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Spidey 
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Posted on: Mar. 04 2004,2:23 am |
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This really struck me in the wrong way and I was wondering if it did anyone else. I was watching the news tonight and listened to the report about McDonalds cutting out the Super Sized portions of fries as an attempt to cut out fat in diets.
Um ... hello ... people who really want more fries will just order two regulars, which will amount to more then a super size! Anyone who is eating healthy will eat somewhere other then McD's!
I am really curiouse ... I wonder if McDonalds "big wigs" really think we "the consumers" are that stupid? I'm almost offended by the audacity that it takes to presume that we are that stupid and publicly speak out in that manner just to jump on the healthy band wagon.
I don't know ... maybe I'm just having a bad night 
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jimhanson
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Posted on: Mar. 04 2004,11:06 am |
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In the report I saw (can't say which network), McDonalds didn't cast it as a health issue--they said they were simplifying their menu. The network cast it as a health issue--even interviewing a guy that lived on nothing but McDonalds for a month--Gained almost 20 pounds, cholesterol up 60 points.
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MrTarzan
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Posted on: Mar. 04 2004,6:12 pm |
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I don't usually order super size, my wife won't let me  . But as long as McDonalds is doing it because they want to, not because some government agency made them I have no problem with it. My question is this because they are afraid of getting sued by fat people just like the coffee drinker? "I would be so skinny if only McDonalds had no supersize, they destroyed my life, I want restitution!" Is that the real motive here? I wonder.
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Spidey
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Posted on: Mar. 04 2004,6:50 pm |
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| Quote | | McDonalds didn't cast it as a health issue |
Perhaps they didn't say it out loud, but how convienient to do this right now with all of the hype over all of the diets and health talk. You would be surprised at how clever these big company's can be.
| Quote | | But as long as McDonalds is doing it because they want to, not because some government agency made them I have no problem with it. |
I don't have a problem with it either. It's their business. My point was ... the "reason" they were cutting out the super sized fries ... and the real reason they chose to go public and announce it on national media's is contraversy .. focus is on McD's ... free publicity ... trying to look good .. etc. Why didn't they just take it off the menu and leave it at that?
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moldyoldsoldier
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Posted on: Mar. 04 2004,9:12 pm |
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I don't know, what do the voices say?
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Posted on: Mar. 05 2004,9:56 am |
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New here... just found the site.
If you think about it, it makes good bussiness sense. MCd's looks good to the public but yet if someone still wants more fries they just order another side of fries. IT ends up costing more than the super size if I remember right.
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GEOKARJO
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Posted on: Mar. 05 2004,1:03 pm |
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I believe that Micky D's Is doing this in an effort to cut back on packaging cost Reducing the inventory back to two sizes on fries packaging.
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cwolff
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Posted on: Mar. 05 2004,1:55 pm |
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I think the bad rap McD's has been receiving for all of the saturated fat in their menu had them pull this PR stunt to try and improve their image.
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Posted on: Mar. 05 2004,4:43 pm |
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I'm currently involved in litigation against Dan Fogelberg for making me into a wimp in the nineteen seventies and I am also considering a law suit holding every girl that didn't go out with me in high school responsible for causing my early adulthood prostate problems.
I don't care what anybody says I refuse to accept any responsibilty for my problems. I know that through hard work and careful planing my attorney and I can find a way to assign blame on to another person and in the best of cases onto a wealthy and popular corporate icon.
Now....McDonald's. HMM. I need to get my cholesterol checked.
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jimhanson
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Posted on: Mar. 05 2004,4:56 pm |
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And as ol' Bubba says--"Kin I sue Budweiser for all them ugly women I ever slept with? 
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