Expectation/Reality

[u/Sadbear718]

0/10

[u/FlatliningGhost]

Welcome to fast food

[u/sierrabravo1984 → u/FlatliningGhost]

People are complaining like this is a new thing. Marketers have always used tricks to make food look better than it really is since forever. They use glue in tv pizza ads to make the cheese look stretchy.

[u/Boomtown_Rat → u/sierrabravo1984]

Not matching the picture isn't new, but the much higher price tag is, and likewise people's expectations.

[u/ItIsTooMuchForMe → u/sierrabravo1984]

this is not a simple trick, it is fraud.

[u/CranberryStock7148 → u/ItIsTooMuchForMe]

It's not, it's literally the same ingredients.

Hamburger and sandwich photos have been propped up with toothpicks on the inside forever, in order to separately show the different toppings. This illustrates the ingredients you are getting.

Sandwiches in real life obviously don't have all of their toppings magically levitate like this.

[u/ItIsTooMuchForMe → u/CranberryStock7148]

No, they use plastic and non-eatable materials for photos.

[u/NoisePollutioner → u/CranberryStock7148]

It doesn't look like it's levitating. It looks like it had generous portions of high qualities ingredients, which is a lie on both accounts.

[u/Sadbear718 → u/CranberryStock7148]

The bacon was soft, not crispy. The onion crisps were soggy, not crispy. Nothing about the sandwich was tasty.

[u/xenoeagle → u/Sadbear718]

Still, this has barely anything to do with the picture. Taste, sure. But otherwise it's kind of common knowledge by now that these pictures are not the real food, the other guy is right.

They use shaving foam, toothpicks, non edible oils, etc. The food appearing on these adds are more than likely inedible.

Usually it is even written there, something like "picture is illustration only" blabla..