Persuasive Essay On Mcdonalds

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Super Size Me is a extreme representation of fast food’s unhealthy nature. Despite its outward appearance, the Mcdonald's burger is the pinnacle of high saturated fats and an unnatural amount of cholesterol. The food and habits of McDonald’s eaters lead to Morgan Spurlock to gain almost 25 pounds. Morgan’s hyperbolic interpretation of a McDonald’s user was not to far off of McDonald’s “heavy users”. McDonald’s Mcdonald’s was able to get a large number of people to eat McDonald’s though very effective targeted ads. McDonald’s Targets children with their ads. One such way was the cartoonish characters such as Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar. These characters draw kids attention. The McDonald’s characters were easy to remember and make you think of McDonald’s. Though many characters have been phased out McDonald’s uses the happy meal to attract kids. The happy meal has become a character itself. The happy meal character is a successor to older characters and keeps kids coming back. Another thing happy meals have and advertise is the toys inside. These toys are an incentive to …show more content…

I remember going past a McDonald’s wanting a happy meal. McDonald’s almost controlled my young brain, sometimes causing an attempted guilt trip to make my parents take me there. Luckily most of the time my parents did not take me to McDonald’s. I remember when McDonald’s had HotWheels. For that month I only wanted to eat McDonald’s purely because they had a toy I was interested in. I remember going to Mcdonald’s with my cousin who is less than 2 years younger than me. We would always go to the play place. It was an enjoyable place to be for a 5 year old. We would play mostly and eat a little too. It was usually the place with play place so it was the go to place. As more and more news about how unhealthy came out my desire to eat McDonald’s became less and less. As of now I have not eaten McDonald’s in about a

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