PrintGerman Packaged and Fast Foods: Ads vs. Reality
German website Pundo3000 compared the professional photography of 100 types of packaged and fast foods with what they look like in real life. (You can view all the images on one page at Fantasticus.) While some of them look considerably less appetizing than the styled product (refer to the picture above), many foods look surprisingly similar to their professional photograph. I guess it's hard to make simple cookies, cakes and chocolates look bad. [via boing boing]
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Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality
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3 Comments:
I don't know about Germany but I thought that here in the US it had to say "Serving Suggestion" on the package for just this reason. This reminds me of the commercials for frozen dinners where the product is shown being served on Lenox china.
RichardCrystal at 12:41PM on 03/26/08
That's funny, I took a picture of my microwaved dinner next to its box last night with the same idea in mind.
Lauren Krueger at 2:28PM on 03/26/08
I know this is a long way too late to comment, but there was an article about this hilarious food site in the Guardian in the UK today. Crikey. Packaged food looks ghastly even on the beefed up pictures on the wrappers - but the reality is ghastly. I have laughed my way round this today and came on to Serious Eats to start a thread but, guess what, you already have one.
Foodlexi at 5:42AM on 07/10/08