Today was the first time I have ever been to McDonald’s.
Big deal you might say. Well it is because Mum and Dad haven’t been to McDonald’s since 1998 – that’s nearly ten years – ever since they went to see the documentary film McLibel which was about the McLibel case of McDonald’s Restaurants v Morris & Steel, a long-running English court action for libel filed by McDonald’s Corporation against environmental activists Helen Steel and David Morris (often referred to as “The McLibel Two”) over a pamphlet critical of the company. The original case lasted seven years, making it the longest-running court action in English history. But more importantly, it made Mum and Dad not want to eat McDonald’s ever again – and any other fast food for that matter.
Today was McHappy Day, where every cent you donate goes directly to Ronald McDonald House Charities. That was all the excuse Mum and Dad needed to get off the wagon and into some greasy, disgustingly delicious Macca’s, so off we went to McDonald’s Maroubra Junction for a spot of lunch.
Dad said he used to absolutely love a Big Mac meal washed down with a chocolate Super Sundae. In fact, Dad reckons he invented the Super Sundae – where the topping is on the top and the bottom. He said he used to frequent the McDonald’s store on the corner of Barker Street and Anzac Parade Kingsford back in the late 1980s, and then the McDonald’s store on Oxford Street in Bondi Junction in the early 1990s. Back then, he used to ask for a chocolate Sundae with topping on the top and bottom. He’d always offer to pay more – sometimes the staff would do it – sometimes they wouldn’t. Then, a few years later, McDonald’s must have cottoned on to Dad’s idea, because they came out with the Super Sundae – with topping on the top and the bottom.
Anyway, Today, Dad had his first Big Mac meal in nearly a decade, but he turned down the opportunity to have a Super Sundae because he was too full I’d say that was probably because he was helping me out with my McHappy Meal 
