Disney And McDonalds Will Team Up Once Again!

McDonalds will team up with Disney once again to offer Happy Meals that includes Disney movie characters.

After more than a decade, McDonald’s and Disney will once again team up on Happy Meal toys. The newly announced collaboration follows the Golden Arches’ recent decision to scrap cheeseburgers as a part of its kids’ menu offerings. The last time either megabrand worked together was back in 2006, after Disney officially passed on renewing a 10-year-deal allowing McDonald’s to offer Happy Meal buyers Disney-licensed toys. The split was a result of Disney’s decision to associate both its characters and its brands with more nutritionally balanced foods as it became the first major media company to establish nutrition guidelines.

It has been interesting to see how the presence of McDonalds at Walt Disney World has been diminishing for the past few years, starting with the removal of the McDonalds french fries at various parks, and then the removal of the wildly popular McDonalds restaurant in the former Downtown Disney.

Maybe this deal is the start of a whole new, beautiful friendship between the two once again.

Zz.

Fish Are Food, Not Friends

If you have seen Disney/Pixar's "Finding Nemo", you might be the inference. The sharks in the movie were on some sort of a 12-step program to stop eating fish, and they kept reciting the manta "Fish are friends, not food."

So I thought I turn it around, since I like fish. I made this t-shirt and I've worn many times, including at the Walt Disney World.

I've had a lot of people chuckling when they saw the shirt, especially if they made the connection with the movie. The picture on the shirt was something I took. It was a dish of fried whole red snapper, a menu item at Los Compadres Mexican restaurant near here. This is our most favorite Mexican restaurant in the area (more discussion on our favorite ethnic restaurants soon).

This is the original photo of the dish:

It is a delicious, simple dish, and very filling.

Yum... now I have a craving for Mexican food!

Zz.