San Francisco Bans Happy Meals [Happy Meals]

San Francisco has done the unthinkable. Not win the sector Series. It’s effectively banned happy meals .

In order to include a toy with purchase, these new, unhappier meals must meet a checklist of nutritional requirements (PDF):

• The meal can’t exceed 600 calories
• Not up to 35 percent of the calories can come fat (nuts, nut butters, low-fast cheese excepted)
• It’s required to have a half cup of vegetables
• Breakfast meals are required to have a half cup of fruit
• Sodium limits
• A multigrain requirement

Does that sound like a cheerful meal you’ve ever eaten? This can be a blow to happy meal toy enthusiasts everywhere. While happy meal toys had been getting crappier through the years, bans like these would definitely hasten their decline as a mass cultural form. Throughout the cardboard walls of happy meal box, soaked in grease, is where I got my first wind-up car, an army of tiny robots and sweet transforming figures. No more.

San Francisco clearly hates children. And happiness. [ SF Weekly , Image: CC licensed from Jason Ippolito /Flickr]

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