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Look what Anthony Bourdain is doing to his daughter

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Bessie123 · 15/06/2010 09:33

here

This is vile. And it begs the question how is 2 and a half year old daughter even knows about mcdonalds happy meals if he has never given them to her.

Don't get me wrong, I would certainly never feed my dd mcdonalds but I am that he would traumatise a small child in that way, and congratulate himself on it.

What do you reckon?

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withorwithoutyou · 15/06/2010 09:35

God that's pathetic.

Why make any type of food 'the enemy'?

We had McDonalds occasionally as children, I probably eat there once a year, if that.

Bramshott · 15/06/2010 09:37

It was a horrid article. I agree, my 2.5 yr old would have had no idea what mcdonalds was. He is manufacturing a problem and tackling it in a really skewed way!

QualityTime · 15/06/2010 09:40

Good god, what a hatefilled article.
i need to go scrub my brain.

oricella · 15/06/2010 09:42

That was 5 minutes of my time wasted

Imagine what little Bourdain will think when she's 16 and going through her dad's writing..

Bramshott · 15/06/2010 09:42

I would however, have no shame about trying to brainwash a 10-yr old !

TheJollyPirate · 15/06/2010 09:43

...and may God help him when she's a teen and hanging out at Mackkie Ds with her mates.

Pennies · 15/06/2010 09:45

Can't he just say no, it's bad for you like the rest of us anti-Macdonalders do?

Anthony Bourdain, for example, is a twat. A spineless one at that who can't form a cogent response to his daughter's requests for things she doesn't even know she wants yet.

ib · 15/06/2010 09:51

We take ds to mcd to play while we go online sometimes when we're travelling and he has never shown the slightest inclination to eat there - the most we ever get is mineral water.

The fact is, for a child who is used to picking his food from his garden (where he has helped grow it) and cooking it with his parents, mcd holds little appeal.

Pennies · 15/06/2010 09:53

I really want a MacDonalds now though. Will Ronald MacDonald kidnap me if I venture there and will I smell of poo?

PansAndNoodles · 15/06/2010 09:53

How weird is he? Where does he live? Royston Vasey?

She'll never trust him again when she finds out he's been playing mind games on her (and she will). He's playing with fire there.

Lulumaam · 15/06/2010 09:55

bit OTT to be fair.. but his point is a good one..macdonald's make a concerted effort to market to children.. and the food is IMO, probably not as good /wholesome as they would like us to believe.

but his tactics are repugnant.. painting ronald mcdonald as a child abducter is grotesque and not really something a 2 year old should be exposed to .. even in a 'jokey' fashion

he is right about the insidiousness of fast food marketing as whole though

muggglewump · 15/06/2010 09:59

Surely the best thing to teach kids is moderation.
I teach DD there are no bad foods, just a bad diet and I make sure she has a good one, but it includes all food she likes (and some she doesn't!) and I can afford, including Maccas and the dreaded Greggs sausage rolls, but those things make up a tiny proportion of it.

I think banning foods is more likely to make them want them when you no longer have control.

stripeyknickersspottysocks · 15/06/2010 09:59

How cruel to be frightening a 2.5yr old with tales of kids disappearing. Will give her all sorts of issues.

Why can't he just be honest and say that the food is high in fat and not good for you. Or why can't he think actually no food is bad for you if eaten in moderation and a happy meal once a month isn't going to kill her if healthy food is eaten the rest of the time. By banning it in this manner she's more likely to rebel and want to stuff herself silly on Big Macs when she's a teenager.

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Bessie123 · 15/06/2010 10:01

I couldn't believe the child abduction stuff. Or his plan to coat a vinegar soaked sponge or a tuft of hair in chocolate and give it to her in a mcdonalds box. To frighten and manipulate a young child like that is really

He even seems to be congratulating himself on his great parenting skills...

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ProfessorLaytonIsMyLoveSlave · 15/06/2010 10:02

I suspect, actually, that he may be making this up. It's the sort of thing you might idly speculate about doing in adult company, escalating the notional anti-McD's plan to more and more ridicuous heights. And it's an extract from a polemical book. I'll be at least mildly surprised if he's really doing anything more than the "Ronald McDonald smells of poo" part (which is verging on the inspired in tuning in to small children's love of the lavatorial).

differentnameforthis · 15/06/2010 10:03

In can't be bothered to read beyond the poo part.

What a twat!

SolidGoldBrass · 15/06/2010 10:05

He's a self-righteous wanker (surprise surprise, he's been a druggy - the definition of self-aggrandizing, self-righteous wankery). He's probably half-joking and posturing for effect here, at least I sincerely hope so, otherwise he risks damaging his relationship with his DD beyond repair once she is old enough to realise that he doesn't see her as a person, just an object that can be made to obey him.

PansAndNoodles · 15/06/2010 10:06

It's the lengths he plans to go to that I find disturbing. That last paragraph about wrapping up something nasty for her to discover...how warped is that?

Like others have said. Just be honest and keep it in perspective.

Chil1234 · 15/06/2010 10:08

LOL... what a funny article. Don't think a few Mcnuggets are going to kill anyone and one day she'll try some and discover that Daddy is a big old liar. Although - as a psychological tactic - we do something similar whenever 'cigarettes' crop up in the conversation.... the word usually gets delivered with a sour face and followed by a big 'ewwwwww' noise.

bibbitybobbityhat · 15/06/2010 10:09

For once I am speechless ...

littleomar · 15/06/2010 10:09

silly man. in our house we say: "of course you can go there. once you are old enough to get a job and pay for it yourself".

IMoveTheStars · 15/06/2010 10:12

holy crap... what a weird man

SolidGoldBrass · 15/06/2010 10:14

We eat there occasionally. It's not acutally poisonous you know - while it's not the greatest food either, once in a while when you're tired, skint and starving in an unfamiliar town, a burger or two does the trick nicely.

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Bessie123 · 15/06/2010 10:23

hmm, well I wouldn't eat a burger under any circumstances (unless I was perhaps literally starving to death) so I can't relate there. I started the thread more to comment on how completely unneccessary and inappropriate I thought AB's behaviour was. It would break my heart to distress my dd like that, I just couldn't see how he could possibly think he was justified in it.

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Chil1234 · 15/06/2010 10:30

Hang on Bessie123... before getting overly concerned about what distresses children, do you read your kids any traditional bedtime stories? Sing nursery rhymes? They're filled with wolves eating grandmothers or gobbling up little pigs, witches doing dreadful stuff and other coded warnings about what happens to naughty children that don't do as they're told.

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