to let DS have a McDonald's each week?

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DS is a swimmer and swims with a squad that's 45 mins away. He starts training at 6:30 and comes out at 8 (pm btw) and it's very convenient for this day. He is healthy and slim and on all the other days has a good, balanced diet.

Is this seriously so bad?

You don't have to eat meat or poultry to be able to identify a chicken nugget. McDonald's advertise all over the TV all the time, not to mention that I assume your kid mixes with other kids who do eat McD's.

well it is junk food, but tbh no worse than a cheese sandwich...

But you wouldn't describe a cheese sandwich as junk food and nobody would say having a cheese sandwich once a week as excessive. So the whole language around it has a whiff of snobbery.

A few weeks ago we were out with a friend and she stopped off and McDonalds drive thru and ordered DS a chicken nugget happy meal, when handed to him and he opened the box he replied "Auntie I don't know what this is"

What on earth has a kid not knowing what chicken breast coated in batter, got to do with the thread?

It just seems to so just unlikely that he doesn't even know what a chicken nugget is. Even if he's never eaten them.

It's like him not knowing what a tractor is just because he's never seen one in real life or not knowing what a beer is despite never drinking it.

My eldest dd age 4 doesn't eat chicken, I'm fact the only 'meat' she eats is chorizo and other deli meats like salami, still knows what a chicken nugget is though. They're all over the place. And nope, not once.have I been out with anyone, friend or family and they've just ordered my child something without asking me if they will like/want it. Dd sometimes likes going to McDonald's for the novelty, she has a bun with gherkins and cheese and the chips. I feel a bit daft asking for it but once every few months I don't mind. Subway however is once a week for me and often the kids too...yum

I haven't seen a McDs thread in so long so thanks OP

It's kept me busy on my train ride home from work.

Also the poster who works there, what the fuck happened to still Fanta?! Do you know who made the shitty decision to stop it?

Also do you have the suppliers number

Why is it seen as a badge of honour to not recognise a McDonald's meal (as if; there was a study done years ago in America where the Golden Arches was found to be the world's most commonly recognised symbol, the Crucifix coming a poor second!)?

That could have been commissioned by McDonald's, I suppose, but it still stands
On the last McDonalds thread I was on, one poster came on especially to tell everyone she only ever went into a McDonalds when she wanted to buy an apple
It sure brings out the crazies...

I'm with you there ProudBadMum I'm still not over them doing away with still Fanta, the only still juice they have now is shitty berry flavoured Oasis, I've now turned into one of those people who orders her large Big Mac meal with a bottle of water! (I hate fizzy drinks except Ginger Beer).

Still Fanta was the whole point of McDs

It just seems to so just unlikely that he doesn't even know what a chicken nugget is. Even if he's never eaten them

It's like him not knowing what a tractor is just because he's never seen one in real life or not knowing what a beer is despite never drinking it

Yes maybe unlikely to some of the readers/posters on this thread, btw he is 5 years old, and I don't cook any food covered in batter at home, I don't think it's unusual for a child not to know something that they have never been introduced to or seen and I'm pretty sure he hasn't learnt anything about McDonalds in school. I don't think it is fair to compare a food to a toy either... we all have our different ways on parenting and we shouldn't be judged on that

A few weeks ago we were out with a friend and she stopped off and McDonalds drive thru and ordered DS a chicken nugget happy meal, when handed to him and he opened the box he replied "Auntie I don't know what this is

Really? I wouldn't be proud of the fact that your son can't recognise food when he's given it. It's slightly worrying in fact.

Schools serve chicken nuggets, I'd be amazed if he'd not seen friends with them at lunchtimes.

Who else is now fancying a McDonalds tonight now? Dammit!!

I'd bloody kill for a Big Mac right now.

my nearest mcdonalds is 100 miles away

At least you can walk off the calories araiwa

Schools serve chicken nuggets, I'd be amazed if he'd not seen friends with them at lunchtimes

I'm sure some schools do, I remember viewing the school menu from my sons schools welcome pack, even though he has packed lunch, and I certainly didn't see chicken nuggets, chips or anything you'd find in a fast food chain on there, sometimes what you have to remember is that we are all from different walks of life.

And all those walks of life know of the existence of chicken nuggets, whether they eat them or not.

Smuggery gets you nowhere.

WorraLiberty

some google maths

1 big mac = 540 calories
walk 200 miles burns 20500 calories

i could eat 38 big macs

3 days of walking though.....

Just showed my five year old a picture of chicken nuggets and he didn't know what they were called either. I have no snobbery against McDonald's or similar chains, it's just that he's never had them. He has had chicken dippers though so I was surprised he didn't call them that.

Oh and OP I think YANBU.

So it's 100% beef? - that's ok surely?

It used to be all lips, nostrils and bumholes, 8dave* - still 100% beef lips, nostrils and bumholes, though. I don't know if things have changed, but any meat product can be included, and this means eyeball, skin, veins - if it grows on a cow, it's 100% beef by the standards of the industry.

I'm pretty sure they stopped using brain tissue and spinal cords when the BSE scare hit the headlines, but as I understand it, everything else is valuable protein as far as the fast-food industry is concerned.

There is also a lot of corn syrup in even savoury dishes, apparently. This is both addictive and unhealthy. I know that food standards have tightened up a lot, so this may have been reduced.

It's largely mechanically-recovered meat - gristle etc - which is washed off the bones using high pressure hoses, shovelled up, chopped and shredded, coloured and chemically-flavoured, and shaped into meat-like stuff. Or used to be - as I say, it may have changed since I watched a vomit-inducing documentary a few years ago.

Still smells and tastes nice, though, even when I know what goes on behind the scenes . . .

Well, it's burger and chips and fizz. Plenty of salt, plenty of fat. That's the "package".

Depends on your choices, surely? Mine choose to have the organic semi skimmed milk bottles or the bottles of water out of choice, and like the fruit bags.
They usually choose the chicken salad wrap or the fishfingers.
Out of choice.
Even if they didn't, it's not like it's an everyday occurrence and they eat healthily most of the time so I don't see a problem with anyone wanting one once a week.

I really don't like McDonalds but my kids still eat it and it don't bother me one bit and there far from obese and are healthy.

I don't see the difference to eating McDonald's/burger king/Gregg's ect and going home and cooking a frozen pizza/chicken nuggets and chips which is what most parents do especially when it's late and you CBA to cooker a 'proper' meal.

Unless your buying or growing organic stuff everything's got some kind of rubbish in it haha

@SmellMyCheeseYouMother thanks, I really appreciate your comment

Laugh all you want, but it's true that the food is exceptionally high quality (a lot higher than you'd get in your average restaurant actually). I work there.

Some of it is. Their milk, eggs, beef, coffee are decent enough.

Some of it really fucking isn't though. Their chicken is all very low grade stuff imported from Brazil.

They've done a stellar job in marketing the good bits and glossing over the horrors.