438. The Unhappy Meal

San Francisco’s new ordinance prohibits fast-food restaurants from including free toys in children’s meals that do not meet specific nutritional standards. While McDonald’s has taken steps to improve the nutritional quality of its Happy Meals, reducing the amount of French fries and adding fruit, among other things, they still did not meet the standards set in the city’s regulation, and thus could not include free toys in the meals. (read more: http://alturl.com/7y78v)(tags: Political Series, McDonald's, Ronald McDonald, Happy Meal, San Francisco, California, Obesity,  Children, Kids, Toys)

373/232. Hello-Doody-Howdy-Kitty

The first encounter of two icons of the children's entertainment industry, Hello Kitty and Howdy Doody. Their friendship was gratuitously natural . . .  or naturally gratuitous.