Hummer promo a bummer for McDonald's

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So it’s not just me. Last night, I was contemplating the Happy Meal box, extolling the joys of the Hummer, and the cheap, plastic version of the gas guzzling behemoth that came with it, that my son and I acquired driving back from Massachusetts yesterday. I even told my husband not to throw the box out, I was so in awe. I just couldn’t believe that a promotion this wrongheaded made it all away through what I assume is a Byzantine approval process at McDonald’s to its boorish conclusion: this Happy Meal box asking the kiddies "Where would you go on a Hummer adventure?" and describing how it can barrel its way over boulders and through streams (perhaps killing future Filet O’ Fish along the way).

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