{"id":4450,"date":"2008-11-24T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=4450"},"modified":"2010-11-24T02:53:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T07:53:01","slug":"mcdonalds-is-upping-childrens-serving-size-say-hello-to-the-mighty-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/24\/mcdonalds-is-upping-childrens-serving-size-say-hello-to-the-mighty-meal\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s is Upping Children&#8217;s Serving Size: Say \u201cHello\u201d to the \u201cMighty Meal\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even in an era when children&#8217;s obesity is a significant problem (though a commenter points out that this is <a href=\"http:\/\/junkfoodscience.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/epidemic-that-wasnt.html\" target=\"_blank\">contested<\/a>), the ever-upping of serving sizes at McDonald&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t appear to be skipping kids.\u00a0 Stephen W. took this picture at a McDonald&#8217;s in Pennsylvania this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/cimg11061.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4452\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/cimg11061.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/cimg1106.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now McDonald&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t just offer Happy Meals, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcdonalds.com\/usa\/ronald\/mighty.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mighty Meals<\/a>.\u00a0 Mighty Meals include a double cheeseburger instead of a hamburger or cheeseburger or a 6-piece McNugget instead of a 4-piece.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/capture8.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4453\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/capture8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, a Mighty Meal with a double cheeseburger <a href=\"http:\/\/nutrition.mcdonalds.com\/bagamcmeal\/nutrition_mightykidsmeals.html\" target=\"_blank\">has 780 calories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, really, what kid doesn&#8217;t want to be mighty?\u00a0\u00a0McDonald&#8217;s will sink pretty low for a few extra pennies.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the tip and the picture, Stephen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even in an era when children&#8217;s obesity is a significant problem (though a commenter points out that this is contested), the ever-upping of serving sizes at McDonald&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t appear to be skipping kids.\u00a0 Stephen W. took this picture at a McDonald&#8217;s in Pennsylvania this week.\u00a0 Now McDonald&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t just offer Happy Meals, but Mighty Meals.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,23384,2124,252,23703],"class_list":["post-4450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-foodagriculture","tag-healthmedicine","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4469,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions\/4469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}