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Food never looks like the picture.

0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Why is it that when you buy something, chips, cookies or what ever, they NEVER look as good as they look on the package.
You open them up and it's like. "WTF is this?"
It looks nothing like the picture.
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

Wylaff said:
Atmospheric pressure and crap.

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  • PatrickbrickPatrickbrick Posts: 7,924 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Because they can.  The funny thing is we all buy it again too, we complain to ourselves but ultimately go back for more abuse.
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  • Poopy_JonesPoopy_Jones Posts: 455 ✭✭✭
    I had the same problem some time ago looking for calf length dress socks. I’m pretty much over it now. Hang in there good sir. Better days are ahead
  • Sleddog46Sleddog46 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @peter4jc,does this mean you're giving up your inflatable doll for the lovely Russian Ladies? :)
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  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,802 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well, you remember how you'd look at those magazines when you were a teenager, and then you finally actually went out on a date?  It's like that.  Trick photography.
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  • CalvinAndHoboCalvinAndHobo Posts: 3,104 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This is a close second on my list of food pet peeves. First if virtually every bag or box of something being half empty. 
  • IndustMechIndustMech Posts: 4,931 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Items settle during shipping.

    Sold by weight, not volume. 

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                            https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/04/food-stylist-photography-tricks-advertising
                            
    
                        
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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    IndustMech said:
    
  
    Items settle during shipping.

    Sold by weight, not volume.
    

    
On every box of cereal and some of the first real words some children learn.
    Along with "toy surprise inside"

    Which brings me to another gripe. 
    Where the hell are the toy surprises anymore??                        
    
                        
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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    IndustMech said:
    
  
    Items settle during shipping.

    Sold by weight, not volume.
    

    Where the hell are the toy surprises anymore??
    

    
I think had something to do with choking hazards, lawsuits, and then cutting costs due to research showing kids aren't more likely to want a product based solely on a toy. Marketing a food item to children can be done through various methods today, as opposed to strictly eyes on in person. Our toys were solid objects and we played in this amazing place known as "outside", but kids today are more attuned to digital goods and video games/movies/music.

    I could be wrong, though.
                            
    
                        
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    @0patience, are you drinking the same coffee as @jd50ae?

    Coffee that makes you go hmm.
    

    
Oh, probably. 
    When you have insomnia, your mind asks these questions.                        
    
                        
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
                      
                        
    
                
    
            
    
        
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    Yakster said:
    
  
    @0patience, are you drinking the same coffee as @jd50ae?

    Coffee that makes you go hmm.
    

    
Oh, probably. 
    When you have insomnia, your mind asks these questions.
    

    
Why is there braille on drive up ATM's?                         
    
                        
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                            My younger brother made a pretty good living taking those kind of food pictures when he had his studio. Many tricks of the trade were used. He used to say it was a lot easier than having to deal human models. 
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    Yakster said:
    
  
    @0patience, are you drinking the same coffee as @jd50ae?

    Coffee that makes you go hmm.
    

    
Oh, probably. 
    When you have insomnia, your mind asks these questions.
    

    
Why is there braille on drive up ATM's? Maybe somebody from Texas to start a new thread called, 'Things That Make You Go Hmmmm ...''
    

                            
    
                        
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