Things that have bothered you for a long time.

[Time Waster]

How do food advertisers, suppliers and packagers get away with their food images? Take macdonalds for example, they have images of quarter pounders with plenty of crispy lettuce, pickles, ketchup, etc. Then you buy it and get a thin meat pattie, a single piece of limp lettuce, at most one pickle slice and ketchup so thin you're not even sure it's there!

Pizza boxes with images of handmade pizzas restaurants would be proud of containing pizzas that have very little toppings that looks like it's artificial sauce on it.

Food advertisements are supposedly controlled by false advertising legislation I thought but not with images used to sell it.

I think that any supplier or advertiser of Food should be subhected to the simple test. Does it turn out like the advert or packaging images of the average purchaser follows the cooking instructions? Does the food you get given match the images in the takeaway? If not then the supplying and advertising company should be heavily fined and made to use the images taken as evidence for their advertising. Can you imagine an image of a quarter pounder that looks more like a tenth of a pounder without anything added like lettuce, pickles or ketchup being used to sell the product? I'd love for certain major fast food chains selling their products with realistic images of what they're selling.

 

[KnittyNorah]

How do food advertisers, suppliers and packagers get away with their food images? Take macdonalds for example, they have images of quarter pounders with plenty of crispy lettuce, pickles, ketchup, etc. Then you buy it and get a thin meat pattie, a single piece of limp lettuce, at most one pickle slice and ketchup so thin you're not even sure it's there!

Pizza boxes with images of handmade pizzas restaurants would be proud of containing pizzas that have very little toppings that looks like it's artificial sauce on it.

Food advertisements are supposedly controlled by false advertising legislation I thought but not with images used to sell it.

I think that any supplier or advertiser of Food should be subhected to the simple test. Does it turn out like the advert or packaging images of the average purchaser follows the cooking instructions? Does the food you get given match the images in the takeaway? If not then the supplying and advertising company should be heavily fined and made to use the images taken as evidence for their advertising. Can you imagine an image of a quarter pounder that looks more like a tenth of a pounder without anything added like lettuce, pickles or ketchup being used to sell the product? I'd love for certain major fast food chains selling their products with realistic images of what they're selling.

Have you not noticed that most of these pics have, in very small print in the most inconspicuous place on the ad, a tiny panel containing the words 'serving suggestion only'? Like if you add all your own juicy pickles and crisp lettuce in order to serve the thing, then it'll look like the image ... I suppose it's a way to officially get away with lying ...

 

[Petrichorwheels]

Is there perhaps a link between these gastronomic fantasy pics and the above subtheme of female cosmetic trickery.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Have you not noticed that most of these pics have, in very small print in the most inconspicuous place on the ad, a tiny panel containing the words 'serving suggestion only'? Like if you add all your own juicy pickles and crisp lettuce in order to serve the thing, then it'll look like the image ... I suppose it's a way to officially get away with lying ...

Sort of like stone soup: add your own seasoning, salad, sauce, burger and bread and it'll look just like this...

 

[classic33]

I'm tempted to do something akin to this,

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XkwQ6EjLdMQ


Should I ever go into such a place.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Untidiness - I am blessed with a lovely wife but by christ is she untidy. Think teenage bedrooms.

 

[Beebo]

How do food advertisers, suppliers and packagers get away with their food images? Take macdonalds for example, they have images of quarter pounders with plenty of crispy lettuce, pickles, ketchup, etc. Then you buy it and get a thin meat pattie, a single piece of limp lettuce, at most one pickle slice and ketchup so thin you're not even sure it's there!

Pizza boxes with images of handmade pizzas restaurants would be proud of containing pizzas that have very little toppings that looks like it's artificial sauce on it.

Food advertisements are supposedly controlled by false advertising legislation I thought but not with images used to sell it.

I think that any supplier or advertiser of Food should be subhected to the simple test. Does it turn out like the advert or packaging images of the average purchaser follows the cooking instructions? Does the food you get given match the images in the takeaway? If not then the supplying and advertising company should be heavily fined and made to use the images taken as evidence for their advertising. Can you imagine an image of a quarter pounder that looks more like a tenth of a pounder without anything added like lettuce, pickles or ketchup being used to sell the product? I'd love for certain major fast food chains selling their products with realistic images of what they're selling.

Advertising is selling the dream.

All car advertisements show empty roads.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Untidiness - I am blessed with a lovely wife but by christ is she untidy. Think teenage bedrooms.

Reminds me of a lovely couple I knew in Germany. They were from the US, both youth workers and the wife in particular was a very extroverted "try anything" type.
One weekend I remember she was taking part in part in a dance workshop when we turned up. My friend watched her silently for ten seconds then turned to me and said:
"I love my wife; ten years married to a bass guitarist and she still has no sense of rhythm."

 

[mustang1]

Narcissists.

 

[Andy in Germany]

The habit of a lot of scooter drivers to park their scooters in bike parking spaces: they take up a minimum of two spaces and shouldn't even be that far from the road in the first place.

 

[Petrichorwheels]

Narcissists.

Lot of them around, especially on the web maybe. Have seen some on here. Covert narcissists (another term for them which momentarily escapes me) can be worse than the more "obvious" variety.
Be careful out there.
Edit - the other term is "vulnerable narcissist"

 

[mustang1]

TV remote controls.

Who the heck designs them? If I pick one up in the dark (like if I'm watching a movie), I should instantly be able to tell which way round the remote control is. And then, I should be able to know which button is for the volume and which for the channel selector. Why oh why are both of those buttons the exact same shape and in the same location (except one set is on the left and the other on the right).

And then they have so many buttons! Who needs so many functions in daily use.

Omg and don't get me started on voice lag when using external loudspeakers.

 

[Juan Kog]

Omg and don't get me started on voice lag when using external loudspeakers.

Oh go on , tell us about voice lag when using external loudspeakers.

 

[mustang1]

Oh go on , tell us about voice lag when using external loudspeakers.

Ok, so it hasn't happened recently (hurray!) But sometimes my external loudspeakers are out of sync with the TV.

 

[cougie uk]

TV remote controls.

Who the heck designs them? If I pick one up in the dark (like if I'm watching a movie), I should instantly be able to tell which way round the remote control is. And then, I should be able to know which button is for the volume and which for the channel selector. Why oh why are both of those buttons the exact same shape and in the same location (except one set is on the left and the other on the right).

And then they have so many buttons! Who needs so many functions in daily use.

Omg and don't get me started on voice lag when using external loudspeakers.

I use Sugru on my remote control to give the Home button more 'feel' and from that I can orientate it in the dark.