Posted on 10/20/2013 3:07:13 PM PDT by SamAdams76
My favorite one (not mentioned in this article) is the Dunkin Donuts "Big and Toasted". Here is the picture featured on the menu compared to reality...
But it's really more like this...
Google or Yahoo! their chicken nugget ingredients and the “pink slime” they put in their burgers. You’ll never eat there again.
White latex paint is used to simulate milk in some photos.
That’s not a burger it’s a krabby patty..
Tricks we played on folks we didn’t like... cook some apple pies in the filet-o-fish tank, “forget” to break the yolks on the egg mcmuffins so they’d squirt when bitten into.
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Those were the fun old days!
I would also always pull the shakes off the mixer too fast and end up with white, brown and pink stripes on my shirt.
Holy moly. That bottom photo is disgusting.
Whatever it is, it is NOT edible.
vs. Reality:
The whoppers I have bought at the burger king near me, indeed looks alot like the better one on the left. Not nearly as perfect looking, but damn close. I’ve NEVER seen a whopper that resembles anything like the one on the right.
Yes... Thanks for the jog to the memory!!
I wish I could find that article...Id scan it and post the images here.
these were a few more of the tricks that were illustrated in the articel I cant find.
Food that begins to dry out can be revitalized with hairspray—any brand will do.
Steaks that have that perfectly seared look have had strategically placed grill marks enhanced with brown shoe polish.
To prevent the lettuce and tomato from wilting under the moisture of a raw burger (except for the blow torched edges), cardboard is placed between burger and lettuce, where the cardboard prevents the meat from smashing and wilting the lettuce. And if your burger doesn’t have enough sesame seeds—or perhaps you would like the seeds more artfully arranged, you can always glue some in the desired places.
White glue is also used in place of milk when photographing a bowl of cereal. It’s also handy in repairing anything crumbly.
"You mean I'm the bad guy?"
I remember an expose from years ago, and not just for food:
1) marbles placed in a bowl of Campbell’s soup, pushing up the beef and veggies to make it look like it was “chock full of ...”
2) hot wine used instead of coffee - no subterfuge here though as real coffee looked gray in the old black and white TVs
3) competitors ketchup heated up so that when a “thickness” comparison (pour both down a plate side by side), the competitor’s ran quicker than the cold stuff.
4) Gillette foam softened so well that “you could even shave a piece of sandpaper with it”. Turns out they smeared a pane of glass with Vaseline, sprinkled sand on it to make it look like a sheet of sandpaper, then “shaved” the plate.
5) the real gem was Libbey Owens Ford glass. They showed a distorted side window view out of a car that used a competitor’s glass, the showed the same view, crystal clear, using their own. All they did was roll down the window.
I lost my innocence after reading that article. :-)
I would also always pull the shakes off the mixer too fast and end up with white, brown and pink stripes on my shirt.
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Young and thoughless
Love that movie as I equated with him on many levels. Everything from the smiling stonewall ("breakfast menu is over at 11:30" when the time was 11:32); 7-11 type store run by a foreigner who could barely speak English and financially raped you, etc.)
How about Subway? Gezz, the places reek and the sandwiches are nothing like what the ads show. They take a “V” cut out of the top so it LOOKS like there is some serious meat in them; if you are kind of blind. However the ads show them cut in half (like a normal sub) and loaded up with meat. Always thought that chain needed a false advertising lawsuit.
As far as the smell; I had to make a delivery to one recently. It was in a strip mall. No info on most of the back doors but their door was open and when I got close enough I knew I was in the right place.
Was there a McDonalds in FWB in 1960? Did they close and reopen later? I came down in 1970 and if I remember correctly, all we could find was a Burger King. We were from Tucson and had never heard of a Whopper.
Do they really look like that? I mean, that one looks like it came out of yesterday’s dumpster. *yuck*!
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