Well, as a parent, I haven't got a problem with happy meals. Didn't when my kid was little either. It wasn't an "always" food, just a "sometimes" food. Duh!And now, you can get them with apple slices and milk to drink instead of fries and a coke. Honestly, it's no worse than serving fish stick and mac and cheese at home. And the toys weren't bad -- good for a few days amusement, anyway. I certainly have no objection to them being books instead -- they'll still only be good for a few days amusement.
Sidenote: When we lived in the UK there was a sort of community center in our neighborhood that periodically would have flea markets and such. By this time our son was well past 'happy meal toy' age. And we'd long since gotten rid of the few that survived his 'play'. Imagine my annoyance when we went to one of these flea markets and saw tables and tables of the toys that we'd gotten rid of as 'junk' for sale for around £5-£7 each.

If only we'd known! And these weren't even ones still in the packaging -- those were going for more like £10!
Incidentally. . .as this feels like a topic that might be of interest to the general membership, I'm going to move the thread to NQK. Hang on.
