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McDonald's Accidentally Puts Condoms In Happy Meals
(OV Editor's Note: This piece is satire.)
From the Tongue In Cheek Files:
5,000 Happy Meals were distributed with colored condoms instead of a plastic toy from the movie The Last Airbender.
The condoms were intended for the Provincetown, Mass. school system, which recently established a policy making them available for students of all ages; they were delivered to McDonald's distribution center in Barnstable, Mass. in error.
"The packages were so bright and colorful that they were mistaken for small toys for Happy Meals, but unfortunately most of the workers do not read English, and thought 'Ribbed Latex' was a character in the movie," said Robin Anderson, vice president of public relations for the chain, as published by El Universal of Mexico.
The mistake led to an incident in a Brewster, Mass., McDonald's, where more than a dozen 8-year-olds attending a birthday party all opened their condoms at once, and immediately blew them into balloons and started batting them around the restaurant.
The McDonald's incident also caused problems in Provincetown, where the schools accidentally received the restaurant's shipments of Last Airbender toys, and several were released to students who went into their school's nurse's office seeking condoms.
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I just LOVE the way this article brought out the racist and bigot in all of these readers. The article clearly states it is SATIRE (below the byline), yet these morons have gotten angry, have proposed legislation against brown people, make up statistics about gay people and have been douchebags in general. Yet this isn't true. IT'S A JOKE, but none of you are intelligent enough to figure that out. All of these people are complaining that these brown folks need to be able to speak and read English, yet none of them took the time to read the damn article. Yes, Americans are stupid. Keep proving the rest of the world right. Congrats dumb asses, you're a bunch of ignorant bigots.
Consider the source, Rashachusetts...if you live there
and dont have a sexual disease by now your not having sex in Massachusetts!If they have to give out condoms in McDonalds happy meals then the next step will most likely be HIV test kits in your lunch boxes! If you want to know what homosexualizing aka criminalizing has done to the state of Massachusetts
•The Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health is “married” to another man. In 2007 he told a crowd of kids at a state-sponsored youth event that it’s “wonderful being gay” and he wants to make sure there’s enough HIV testing available for all of them.
•Since homosexual marriage became “legal” the rates of HIV / AIDS have gone up considerably in Massachusetts. This year public funding to deal with HIV/AIDS has risen by $500,000. As the homosexual lobby group MassEquality wrote to their supporters after successfully persuading the Legislature to spend that money: "With the rate of HIV infections rising dramatically in Massachusetts, it's clear the fight against AIDS is far from over."
•Citing “the right to marry” as one of the “important challenges” in a place where “it’s a great time to be gay”, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health helped produce The Little Black Book, Queer in the 21st Century, a hideous work of obscene pornography which was given to kids at Brookline High School on April 30, 2005. Among other things, it gives “tips” to boys on how to perform oral sex on other males, masturbate other males, and how to “safely” have someone urinate on you for sexual pleasure. It also included a directory of bars in Boston where young men meet for anonymous sex.
Domestic violence •Given the extreme dysfunctional nature of homosexual relationships, the Massachusetts Legislature has felt the need to spend more money every year to deal with skyrocketing homosexual domestic violence. This year $350,000 was budgeted, up $100,000 from last year.
you can read more at www.massresistance.org Im pretty sure RAND MCNALLY puts this state on the " last place to take your vacation" list!
this has to be BS
i mean it sounds possible. but if this happened i feel like we would be hearing about it everywhere.
Funny...
Strange, I don't remember anyone at any point trying to make an effort to learn any of the native languages to the U.S. when they 'moved' over. But, hey! Now the language is *official*. That makes it different.
Its not iliteracy, Its common sense
I really can't believe that these people have never seen a condom before wheather the names and instructions were in english or not. Is everybody programmed today to just do what they are told and never question.
o_e
real appetizing you get a happy meal and the toy is a oily balloon. see this is why I never go to McDonald's
I know this is wrong
However, I cannot help but laugh at the image of a bunch of 8 year olds with condom balloons. The look on the parent's faces much have been priceless when the noticed what the kids had.
o.O
"Excuse me? Can I get a couple condoms?"
