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August 1, 2011

America Reacts to New McDonald’s Happy Meals on Photoshop

by Blair Burke  

That's MRS. Flotus to you...It appears that this country might actually continue to exist for a little while, so our FLOTUS Michelle Obama will probably come out of hiding now, to politely suggest that everyone wipe their tears, put down the anusburgers and jump on a treadmill. Of course, America never likes these sort of suggestions from the First Lady, and she knows it. Last week, she sort of acknowledged McDonald’s for deciding to reduce the calories of its Happy Meals, and some people lost their cool. Fox News must either order a lot of these Happy Meals or really hate apples (probably both, because apples are elitist), because the Crazy really kicked into high gear. Deranged photo contests ensued.

McDonald’s announced last week that it will try to cut back slightly on the amount of poison it serves to children. It will do this by continuing to include French fries with its Happy Meals but also adding in a few pieces of an apple, a change that says, “Hey, here is an apple, you should probably eat this, but if you choose to throw it in the garbage along with your health, we really don’t care.” Michelle Obama then said something along the lines of, “Eh, that’s fine, call me when you come up with something better.” And then the Logic Train got violently derailed just out of the station and Michelle Malkin commanded her illiterate rebel militia to assemble on Photoshop.

With the approval of First Nutritionist Michelle Obama, McDonald’s is getting rid of caramel apple dip, reducing the French fries portion, and adding more apples to its Happy Meals offerings.
They won’t rest until the Happy Meal has undergone the total Berkeley makeover.
Next up: Goodbye, hamburgers. Hello, tofu burgers.
Goodbye, fruit juice boxes. Hello, kale/wheatgrass boxes.
I’m running out to Sonic before right now before they get their grubby Nanny State hands on my cheesy tots and cherry limeade.
Okay, all my wonderful Photoshop friends and readers. I know you can come up with better designs than mine. Send me your best Unhappy Meal makeover images and I’ll post the best! Winner of the contest gets a Sonic gift card.

Here is how Michelle Malkin’s fans tried out to be on McDonald’s new marketing team, for free tater tots.
for concerned cannibals
This artist longs for a McDonald’s Meat Lovers McCannibal Sliders! In this protein-infused lunch option, three babies injected with all sorts of delicious hormones are served medium rare on five layers of buns without a vegetable in sight.
but all my friends have diabetes!

In this piece, the artist demonstrates the boy’s pain as he is confronted with both a side of broccoli and some sort of pink clown toy. We are left considering how a healthy diet could jeopardize traditional gender roles.
what does it all MEAN?
And in this example, we see firsthand the unfortunate result of Photoshop software’s availabilty among America’s mentally ill. [MichelleMalkin]

{ 120 comments }

metamarcisf August 1, 2011 at 12:54 pm

Goddam Nazi apples!

genxr August 1, 2011 at 12:59 pm

"An apple a day or we blow your head off."

–America's public school teachers

southernbeale August 1, 2011 at 12:55 pm

Har har that's SO funny. Oh wait, it's not. It's lame. No wonder conservatives have to steal from the liberal Hollywood elites they claim to despise every time they want something creative.

Go back to cleaning your guns and teaching your kids about Eve's pet dinosaur.

valgal2342 August 1, 2011 at 3:23 pm

I would go with Adam's pet dinosaur. The mere mention of Eve gets them all in an uproar about everything being her fault to begin with.

GhostBuggy August 1, 2011 at 3:37 pm

Not to mention their likely dismay at Eve <gasp!> owning property!

southernbeale August 1, 2011 at 10:08 pm

LOL! How dare she get so uppity!

Frost/Nixon/Robocop August 1, 2011 at 12:56 pm

This passes for funny? No wonder "Two and a Half Men" is still on the air.

Terry August 1, 2011 at 1:17 pm

Michelle Malkin fans are watching reruns of Benny Hill.

bagofmice August 1, 2011 at 12:57 pm

You know who else loved their vegetables?

