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" If you&amp;#039;re lucky enough to grow up with parents who will indulge you from time to time, then the McDonald&amp;#039;s Happy Meal is an important rite of passage. Everyone thinks it&amp;#039;s the toys the kids are after, which is true, but kids love fast food, too, and it&amp;#039;s hard to underestimate the power of a McDonald&amp;#039;s French fry. So it&amp;#039;s no surprise that when the chain recently decided to make its Happy Meal healthier by adding fresh apples and cutting fries, customers cried foul. As one executive said, &amp;quot;There was a huge disappointment factor.&amp;quot; They ended up not ditching the fries altogether, instead reducing the portion from 2.4 ounces of potato to 1.1. For those keeping track, at about $3 a meal \u2014 and we&amp;#039;re assuming you only care about the fries here, because really, apple slices? \u2014 that&amp;#039;s $2.73 per ounce of fry, up from $1.25. In other words, if you had 20 fries per package before, now you&amp;#039;re down to about 10, and, more devastatingly, each fry now costs you 30 cents, up from 15. To keep your kid healthier, which is a good thing, but still, you can expect a lot more whining at the drive-thru. [via Daily Beast] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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