WYSIWYG (Except not really, like, at all.)
June 6, 2007 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Food and Drink, Photo
What you see is what you get. Ah, yes the time honored non-spoken contract between consumer and business establishment. Well, maybe not quite as honored as we’d like to think. In fact, fast food joints have been doing the ol’ bait-and-switch bit on you for years, but you don’t care, do you?
A cry escapes your orange-stained lips, “B-b-but Arby’s sauce is so good!”
No! It’s crap, and you know it.
Fast food: Ads vs. Reality is an “ongoing Pulitzer caliber project” that’s delightfully voyeuristic, investigative, and kinda gross all at the same time:
Each item was purchased, taken home, and photographed immediately. Nothing
was tampered with, run over by a car, or anything of the sort. It is an accurate
representation in every case. Shiny, neon-orange, liquefied pump-cheese, and all.
Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality
Thanks, Amanda!
Kelly Townsend
Reality is sometimes ugly, ugh!
Better food photo’s (some of my dinners)
http://www.fototime.com/inv/1DFC0E806766EEB
…and really salty.
Some of them don’t look all that bad, like the Subway sandwich.