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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it a strange party.  How do you do a scavenger hunt at a library and keep kids quiet?  Not everyone likes McDonalds - we only eat breakfast there.  I would encourage her to go, but I wouldn't force it.[/quote]

OP, this is an example of who your DD will be when she becomes an adult unless you teach her manners and kindness...and resiliency!

From the sounds of it, the parents are probably on a tight budget and they want to keep costs under control which I totally respect.

Back when we were kids, as a 3rd grader I would have thought this was a cool idea for a party.

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Its not good manners to bring a group of kids to a library for a scavenger hunt.  Its a quiet place, not a place for kids to run around.  And, if the parent are on a tight budget McDonalds is not very cheap.  It isn't rude, if a child is a vegetarian.  The only thing my child could eat is a salad or pancakes and not all parents would buy a different meal or be ok with mine buying something different.  The major food items, including potato items are meat or have meat byproducts.    [/quote]

There's a few incorrect assumptions in your post.  First of all, most libraries have group meeting rooms.  I'd assume that this parent rented one of the rooms -- not that she's going to have a group of kids just running around the library.  Second, my vegetarian daughter likes to go to McDonalds.  She likes the yogurt parfait and the fruit smoothies.  They stopped using meat fat in the fries back in the 1980s -- my friends that were vegetarian in middle school were really psyched about that.

I'm siding with the posters that said that because this is a kid that's new to school, I would DEFINITELY encourage my daughter to attend, and to go with a good attitude.  Frankly, she sounds a little snobby to be an 8 year old turning her nose up at McDonalds.  I'm snobby about McDonald's, but my 8 year old sure isn't. [/quote]

The French fries still contain beef, FYI.

https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/about-our-food/our-food-your-questions.html
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You are totally right -- thank you for correcting me.  McDonalds DID announce they were getting rid of the beef fat in the oil back when I was in my teens, but it turns out that they still flavored the oil with "beef essence" and got sued in 2008 for failing to disclose that -- so they now do disclose it on their website.  (I can't believe I forgot that!)  It's a little unclear what this "beef essence" is, though, and whether it's actually meat...WIRED magazine described it as hydrolyzed meat and milk proteins, so it's possible that it's a vegetarian but not vegan flavoring?  I recently ate some bacon flavored corn chips that I was surprised to find contained NO MEAT at all.

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The hash browns are also an issue.   Its not about being a snob.  You may be more flexible vegetarian, which then isn't really vegetarian but my child insists on being a strict vegetarian which I support.  Its beef flavoring and its on their website.  In other countries the fries are vegetarian but not here.

Also, McDonalds is not particularly cheap.  It may not be budget but child or parent preference.[/quote]
Why do you keep beating this dead house and diverting the thread? That's not at all OP's daughter's issue.[/quote]

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