SexySmurf August 1, 2011 at 12:59 pm

Teri Schiavo's parents?

BarackMyWorld August 1, 2011 at 1:12 pm

Win.

DashboardBuddha August 1, 2011 at 1:15 pm

win

PuckStopsHere August 2, 2011 at 1:23 am

Not too soon, apparently.

Beowoof August 1, 2011 at 1:00 pm

Hitler, vegetarian bastard.

SayItWithWookies August 1, 2011 at 1:10 pm

He was a German vegetarian — he called bratwurst a vegetable.

nounverb911 August 1, 2011 at 1:02 pm

Nancy Reagan?

Doktor Zoom August 1, 2011 at 1:03 pm

The Ankh-Morpork Guild of Greengrocer's?

DoktorThompson August 1, 2011 at 1:04 pm

Gandhi?

Tundra Grifter August 1, 2011 at 1:05 pm

Bugs Bunny?

Callyson August 1, 2011 at 1:06 pm

Everyone who wants to get with Kortney?

Ducksworthy August 1, 2011 at 1:22 pm

And by "get with" you mean of course….?

kissawookiee August 1, 2011 at 1:47 pm

Why, "plow," of course. Just like vegetable farmers.

HelmutNewton August 1, 2011 at 1:13 pm

Bugs Bunny?

freakishlywrong August 1, 2011 at 1:16 pm

Libunatics?

FraAnima August 1, 2011 at 1:20 pm

Comrade Popeye?

GOPCrusher August 1, 2011 at 1:23 pm

Farmers?

MinAgain August 1, 2011 at 1:23 pm

People with insuffient funds to purchase plastic sex toys?

Beowoof August 1, 2011 at 12:57 pm

If you eat too healthy then you will hang around too long and be a burden on the Koch Brothers wealth. Geesh, give em a large fry and let the prize be a pack of smokes.

BlueStateLibel August 1, 2011 at 12:58 pm

I hope the new Debt Deal Sellout cuts funding to the FDA and meat-inspection laws–taxypayers shouldn't have to spend money to make sure teatards' MickyDee burgers don't contain ecoli.

genxr August 1, 2011 at 12:58 pm

Apparently Photoshop is available to them, but not books about how to use Photoshop. Call me when they learn about shadows and ray tracing.

Beowoof August 1, 2011 at 1:02 pm

Yeah like those tea bag fucks want to know how to do anything well.

LouBristol August 1, 2011 at 1:39 pm

Books?

AJWjr. August 1, 2011 at 2:17 pm

But they know all they need to know about kerning, so there's that.

MildMidwesterner August 1, 2011 at 1:00 pm

The ginger is crying because he just learned that he has no soul.

simplyblue7 August 1, 2011 at 1:00 pm

beware of the RED Apple.

EatsBabyDingos August 1, 2011 at 1:02 pm

"But Mommy, I WANT the pureed testicular gristleburger. I'm going to hold my breath for seven minutes, and when you rescusitate me, I'm going to have the brain carnage stew and vote for Bachmann!"

Doktor Zoom August 1, 2011 at 1:02 pm

Cramming our faces full of anusburgers is what the Founders fought for, and by god, my kid isn't going to eat no socialist apples. I look forward to the day when he gets his first Hoverround and no longer has to waddle up to the counter himself.

AJWjr. August 1, 2011 at 2:18 pm

This explains why Washington cut down that damned socialist apple tree.

Sassomatic August 1, 2011 at 1:03 pm

Broccoli makes Baby Jesus cry.

Goonemeritus August 1, 2011 at 1:04 pm

I encourage Conservatives to double down, why stop at the happy meal just add a large fries and pair of Big Mac’s to all the little tykes meals. From my perspective it is a net good because the morbidly obese are less likely to breed in later life.

AJWjr. August 1, 2011 at 2:19 pm

Chris Christie.

johnnyzhivago August 1, 2011 at 1:05 pm

A requirement of these contests should be a brief review of "Photoshop for Idiots" before submission.

