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A board committee today found Supervisor Eric Mar’s legislation banning toys in Happy Meals downright delicious, recommending the full board approve it.

Mar has proposed banning toys in McDonalds’ Happy Meals and other meals targeted at kids unless their sugar, sodium and fat totals are limited and they include a half-cup apiece of fruit and vegetables. Mar maintains “the modest effort” will help curb the burgeoning levels of obesity in children.

Many pediatricians spoke in favor of the ban, one from San Francisco General even telling the supes of seeing waiting rooms full of kids clutching soda, chips and Chicken McNuggets. (Isn’t that like riding the brakes on your way to get your car serviced?)

The full board is due to take up the controversial issue on October 19, and Mayor Gavin Newsom has already pledged to veto it. That means, if the usual board breakdown holds, Supervisor Bevan Dufty will decide whether the board overrides Newsom’s veto or lets the toy ban die.

“I feel like I can see both sides of it, and I’m trying to navigate in my head what’s the right way to go,” Dufty told us. “I continue my reputation!”

For the record, Dufty said he has taken his 4-year-old daughter Sidney to McDonalds once, but she would only eat the fries in keeping with her all-beige diet that also includes bagels and pasta.

“I have a child that is challenging on nutritional intake so I bring that perspective to it,” Dufty said with a laugh.