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  • helcat, on 11/14/2007, -22/+35Yuck!!! Why anyone would eat that sober is beyond me.
    • ColonelJessup, on 11/14/2007, -23/+56Yuck. Why anyone would have sex with you sober is beyond me........
      • benbrooks101, on 11/14/2007, -31/+10Wow, nice comeback... /Sarcasm

        You immature POS.
        • wellyuk, on 11/14/2007, -11/+10You got digged down, he got digged up.

          You fail.
        • QuickeningYak, on 11/14/2007, -10/+5benbrooks101: Dugg.
          wellyuk: Let me guess. You're one of the popular kids at your middle school.
        • wellyuk, on 11/14/2007, -3/+1QuickeningYak: popular kids at my middle school? Maybe almost 20 years ago when I was at school but it was so long ago, I don't remember to be honest.
          • QuickeningYak, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3Diggs are used more effectively as a popularity contest than as a method for extracting thoughtful commentaries from among the blind fartings such as the comment by ColonelJessup (3 layers above this one).

            Witness that that idiotic ***** retort is getting dugg up, just like a popularity contest should be. Your previous comment encourages the same thoughtless nonsense.

            ...which sounds like middle school to me.
          • wellyuk, on 11/13/2007, -0/+0I don't know.. I just enjoy the banter. It's a web site. Once I close down my browser, whether QuickeningYak or Skooma714 or derek20cali or whoever on here thinks I'm an ***** or otherwise doesn't really enter my train of thoughts.

            I don't know much about middle schools as I didn't go to one but I get what you're implying. That wasn't me, I used to be in the computer lab on a lunchtime playing video games.
      • mushoo, on 11/13/2007, -3/+6I take it Colonel only bones chicks who hang around waiting for the Micky D's to open.
        Nothing wrong with that, just do go around bribing them with your chicken nuggets.
        • flyingmonkey350, on 11/14/2007, -2/+6Oh come on! Lets not over exaggerate. I doubt he bones any chicks at all.
      • tedhead2k, on 11/14/2007, -8/+12Wow, way to be an *****.
      • surilamin, on 11/14/2007, -5/+1Wow, you're really not kidding.
      • Skooma714, on 11/14/2007, -2/+2Even if you are telling the truth at least people will have sex with her drunk. You can't even do that.
      • hansk, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1wha chew talkin about? id tear dat ass up!!!!
    • Zera, on 11/14/2007, -4/+12Dammit, now I'm going to have to go to BK for Lunch. These Digg articles about fast food sure sell alot of fast food.

      I mean even the author was probably thinking, Hey, I can do some ***** article about fast food, and then I'd HAVE to eat it! You know, to drive my blogspam some traffic.
      • llamaguy132, on 11/13/2007, -2/+4having a BigMac Attack.... gotta go
        • Urusai, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2That usually happens AFTER you eat the burger.
    • RobN, on 11/14/2007, -6/+8Make up your mind. Are you an elitist snob who is too good to eat fast food, or are you an idiot with less than half a brain who never before realized that advertisers make their product look as good as possible?

      You can't have it both ways. Elitist snob, or idiot, take your pick.

      Then again, perhaps they ARE the same....!
      • ucg1, on 11/14/2007, -3/+17Anyone who cares about their health doesn't eat fast food. If that makes them an "elitist snob", it really doesn't matter. Better to be in the elite than the stupid masses.
        • Zera, on 11/13/2007, -5/+5You can choose to not eat something, that's fine, nothing wrong with that. You don't become the elitist snob until you suggest that other people are lesser if they make a different choice than yours.
          • ucg1, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1People who can't resist fast food and other harmful substances are definitely weaker. That's not elitist, its just common sense.
          • Zera, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1Weaker? How? Because they are doing something they like to do? Should we ban everything that SOMEONE thinks is a bad idea? Just because you think something is "harmful" doesn't mean that it is, and even if it is harmful, each of us get to make the choice to do it or not.
        • CedEx, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2But fast food tastes so good... I swear it's laced with heroin.
      • kuzotz, on 11/13/2007, -2/+1I'm an elitist snob who doesn't eat fast food.
    • Makaveli604, on 11/14/2007, -4/+8All I know is that when your drunk (or high), these all look damn good.
    • ucg1, on 11/14/2007, -3/+8Who is sober?

