Whn the commercials on t.v. try to sell their products

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Blain

Blain

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Ok so you know how on t.v. when food places are showing their food to get you to go there and buy their food it always looks a lot better than it actually is? Like little Ceasers Pizza on t.v. is always much cheesier and more delicious looking than it actually is or a burger place makes the burger much better looking than it is when you buy it.

I hate that, I mean if your going to show me a whopping burger with tender looking meat and extra melted cheese with all the amazing toppings and my mouth water you have to actually make it how I saw or at least try.

Sure it takes extra work and might cost a bit more but think of many more customers you would get with such a burger. Plus lowering the prices is always a good way to get customers but a lot of places dont do that.

Maybe its just me maybe I just dont know how these things work?
 
Lynx

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Frankly... you don't know how things work. The main reason home cooked food is so much better than fast food factories is because home cooked food costs more. The fast food factories are always watching every penny. If business is slow they have a way to calculate labor cost as a percentage of total sales, and it had better not get above a certain percent - send some workers home early. They record in their computers how much food they sold versus how much they bought from the supplier, and if more than a certain amount of food goes missing they know about it their computers throw up red flags.

So yeah... they serve burgers made as cheaply as possible. Those burgers you see in the commercials are actually plastic. They can make plastic look good enough to eat and realistic enough that even if you were holding it in your hand you might try to take a bite of it.
 
seoulsearch

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I've seen and read that food commercials also have "food stylists".

You know how makeup artists make models and television hosts look perfect? Food stylists do the exact same thing to edible products. Everything is made absolutely perfect, often by artificial means. If it's a print ad, airbrushing is also used to further enhance the fantasy. That's all commercials are--fantasy--than usually in no way reflect real life.

It's just part of advertising--always making the product look more beautiful and appealing and magical than it actually is. :)
 
Lynx

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seoulsearch said:
I've seen and read that food commercials also have "food stylists".

You know how makeup artists make models and television hosts look perfect? Food stylists do the exact same thing to edible products. Everything is made absolutely perfect, often by artificial means. If it's a print ad, airbrushing is also used to further enhance the fantasy. That's all commercials are--fantasy--than usually in no way reflect real life.

It's just part of advertising--always making the product look more beautiful and appealing and magical than it actually is. :)
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That's... um... that's the first time I've ever seen "magical" applied to fast food. =^.^=
 
seoulsearch

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Lynx said:
That's... um... that's the first time I've ever seen "magical" applied to fast food. =^.^=
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I always like to say, I'm cheap, but not easy. :D

I know some people find this disgusting but I've always loved fast food. I don't indulge in it very often at all (maybe once a month?) but I still enjoy it very much. My top favorites are Wendy's, Arby's, and good old Mickey D's. Anyone who ever asked me out on a date could always take me to these places and get a big thumbs up. These are also very nostalgic places to me as well, because my family was into healthy living and also always trying to save money, so a "big night out" for us meant eating at one of these places. My parents would save for a month and take us to McDonald's as a treat. I have many nostalgic memories of eating with my family in fast food restaurants.

I wrote about this before, but when I was 16, my appendix broke and I spent 12 days in the hospital. Thanks to a flavorless hospital diet, I lost nearly 8 pounds during that time and would beg my parents to bring me McDonald's food.

To this day, whenever I get sick, I STILL crave McDonald's Chicken McNuggets and French Fries.

MAGICAL!!! :D
 
Lynx

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Um... yeah. I'm the diametric opposite. Once every year I eat a fast food burger and a Hot Pocket (tm) to remind myself to appreciate the good food I get the rest of the year. And boy do I feel blah after I eat that...

Although I'm about three years behind. I keep putting it off.
 
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I actually proved this on cam a couple months ago (Gypsy, Misty, and GLR were in the room, I think), but I actually did get a McDonald's burger that looked every bit as pretty as the photograph. I popped open the box, and was pretty well astounded. So I turned on the cam and held it up for everyone. I was impressed.
 
wisebeardman

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one way to make sure I never buy your product is to annoy me with an ad.
 
