Day 015 - 21 Jul 94 - Page 51


     
     1   Q.   One of the more healthy examples that you had put with the
              pizza and side salad we were just referring to, number 5
     2        on your table 2, even that is outside the limits?
              A.  Let me just retrieve -- can you remind me which tab?
     3
         Q.   It is page 99A.
     4        A.  Yes.  Again what I have to emphasise is that in table
              2 on page 99A, I mean these are meal combinations.  There
     5        is no evidence to suggest that people who are eating at
              McDonald's six times a week or more are actually eating a
     6        whole combination of what is comparable to the ones that
              are in here.
     7
         Q.   Have you any evidence that they are not?
     8        A.  I have no evidence that they are, and again you have
              to remember that in some cases it may only be having a
     9        glass of orange juice.
 
    10   Q.   Would you call a glass of orange juice a meal?
              A.  Again you have to look across the whole range.
    11
         Q.   Would you call a glass of orange juice a meal?
    12        A.  It might be, yes.  It might constitute a snack.  It is
              a matter of opinion.
    13
         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Well, it might be, but I do not know what
    14        restrictions McDonald's have, unless they have a
              restriction on helping yourself occasionally to a coke or
    15        an orange drink.  If they interpreted that as a meal you
              might have fantastic numbers.  You might have people
    16        having ten meals a day -----
              A.  Right.
    17
         Q.   --- as they help themselves to a drink?
    18        A.  I really do not have any experience in the restaurant
              operation to such an extent that I could comment on what
    19        the rules are or what the practice actually is.
 
    20   Q.   May I just ask, from answers which have been given by
              earlier witnesses it appears that if, for instance, one
    21        went into McDonald's and bought a straight hamburger, not
              a Big Mac or a cheeseburger, that would count, if that is
    22        all you bought, as a meal?
              A.  I would imagine so, yes.
    23
         Q.   That is the terminology they use?
    24        A.  Yes.
 
    25   MS. STEEL:   You were concerned with this survey, were you not?
              A.  Yes, I was.  I suggested it should be done, but I was 
    26        not involved in the ----- 
  
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Did you set out the-----
              A.  --- preparation.
    28
         Q.   Did you suggest the questions?
    29        A.  I suggested it should be done.  No, I did not suggest
              the questions.
    30
         MS. STEEL:   Do you think the question, "How many times a week

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