The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for January 06, 2025

Why we really call it a happy meal!

You’ll never get a happy meal at McD

The senior menu often located on the back of the menu is always a good choice as well.

I’m 74 and I wish I could order from the Senior menu…but it wouldn’t work for me. Maybe soon

Good old uncle Ted

hopefully, Uncle Ted got extra fries with his happy meal…

Lost the cleats on his shoes, now he’s UN-cleted

The Chinese (don’t judge, OK?) takeout near me serves GREAT meals! One “meal” equals supper, then lunch the next day, and good portions both times!

My wife always gets the kids meal at Bojangles, same reason

Good old Uncle Ted .

Happy Meals contain prizes, you know.

my mom doesn’t have much of an appetite either since her operation on her stomach… she might like the toys too. :J

That’s the great thing about choice. Play away. One of the few perks of getting old in the US is the Senior Meal. I really don’t need the toys; got too many as it is but play away Uncle Ted ….

I don’t get questions when I order from the kids’ menu.

Uncle Ted is on a nostalgia kick. I wonder what will make Brutus nostalgic in 20 years. Maybe he’ll be watching a horror movie and think back to his (hopefully long departed) mother-in-law. Or his boss. Or he’ll smell tires burning and think of Gladys’s cooking. Or be bitten by a small dog and think of Hurricane Hattie.

Somewhere out there is a child that has been denied a kids meal toy that Uncle Ted now has

AttaboyUncle Ted……you be the man……

I decide which menu I will use depending on how many meals I can get out of it. Sometimes I order extra so I am good for a few days at home. I remember having my daughter as a child at a McDonald’s and she got a small toy car of the type that you pull them backwards and then they go forward. I realized two young men next to us were watching my child play with it. I asked them if they wanted to see how it worked. They lit up. My child happily shared, and they figured it out and and gave it back. Engineers, of course. Just have to know how everything works. It was smiles all around.

But that’s a kid’s toy, adult toys are a lot more expensive.

I’ve heard that more people are ordering from the kids’ menu at restaurants to help with portion control.

Depending on where we go, my mother will order from the senior menu, child’s menu or a la cart. We tend to stay away from restaurants that have you order a main dish, and then expect you to pay for sides. $10.00 for a baked potato is way out of my comfort zone. That’s on top or the $50.00 steak or seafood entree.

My mom loved those kid’s meals for the toys too.

That’s right. Bring out the kid in you.

OH!! GOOD ONE!!

Well, if the toys make you feel young again, Uncle Ted, I say go for it!