My Biggest Complaint About Long John Silver’s Treasure Chest Kid’s Meals

Like all good Catholics, I load my little bacca’s up and head out to Long John Silver’s on Friday nights during Lent. It’s more of a cultural thing than a religious thing and actually, truth be told, it’s nice to not have to fight over what restaurant to go for once in a while.

I almost fell off my wooden pseudo boat bench of a chair when I found out the kid’s Treasure Chest meals at LJS come standard with goldfish crackers and a granola bar instead of fries and… I don’t know… whatever they came with before. I think it was hush puppies.

Goldfish crackers and a granola bar with fried popcorn shrimp? Who in the hell came up with that? I’ve read many of the healthy eating complaints here at mbc and I completely understand the obesity epidemic. Starting kids off with healthy food is a must.

But goldfish crackers and a granola bar and fried anything? That’s just gross. What kind of combo is that?

I’ve seen apples instead of fries for kids or fruit cups instead of fries but I’ve never seen a carb loaded substitute like goldfish crackers and a granola bar.

The whole “healthy substitute for fries with kids meals thingy” got me thinking about the end game. I suppose fast food restaurants have two options, continue to serve the healthy option forever or switch the kids over to fries when they grow up. I guess at some point, it will be kind of like a fast food bar mitzvah where your kid gets to graduate from the healthy happy meals to the unhealthy adult fries variation.

Whatever the end game, I’m pretty certain 10 out of 10 adults would never select either goldfish crackers or granola bar to eat with fried fish.