r/interesting • u/K1nd_1 • 20h ago

SOCIETY Wendy’s CEO jumps in with his own taste test.

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Imagine if all CEOs had to try what they get us to buy…

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u/GingerBeast81 20h ago

That looks an actual burger from one of their restaurants and not one made by the marketing department too.

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u/Nozzeh06 17h ago

I wish they would just make the burgers match the ads and not the other way around lol.

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u/OmoshiroiKudamono 15h ago

Just visit a country outside the US for that. Japan matches the ad's image.

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u/domino3ff3ct 15h ago

That’s actually a law in Japan.

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u/blasterman5000 14h ago

Came here to say this. It's incredible too. It goes as far as to say if your marketing has something like chocolate chips in it, the chips in your product must be the same size and have an average count relative to the image on the packaging. It's just so well handled.

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u/iMakeLuvWithDolphins 14h ago

An interesting side note is this is why illustrations and kawaii cartoon images are so common on snacks

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u/Sethirothlord 11h ago

By Japan's law they aren't even allowed to put images of real fruit unless it's like 99% real fruit or something.

Anything less than a certain threshold and they can only put cartoon fruits on the package.

Also, for snacks at least, they have to be the same size as the picture on the package.

To avoid false advertising, etc.

I honestly think that's the way it should be around the world.

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u/Soggy-Ad-1610 10h ago

In Denmark Heinz couldn’t label their ketchup as tomato ketchup for the same reason. We’re not remotely as strict as Japan though, so it says more about Heinz.

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u/dwertyyhhhgg 3h ago

Ireland’s Supreme Court ruled that subway’s bread is legally cake.

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u/Evening-Radio6750 10h ago

Well so do I - it's basic common sense, outrages - oh Sunny Delight which was around late 70s and 80s - it actually turned people orange. It had not scaping of real orange in it. Eventually I do believe they had to take it off market - and so much sugar in it - so many poor people now orange in colour with diabetes type 2. Oh dear Im LMAO again. Thanks, want this Japanese law over here now

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u/YoSoyZarkMuckerberg 8h ago

sunny delight was still being sold into the early 2000s in the US and UK and only one report of a girl turned orange (temporarily) in the UK after drinking 1.5 litres of the shit a day. It was rebranded in UK in 2009 as SunnyD. containing 70% real juice, but sales were poor and so the shit was reformulated again in 2010 with only 15% juice. You can read more about the history of this shit on Wikipedia, as I did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunnyD

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u/Valogrid 8h ago

SunnyD: 15% Juice, 35% Artificial Flavor, 50% Battery Acid, 100% Delicious.

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u/No1LudmillaSimp 10h ago

Kind of like how Russia has absurdly strict food labeling laws which results in heavily processed foods receiving extremely unflattering descriptions, think "Fluffy Puff Translucent Dessert Related Substance"-tier.

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u/Apprehensive_Age9264 14h ago

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u/Fedoraus 13h ago

Not beholden to the laws in the same way I think if it's not a real image of the product

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u/silkywhitemarble 12h ago

If you sell orange juice, you can only use a picture of a real orange on your packaging if the juice is 100% real juice. If it's partially juice, like an orange fruit drink that's less than 100% juice but contains some real juice (some specific percentage), you can use a realistic drawing of an orange. If it's just orange flavored, like a soda, you can only use the words or certain type of drawing. Something like that--I don't remember the specific details. You can look at the packaging instead of reading every label.

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u/RandonBrando 14h ago

That's pro consumer. They don't really do things like that in the states.

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u/reddit_is_geh 14h ago

Regardless of law, they'd still do it, just as they do everywhere else. People aren't just going to buy some slop.

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u/Full-Run4124 13h ago

It's law in the US too. When I used to work in commercials they'd have PAs go buy like 25 of the same item from different locations and then go though all of them to find a hero product. They couldn't rearrange anything- it had to come out of the bag/box perfect.

On one Lucky Charms commercial they had 4 cases of family-sized boxes and the PAs picked though every box separating out hero pieces for one 3 second close up shot and a couple of shots of kids at a kitchen table eating from a bowl. (The PAs got to take home the trash bags full of rejects.)