"Yeah, they're over there."
".......um....that's not ribbed latex..."
?
this is no way forealz.
if it was dont yu think it would be all over the news???
first of all how could somebody work at mcdonalds if they cant speak english?
i know that the person who acepted the shippment could read what they were. also, condoms dont even look anything like toys.
and at the school what kind of idiot would give a teenager a toy thinking its a condom?
ha nobodys that dumb, and if they are they needa be fired.
so not true!
really?
so dose mcdonalds and the condom factory shaare a building? that is the only thing i can think of on how they could get condoms and happy meal toys mixed up and wouldnt the person at the school call the company when they got avatar toy theres a big differents
haayy :)
This is why we hire Americans...
I'm a ptown student too :)
Parody
Parody: a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing.
Seriously people, THIS IS A JOKE! The author was satirizing americas obsession with blaming mexican immigrant workers for everything and constantly complaining that american children are being corrupted.
Sounds like McDonald's Employs Illegal immigrant's
Sounds like we need a law like AZ. The Governor, Jan Brewer, of Phoenix, Arizona signed the toughest Law Bill in the Nation on Friday, that Aims to Identify, Prosecute and DEPORT Illegal Immigrant's, they carry their document papers for legalization on American Soil, they will be asked to provide proof of Citizenship
If U look like an illegal immigrant, sound like an illegal immigrant, can't speak English, U R questioned about their status.
I agree with Stockball, what is in the next Big Mac, made by who???
I think if we USA are going to employ people of a different nationality, then they should be able to read, be able to write to fill out the application, (have an interrupter if needed ) trained, job shadowed and supervised. I think when anyone sees a Condom Package, they should know what is inside and before a child 's dinner is packed in any restaurant, it should be a standard to have 1 person check to see if everything (burger,fries,soda and toy are in the box) (& make sure it is boy / girl , so many times my grand daughter received a boy toy, when I tell them when they ask is it for a boy or a girl?
I am not a prejudice person at all. I believe in equality, for all. That is why there are Laws and rules in every state, workplace and home. There always will be a rule of some kind in your life.
stupid
Ya'll are stupid. People have always been immigrants to America and not so long ago people were speaking Italian, Polish, German, etc in their occupations because they were new to the country. Get off your high horse and realize that your cultural pride is as worth as anyone trying to make a honest living in this country.
sad
i don't know whats funnier the kids simultaneously blowing up condom balloons and playing with them or the fact that a trained professional whose been put in charge of teaching our teens about safe sex cant tell the difference between happy meal action figures and condoms ...
Gotta be a fake.
The source shows several signs that it's a parody article. For instance, the original article at
http://www.crystalair.com/story.php?id=201006011
quotes a worker as saying "Who ever heard of The Last Airbender anyway?" and adds, 'Meanwhile, the producers of The Last Airbender have issued a formal thank you to the Post Office, McDonald's and the Provincetown School System for "doing something that might actually get somebody to notice our lame movie."'
That's got to be a satire. Mr. Average is right.
Hire People Who Speak English
Maybe if mcdonalds would hire some true americans then maybe, just maybe those kind of idiotic mistakes would NOT happen. What has happened to america lately
True American...
True American? I don't think Sitting Bull ever wanted to be hired by McD's
to be fair
this article says nothing about people who don't speak english working at mcdonalds, but rather at a warehouse that packages products for mcdonalds.
and as far as mexicans, central americans, south americans working in food service in general... jesus christ , check out any kitchen in any restaurant in this country, fancy or mall food court, and you're bound to see a few.
but yeah, if you live in a country you should learn the language.
what has happened to america is that not enough people want to go the extra mile when it comes to work , which means that the people who do want to go the extra mile are often let out of work because it's cheaper to hire mexicans or refugees to work sixteen hour days.
Not on Snopes yet
so it could be true. But I would guess it is by some immigration group who wants to set up people who don't speak English.
Umm... this is a hoax, folks
This story has appeared online with variations of place (New Zeland, Switzerland, etc.), quotes and other details . Stuff like this is a strong indicator of a hoax.
