Heard Today:

Luci, Daddy's going on a trip to Washington, D.C.  That's where the White House is.  Do you know who lives in the White House?  The President!

I want him to go tell Michelle Obama that I want my fries back!

UnHappy Meals

A month or so ago, McDonald's changed its Happy Meals.  The fries got smaller!  Well, not the fries, exactly.  More like the packet the fries come in.  That packet is TINY.  It looks like it belongs in a child's play kitchen set.  It's not much bigger than a ketchup packet.

Photo of it here.  (It's not my photo, so I'm linking one I found on flickr.com) Notice that it's sitting next to a ketchup packet and a sauce packet--it's a TINY fry box. It's made to hold less than half the previous amount of fries put into Happy Meals.

Luci was not happy with the change.  Even though McDonald's added apples to the meal (I guess to add another food group, but it seems like it's making up for the lack of fries), Luci was not happy.

Here's how the conversation went:

Look, Luci, a cute little box of fries!  Isn't that adorable?  (Even though I have no problem with my thin girl eating fries, she could stand to eat more apples, so I was trying to sell this!)

No.  

You don't like it?

No.  Why did they do that to my fries?

President Obama's wife, Michelle Obama, wants kids to eat healthier so she and McDonald's decided to give smaller fries and add apples.

Michelle Obama's nice, but I want my fries back.

Article:  McDonald's Wins First Lady's Approval with Happy Meal Makeover

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Now, on to today:

After a long day at McWane Science Center, we hit the drive-through on the way home.  It's a two-and-a-half hour trip home so I didn't want to add to our day by going in to eat.  We get Luci's Happy Meal, and as we are still sitting at the drive-through window, Luci exclaims,

Hey!  Michelle Obama didn't get to this Happy Meal!  I got my big fries!


I hope the McDonald's lady at the window heard that!