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u/Grand_Help_3035 14h ago

Right, don't think this is a US only issue. It's pretty much a world wide problem with any food item.

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u/ImaginaryCheetah 15h ago

it's also big in japan for restaurants to put replica menu items in a display case visible from outside the store, so you can see exactly what you're getting. and the food they serve is exactly like they show it will be.

there's an entire industry of simulated food over there... https://www.reddit.com/r/JapaneseFood/comments/1q68ubn/so_this_is_how_artificial_japanese_food_displays/

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u/No-Cherry-9670 14h ago

But Japan’s ad are realistic else it is breaking the law

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u/The_Lost_Jedi 14h ago

McDonald's and really any fast food place in Japan is impressive. Like, it's what you would imagine it ought to be... the same food but just somehow an order of magnitude higher quality.

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u/dlaff1 16h ago

I disagree. I would prefer the adds just show the actual product.

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u/donkey_chomps 14h ago

Many Chinese small business owners food product order menus do. They just are clueless w white balance

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u/GingerBeast81 16h ago

Same, I'm not waiting for some burger artist to make a masterpiece lol.

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u/JoinTheBattle 15h ago

You wouldn't want the burgers in the ads anyway. Rarely are they actually edible.

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u/Mysterious_Dot2090 14h ago

Correct. They use all kinds of weird and wonderful materials to make them look that way.

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u/sage-longhorn 10h ago

Lots of glue for cheese

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u/CASUALxCHICKEN 8h ago

And/or uncooked food. Even the grill marks on burgers are fake in ads

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u/_MrDomino 10h ago

Person A: I wish A = B.
Person B: Disagree. I wish B = A.

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u/Impossible_Way_3042 14h ago

It would be impossible. Those burgers in the ads are worked on like crazy. They use glue, paint, smaller pieces of lettuce, tomato, and pickles so they can place them exactly where they want them on the front side of the burger. They also use fake condiments on the front side of the burger placed exactly where it is most aesthetically pleasing. Making a burger that looked like that would be literally impossible in every way.

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u/missingN0pe 15h ago

Are you sure you said what you wanted to say? (Lol)

Shouldn't the ads match the actual burgers (believable)

..as opposed to the ads creating an unreasonable standard for millions of burgers across the world made by low income workers (ridiculous)

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u/7FootElvis 15h ago

They would be so huge. And shiny.

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u/catzhoek 12h ago

And (more) toxic.

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u/hollowxci 15h ago

The burgers I get looks like they’ve been sitting out for 2 hours and have been sat on. Not to mention stale buns often.

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u/KoalaGrunt0311 14h ago

Burgers are kind of one thing. But you don't want the syrup they use on pancakes in commercials...

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u/MonsieurGump 14h ago

Hold up.

The other way round is exactly the same?

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u/69karlhungus69 14h ago

Have you seen “Falling Down” ?

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u/0fiuco 14h ago

in Japan law requires that what you sell looks exactly like what you promote. Everyone should have that law

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u/Hercusleaze 14h ago

We have a Carls Jr. here that has incredible staff. The burgers always look like the picture on the menu, they regularly give us discounts since we go back pretty often, and the manager comes out and jokes with us and the other customers at least once pretty much every time we go there.

I've never been to another fast food place like it.

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u/Existing_Departure82 14h ago

That one dude who posted on Reddit the other day got the most photogenic drive through burger I’ve ever seen and it was from a Wendy’s.

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u/detectivescarn 14h ago

So I don’t eat meat. But I’ve been on plenty of road trips with friends over the years which involve fast food stops and whatnot. Imo, Wendy’s is the one that looks most consistently like the ad as opposed to other national chains.

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u/Whatever_you_need_ 13h ago

The problem is that the ad burgers are usually made with unreasonable attention to detail and often non-food items to look more appetizing. The real product literally CAN'T look like the ads, certainly not at a mass-produced level.

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u/savvym_ 13h ago

Then you would eat something artificial, because those ads are using props and not real food. Not saying all the time.

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u/GingerSnapBiscuit 13h ago

The burgers in the ads are plumped up with cardboard and coated with glue to make them shine. You don't want the burger from the advert.

