Comments on: Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality

By: Adria

Adria — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:54:45 +0000

Yes, it's always puzzled me that you will pay twice as much for a 16 oz bottled water than you would for a 32 oz Pepsi.

I've been told that those bowls of cereal in milk that you see in advertisements - each Cheerio perfectly placed, for example - are held together by glue rather than milk.

By: SLB+

SLB+ — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:42:51 +0000

Ahh and here in lies so many problems. Arbys, KFC, McD et al = cheap food, cheap to make, cheap to buy, let alone its asthetic appeal, which in the case of Arbys is zilch. We can all agree that the aforementioned is bad; therefore bad is cheap.

Whereas good food, think wholewheat bread (vs Wonderbread), wholegrain cereal (vs sugar coated c%$p - see any cereal aisle in most markets) etc etc is expensive, hell even decent fruits and veggies are more expensive than a Big Mac Meal - so if you're on limited income with multiple mouths to feed where are you going to shop?

Goes a long way to explaining the obesity epidemic don't you think, especially when you think that there are 60,000,000 people currently obese in the US and 37,000,000 below the poverty line how many of the latter are in the former...I wonder?

By: iportion

iportion — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:16:48 +0000

Ya that's due to a lot of what photographed not being real. I think the KFC bowl looks yucky either way. The smashed arby melt doesn't seem too bad. The cheese looks less shiney. McDonald's Filet O Fish Sandwich both look icky.

By: Misty

Misty — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:46:39 +0000

What a GREAT idea!

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:46:10 +0000

That's true! They NEVER look as good in real life as they do on tv!