand how you can judge when you are in there yourself. I go about once every 6 to 8 weeks. I have sat in there overweight and slim. Still same person.