Lynx

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Shouryu said:
I actually proved this on cam a couple months ago (Gypsy, Misty, and GLR were in the room, I think), but I actually did get a McDonald's burger that looked every bit as pretty as the photograph. I popped open the box, and was pretty well astounded. So I turned on the cam and held it up for everyone. I was impressed.
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Did it taste as good as the advertisement claimed?
 
seoulsearch

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Shouryu said:
I actually proved this on cam a couple months ago (Gypsy, Misty, and GLR were in the room, I think), but I actually did get a McDonald's burger that looked every bit as pretty as the photograph. I popped open the box, and was pretty well astounded. So I turned on the cam and held it up for everyone. I was impressed.
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*Stomps foot.*

I always miss the REALLY IMPORTANT things in chat, doggone it!!!! :D
 
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Lynx said:
Did it taste as good as the advertisement claimed?
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As I don't watch much TV, I hadn't seen an ad. Only saw the picture at the drive thru, and it had bacon, and Big Mac sauce, and that was good enough for me.

It did taste better than your run-of-the-mill McD's burger.
 
lookwhatthelordhasdone

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Blain said:
Ok so you know how on t.v. when food places are showing their food to get you to go there and buy their food it always looks a lot better than it actually is? Like little Ceasers Pizza on t.v. is always much cheesier and more delicious looking than it actually is or a burger place makes the burger much better looking than it is when you buy it.

I hate that, I mean if your going to show me a whopping burger with tender looking meat and extra melted cheese with all the amazing toppings and my mouth water you have to actually make it how I saw or at least try.

Sure it takes extra work and might cost a bit more but think of many more customers you would get with such a burger. Plus lowering the prices is always a good way to get customers but a lot of places dont do that.

Maybe its just me maybe I just dont know how these things work?
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All of this is just making me really, really hungry for junk food, so. :(
 
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Heh fun fact is for many of the food ads, especially fast food ads they will do outrageous things to doctor up their product anything from gluing together sandwiches, photoshopping in or out certain things, good old fashioned camera tricks, subliminal messagin, etc. It really should not be too much to wonder at considerring such corporations dump millions of dollars into their marketting departments. This is not just peculiar to the fast food world either, but is pretty prevalent today for just about everything from Mickey D's to NASA. Always take anything you see on TV with a grain of salt.

Here's a fun ABC clip on McDonald's doctoring up a burger and even photoshopping the bun lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdv_oE7fwf8
[video=youtube;bdv_oE7fwf8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdv_oE7fwf8[/video]
 
mailmandan

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Blain said:
Ok so you know how on t.v. when food places are showing their food to get you to go there and buy their food it always looks a lot better than it actually is?
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Like in this commercial. Is it just me or does the king creep anyone else out in this commercial?

[video=youtube_share;x4_5qoy4oaQ]http://youtu.be/x4_5qoy4oaQ[/video]
 
Lynx

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That "king" creeps everyone out. I have no idea what BK was thinking when they made those commercials.
 
DuchessAimee

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I'm eating MUCH less fast food then I used to, but I'm still a sucker for Mc Donalds fries. However, when I had Steak and Shake fries, those were really good as well.
 
Angela53510

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No wonder I don't eat fast food! Rule of thumb - if they advertise it on TV they are paying millions to make you buy! So don't buy!
 
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seoulsearch said:
*Stomps foot.*

I always miss the REALLY IMPORTANT things in chat, doggone it!!!! :D
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I get up at quarter of 6 in the morning EST.

I don't even get to see responses to posts on the forums any more lol.
 
seoulsearch

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ServantStrike said:
I get up at quarter of 6 in the morning EST.

I don't even get to see responses to posts on the forums any more lol.
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I see your quarter of 6 o'clock in the AM and I raise you... 2:15 AM. Which is when I have to get up for many of my shifts. On some days, I get home around 2 PM... and then go back in at midnight. I don't really sleep for extended hours anymore... but rather, just kind of "graze" on a couple hours here and there like a cow grazing on grass.

I do try to make cameo guest appearances here and in chat though... especially when they are talking about (and now showing, apparently) food.
 
Lynx

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AAAAAAARGH! I just woke up and I'm still a bit slow mentally. I clicked Play on that commercial before my brain processed what "mile high" referred to. Why did you make me watch that commercial?!
 
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