"It's hard to make things foolproof ...

... because fools are so ingenious."

Except that the managers of McDonald's, Inc. are not fools.

San Francisco's jackboot government has made it illegal, starting tomorrow, for Mickey D's or anyone else to sell a meal that includes a toy unless the meal complies with the city's draconian nutritional standards. That the city's school systems' meals do not meet those standards is ironic and typical of this kind of socialist authoritarianism, but that's another story, I guess.

The ordinance is directed squarely and specifically at McDonald's Happy Meals. The city's objective is to ban Happy Meals altogether because, you see, Happy Meals and nothing else are making S.F. kids obese.

So McDonald's will tomorrow stop selling Happy Meals there - at least, they will stop selling any kind of meal that includes a toy. You will still be able to buy the exact, same menu items in the exact, same Happy Meal box, at the same price. But it will not include a toy.

A toy will set you back another 10 cents, rung as a separate transaction. And if you want to buy a toy at all, you must buy the toyless Happy Meal to do so.

No, Mcdonald's' managers are not fools. But the dictati of San Francisco are.

Here's the link: Happy Meal Ban: McDonald's Outsmarts San Francisco