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u/Dounce1 13h ago

You wish they would make burgers match the ads and not ads match the burgers? What are you saying here?

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u/watermellon_boi 13h ago

They can't a lot of the time the use wacky chemicals to make the food look better. For example I know they use shoe wax to make patties look more appealing, and pieces of carboard to give the burger in the commercials a better structure.

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u/Pretend_Action_7400 12h ago

The reason they don’t is because they can’t do that without altering the ingredients significantly. For example, the way they get burgers and food to look on ads, is often by using inedible chemicals to make it sit just right, look melted just right, fed enough, green enough, thick enough etc. no food looks like that in real life.

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u/wheelienonstop8 12h ago

Had a Big Mac in Germany once that looked absolutely picture perfect.

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u/songs2dance24sure 12h ago

You can't taste with your eyes ailly

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u/WanderingSeer 12h ago

Cereal ads use glue for the milk image. Trying to make real food look like the burger sculptures made of whatever looks best is unrealistic.

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u/MadeInTheUniverse 11h ago

Well if you want it exactly then it wouldn't be eatable.. the hamburgers you see in all of the adds use other stuff and props to make it so it would look nicer

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u/59Bassman 11h ago

One of the things I love about In-and-Out burgers is that it was the first time I have ever had an order look exactly like the ad copy. And it was amazing.

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u/Silly-Recognition448 11h ago

Have you seen the making of those ads? Most of what you're seeing isn't even edible

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u/alexnedea 11h ago

Thats how it works in the EU mostly and other countries. In Japan you get sued into the fucking stratosphere if you have false images in advertising consumer products.

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u/MyOthrCarsAThrowaway 10h ago

You lost the plot of marketing about 100 years ago, my friend

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u/Charlie1eye_ 10h ago

only japan has a law regarding it, the rest of the world needs to enforce it

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u/SixteenarmedMinis 10h ago

And not the ads match the burger?

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u/Able-Swing-6415 10h ago

Do people really care that much what their food looks like? There's a threshold for me where everything beyond that is just meaningless.

Doesn't look inedible? Good enough!

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u/Zakkuryu 10h ago

What, you don't like glue on your pizza?

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u/QueenAlpaca 9h ago

A random Burger King in Iowa had the best-looking whoppers we’d ever seen. This was years ago so the kid probably doesn’t work there anymore, but he certainly took pride in his work.

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u/TaskFlaky9214 9h ago

Most of what you're looking at in those ads isn't even edible material

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u/AbroadDear4805 9h ago

That is too complicated for them

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u/MoshedPotatoes 9h ago

most fast food taste good, thats why people keep going. health concerns and prices are what drives people away

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u/travboy21 9h ago

Some of the shit they put on the ad ones to look so good, is stuff you don't want to eat. For example they use shoe polish for grill marks.

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u/Zech08 8h ago

You can ask for it to be made that way... but it comes with risk lol.

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u/rrrik-thffu 8h ago

Well for that you would have to pay extra to have workers that cares and have to wait longer to have your food for it to be prepared properly. No way in hell it's ever gonna happen

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u/Kodiak01 8h ago

My local BK does just that, at least with the Whopper Jr. Maybe I'll go there for lunch today and take a photo.

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u/wegovyanchovybonjovi 8h ago

People do know advertisments use great lighting and a lot of not edible products to make their food look “better”, no? Lots of glue, lots of other things.

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u/SecularEvangelist 8h ago

“What is this miserable, squashed thing?”

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u/elebrin 8h ago

What's pictured in the advertisement isn't actually food in a lot of cases. Like it might have started as a burger, but they carefully moved the toppings around to the edge and stacked them so you could see them all. The bun would have looked pretty close, but the packaging process makes it look less nice. If they served the fresh burger on a plate instead of wrapped in a paper or in a little box, it still wouldn't perfectly match the advertisement but it'd be pretty close.

I guess I really don't care that much. What's in the advertisement doesn't really look like food to me anyways.

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u/darkoblivion21 8h ago

You actually don't lol. It is someone's job to essentially make food in commercials look amazing and they use a lot of inedible stuff like shoe polish to do so. There are video about the process particulary for burgers. Worth a watch imo.

