I want these toys from the Micky D's happy meals! Look how cute the puppies are! A few months ago I blogged about local government wanting to take the happy out of kids happy meals. Now, for the first time, Santa Clara County has voted to prevent fast food joints from offering toys in their kids meals. They say that all those toys are making kids fat. True, there are a lot of chubby and overweight kids, but I really don't think the toys are the reason they are fat. It's probably the fries, coke and fried nuggets that are making them fat. Maybe instead of taking the cool toy out of the box, they could ask the restaurants to fill the box with fruit, skim milk and lower fat foods. Maybe the parents could cook healthy food at home instead of feeding their kids dinner in the back of their mini van. Hundreds of people attended the board of supervisors meeting where the issue was discussed. Almost 90% of the people were not happy with the happy meal decision. If the Clowns, Cows or Kings continue to give out toys, they could be fined $1,000. I wonder how many times the voting board feed those same kids meals to their kids when they were too busy to cook?
