When I started this thread, my curiosity was not about what is always served, regardless of season, at the golden arches. I was curious about a temporary Happy Meal perk of fresh fruit, in this case a promotion of Cuties which are citrus. The advert campaign used to decorate the restaurants had Mister Happy Meal, a cartoon sketch character, wearing denim overalls, sitting on a pile of crates, and strumming a mandarin orange with the Cuties label and a twelve-stringed neck coming out of the orange.

Well, the Cuties have left the premises. Now the latest Happy Meal promotion has nothing in it resembling a twelve-string guitar. No, it's all about birds that cannot fly unless they are propelled from a slingshot, and something that looks like Doctor Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham, only without the eggs and the ham is actually green pigs. Bye-bye, twelve-stringed citrus fruit.