When you see food advertised such as for restaurants?

Question

or fast food restaurants or on commercials is the food real?
I'm asking because my husband and I were in Taco Bell the other day and he told me that none of the food on the menu was real that all of it is plastic and was only made to look real and they do that because they want the food to look perfect.
I find it hard to believe because the food does look real even though it also looks perfect.
So is he right is the food really plastic?

Answer 1

Six of one and a half dozen of the other...most is crafted from non-edible materials of which plastic is one.

Answer 2

Alot of times food in food photos are made of real food but contain non-edible ingredients such as shellac to make it shiny or marbles to make the food look better. Marbles are put in soup to make the ingredients (veggies, pasta and meat) float to the top which makes the soup look rich. Food for food photos is often held up with pins and other things to position it just so. Basically, you wouldn't want to eat the food used for the photo shoot.

I'm always a bit disappointed, when, instead of a thick, juicy-looking burger, you get this flat, lop-sided thing that looks like it's been run over by a Chevy Tahoe.

Answer 3

There are people who may or may not be called food sytlists -- I forget the term -- who fix up food for photos not just in restaruant menus but in books and magazines too.

The example I remember is putting marbles in a soup so the ingredients in the soup (vegetables, rice, etc.) will appear on the top.

Some stuff may have shellac on it. There are lots of other tricks, which I don't remember.

That's one reason that when you make something from a recipe in a book/magazine, it never quite looks like the picture.

Answer 4

No, it's real food. It's just hand-picked and arranged. It actually has to be same as the food being sold. But, for example, they could open 100 bags of french fries and pick the best ones from each bag to make one perfect set, and arrange them perfectly, placing each one at just the prettiest angle. But they do have to start with the actual french fries that they sell.

Answer 5

Most prepared foods in grocery store ads & magazine articles do this. It may or may not be plastic per say... but I wouldn't eat it.

Answer 6

The Carl's Jr commercials look real, but other ones do not. Im not 100%.

Answer 7

i with your husband agree the food on the menu looks too perfect

Answer 8

♥sometimes its plastic and the other times people use rubber or proper foods but yoor husband can be right with somethings like that♥

Answer 9

You'd be amazed what they use and do to make the food look like that...not just either food or plastic, but also...you'd just be amazed.

Answer 10

he partly right ,it not 100% plastic,but its not normal food.ie mayo=white glue,mayo looks to pale in pictures,strawberries are painted with nail polish,etc.etc.