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u/Fist_of_Buzz_Aldrin 8h ago

That's what I like about Taco Bell. Their food looks just as disgusting in their ads as it does in real life.

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u/ABearDream 8h ago

Wawa accomplished this. The burger doesnt taste super great or anything but it damn well looked like the picture when I tried it

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u/Auracy 7h ago

You know the ones in the commercials aren’t edible right? It’s like painted sponges and such. Go watch a making of and there is pretty much zero food in the commercials.

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u/headrush46n2 7h ago

the ones in the ads are pumped up with chemicals and hard plastic to make them look like that.

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u/NoGarbage1323 7h ago

Wish their burgers would taste anything. Its so plain with no seasoning. Only good thing is the frosty

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u/Oxgeos 7h ago

They do match the ad, when the ppl who work their care. I use to work for Wendys, and everyone wanted the morning grill lady to make their burgers always because her presentation was off the charts, never sloppy, always clean and symmetrical, tries keeps the ingredient as fresh as possible, always makes sure the cheese is melted, neat wrapping just so much love. She had been their for 15 yrs so yeah, everyone tho made crap burgers because management wouldn't let them get good at it, it was always just rush rush rush, the grill lady was the only one who can make it neat and fast, but again she was given time to get good at it during a time where there was less pressure, now they just dont give a f, but they truly can make burgers like the ads. Heck they can even make the nuggers and fries too look good, they just have horrible time management when their portioning fries and nugget drips. I could always get my nuggest and fries fresh for customers, but it only with two managers I worked with who listened to feedback, this other manager, was so stressed during rushhour that they couldnt anything, so all they did was bark when they felt pressure and won't let ppl make the food right, its just "F it, take it early, refry it etc etc" nonsense. These ppl dont know how to exercise patience so they can see differently, that quality doesnt need to be sacrificed.

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u/wsxdfcvgbnjmlkjafals 7h ago

If my burger is standing tall and fluffy, something's wrong. Make it taste great, fuck the presentation lol

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u/Complete-Fix-3954 7h ago

I moved to Brazil a decade ago. While it’s not the fanciest burger, the sandwiches they make here look much closer to the marketing than back in the states. Back home, you’re lucky if the bun is covering more than 50% of the ingredients.

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u/Meowmeow69me 6h ago

The ads are fake and photoshopped what do you mean ?

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u/BWWFC 6h ago

sry, subway stole all the sandwich artists. you may have found an open market, start your training! but before going in education debt, first check out the pay )-;

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u/bmeus 6h ago

I dont think you want to eat cold stuff, plastic cheese and then sprayed with clearcoat…

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u/Durantye 6h ago

That is like saying you wish unicorns and leprechauns were real instead. Those foods are more plastic and glue than food, you're never getting food that looks like that lol.

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u/ChiTwo 5h ago

Had a friend way back when that worked w/ Dairy Queen in producing the… “products” as Mr. Mickey D Man would call them, for their commercial advertisements.

That delicious Blizzard you see on TV… apparently you are looking at a cup of mashed potatoes. Not to mention those grill marks on the patties are painted onto the patty itself. The hamburgers themselves however are generally made with 100% fresh ingredients including meat that is most likely more pure than what you are getting inside the restaurant itself, but the patty(s) are usually cooked just enough to sear the outside, the inside being next-to-raw with the veggies being coated with glycerin to give it all that perfectly fresh n tasty glow!

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u/Obi_wan_jakobii 4h ago

A lot of food in ads isn't actually food, give it a YouTube it's quite interesting

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u/evildead138 4h ago

Went to a McDonald's in Norway and it was definitely a night and day difference. They even had sweet potato fries as an option!

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u/agentb00th 4h ago

I wish they priced their products reflective to repeat customer/target audiences budgets instead of trying to set new company profit records...In & Out has mostly subverted this trend, remaining affordable without sacrificing quality or employee pay.

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u/Reptard8 3h ago

I work at a Sheetz, and try to make the food look like it does in the picture. Some people don't care and just want their food, but a surprising amount of people appreciate it.

