McDonald's Says Bye-Bye To Sugary Sodas In Happy Meals (sort of)

[The Straight Story]

McDonald's Says Bye-Bye To Sugary Sodas In Happy Meals

Fast-food giant McDonald's has made a to stop marketing sodas as a beverage option in kids' Happy Meals.

Instead, the chain has committed to market and promote only milk, water and juice with the children's meals.

Now, if parents order a Coke or Sprite with their child's Happy Meal, they won't be turned down. But sodas will no longer be marketed or promoted visually in any of McDonald's advertisements or in-store visuals.

The change comes as part of a larger plan to promote more healthful choices at the fast-food chain.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/26/226564560/mcdonalds-says-bye-bye-to-sugary-sodas-in-happy-meals

[dkf]

1. Parents order cokes with their kids happy meal?

How appalling.

[Niceguy1]

2. isn't it?

What is this world coming to???????

[ForgoTheConsequence]

3. Meh.

If you're eating this I don't think you care.

[dkf]

5. Kids are hyper enough without caffeine.

Sugar plus caffeine plus little bodies...crazy.

[xfundy]

4. HFCS is often added to juices.

PR move, as usual. What a shock.

[jmowreader]

6. They just noticed?

I can, without too much effort, tell you exactly where a dozen McDonalds stores in my area are. All of them have big signs in the windows, so large you can see them from the street as you're zipping by, encouraging kids to ask for milk and apple slices in their Happy Meals.