In California, kids have to be in car seats until age 6 or 60 pounds. As you might expect, no self-respecting six year old wants to be in a baby seat. Parents are tired of the whining, so what can they do? Feed the little buggers. Parents are plumping up their little polliwogs to get past the weight limit and stop their kids from whining.

Surely McDonald’s and perhaps Hostess, with their delicious cupcakes and twinkies, are in on this, conspiring to push the weight limit even higher. Before we know it kids will have to weigh 100lbs before they can stop using the blasted booster seats.

And there’s another mystery solved. You heard it here first!