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LUClEN

How do companies like McDonalds get away with such blatant misrepresentations of their food?

Based on this clip showing how restaurants misrepresent their food.

Posted Jan 5, 2019, 2:56 AM UTC

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LUClENOP•

This doesn't explain how they can misrepresent their product like that, though. What we get is way different than what is advertised.

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It's the same ingredients though. It's just arranged to look better in a picture and more carefully assembled. What you get is exactly what's in the picture, just less pretty.

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LUClENOP•

That seems so manipulative to present it in an unrealistic way so as to be more appetizing

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It's literally the exact same things just carefully organized for a picture, and it's an ad for McDonalds. I'm really not sure what you're expecting. There are pretty strict laws about it already.

Do you get pissed that all your friends on social media aren't using candid unposed shots as profile pictures? That's pretty much the same concept.

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konaya•

Perhaps this comment chain might shed some light on the matter.

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LUClENOP•

Lol right in my link

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