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Fast Food vs Reality
Yep...pretty much the way it is.
Fast Food - Ads vs. Reality
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Yep...pretty much the way it is.
Fast Food - Ads vs. Reality
Michael Douglas apparently had a point in "Falling Down" when he made the same comparison at "Uzi-point". Smack? Your opinion?

Imagine how fat society would be if the fast food really WAS as big as it looks in the ads.

Is anyone here old enough to remember when advertising merely put things in the best possible light - sold the sizzle, not the steak?

When did it turn to out & out lies? The 70's?
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Michael Douglas apparently had a point in "Falling Down" when he made the same comparison at "Uzi-point". Smack? Your opinion?
Here's the scene:

Falling down fast food restaurant scene - YouTube
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Michael Douglas apparently had a point in "Falling Down" when he made the same comparison at "Uzi-point". Smack? Your opinion?

Imagine how fat society would be if the fast food really WAS as big as it looks in the ads.

Is anyone here old enough to remember when advertising merely put things in the best possible light - sold the sizzle, not the steak?

When did it turn to out & out lies? The 70's?
I seem to remember that Cambell's got in trouble for showing lovely rich paint in their ads. That had to be in the 1960s.
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One of my all time favourite movies. Other than what he had planned for his family, I never quite understood what he did wrong.

Sort of like the guy who stole the tank and went on a car crushing rampage in SoCal a few years back - who wasn't rooting for him, at least just a LITTLE in that dark little corner of their mind?

If some of the psychos who shoot the customers in McDonalds and elsewhere acted more like Douglas, they might make an improvement in society.
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Nice, somebody finally did this! but seeing Jack in the Box tacos again after all these years makes me sad.

I WANT SOME NOW, ARGHH!! (no JitB here )
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Nice, somebody finally did this! but seeing Jack in the Box tacos again after all these years makes me sad.

I WANT SOME NOW, ARGHH!! (no JitB here )
Yeesss! Dog food tacos with LOTS of their hot sauce! Tasty snack indeed...

I have no false pretenses about fast food anymore. We now do detox regimens every couple months to "clean" and reset our bodies. Then do it all over again...
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Yeesss! Dog food tacos with LOTS of their hot sauce! Tasty snack indeed...

I have no false pretenses about fast food anymore. We now do detox regimens every couple months to "clean" and reset our bodies. Then do it all over again...
We do the same, but we pretend like each time "that's it, no more dog food"..

Then...

More dog food..

I dreamed about Jack in the Box last night
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We do the same, but we pretend like each time "that's it, no more dog food"..

Then...

More dog food..

I dreamed about Jack in the Box last night
Hahaha - no doubt!

There sour dough breakfast sandwich is probably the best out there!

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