But instead it looked like this.
In China and Hong Kong the Restaurants all have fine print at the bottom of the menu that says “Pictures for reference only”
But do they taste good.
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I remember seeing a print Magazine article about food photography for advertising some decades back.
they do some really strange stuff to the food to give the desired appearance.
tooth picks used as pins are used to level imperfect hanburger buns..and Elmers Glue was used in one photo to take the place of Sauce...
the goal is the IDEAL...what people THINK the food should look like
the “cheesey” window menu photography most often seen at Chinese Restaurants takes the Opposite approach,....and much of that stuff looks nearly inedible.
sadly trying to find any Photos of WIndow Menus.....returns millions of screenshots of WINDOWS computer desktop...or Id post a couple of those images for comparison sake.
If a burger flipper in CA gets $10/hr (or soon will get), how much does the guy who sits on the burgers before they’re given to the customer get? There’s no way that wrapped up mush happens naturally so someone has to have the sit and smash job.
When I worked at McDonald’s (1974 the paper hat and blue barber shirt era). We called a tray of Big Macs that looked especially good “Movie Macs”.
But instead it looked like this.
That website is a pos that will attack some browsers and lock them up.
Keep off.
Holy moly. That bottom photo is disgusting.
Whatever it is, it is NOT edible.
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. :-)
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.
Do they really look like that? I mean, that one looks like it came out of yesterday’s dumpster. *yuck*!
How McD of Canada does it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSd0keSj2W8