Crank_Tango August 1, 2011 at 2:16 pm
mormos August 1, 2011 at 1:05 pm

mmmmm cherry limeade…
also fried cheese sticks. dipped in ranch. that shit is my favorite.

OneYieldRegular August 1, 2011 at 1:06 pm

"Nanny State"? Really. No self-respecting teabagger should ever set foot in a state-run entity like McDonald's.

Callyson August 1, 2011 at 1:06 pm

Can we send that Soros puppet to the next White House/Congressional Republicans negotiations?

SorosBot August 1, 2011 at 1:07 pm

"I’m running out to Sonic …"

Does Sonic actually exist? I'm pretty sure they are a practical joke, as I see their ads on the TV quite a bit but have never seen one, nor has anyone I know ever been to one or talked about them.

DoktorThompson August 1, 2011 at 1:10 pm

Well, they've apparently got Michelle Malkin advertising for them, so no surprise there…

BerkeleyBear August 1, 2011 at 1:16 pm

It is a Midwest/SW chain, as far as I know. They have them in places like downstate Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, New Mexico, etc.

Supposedly they do use a higher quality meat than McD's, but of course that's like saying they use one ply toilet paper that isn't Soviet surplus.

BaldarTFlagass August 1, 2011 at 1:23 pm

They're pretty prevalent down here in South Texas. Still with carhops on roller skates.

In Texas, you can get anything fried.

Oblios_Cap August 1, 2011 at 1:52 pm

Including, apparently, your cropland.

GOPCrusher August 1, 2011 at 1:26 pm

Sonic is actually pretty good. We had one here, but it's closed. And the McDonald's expanded.

not that Dewey August 1, 2011 at 2:12 pm

As did their customers.

Weenus299 August 1, 2011 at 1:46 pm

There are four sonics (and one being built) within 20 minutes from my house. Sonic is a fuckin' heart-attack disease attacking the infrastructure of Columbia SC.

Oblios_Cap August 1, 2011 at 1:48 pm

There's at least one here in the capital of America's Dinghus™ that I never have been to but have driven by many times.

TX_Bluebonnets August 1, 2011 at 1:48 pm

Sonic has a 2:00 to 4:00 'happy hour' on beverages, and styles itself the drink capital of the world. I appreciate the fact that they have Diet Sprite on tap, which allows me to give my child caffeine-free/sugar-free limeades, shirley temples, etc., and not always be the local health Nazi.

Their burgers also taste like real hamburger, fried in real fat, albeit not super high qualitly. It's a drive in styled vaguely like something from the 1950's. It's far from perfect, but it's much less loathsome that McD's.

I've had some friends and clients work for them here in South Texas, too, and their wage rates are much higher than McD's. It's still modern debt peonage, but if you are lucky and industrious, you can graduate from there to a job with a living wage. Hard to do from the House the Slave Arches Built.

LettucePrey August 1, 2011 at 2:15 pm

Hey now, there are also a bunch of Sonics in librul California!! Albeit they're only in the god-fearing Orange County/Sacramento enclaves, and not in the hippie urban parts.

AJWjr. August 1, 2011 at 2:23 pm

First one I ever saw was in Bakersfield, which I was passing through at the time. Then they opened one just 7 miles away from my house here in rural Nevada. Decent shakes, decent to good onion rings, everything else meh.

GhostBuggy August 1, 2011 at 3:42 pm

Here in Michigan, I know of exactly one Sonic. I went there and was underwhelmed. I did enjoy the variety of flavors of mixed corn syrup, which I think a commenter already mentioned and is my healthy diet weakness.

Now, what the fuck is Golden Corral? My teevee started showing me commercials for this place about six months ago, and I've never heard of it.

mog253 August 1, 2011 at 4:13 pm

We even have one in lower slower DE!