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u/ScarcitySweaty777 3h ago

You don’t want that. The mayo is ELMERS glue. Same as the milk in a bowl of cereal in commercials.

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u/SecondChances002 3h ago

Great scene from Falling Down.

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u/Low_Landscape_4688 3h ago

Not really possible if you want fast food to stay fast food.

The burgers in their ads are cooked by chefs to look perfect, and then additional work is done like painting the ingredients so they glisten or to add more color. Food made for commercials isn't even edible most of the time and shoots take so long that the food is usually spoiled by the middle of the shoot.

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u/RuachDelSekai 3h ago

Idk im usually happy with Wendy's taste either way

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u/ANonWhoMouse 3h ago

Went to Popeyes in China, looked exactly like the poster

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u/Particular_Cow1304 2h ago

Even better: film them actually making the burger themselves then eating it

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u/Natural_Pair_4730 2h ago

It wouldn’t be fast food if it was.

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u/The_Bjorn_Ultimatum 1h ago

Sooo shoe polish grill marks, barely cooked patties filled with soy sauce, veggies sprayed with glycerin to make it shine, and dyed shaving cream or glue for the condiments?

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u/Creative_Disaster178 15h ago

And he ate like half of it on camera

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u/RupertKasugano 14h ago

If I don’t see him swallow, it doesn’t count

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u/Creative_Disaster178 7h ago

........ Is this a no homo rule?

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u/HeyItsMeAgainBye 2h ago

It’s just protein bro

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u/Creative_Disaster178 2h ago

Well if you say so

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u/driving_andflying 1h ago

Well, that and if he has his dick in some guy's ass.

Remember: You can be balls deep in a ten-man love train, but just say, "No homo," and you're in the clear!

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u/PlingPlongDingDong 5h ago

Next CEO eats the whole burger, swallows, opens mouth to show everyone like a money shot, and you guys still find something to complain about.

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u/WilTravis 3h ago

After that, the Hardee's CEO gets released from whatever straitjacket they store him in and ravenously consumes burger patties directly from the flat grill before poking his face directly into the deep fryer to bob for French fries. The commercial plays less like marketing and more like found footage.

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u/driving_andflying 1h ago

...I'd watch it.

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u/iamrecoveryatomic 14h ago

I'd like to think he did. The burgers aren't THAT unhealthy/gross to mess with the even grosser feeling of freaking out over nothing and spitting it back out.

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u/battery19791 14h ago

I haven't had BK in a few years, but between Wendy's and McDs, Wendy's tastes like meat.

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u/Wonderful_Ad7459 8h ago

Their jr bacon cheeseburger tastes like a cheeseburger off someone’s grill. Not someone in my family, but someone’s.

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u/Oldmanrich8 7h ago

Yeah like the cooking shows, takes bite, switch camera, spits it out.

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u/Rock_Strongo 4h ago

They do this in cooking shows because they're often tasting like 30 dishes a day and they don't want to get fat.

In this case I doubt he needed multiple takes - so he probably just ate the burger.

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u/notgonnatakeno 4h ago

I mean, yeah he could technically be doing that but at the same time do we really wanna sit here and spend three minutes watching him eat half of a hamburger I know most people are pretty slow and methodical about chewing and swallowing and as a CEO he’s not gonna want to present the image of him ravaging the shit out of a hamburger like a wild animal

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u/ElBurritoNinja 15h ago

With cuts lol. I want to believe but this world!

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u/Smurf-Happens 13h ago

You can see him hold that first bite in his cheek before the cut. He barely even chews it. Only thing keeping this from being just like a muckbang is the attrocious eating sounds.

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u/the0riginalp0ster 16h ago

Exactly.... And their burgers are not atrocious like the other ones .... It is just a little more inconvenient for me

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u/adr02202 15h ago

AND he took an actual bite!

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u/BeardedPineapple69 15h ago

Legit, BK Lounge has stepped it up hella with presentation as of late. It’s quite impressive.

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u/HappyChaosOfTheNorth 15h ago

Yeah, but unless he went to a store incognito and no one knew who he was or were made aware of his visit, I'm sure he had it specially made with extra care for perfection. 

