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Truth in Advertising - 6/11/2009 7:32:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality
The one that gets me the most is the Big Mac. In the 70's they actually looked like the ad (ok...pretty close to it, but not any more)

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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/11/2009 10:50:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		The "real" ones look disgusting. Yuck!

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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/12/2009 12:56:05 AM   
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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/12/2009 1:00:44 AM   
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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/12/2009 6:40:35 AM   
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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/12/2009 7:12:08 AM   
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I've worked food service for years, including at McDonalds, Straw Hat Pizza and co-owned/operated a lunch cart at a private beach. I've also done commercials for TV and know that that food you see in the photographs? It's stone cold and totally unedible. The reality that you see is heat at work or sheer sloppiness. Someone has to crank out this food in a couple of minutes to make the customers happy where they've taken hours and hours to prepare the commercial photographed ones. Cheese melts when it gets warm, as does lettuce. It also looks like someone got sloppy on portions or was told to only put X amount of such and such on the sandwich or burrito when they use double or triple the amount for commercials. I've seen it at Subway, you only get 2 or 3 pieces of meat or at some places, they'll actually weigh the food before putting it on. Because Subway will fold the meat, rounded side out, it looks like you're getting a lot more meat than you really are.

It's commercialism - give the customer a dream and then make them accept reality. Me, all I care about is that I get what I order and that it tastes good. Looks can be deceiving.


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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/12/2009 7:42:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		hahah yeah some of those do look pretty disgusting.

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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/12/2009 7:47:14 AM   
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Status: offline 		they didn't look like the ads no, but they didn't look that bad...maybe i'm just hungry.

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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/12/2009 7:49:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		My thought too, Christine. The Arby's Beef and Cheddar never look like the ads but DAMN are they good!!!! *drools*

  Now I need to see if I can find the only Arby's in the region again. It's somewhere around here......


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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/12/2009 7:49:59 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Rainfire

*shrugs*

I've worked food service for years, including at McDonalds, Straw Hat Pizza and co-owned/operated a lunch cart at a private beach. I've also done commercials for TV and know that that food you see in the photographs? It's stone cold and totally unedible.


Sometimes it is not even "food" at all, but play-doh or what not.

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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/12/2009 8:19:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		Christine, not all of them looked disgusting but some of them did, and they're foods I love to eat, like the arbies cheader cheese and meat sandwhich lol.
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they didn't look like the ads no, but they didn't look that bad...maybe i'm just hungry.

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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/12/2009 8:29:15 AM   
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Sometimes it is not even "food" at all, but play-doh or what not.


  Gross but true. Because real food would not hold up for the length of a photo-session.


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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/12/2009 8:35:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		I wouldn't eat any of those things unless I was desperate for food anyway, so the pictures don't even look good to me.  I try to eat real food, but there have been times that I have been unable to get it, so have had to resort to fast food.  When that happens, I try to eat the salads with grilled chicken or at Arby's I eat a turkey sammie on the whole grain bread.  Those things end up looking much like the pictures they have of them & I don't feel like puking after I eat them.

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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/12/2009 8:40:12 AM   
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Christine, not all of them looked disgusting but some of them did, and they're foods I love to eat, like the arbies cheader cheese and meat sandwhich lol.
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ORIGINAL: Christinestill

they didn't look like the ads no, but they didn't look that bad...maybe i'm just hungry.



guess it's all subjective about what looks disguisting and what doesn't.  i wasn't personally responding to you, i was responding to the OP.

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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/12/2009 8:43:35 AM   
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My thought too, Christine. The Arby's Beef and Cheddar never look like the ads but DAMN are they good!!!! *drools*

  Now I need to see if I can find the only Arby's in the region again. It's somewhere around here......

Abry's if the only fast food i will eat...and i really don't care how it looks...it doesn't stay around long enough for me to eyeball it.

Drat...now i want curly fries.


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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/12/2009 8:50:21 AM   
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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/12/2009 10:47:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		OK, the photographer bought the sandwich, it was wrapped, put in a bag and carried home. 
 
Gravity and heat are gonna get you every time.  Rain mentioned the heat.  Of course you won't see the holes in the swiss cheese after it melts a little.  All the items looked flattened, but that is from wrapping and the heat that is retained in the wrapper.
 
If you recall the Big Mac used to come in a box.  That would reduce the effects of gravity. 
 
To be "fair" the photographer should ask for the items to be placed on a plate and not wrapped.  Then he should photograph them immediately with good lights.
 
 

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RE: Truth in Advertising - 6/12/2009 10:03:57 PM   
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Ok...Fluffy wins the prize.....she nailed it (almost) on the Big Mac. They used to come in a paper box and inside that they were held together with a paper collar so that it was all very neatly stacked and did look very much like the ad pic in the OP link.  As for the majority of the "reality" pics in the link  most are really sad and/or disgusting. A couple of them come close to looking like the ad. I think there is no reason why they can't give better presentation.

I avoid fast foods altogether these days unless I am totally desperate, and then I will go to subway or a local sub shop, mainly because they are the healthiest option.

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