MissusBarry August 1, 2011 at 4:47 pm

Don't do it. You don't want to know.

Love,
MissusBarry

Fun fact: they sponsor perennial NASCAR loser, Dave Blaney.

GhostBuggy August 1, 2011 at 4:57 pm

I don't even know where to find a Golden Corral, so no chance of it anyway.

Tundra Grifter August 1, 2011 at 1:07 pm

Some years ago we were on vacation in Hawaii. It was impossible to purchase a kids' lunch or dinner at any of the hotel restaurants that did not come with French fries.

This is crazy.

comrad_darkness August 1, 2011 at 3:07 pm

That was a stunner for us too, how incredibly unhealthy the food in a tropical growing paradise like that is. It's also one of the heaviest states, so I guess no real surprise.

GhostBuggy August 1, 2011 at 4:35 pm

You really want to see some wait staff stumble? Go into any restaurant anywhere in Murrika, and ask if you can get a kids meal with something like green beans or whatever in place of the ever-present fries. Every time I try this for my 2-year-old, it takes about three restaurant staff to sort the whole thing out.

So, we don't eat out a lot.

SexySmurf August 1, 2011 at 1:08 pm

Hey Wingtards, if you want your kids want a burger and fries so bad, stop bitching about Happy Meals, and instead just waddle your fat asses down to Safeway, buy some ground beef and a bag of potatoes and make them your damn self.

TX_Bluebonnets August 1, 2011 at 1:50 pm

ARE YOU CRAZY? Don't you know it's the duty of every red-meat blooded, tea drinking American weekend alchoholic to support the modern indentured servitude of the fast food 'service economy'?

Besides that, the sore heat rash/skin hot spot between their porcine legs gets sweaty and hurts more when you cook.

Geminisunmars August 1, 2011 at 4:35 pm

But they haven't had the few remaining nutrients totally sucked out of them if you cook them yourself. Or the fine fillers and sugars and msg added to make you crave them all the more. Your children might self-regulate if you feed them from scratch home-made food. And then they'd be underweight. And some brocoli might slip into the bag of potatoes.

Atlas Frooged August 1, 2011 at 1:08 pm

If Michelle worked this anything like her hubby the entire program message would consist of "At least put on clean sweatpants before you leave the house. Only if you want to. Or not. Here, take my car keys."

Doktor Zoom August 1, 2011 at 1:11 pm

And then she'd be accused of being a socialist nazi anyway.

elviouslyqueer August 1, 2011 at 1:10 pm

Meh. Call me when Malkin finally quits shooting day-old tater tots out of her rancid vagina.

mavenmaven August 1, 2011 at 1:10 pm

Hehe. That's funny. "if you own a corporate jet, I'm taxing it". These morons are so programmed to repeat whatever they are told by the Right, that they don't even understand that the joke is on them.

Oblios_Cap August 1, 2011 at 1:13 pm

we see firsthand the unfortunate result of Photoshop software’s availabilty among America’s mentally ill.

Not many of them exist that can use the PhotoShop, having seen TeaTard signage.

Ducksworthy August 1, 2011 at 1:14 pm

Do Phillipina cheerleaders eat dogs? Maybe the happy meal needs more dog meat.

BaldarTFlagass August 1, 2011 at 1:14 pm

I love cheesy tots and cherry limeade loooong time.

freakishlywrong August 1, 2011 at 1:15 pm

We should have a blingee contest. Theme: Anchor Babies.

Mumbletypeg August 1, 2011 at 1:47 pm

"Hand me that broccoli, child! Sakes alive, it's a terrist plot to send anchor-nutrients into our bodies! 'n I dun't need no stinkin' neuterition forced DOWN MY CHILD’S THROAT that Gawd din't already put there whar HE took a mind to."

This, because I don't speak blingee~

HistoriCat August 1, 2011 at 2:23 pm

But you have the patois down pat – are you the ghost of Mark Twain?

