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How old were your kids when they had their first Mcdonalds?

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DebitheScot · 21/03/2007 15:39

Or KFC, Burger King etc.

Just felt like starting a possibly contraversial (can I even spell?) thread!

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Lizzylou · 22/03/2007 10:36

Haven't ventured to McD's yet, Dh hates it with a passion and would kill me! DS's are 3 and 1 and they will go in the future as I went to Uni with a girl who had never had any kind of fast food in her life due to strict parents and LIVED off burgers/chips/takeaways as a result, she had awful skin as a result!

portonovo · 22/03/2007 10:33

Eldest went for her first and only time at age 4.

No. 2 went at age 7 and again once at age 9. Has been just those two times.

No. 3 went once at age 6.

They are now 14, 12 and nearly 10.

Each occasion was a friend's party.

nikkie · 21/03/2007 21:29

McD never
BK don't even know where the nearest one would be , 70+ miles
KFC dd1 5/dd2 3 ish

colditz · 21/03/2007 16:22

The thing with MacDonalds in this town is that it's right next to the docotors.

And if you have to get your child an emergancy appointment for the GP, it will be at 5.30, after the surgery has finished. And if you live a 45 minute walk away, that means you have to start getting ready, with 2 kids, to leave the house at 4.30, and then you are always 20 minutes late in to the doctor, so it's 6pm when you get out - cue 45 minute walk home - it's bedtime!

So I could put something in the slow cooker, or I could make a delicious falafel pack up, but macdonalds is easier, and ds1 is mollified by the toy.

Clayhead · 21/03/2007 16:22

They haven't. dc are 3 and 5.

elliott · 21/03/2007 16:17

Not yet - they are 5 and 3. Its just not somewhere we'd be likely to go, I mean what's the point when there's much nicer places on offer?

nally · 21/03/2007 16:15

a year old

puddle · 21/03/2007 16:05

Mine (7 and 4) have never been or asked to go.

I wouldn't take them (not my idea of a nice place to eat) but they will probably go at some point with schoolfriends.

geekgrrl · 21/03/2007 16:04

2 weeks. big babies need to be weaned early, dontcha know?!

LadyTophamHatt · 21/03/2007 16:03

When Ds4 was born we went to Mc'ds on the way home from hospital!!

(drive thru though)

DominiConnor · 21/03/2007 16:02

DSs are 5 & 3, they've never been into McD's indeed DS1's only interaction has been to peer through the window looking at the crap people inside.
We use elitism as a peg to hang nutritional education on. Not sure what would happen if you tried to make DS eat a McD scrotumburger, but teeth would probably be involved...

KathyMCMLXXII · 21/03/2007 15:59

Can't remember, probably under a year.
Once we were over the purees we've just been giving her what we were having and a few times while on a long journey we've stopped for a MacD.
It's better than Burger King but not nearly as good as OK Diner.

IdrisTheDragon · 21/03/2007 15:58

Both DS and DD in utero .

Edmond · 21/03/2007 15:57

I hate mcdonalds actually
but we all like wimpy. I am inclined to think that the wimpy doesnt actually 'count' as junk food

Mercy · 21/03/2007 15:55

I think dd was about 3 when she had her first BK, ds younger. They were both only really interested in the chips tbh, although dd, now 6, will now eat the burger too.

We've never been to Macdonalds or KFC.

DebitheScot · 21/03/2007 15:52

well emergency is maybe a bit strong, I guess ds wouldn't have faded away if we'd waited till we got home but he wouldn't have been amused.
We were at an out of town retail park and lost track of time and so decided that some McD chicken nuggets wouldn't do him much harm (he didn't want the chips which was good coz it meant I got to eat them). He was 10 months old

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speedymama · 21/03/2007 15:49

DTS are 3yo and have not had a McD or BK. They had some of our KFC chicken just before they turned 3 and did not like it. They like the chicken I cook though

bozza · 21/03/2007 15:47

DS was 5 and DD was 2. DS has been twice (once with friends) and DD has been once.

We do other bad things though.

danceswithatruckloadofminieggs · 21/03/2007 15:47

Oh I'm mean, they never get happy meals (they haven't figured that one out yet)

colditz · 21/03/2007 15:45

ds1 was probably about 2, ds2, not yet.

Nbot at all probably, because it's too expensive for what you actually get. Ds2 is just as happy with a 10p toy from a charity shop.

danceswithatruckloadofminieggs · 21/03/2007 15:44

Yep, in utero here, esp ds...had dd who was 18 months, horrific backache, god bless the drive-through.

clayre · 21/03/2007 15:44

why an emergency? we took them to kfc on monday and they didnt eat it!

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LucyJones · 21/03/2007 15:44

why Deb - how old? And what sort of emergency?!!!

Enid · 21/03/2007 15:43

no idea

I think dd1 was about 4 and dd2 probably about 2

DebitheScot · 21/03/2007 15:43

Hey Clayre, you're not meant to show me up. I was keeping quiet until I saw what other people said!
It was an emergency!

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