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Burger King faces legal claim saying Whopper is too small (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (20 children)

When I buy a new car, the car is the same as the one in the posters and built by the same people.

A team of food stylists spent at least 30 minutes to create the perfect whopper for the add image and were paid 100 times more than an actual fast food employee to do so.

Why that is allowed to represent something made in 30 seconds by someone on shit wages is beyond me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Advertising is scum and I don't understand why we allow it all.

It does not help the economy to distract consumers all day as much as possible, all it does is let companies compete on the basis of who can spend the most on advertising or who can hire the most manipulative advertisers rather than who can make the best product.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People see pictures of North Korea and say "wow its so eerie something is wrong and i cant figure it out."

Its that there are no ads everywhere. People are conditioned to be comforted by disengeuous promises from ads, and are scared when there arent business signs everywhere.