Do FAST FOOD companies use PLASTIC of computer-generated FOOD in ADVERTS?

Question

because they look too good on TV to be real. As when you actually go to eat it, it's all soggy and flattened

Answer 1

some of it is real and some of it fake..

Answer 2

No, the food in advertisements is real. However, they do not show the "typical" example the customer will receive, they show the "best" example one could prepare with all the right circumstances and with an emphasis on displaying it for the camera. For commercials, they may not use the typical ingredients as they are found in fast food restaurants--they will usually pick a perfect, unblemished bun, fresh, ripe tomatoes and lettuce, a perfectly shaped patty, and use a little "art" when assembling it all together. It's big, it's juicy, it's 3 inches thick. But, when they prepare these burgers for customers, you have to remember that the buns come 100 to a bag, they're squashed, the veggies may or may not be so fresh, and they are quickly tossed together to save time. Add to that, the entire burger is wrapped in paper, further squishing it. Then it rumbles around in your car, and by the time you get it home, it looks nothing like the picture.

Answer 3

No. The foods all real. It's prepared buy a professional that just does this stuff for a living. Although they tend to get sprayed with hair spray and things to make them look just that bit tastier lol mmm. And don't forget all the touch ups via computers after.
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Answer 4

It isn't plastic, there is an actual job called "food stylist" where they use food type products and non food items to make things that look like food but would probably kill you.

Like when you see the golden brown roasted turkey? it is raw with brown shoe polish.

Ice cream is actually Mashed potatoes because real ice cream would melt.

Milk in cereal is elmers glue, because real milk looks to clear and blue-ish.

Stuff like that- crazy huh?

Answer 5

they use actual products in their ads. they have an "artist" that sets up and designs the food so it looks more appealing that what you actually get at the place. i remember seeing a show on tv many years ago, where a lady would paint strawberries with lipstick to make the color even. she would use hot curling irons on hamburger patties for grill marks, only cook the burgers long enough to get them brown on both sides, them cut them and pry the cut open to expand the burger to fill the bun etc. and to show "steam" coming off of "fresh, hot , crispy french fries" she would use cigarette smoke from a cig that was hidden behind the fry box. like for other commercials, say, coffee for example, to simulate the "bubbles" at the edge of a cup of coffee, she would use a couple of soap bubbles from dish soap, milk in bowls of cereal for commercials, a mix of elmers glue and milk, so the cereal doesnt get as soggy as quick.

Answer 6

Both, generally speaking though, they use synthetic foods, smoke machines and all manner of tools and devices to replicate actual food.

Very rarely do they use actual food, cept on cooking shows of course.

I have a plastic Maccas chip, salt crystals and all..

They're fake dude

Answer 7

I watched a program with a woman who photographed food for a living, her trick was to have a tampon handy, soak it in water, microwave it on set and put it behind the food to create steam to make the burger etc look hot.

Answer 8

i dont know but i have heard of strawberries being painted red to perfection for the picture on a cereal box and the "milk" in the picture is more likely white glue. Just some interesting info for ya!

Answer 9

depends on the company....some use plastic models of their food for photos only....others use actual food, but usually they use plastic or other types of food because the lights and length of time it takes to do a photo shoot or commercial.

Answer 10

Eva since 1307!

Answer 11

lol i agree i know some companies that advertise food on tv use crisco cause they can die it any color and after frozen into the shape they want it it looks real