SayItWithWookies August 1, 2011 at 1:16 pm

Oh how mad they get when sensibility destroys another one of their childhood fetishes — like cars without seatbelts, tungsten filament lightbulbs, smoking in the daycare center and three-eyed fish downstream from the PVC plant.

Oblios_Cap August 1, 2011 at 1:50 pm

Most of them haven't mastered "not running with scissors" or "don't eat that paste".

hah, Ha. It's raining hard outside. Suck on it, Texas!

metamarcisf August 1, 2011 at 1:16 pm

Does the debt ceiling deal finally eliminate federal funding for McDonald's? I think they forgot to post the bill online for three days so us patriots could "read" it.

Sharkey August 1, 2011 at 1:18 pm

Hey Teabaggers, feel free to change the font to ANYTHING besides Comic-sans. You can do that in Photoshop.

elviouslyqueer August 1, 2011 at 1:19 pm

Lovely. Dispatches from the Malkin commentariat:

Notice, she’s not going after the Taco sellers. No one should come between Chelly and her tacos.

I thought that was tamales…she evidently isn’t going after them eiter. [sic] Hmmm, attacking traditional American culture comfort foods. Maybe she isn’t proud of the USA anymore.

This shit is rich, coming from a blog authored by Orly Taitz in bad Filipino drag.

GOPCrusher August 1, 2011 at 1:29 pm

I wonder if that was meant to be a blast directed at illegal immigrants? Because, the Mexican people I know eat nothing but Taco Bell.

GhostBuggy August 1, 2011 at 3:44 pm

What does she have against Chris Chelios?

BaldarTFlagass August 1, 2011 at 1:20 pm

I don't mind a nanny state, just as long as it doesn't speak in the jackhammer nasal accent of Fran Drescher.

ProgressiveInga August 1, 2011 at 1:48 pm

I don't mind a nanny state, just as long as it doesn't speak in the jackhammer nasal accent of Mann Coulter or Laura Ingraham.

/fixed

nappyduggs August 1, 2011 at 1:21 pm

Way to bust the kiddies' angioplasty balloon, Michelle.

weejee August 1, 2011 at 1:21 pm

Dear Mrs. Hopey FLOTUS,

Please ask you dear hubby to stop flossing his teeth on Boehner & McTurtle's pubes.

Thanks evahsomuch,

weejee and Mrs. weejee

TX_Bluebonnets August 1, 2011 at 1:52 pm

And their sperm is NOT mouthwash.

OurHoboSenator August 1, 2011 at 1:22 pm

I was hoping there would be a Michelle Obama-related post today, because I discovered this over the weekend, and I had to share it with teh wonkett.

(You want to have headphones on before you click that link. And maybe not click it at work…)
(Okay, DEFINITELY not click it at work, unless your workplace is as louche as mine)

Doktor Zoom August 1, 2011 at 1:37 pm

Wow. Her(?) dance moves are every bit as good as her singing.

OurHoboSenator August 1, 2011 at 6:25 pm

She's apparently quite the internet phenomenon. I found this song on Spotify, but you can actually spend money on her music on iTunes and Amazon. Yikes!

I just wonder how Sarah Palin will react when she finds out the job of "Queen of Vagina" is already filled…

Ducksworthy August 1, 2011 at 1:24 pm

I encourage all conservatives to request a large cup of fat from the deep fat fryer next time they visit McAnusburger and to make sure they drink it all down. Otherwise, you know, some hippie commie bastard will use it for biodiesel.

comrad_darkness August 1, 2011 at 3:14 pm

I encourage all conservatives to request triple feces in their double cheeseburger, because you know those damn libruls hate it when corporations serve feces so you'd really be pissing them off by doing so. Also, don't ever ever ever put your kids in a car seat and definitely don't worry bout sticking to the right side of the road on your way to the McDs. Laws are for pussies.

MinAgain August 1, 2011 at 1:26 pm

Madison Avenue called. Don't quit your day job.

