After seeing this article on msn.com (http://fitbie.msn.com/eat-right/mcdonald-s-announces-healthier-happy-meal?GT1=50002, about how McDonald's is now including apple slices as a mandatory part of the Happy Meal) and reading this article on hellogiggles.com (http://hellogiggles.com/cereal-killer, about childhood favorite cereals that have been discontinued) I started thinking about how different food choices must be for kids these days. I mean our generation was really the last group of youngsters that got to eat crap without any voice of reason questioning our "high fructose corn syrup intake" or whether we would be hyper or have ADD from the tons of artificial coloring we were ingesting from cherry Kool Aid and bags of puffy Cheetos. In an age before Supersize Me when McDonalds was pushing the "Mighty Kids Meal" (a plus sized meal for fluffy kids like myself) I can't imagine anyone attempting to ask for healthy choices at McDonalds, or anyone even thinking it was the responsibility of a fast food chain to offer them.
Mighty Kids Meal (I'm sure the bacon was optional, but no option for me :) )
I'm not saying that the "censorship" of food is a bad thing, but now that I'm at an age when eating unhealthy food can literally bite me in the butt (in a much more unflattering way than a few extra pounds of baby fat) I can say I'm actually a little glad that I got my junk food fix during a time when I had the metabolism for it. Remember Dunkaroos - the graham cracker cookies that you could dunk in frosting with sprinkles? (I've heard remores that they've come back from the grave but I need to see it to believe it) Some of my greatest culinary memories as a child involve dunkaroos, and it's really funny to me now to think about how they would even attempt to market them in this environment. For some reason in the mid-nineties dipping sugary cookies into pure sugar frosting was a perfectly acceptable afternoon snack for small children, and now that suggestion would seem a little blasphemous. But I guess back in the 90s kids aslo would go outside and play (in my case build forts in the bushes and have weddings for my cats) and now I'm not really sure what kids to (but I have a feeling it involves smart phones). Anywho, I just wanted to take a moment (I'm really bored so I have lots of moments) to remind you (my friends who are reading this) to thank your lucky stars you were a child of the 90s, we had it all - sugary cereals, french fries in our Happy Meals, Doug, and Pinky and the Brain.
Dunkaroos - My favorite childhood snack
Mighty Kids Meal (I'm sure the bacon was optional, but no option for me :) )
I'm not saying that the "censorship" of food is a bad thing, but now that I'm at an age when eating unhealthy food can literally bite me in the butt (in a much more unflattering way than a few extra pounds of baby fat) I can say I'm actually a little glad that I got my junk food fix during a time when I had the metabolism for it. Remember Dunkaroos - the graham cracker cookies that you could dunk in frosting with sprinkles? (I've heard remores that they've come back from the grave but I need to see it to believe it) Some of my greatest culinary memories as a child involve dunkaroos, and it's really funny to me now to think about how they would even attempt to market them in this environment. For some reason in the mid-nineties dipping sugary cookies into pure sugar frosting was a perfectly acceptable afternoon snack for small children, and now that suggestion would seem a little blasphemous. But I guess back in the 90s kids aslo would go outside and play (in my case build forts in the bushes and have weddings for my cats) and now I'm not really sure what kids to (but I have a feeling it involves smart phones). Anywho, I just wanted to take a moment (I'm really bored so I have lots of moments) to remind you (my friends who are reading this) to thank your lucky stars you were a child of the 90s, we had it all - sugary cereals, french fries in our Happy Meals, Doug, and Pinky and the Brain.
Dunkaroos - My favorite childhood snack
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