Hey, kids, better load up on those fries while they're still legal:
Michelle Obama said Thursday that a pledge by the Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants and its sister chains to serve healthier meals is a "breakthrough moment" for the industry.
Darden Restaurants Inc. is pledging to cut calories and sodium in its meals by 20 percent over a decade. Among promised changes for children, a fruit or vegetable side and low-fat milk will become standard with kids' meals unless a substitution is requested.
No more French fries for the little ones unless an adult asks for them.
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The company's promise is part of a trend by the restaurant industry to serve healthier food.
Since the beginning of the year, McDonald's, Burger King, Chili's, IHOP, Friendly's and more than a dozen other large and small chains have said they will begin replacing the French fries in children's meals with fruit and removing enticing pictures of less healthy items from their menus.
And shut up and eat your fruit and act like you like it, or we'll report you to the president's AttackWatch website.
Haven't these restaurants learned anything from the last decade? If you give in to terrorists, you'll just end up having to appease them and their ever-growing demands forever.