Also, the source for the story appears to be
http://www.crystalair.com/story.php?id=201006011
- a parody site like the Onion.
I'll believe it when I see the story on a reputable news source....
Thanks
Actually, I'd say "libel" is closer than "hoax". Presenting this as legitimate news goes beyond irresponsible. If McDonald's were to take exception to it, both OV and the person who posted it would be looking at a very expensive defamation suit they couldn't possibly defend against.
Maybe OV should add a humor section for the intentionally frivolous stuff, although some days it's pretty hard to tell the difference.
reputable news source?
LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO
HAHAHA.....
they blew them up. We truly never do grow up.
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
It could have been worse
What if it had been brightly colored packages of rat poison?
Once upon a time, if you bought something in America, it was made in America, by American workers , who were literate in the English language.
On one level it's funny, on another it's absolutely disgraceful that 20 million Americans are out of work while corporate America has foreigners putting condoms in happy meals.
And, please, are we really to believe no one at the factory was able to recognize these as condoms? I suppose anything is possible, but that stretches the limits of credibility.
"Happy" meals with condoms...
The punchline potential is endless...but in all seriousness, how can McDonald's be hiring workers who don't know what they're putting in the bags? Doesn't that concern anyone as far as what may land on the next Big Mac?
Or...
They are actually saying we really do need protection from their food .
The write up doesn't make it entirely clear
I'm guessing this is something that happened in an offshore factory. I don't buy happy meals myself, so am not sure how they're set up, but I'm guessing the boxes with toys are prepackaged offshore, then imported to the US. For instance, maybe the local sweet shop packed condoms on one end and happy meal boxes on the other? Otherwise, I have a hard time figuring out what McDonald's was doing with all those condoms.
Could it have been a publicity stunt? It still strikes me as a very difficult mistake to make and the explanation seems kinda thin.
I used to work there...
Don,
I used to work at McD's when I was in high school and college . We assembled the Happy Meal boxes and put the toys in when we had free time between customers. So, the same people who are using the cash register and handling food also assemble the Happy Meals.
Maybe you can tell then?
Does McDonald's sell condoms ? Like in vending machines in the restrooms, or something?
Why would McDonald's have 5000 rubbers? The whole thing doesn't make much sense if they were packed on location. Isn't that kind of strange. As in an employee accidently pulled out the two ton crate of condoms instead of kiddy toys.
Just a guess
I'm guessing that at the distribution center the shipping department put the McD's shipping label on the box of condoms and the school 's shipping label on the box of toys. That's the only explanation I can think of as to why the mix up happened. Lots of warehouses process shipments for multiple clients. The same thing happened once or twice at the company I work for now. In fact, they did it to me. I received a box of brochures meant for a travel company in California, and they received the item that was supposed to go to me.
wow, I don't think so
That would be one dumb-a$$ publicity stunt - it's not like McDonald's is an unknown brand that really needs to get their name in front of the public - everyone knows who they are. I can only see this being a negative.
As always..
This will fall on deaf ears and no one will make the distinction of how much of a problem this is. Communication is the key to a successful society . What is it going to take, a major catastrophe caused by humans due to someone not being able to understand instructions.
Why Education
This is why education is so important!
It should be a requirement that to hold a job where you work with the public in any capacity, you need to be able to speak, read, and write English.
get an education yourself
Do a little investigation . For starters there isn't even a mcdonalds in brewster. And besides does this sound like even moderately true? And finally lookk at the source. Not too reliable huh? If this was true wouldn't the cape cod times, the local newspaper run the story? Or even a bigger boston newscompany?
Still a funny joke though
I don't know anything about
I don't know anything about it. I do not buy happy meal myself, so I'm not sure how to create, but I think the boxes are packed with toys in the sea and then imported into the United States. For example, perhaps the local candy store filled condoms at one end and Happy Meal boxes on the other end. I don't think McDonald's will do this. I have heard that printing service like Trace Communications and other media also knows about this and moreover, who did the above design, I don't think it is good.
get an education yourself, take your own advice.
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