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What you see is not necessarily what you get these days, especially when it comes to food. How many of you have gone to a MacDonalds, Burger King, Southern Fried Chicken, or whatever fast food joint takes your fancy and been more than a little disappointed with what you got for your money?
On the sides of leading fast food retailers delivery trucks are pictures of the juiciest, fattest and good looking burgers? They really do make me want to go out and buy one.
It looks absolutely nothing like the picture...
But every time I fall into this marketing void and purchase one of these burgers, more often than not it turns out to be some shrunken, flat, half cold pathetic looking thing with a wilting piece of lettuce stuck on top.
It looks absolutely NOTHING like the picture the advertising guys used! Any chance the photographer could take a couple of pictures of my wife for me?
Surely I would have learnt my lesson by now? Apparently I havent though, because the pictures always draw me back in the vain hope that one day, just maybe if I am really lucky, I might find that perfect fresh juicy burger just like the one I saw on the bill board! There ought to be a law against these kinds of advertising tricks, or at the very least they should compensate you with a couple of free burgers!
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Many good restaurants still sell steak tartare and I know places in London such as Guerilla Burgers who will make you a medium rare burger if you ask. I think many places don't want to do it in case people fall ill and then sue them so they say that they can't rather than that would rather not.
To my mind, you buy cheap, you get cheap. McDonalds and the like are known for their relatively low prices, not the aesthetic value of their food. Yes the food itself isn't fantastic quality, but it's hot (usually) and filling (for the most part). If you want a burger which looks like its picture, eat paper.
Go pleasant, not peasant!
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Nothing ever looks as good as it does in the pictures. They have food artists to make it look that way but who can blame the staff for not making the effort to make it look pretty? They are low paid and poorly treated. We, the customers, choose to eat at these places. I can't remember of anyone forcing it upon us.
Why go to a butcher? By the time you are done collecting the ingredients and travelling for them you could have bought a 22 acre plot of land for less.
Nikki you are the one that is daft. So, if you venture to the cinema, evening out of whatever you would rather go home and make yourself a 'Houseburger'?
That scene from the Michael Douglas film Falling Down is one of my favourite pieces of cinematography.
DSG