4/14/2008 - ads vs. reality

You know those advertisements for fast food joints like Wendy's or McDonald's and how good they make the burgers and other foods look? So what is your reaction when you actually get the food and it looks nothing like what was on TV? Well, you really can't expect minimum wage workers to do the same work as the food artists they have in the advertising department. You might think we have it bad over here, but it's even worse overseas:



Now that I think about it, Carl's Jr.'s commercials are probably the only ones that come closest to telling it like it is: with messy, drippy burgers prominently displayed in their ads. Oh boy, now I'm getting hungry... don't bother me, I'm gonna eat.