happy meals: an excellent source of... penis?

[vynsane]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5qeuEmb_jKI

listen to the end of this one very closely for the "Ha". you can't find it. apparently chicken mcnuggets are made of penis.

i see this commercial about 8 times on saturday mornings watching the cartoons with julia... even without the questionable sound editing at the end, it's an atrocious way of marketing (but what isn't on saturday mornings, i guess...)

y'know, we're one of the only countries that lets advertisers specifically target children? many other countries have a ban on such a thing. interesting.

[anarky]

Wow. That's just wrong. Really wrong.

Supposedly, we're not supposed to be advertising to kids anymore. Supposedly. We all know that's a crock of shiite.

[vynsane]

as a parent i find it really wrong, but as an inmate of the asylum i find it hysterical and tell as many people as i can about it. fuck, man just the idea of the sentence "an excellent source of penis" is just fuckin' awesome. we might have a contender for another tag line for the site...

[anarky]

If you say we're an excellent source of penis, you might attract a crowd you don't want....

I've discovered Happy Meals are awesome. If the toy is something your kid will like, that is. (And, right now, Anarky Jr loves those American Idol singing toys. Yeah, they're supposed to be "3 and up," but we got her the younger toy and it actually seemed to have smaller pieces.) On their own, they're kinda a ripoff.

But a 6-piece nugget meal, double cheeseburger, and McChicken sandwich is a good lunch for an adult and a kid. (You can get a 4-piece meal, but why not pay the minimal difference and get yourself more nuggets?)

[vynsane]

If you say we're an excellent source of penis, you might attract a crowd you don't want....

that's true...

I've discovered Happy Meals are awesome. If the toy is something your kid will like, that is. (And, right now, Anarky Jr loves those American Idol singing toys. Yeah, they're supposed to be "3 and up," but we got her the younger toy and it actually seemed to have smaller pieces.) On their own, they're kinda a ripoff.

But a 6-piece nugget meal, double cheeseburger, and McChicken sandwich is a good lunch for an adult and a kid. (You can get a 4-piece meal, but why not pay the minimal difference and get yourself more nuggets?)

yeah, we try to stay away from fast food as much as possible, plus julia's really picky about food. she LOVES quesadillas, though. she just rips into them like no one's business... it seems to be a pretty popular "kids menu" alternative to a grilled cheese (the only real difference is flour tortilla as opposed to bread, unless it's also got chicken or something) so it's rather prevalent.

i don't see a lot of happy meals in her future, but probably as a "treat" every once in a while.

[anarky]

McDonald's is only a "we're out, and you have to eat" thing, mainly because it's cheap. We've kinda gotten to the point where, with only a few exceptions (like Vietnamese pho, which is dirt cheap in restaurants but costs about $90 to make at home due to the batch size), we hardly eat out at all. We just find ourselves saying, "$10 for that? I can make that at home!" too often.

[jdr3]

The wifey and I tend to make our own pizzas now. Usually better and slightly cheaper we've found. The only time we go out is for something that is going to be really good, or if we are just plain out lazy, or we feel like having really crappy food that is full of grease and makes ya kinda sick for the rest of the night. But McDonalds is pretty much off our list. We rather go to a skank diner and take out.

But I do miss the toys....

[vynsane]

yeah, we're generally the same way...

said the guy who had 16 (four $1) mcnuggets, a small fry and small coke today for lunch.

*BuRaP*

[Rollo Tomassi]

After a 15 hour day and a meager budget, I subsist on a diet of driving thru McD's druve thru and getting a Double Cheeseburger and a McChicken Sandwich. $2. Bam.

[anarky]

Homemade pizzas are the shit. Trader Joe's used to sell cornmeal pizza dough (they stopped producing it; we asked), and it made the absolute best deep-dish pizza imaginable.

Has this one taken a far enough turn to get moved under "Food"?

[vynsane]

Homemade pizzas are the shit. Trader Joe's used to sell cornmeal pizza dough (they stopped producing it; we asked), and it made the absolute best deep-dish pizza imaginable.

yeah, mrs vyn makes a mean pizza. we've got a pizza stone and everything. she makes the dough from scratch, usually utilizing something healthy like whole-grain wheat and whatnot.

Has this one taken a far enough turn to get moved under "Food"?

what, like there's some sort of structure to this place?

[anarky]

I've been reading I'm Just Here for More Food, and pizza dough is coming up soon. I plan to give it a try.

For anyone who cooks or wants to, I'd highly recommend that book and its predecessor. More for the scientific basis to why everything's done than for off-hand references to Spinal Tap, GIJoe, and South Park. Though those don't hurt. (Seriously, there's a recipe for a cheese bread called "Cheesy Poof," and he dedicates the recipe to a kid named Eric in South Park, Colorado, then apologizes that there's no recipe for a chocolate chicken pot pie. If that's not geeky, I don't know what is.)

[vynsane]

Seriously, there's a recipe for a cheese bread called "Cheesy Poof," and he dedicates the recipe to a kid named Eric in South Park, Colorado, then apologizes that there's no recipe for a chocolate chicken pot pie. If that's not geeky, I don't know what is.)

what, no "chocolate salty balls"?

[kidhuman]

The Ox just stopped buying McNuggets.

[The Grin]

I'm not a Happy Meal, but your mom thinks I'm an excellent source of penis.