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I was curious about the Buffalo Wild Wings story mentioned. Basically BDubs is calling boneless white meat chicken breast 'boneless wings'. Wing meat is more expensive and BDubs has been charging wing prices. Lawsuit makes sense.
Glad to see these lawsuits coming more frequently. We've all ordered a burger or pizza that looks nothing like the advertised image.
We’ve all ordered a burger or pizza that looks nothing like the advertised image.
Man I remember being a kid and watching Dave Coulier's Out of Control and they had a segment on this. They showed the guy making the fake food out of polymers and plastic. The fake food for advertisements looked amazingly tasty... but they're fake. All of it is fake.
This honestly should have been something that people were up in arms about 30 years ago.
They often have to make fake food for photo and video shoots. Real food melts under the hot lights, or doesn't retain its shape and color and consistency for the hours needed.
For Weird Al's music video I Love Rocky Road, they used mashed potatoes covered in latex paint instead of ice cream! At one point Al had to take a big bite. He said it was quite nasty and of course spit it right back out haha
I have a hard time believing that lighting technology hasn't come a long way since the 1980's. There's these things called LEDs that can produce massive amounts of light but don't produce as much heat. You can find LED studio lights for photography and film pretty easily these days. You no longer have to have a photo studio that feels like inside of an Easy Bake Oven.
I agree, when it comes to things as old as Out of Control or I Love Rocky Road you could at least make the argument that they had to, due to the limitations of the technology at the time.
In the modern world, I kind of think it's an excuse that they're hanging on to because of how things used to be.
Yeah LEDs certainly produce less heat but that's not going to keep guacamole from oxidizing or a soufflé from losing its puffy structure after a while on a set. Often it's just more economical to make a fake than to keep a kitchen stocked nearby and a chef on staff the entire time.
Customers should still totally complain if the real items they purchase don't look close enough to the fake ideal they were advertised though.
LED's produce less heat than traditional lights but still end up putting out a significant amount over time. It's not as bad, but there's still heat generated and when you're going for the 'perfect' shot, faking it guarantees you'll get the shot.
This honestly should have been something that people were up in arms about 30 years ago.
Oddly enough, Falling Down came out exactly 30 years ago, with its famous Whammy Burger scene.
Okay, I take back the "up in arms" because I meant it figuratively. We already have enough unhinged asshats running around with guns acting exactly like the idiot from Falling Down. Oh no, they got your fast food order wrong, better kill a bunch of people! /s Jesus, that fuckin' movie is white fascist violence apologia of some kind. "Oh poor widdle baby middle class white man didn't get what he wanted for lunch, tearing a violent streak across the city is totally an appropriate repsonse." /s Yes, let's take it out on poor, underpaid fast food employees.
Motherfucker even says at the end of the movie "And I'm the bad guy?" Yes, yes you are, you whiny baby restraining-order-ignoring piece of shit.
Falling Down is basically what happens when you mix cocaine with the specific type of male fragility that can afford cocaine.
yep. and yet - for all it's depiction of our reality, the protagonist still has the sense of mind and decency not to ally themselves with actual fuckin' nazis.
The GOP on the other hand...
Uncle Joey!
So they're serving chicken nuggets.
That one's funny to me because breast meat is superior to wing meat in every way. The company is actually giving u a better product than advertised there. Haha
That's not true at all. Wing meat tastes way better.
Turns out taste is subjective, so you’re both right.
I'm so used to thing flavored things that don't actually have thing in them because of artificial flavoring that I wouldn't have even thought of it being misleading. Like banana flavored shit usually doesn't actually have any banana in it. It's just a chemical that tastes like banana (and not even that closely!)