Can I tell you a little BIG secret? I can? Great! I really enjoy eating at McDonald's! I do you know! I quite often sneak off from the Kiosk and head out to the Yallambie McDonald's. The nice staff there always meets with me with a big wide grin. I take my teddy friends with me, and it must look a very happy, cheery sight to see all of us teddies march in to the restaurant and some of us go and order whilst the rest of us sit at a table. I like to climb up onto the seats and dangle my little teddy legs in the air as I sit there. ! My favourite meal to eat is a cheeseburger and a serving of French fries! I like cheese, I like burger meat, I like bread buns and I like tomato sauce but... the only thing I do NOT like is pickles!! And none of my teddy friends like pickles either! We have a bear custom when we all receive our burgers. The custom is: Step one: open up burger packaging. Step two: take lid off top of burger. Step three: remove pickles and give a little wrinkle of your teddy nose to say that we don't like pickles. Step four:" put bread bun lid back onto the top. Step five: munchity munch munch! There is quite a big amount of quietness whilst we all are munching away on our burgers!! Yummy!! And of course our hamburgering is interrupted every few minutes by our teddy paws grabbing a few French fries to eat too! Teddies do have to be wary of eating too much salt though. We do NOT want to have high blood pressure and too much salt can mess up with the inner bear heart health. Our teddy bear stuffing could get a bit knocked about. Because of this, we always ask for salt-less chips. Sometimes I have a sundae too. But it makes me a bit confused if I do have a sundae and I am eating at McDonald's on a Monday. I feel a bit weird asking for a sundae on another day of the week. It throws my teddy bear system out. I then think the day is a Sunday, when it really is a Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday... and so on!!  So... I like to stick to having sundaes on Sundays and then it just feels right!  Also, I feel quite like an overseas traveller when I eat French fries... as if I am in Paris partaking in some fine dining. Monsieur Kiosk- Ted Strath  has a nice sound to it , don't you think?! French fries and an Aussie cheese burger equals a great combo for any teddy bear's meal!!

Did you know that Ronald McDonald is a great friend of mine? We have been friends for many, many years.  Doesn't he look soooo very suave in his red and yellow clothes that he wears!! He certainly brightens my day when I catch up with him for a chat!! He does find it a bit hard though at times to try to find replacements for his big red boots that he wears. These boots do wear out after a while because Ronald does a lot of jumping about trying to add a smile to everyone's lives. But, I have to say this in the most politest terms... Ronald does have very large feet! And red boots that are his feet size are not so commonly found! He has checked the shoe departments in Target and Kmart but they don't have boots in his size... or colour. He has to order them over the internet from the "Really Red Big Boots Boutique Hand made Handcrafted Home" website. It is quite safe to order online from this site you know. It has a little padlock sign next to the website address, so that means it is a safe and secure site for transactions. He did have to set up a password for shopping there though. To log in and order the boots, he has to input his email address, which is ronaldmcd@mcdtastesgreat.com, and also he has to input his password. I would tell you his password... but it is meant to be kept private! If I told you the password, it wouldn't be private and anyone who reads this could get into his account! That is the point of having a password is to keep it private!! Hmmm... another reason I don't want to tell you his password is... he hasn't even told me it !!!  We are great friends, Ronald and I, but we do have to keep our passwords secret! And just by the way, another reason why I like Ronald McDonald is that my teddy friends and I like people who have red/orange/auburn hair! We always have and always will like people who have hair coloured such as this!

Hmmm.... all this talk about burgers and fries has made me feel a bit peckish! I think I might just have to go and satisfy my burger appetite!!

Until next time,

        Happy burger munching to you! And if you need to order any large red boots, you now know which website to order them from!

            Your friend, Mr. Kiosk-Ted Strath

                Also simply known as "Ted"!!