McDonald's fires employee for asking whether Happy Meal is for a boy or a girl

Joanna nee Johnny enjoys its non-binary … something

From America’s Paper of Record, which fails to note that San Francisco has already banned Happy Meals entirely.

BUENA PARK, CA—A "bigoted" McDonald's drive-thru worker has been fired after asking a customer if their Happy Meal was for a boy or a girl.

"Great, is that for a boy or a girl?" the employee asked after a customer ordered a cheeseburger Happy Meal, having waited 45 minutes to get to the speaker (there were three cars in front of her).

"EXCUSE ME --- DID YOU JUST REINFORCE THE HARMFUL GENDER BINARY!?!" the enraged customer shouted. "How DARE you! You'll be hearing from my lawyers!" After getting her toy, she sped off in a huff and immediately dialed her attorney to file a lawsuit.

The McDonald's franchise quickly apologized and fired the offending employee.

Meanwhile, in Britain, little parrots are petitioning for the end of plastic toys completely. The petition originally called for hair shirts to be substituted instead, but that provision was dropped in favor of floggings after PETA pointed out that hair is culled from animals.

Next up: Little Mike joins with PETA to demand that fast food outlets stop serving milk and soda pop.

UPDATE: A reader points out that America’s new Paper of record, the Babylon Bee, is a satirical “news” site and that therefore this story is not to bee believed. True, sort of, but it’s a sign of our ever-increasing dash to madness that one can read a Bee headline and think, “yeah, that could happen”. The Bee tells you what’s going to happen, rather than what has happened; usually that’s a mere matter of days.