McDonald’s has started phasing out its trademark Supersize fries and drinks in its U.S. restaurants as part of an effort to simplify its menu and give customers choices that support a balanced lifestyle.
The move comes under growing public pressure to give consumers healthier food options.
Now this sucks !
Obesity shouldn’t be the restaurants’ problem to deal with, it’s the customer’s problem. If the consumer is concerned about his health and his fitness, then he should take care of it himself.
I always buy supersized menus whether it’s McDonald’s or Burger King. I guess I just enjoy drinking that bucket of coke and munching on that ton of fries.
Why should people like me lose that option simply because some others can’t control themselves or take care of their healths for themselves.
I think it’s unfair.
I think that democracy entitles each and everyone of us to choose what he wants to eat, and I want Supersized menus.
Aaaaarrrrggggghhh !!!
The good thing though is that this has only started in the US. I expect the rest of the world to continue supersizing for the time being.
And I sure hope it stays that way and that they don’t start getting any dumb ideas.
[via CNN]
This is STUPID!! do they think they’re solving a problem here? just like you said the control should come from the consumers themselves, coz even if there are no supersized menus anymore, it’ll still be possible for the consumer to go order 2 medium or 3 small size menus if they felt that they were still hungry or thirsty. So there is no way to control consumers!! I loved the supersized menus too, nothing could quench my thirst in a hot summer day but a supersized coke! which reminds me…I MISS McDonald’s! 🙁
Eman, I guess you do not live in the US….
People here take their breakfast, lunch and dinners in McDonalds and that’s mad
Contrary to what you both think, I see it as a good action because not selling super size is a good ideas, lety me explains. I think it plays in the psychology of the person. Some will only buy one large and they wouldn’t like to go again and buy another medium let’s say. Also, one big mac is cheaper that two small (atleast in the US). SO it’s not that bad. I still agree with you that the consumer should pay attention to what he buys but with a world filled with people that cannot stop their impulses (that’s why people watch porn right eman -for you article in ur weblog-)
Anyhow, I said what I thought and of course i respect ur opinions 🙂
I wanted to add that people in the Us love buying things that harm their bodies than go to court and sue the compagny, saying it did not say in the bottle of cook for example that the product gets u fat, yeah, some Americans love monye and love suing. Mcdonalds has been sued many times in the US, so to end that, shye stopped supersize. Anyhow, Europeans consumers didn’t sue yet, so supersize is still served cheer up
Well I totally understand what you mean Zizou, but I’m still against stopping the supersized menus. Instead they could stop promoting them, by making customers pay for them normally without seducing them by making some sort of an offer. This’ll work better. On the other hand, all media and education departments should focus on getting the citizens more aware of what’s healthy and what’s not.American people –even the very young ones- are suffering from over-weight problems. The solution isn’t in stopping the supersized menus, it’s in solving the true problems. There is a very big gap between parents and their kids, a lot of parents are busy with work or love affairs or anything, there are so many people who are desperate, upset, or have nothing to do in life, so they all turn to food, to them it’s the only way for them to enjoy life. And such circumstances can never raise kids with awareness of health preserving.So we’ll keep on having generations with new worse health problems. Therefore the solution, from my point of view, is with righting all the wrongs already existing in society.
When we have healthy relationships where each member is doing his job the right way, all our problems will fade away, if not, then they’ll at least decrease.
As for not being able to stop their impulses, it’s true. That’s why I was talking about the well-being and self-respect of the porn actors in the first place and not only the stations. Because if we people are aware of how dangerous the effect of being slaves for sex is, then we wont be controlled by it and we wont let our kids be.Yet we can’t compare food to porn,coz porn channels expose sexual intercourse, which is not allowed in all societies the way they present it, specially the sick kind. Such channels can ruin the future of so many people. People wanna become porn stars, they wanna have sex the way they enjoy seeing, they wanna become gay for a change..etc.But food is allowed for all ages and all people as long as it’s clean and well cooked, because it’s not unhealthy unless we misuse it. If they want to offer people healthy food in their terms, then it’s not in stopping supersized menus, but it’s in closing all fast-food restaurants, and still people will go on eating unhealthy in their homes because they don’t know what’s good for them.
MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN BLAMING MCDONALDS FOR THERE WIEGHT GAINING BUT I THINK THAT SOME PEOPLE SHOULD THINK TWICE ABOUT BLAMING NCDONALDS BECAUSE NO ONE TELLS PEOPLE TO SUPERSIZE THERE FOODS KNOWING THAT THERE IS A BUNCH OF CALORIES AND FAT IN THEMAND ALL RESTAURANTS HAVE A NUTRIENTAL INFORMATION SHEET PEOPLE SHOULD PICK ONE UP AND LOOK AT IT BEFORE YOU MAKE THE CHOICE TO SUPERSIZE YOUR FOOD. I THINK THAT IT IS A VERY DUMB REASON TO SUE A RESTAURANT BECAUSE PEOPLE MAKE THE COICE TO SUPERSIZE.
MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN BLAMING MCDONALDS FOR THERE WIEGHT GAINING BUT I THINK THAT SOME PEOPLE SHOULD THINK TWICE ABOUT BLAMING NCDONALDS BECAUSE NO ONE TELLS PEOPLE TO SUPERSIZE THERE FOODS KNOWING THAT THERE IS A BUNCH OF CALORIES AND FAT IN THEMAND ALL RESTAURANTS HAVE A NUTRIENTAL INFORMATION SHEET PEOPLE SHOULD PICK ONE UP AND LOOK AT IT BEFORE YOU MAKE THE CHOICE TO SUPERSIZE YOUR FOOD. I THINK THAT IT IS A VERY DUMB REASON TO SUE A RESTAURANT BECAUSE PEOPLE MAKE THE COICE TO SUPERSIZE.
well, i work at mc donalds and i think its both good and bad that they’re stopping supersize. i mean like many people have said, stopping supersize, isnt really doing anything, people can just order more food or 2 of the meal that they want. everyone has the right to make their own choices, everyone SHOULD know right from wrong, and if they choose to supersize, thats on them.
If you look at the European sizes of food, they are about half the size, and so are their bodies. yeah it’s the comsumers choice to eat the food, but most comsumers don’t have the will power to STOP EATING. It’s like an addiction.
I also think everybody should care for him/herself and not blame the fast food restaurants, because their weight.
I think is a ridiculous idea to blame a restaurant for eating their meals.. The job of a restaurant is to serve meals, if you don’t want that unhealthy food, why are you eating it??
Hate to break it to you, but I live in the UK and we don’t do supersize anymore either. But because I work for McDonald’s, I can tell you that we are bringing out a BBQ chicken sandwich soon and Mega Macs and Double Quarter Pounders are coming back. It is such crap that they get rid of one unhealthy option, such as the Supersize menu but then bring back burgers that are twice the size of anything we currently offer. And the bastards have made us open at 6:30am so we have to be in at 5:30. We give the customers free coffee in the morning between 6:30 and 7am and because we’re on a High Street, it’s tramps paradise. Anyway, back to the supersize thing. Although I think it is a pointless waste of time, because everything in McDonald’s is unhealthy anyway, there is some logic to it. Fat people always blame McDonald’s for being fat. McDonald’s are sick of it and the reputation they are getting because these idiots don’t know how to pick up a nutrition leaflet. Anyway, it’s on the back of the trayliners in the UK now, so they’ve got no bloody excuse! Don’t ban fatty foods from McDonald’s, ban fat PEOPLE from McDonald’s. Problem solved.
I just want to say that I totally agree with Bex when he says, “Don’t ban fatty foods from McDonald’s, ban fat PEOPLE from McDonald’s.”
RIGHT ON MAN!!
I just want to say that I totally agree with Bex when he says, “Don’t ban fatty foods from McDonald’s, ban fat PEOPLE from McDonald’s.”
RIGHT ON MAN!!
cheers for agreeing with me dude, but I is a girl.
i’m a fat person and i love it
i get to eat all of the tastiest foods and high amounts of it and not give a fuck because i simply don’t give a fuck…
You will give a fuck when you have a heart attack. Plus, you’ll probably be the first to give claims direct a call when you put on an extra stone and sue McDonald’s for as much as you can get.
You can’t do that in America. They just throw your case out and nobody in the UK is stupid enough to try it.
So very true. I must agree. I love SuperSize everything!!!
I love McDonalds even afer watching that vidoe SuperSize Me I think that’s what it was called. I love McDonalds. I eat it a lot and let me tell you I am not fat. I don’t wish to be and don’t want to stop eating McDonalds and other fatting food so I exercize and see that I stay in shape. Problem Solved and I am happy. 🙂
I love McDonalds even afer watching that video SuperSize Me I think that’s what it was called. I love McDonalds. I eat it a lot and let me tell you I am not fat. I don’t wish to be and don’t want to stop eating McDonalds and other fatting food so I exercize and see that I stay in shape. Problem Solved and I am happy. 🙂