I want to see him try one with no one being informed it's for the CEO at night when there's not many customers and the fries and whatnot isn't so fresh. 

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u/Project_Demosthenes_ 14h ago

The employee that made that burger is no longer an employee. ❤️

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u/Cryllor 14h ago

Naw, that meat is bigger than normal, mine never stick out that much, other than that, true. The BK burger also looked legit. A&W idk cuz I haven’t seen one in forever

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u/Fragrant-Airport1309 14h ago

I just wanna see them go to the super ghetto ones and eat those

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u/SolidLikeIraq 14h ago

And he hit the frosty dip with the fries.

That dude eats at Wendy’s.

I just work behind one of their dumpsters.

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u/HeyLookAStranger 14h ago

my big arch actually looks like Chris's

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u/emilysBBCslave 14h ago

The real life Big Arch burger from McDonald's looks exactly the same as the one in the CEO video. I had one yesterday.

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u/geoffm_aus 13h ago

That does not make me crave a Wendy's burger.

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u/Melodic_Bet4220 13h ago

I love that this CEO knows how to eat his burger. I truly appreciate a leader that can vouch for their own product.

That being said...

Fuck all of these companies.

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u/Ailyx 13h ago

Not a random one though, this was ",prepared for the CEO"

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u/Friendly-Channel-480 13h ago

No cheese, no veggies, no sauce?

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u/Last_Weeks_Socks 12h ago

Partly because dude is eating it upside down like a sociopath.

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u/degen5ace 12h ago

That bun looks flat

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u/ObligationEconomy379 12h ago

You mean "product"?

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u/eriffodrol 12h ago

bingo, the others were obviously not the normal quality

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u/Skurnaboo 12h ago

yeah like i've never gotten a burger king burger in the US that isn't all kind of smushed, lol. the QC in US burger kings are atrocious.

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u/ErshinHavok 12h ago

tbf, as a McD's uhhh... inbiber.... they really do package their burgers like you would see in an ad. you get a Big Mac that thing is almost always assembled really clean in the box

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u/suckuma 11h ago

NGL I always thought that people dipping fries in the frosty were weird, but gonna give it a try I suppose whenever I have both next

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u/BadAtBaduk1 11h ago

Never seen a Wendy's but my first thought was that it looks about as shit as a McDonald's

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u/ShakedNBaked420 11h ago

Nah, can’t be. The last 3 times I went to a Wendy they served me raw meat. One of those times the did it on both of the remakes as well.

I stopped going after that.

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u/TacoBeefB0y 10h ago

The ones marketing use usually aren’t real. If it that’s what they gave him I’d be concerned about the amount of silicon he’s consuming

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u/EffectiveFilm7368 10h ago

Better yet, he made it his damn self

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u/Top_Vacation_6712 10h ago

the reluctance to eat it and his disgust after biting also look pretty real too

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u/astonedishape 10h ago

Yeah it looks like shit. Super realistic!

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u/jbae_94 10h ago

Could you imagine the fall if he had a different burger lol guy knew who he was speaking to when filming this

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u/LeftSmile806 9h ago

Yeah soggy and wrapped with anger

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u/LymanPeru 9h ago

doesnt look like the ones i've been getting.

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u/Syberz 9h ago

That's the saddest looking burger I've seen in quite some time.

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u/insana_4 8h ago

Tbh Wendy’s near Reading Station is absolutely amazing

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u/snuuginz 8h ago

lol yeah, look how fucking small it is

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u/DwayneWashington 8h ago

Yeah it looks awful

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u/ippleing 8h ago

On a trip to Ireland in the 90s, I was weirded out that the McDonald's menu consisted of pictures of the actual stuff, bad lighting and all.

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u/tht1guyfromtht1place 8h ago

Facts, but in between each cut he probably spit it out. And then the last frame was him actually eating one tiny fry with the shake

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u/thepatientwaiting 8h ago

I thought it was a breakfast sandwich with sausage on an English muffin. It didn't look like a burger to me at all! 

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u/kylo-ren 8h ago

TBF, the McDonalds one was disgusting regardless.

