Mommy! Is Ronald McDonald the devil? You can say I’m expending way too much brain power thinking about McDonald’s problems in our increasingly health-conscious society (even if there’s no sign that our raised consciousness—or apples on the menu—has improved our health). But I’ve begun to notice how far the movement to demonize McDonald’s has gone in our schools. Here’s how I noticed: The little ones have been studying nutrition during the last few weeks, and the other day, while I was taking my son home from school with a friend, he casually mentioned, “Mommy, do you know they put fat in Chicken McNuggets?” It was the opening salvo in a heated debate about what—if anything—is redeeming about the McNugget. Then it occurred to me that his recently proclaimed hatred of the McDonald’s french fry (a position he seems to abandon whenever we visit) was in all likelihood part of a campaign at school to turn children against Mickey D’s. The topic changed only when my son's playdate blurted out: “Once my dad caught a fish with his hands.” Was this a non sequitur, or was it a 6-year-old’s clumsy attempt to segue into a discussion of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Filet o’ Fish? —Posted by Catharine P. Taylor Credit: McDonald’s

March 16, 2005 | Permalink

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Which begs the question: Why does everything taste like chicken - except Chicken McNuggets?

Posted by: The Late David Ogilvy | Mar 16, 2005 1:03:07 PM

Because they're actually McSoylent Green Nuggets.

Posted by: Bob Shiffrar | Mar 16, 2005 2:25:39 PM

If only Charlton Heston had warned us in time. . .

Posted by: The Late David Ogilvy | Mar 16, 2005 4:09:40 PM

hey, does anyone know where I can get/ see that poster of a chicken and underneath has a chicken mcnugget and it says, "can you find where this is... neither could we" and its saying that mcnuggets are unnatural? I really need to know for a school project.

Posted by: George | Jul 29, 2005 2:04:30 AM

I was also looking for that poster with "Can you find the nuggets on this chicken?" "Neither can we". It's virtually non-existent on Google. Was it staged for the SuperSize Me movie?

Posted by: Doug | Aug 12, 2005 3:37:33 PM

Correction: "Neither could we"

Posted by: Doug | Aug 12, 2005 3:38:11 PM

that poster was an ad campaign for jack in the box (i think, maybe it was carls jr/hardee) for those of you in the east, thats another fast food chain huge in teh west

Posted by: Z | Oct 20, 2005 6:29:27 PM

I am writing a revelation about the "devil"
as a symbol that the psychoanalysis and the esoteric tradition can illuminate to reveal how to free Oneself from the fire that burn the life of suffering Beings!
Its the conflict between Eros and Thanatos,
in me e-book clarifie out of the uncounnscious, for the Ones that desire to be free of thoses sufferings!

Posted by: Aimant DAmour | Dec 2, 2005 9:29:48 PM

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