Weenus299 August 1, 2011 at 1:43 pm

As I see, a pancake burger, stalk of broccoli and a cup of water have transformed a screaming kid into a radiation-infected miniature Rocky Dennis.

EatsBabyDingos August 1, 2011 at 1:44 pm

Does the new Nanny State include the Nanny in "The Nanny and the Professor?"

DashboardBuddha August 1, 2011 at 1:44 pm

Fat, stupid and conservative is no way to go through life, son.

comrad_darkness August 1, 2011 at 3:15 pm

"conservative" was redundant.

DashboardBuddha August 1, 2011 at 3:23 pm

True

PalinPussyPower August 1, 2011 at 1:48 pm

Stupid FLOTUS. I call for a protest. Today at the Dupont Circle McDonald's in DC at 4 pm. Hoveround accessible. Come in blackface. Don't forget your signs.

Oblios_Cap August 1, 2011 at 2:00 pm

The little ginger bastard appears about as happy as an altar boy at the Diet of Worms.

Buckminster August 1, 2011 at 2:02 pm

Montana teatard Kristi Allen Gailushas approves.
http://wonkette.com/417692/teabag-lady-first-pers...

Cn't force nootrition down our throats!

not that Dewey August 1, 2011 at 2:11 pm

I miss Josh so much.

GOPCrusher August 1, 2011 at 2:17 pm

Stupid asshat troll is stupid.

not that Dewey August 1, 2011 at 2:09 pm
not that Dewey August 1, 2011 at 2:14 pm

Michelle Malking saying "before they get their grubby Nanny State hands on my cheesy tots" is the grossest thing I've had to visualize all morning.

SheriffRoscoe August 1, 2011 at 2:14 pm

Your move, Aaron Schock.

HistoriCat August 1, 2011 at 2:26 pm

This is a sad commentary on the state of mental health access in this country. Is there no one who is concerned enough about Michelle Malkin's well-being to have her admitted for psychiatric treatment?

genxr August 1, 2011 at 4:02 pm

When Reagan cut funding for mental health treatment, it was actually a brilliant political move on his part. Permanent Republican majority!!!11!

starfanglednut August 1, 2011 at 7:10 pm

Nah, just add antipsychotics to her cheesy tots.

Nostrildamus August 1, 2011 at 2:57 pm

Gimme one o' them baby head happy meals right now.

GhostBuggy August 1, 2011 at 3:47 pm

What I don't understand is what conservatives have against America's vegetable producers. Why do you hate real-American, hardworking farmers, you fucks?

Thedongsofwar August 1, 2011 at 3:50 pm

Sometimes I would throw the food out because all I wanted was the goddamn Chip and Dales Rescue Rangers helicopter.

I think my Little Mermaid Flounder squirt gun was the first toy I remember owning.

Too many of my childhood memories are intertwined with cooperate copyright.

AnAmericanInTO August 1, 2011 at 4:02 pm

In all honesty, is the apple slices side dish a NEW thing at McDonald's? Because in Glorious Socialist Canada they've had that for years. And my boys get the grilled chicken in a wrap, apple slices and milk. Realistically, they could serve a bag of vomit as long as they get that friggin' toy.

BlueStateLibel August 1, 2011 at 4:20 pm

Let the teatards gorge themselves on all the fatty foods they want–it'll provide work for the cardiologists. Of course, after they've destroyed Medicaid, they'll have those $10,000 cardiologist bills to pay out of their $600 a week Walmart "salaries." Hope they have fun.

BaldarTFlagass August 1, 2011 at 4:31 pm

The suspense is killing—which one of those awesome photoshop images won?

ttommyunger August 1, 2011 at 11:12 pm

Remember, flush twice; it's a half a mile to McD's.

An_Outhouse August 2, 2011 at 8:58 am

Happy Meals? Who would feed their kid that shit? Malkin should be concerned when she's prosecuted for child abuse.

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