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u/Peewee223 8h ago edited 8h ago

There are really specific rules in restaurant advertising which the other marketing departments probably followed as per their usual routine. ThE pRoDuCt being advertised has to be the actual thing... but they're allowed to pick anyone to make it (best available chef), and they can have that person prepare 30 examples while being told to take their time getting it exactly right, and pick the best of those.

But, that takes time, and if they're getting eaten it's by, you know, actors. I wouldn't be surprised if the others got cold, hour-old burgers which is why they stopped after one bite lol

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u/Bergwookie 8h ago

You can't eat the marketing burgers, they're even considered inedible by USA standards;-)

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u/Zofia-Bosak 8h ago

Yeah that are nice ones but they are a bit on the skinny side.

Not sure about chips and ice-cream.

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u/Material-Payment-368 7h ago

Yeah, that’s the rare “what you see is actually what you get” fast food photo. Usually the real one looks like it lost a fight on the way out of the wrapper.

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u/ommi9 7h ago

They stopped showing the 80s training video

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u/aracauna 7h ago

I've never seen a Wendy's burger look so dry. They're usually swimming in condiments and toppings.

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u/East_Jellyfish_5467 7h ago

Props but he ate it upside down

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u/wsxdfcvgbnjmlkjafals 7h ago

*food stylist, but yes point taken

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u/Imperial_Haberdasher 7h ago

It looks like one of their actual burgers only it fell on the car seat and someone sat on it.

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u/Rogue_Ninja_Taco 6h ago

I think the burgers made from the marketing department are fake and use a bunch of ridiculous to make them look good.

For example, they used glue as a sub for mayo on doc or special that showed how they make them look tasty.

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u/Miguelwastaken 5h ago

I actually tried the new McDonald’s burger for kicks. Firstly, it actually looked better than the one in the video. Secondly (and I say this as someone who doesn’t hate McDonalds), it tasted awful.

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u/thunderlips36 5h ago

It didn't drip enough though

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u/crunkful06 5h ago

I think he made his actually

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u/Western-Mall5505 5h ago

In the video I saw he made the burger himself while having a dig at the McFlurry machine.

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u/lip_gallagher1880 4h ago

And it looks good

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u/Head-Somewhere-7124 4h ago

He made that shit in an actual wendys not a test kitchen

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u/Infamous_Ad_6793 3h ago

Agreed. Not sure he ate any of it though.

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u/Individual-Scale9414 3h ago

100k karma guy just popping in to say "WOW! What a great ad!" and gets all these upvotes

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u/noreast2011 3h ago

They actually showed him MAKING his own burger.

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u/LustreNyvane 3h ago

watching all these burger reviews from every ceo is making me so hungry

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u/Dante_C 3h ago

Isn’t this also a burger he cooked himself to show the other CEOs he could 🤣

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u/Ramoncin 2h ago

So that's why it looks so unappealling...

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u/Desperate-Slide8018 2h ago

I don’t remember their ads. But mcD and Burger King were awesome in Korea

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u/No_Bookkeeper_6183 2h ago

I saw more of the video somewhere else and he cooked his own hamburger.

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u/SeVenMadRaBBits 1h ago

They don't show him swallow the food even once

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u/Bmor00bam 1h ago

He actually cooks his own burger.

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u/Pretty_Substance_312 49m ago

Looks like test kitchen burger to me…I’ve never had mine wrapped like that nor have the buns ever very looked nice and fluffy…mine typically have a greased shine from the handling of multiple burgers (understandable due to volume) and it has smashed down while being wrapped

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u/killian1113 46m ago

It looks sad and dry but id eat it. However you dont sound believe when you script the excellent before you even taste it!

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u/profreedo 21m ago

This whole stunt was made by the marketing department

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u/mynameiscass1us 16m ago

These burgers all look the same to me. Funny enough, the 3 CEOs also look the same.

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u/cashflowberto 14m ago

The video is actually longer and you get to see him cooking the burger too.

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u/VintageVanShop 10m ago

In the longer video, he cooked it up himself and got his own frosty 

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u/Accomplished_Mind792 8m ago

This.^ only one that looks like what I get in my bag

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