Stripes

I thought of sharing my daughter's picture with The Striped One, Ronald McDonald. This was taken right after their activity on the last day of her stint as a McDonald's kiddie crew last summer.

There are Ronald McDonald permutations in other countries. There is an Asian Ronald McDonald for instance.

The picture came from Jackie Chan Kids website. It's the first thing that came up when I searched on Google. I don't know the whole story behind the picture but look at Ronald serving vegetables.

I remembered Super Size Me, the documentary about eating so much fast food. McDonald's introduced Ronald McDonald as the Ambassador of Balanced Lifestyles a few years ago expanding Ronald's role of teaching kids the value of an active lifestyle. Checking out McDonald's website, they have provided food quality check on their products.

Eat fries and burgers but burn all the calories after? We have not totally turned our backs on fast food but we have less of it now and so with processed foods. Eating at home also keeps us within our budget.

Here's something from Wikipedia.

In Thailand, Ronald McDonald greets people in the traditional Thai "wai" greeting gesture of both hands pressed together. The Thai version of the company mascot was created in 2002 by the local Thai franchise, McThai, as part of a "McThai in the Thai Spirit" campaign. The figure has also been exported to India and other Buddhist countries where a similar gesture is used. In Japan, Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald due to a lack of a clear "r" sound in Japanese. (Picture lifted from Wikimedia.)

I am aware about Ronald's greeting in Thailand but I did not know Ronald is Donald in Japan. :)

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