      Hell, I'm high as hell and I still won't eat fast food.
    • Zippo, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2You're so mean when you're sober!
    • themastersb, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Something about the Subway sub made me laugh.
    • derek20cali, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1I doubt she cares what basement-dwelling diggers think about her.
    • Kerrigore, on 11/14/2007, -2/+3I used to work at Burger King, and I can say that both of those sandwiches shown were very poorly made. When I was running the kitchen at least, that sort of low quality was unacceptable. There are standards, and from what I saw, they were generally met. Maybe other restaurants have lower standards, but I suspect that whoever did this article either deliberately chose a poorly made sandwich, or did something to it to make it look worse. I mean, that Whopper is all squished, and there seems to be barely any lettuce on it... and that bun was either defective or put through the toaster wrong. But of course, they are trying to make it as dramatic as possible, so they twist the truth by deliberately choosing bad examples. I'm not saying that the end product looks like the one in the ads (anyone with half a brain would know that), but you don't need to make the sandwich look extra bad just for hyperbole's sake.
  • snowtwist, on 11/14/2007, -29/+20You can't beat a good Big Mac though, let's be honest!
    • mstoneburner, on 11/14/2007, -3/+30I beg to differ, good sir. The Whopper is a far superior sandwich. Pistols at dawn?
    • pilot3033, on 11/14/2007, -1/+9yes...yes you can
    • arcooke, on 11/14/2007, -2/+7I love me some fast food, but McDonalds burgers are just disgusting.
    • TheUngod, on 11/13/2007, -2/+8Can't beat a big Mac? Former President (or future first lady) Clinton, is that you??
    • xero69, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1McVomit
    • Kerrigore, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2Whoppers are indeed far superior. Need proof? Whoppers = Mayo, Lettuce, Tomato, Ketchup, Pickles, Onions (in that order, by the way), and you can get heavy or light on any of those, mustard, or pretty much anything else free of charge (except cheese, bacon, or extra tomato)... and the special orders don't take forever, because the employees are used to it. Big Macs = Lettuce, Onion, and "Big Mac Sauce". Want something special? Be prepared to wait. Oh, and be prepared to get a burger that's been sitting in the heat closet for 3 hours, too.
  • Member148, on 11/14/2007, -2/+36How true. One other thing that has always amazed me is how neat and trim the fast food workers appear in the commercials vs how they look inside the restaurant. Also how cheerful and helpful they appear to be when in reality they are as anyone who works in such a demanding fast paced, high stress job and that is looking for the day to be over. Contrary to all the hype fast food restaurants aren't the most appealing places to work.
    • doctechnical, on 11/14/2007, -1/+26The actors in the commercials are getting paid a lot more than the employees they're portraying.
    • balsaq, on 11/14/2007, -0/+16There's a hype?
    • aspec, on 11/14/2007, -1/+4There are some happy employees who realize that the worst thing that can happen is they mess up an order. That you're only getting paid 6 bucks an hour, and who really gives a ***** if you just quit. You know?
      • kuzotz, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1..... WElcome to the life of a highschool/college student..
    • Midvicious, on 11/14/2007, -0/+6Never eat at an IHOP in a poor neighborhood. Ever.
      • kuzotz, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2... cosign!

        If you eat in a poor neighborhood always go local never do the big corporate chains. Because local places tend to use real food brought from local vendors. So its really fresh.
    • skellener, on 11/13/2007, -1/+4TV is fake. I guess you didn't know that.
  • helcat, on 11/13/2007, -26/+9Snowtwist you have to be kidding... I can tell you what beats a Big Mac... a freshly BBQ steak and salad! All organic mind you ;-)
    • krets, on 11/14/2007, -2/+22I hope you know that "organically grown" means basically nothing. There are currently very few regulations governing when a company can slap an "organic" sticker on their product.
      • mikesbaker, on 11/13/2007, -2/+1he can't find the reply button i seriously doubt he will be able to grasp that concept
    • mstoneburner, on 11/13/2007, -3/+5What kind of idiot eats salad with bbq?
      • Otto, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3Cole slaw is a form of salad, no? It's pretty tasty to put slaw on your pulled pork sandwich.
      • rayraym0fucka, on 11/13/2007, -0/+4I do. My grandmother serves a salad with just about everything she prepares. I grew up that way. It's not so bad.
      • mstoneburner, on 11/13/2007, -2/+3No, slaw is slaw. I went to culinary school, so you can trust me on this.
    • TheUngod, on 11/14/2007, -2/+8Organically grown BBQ? Honestly, if you're eating a slab of pig, do you really care how organic it is?
      • hansk, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1steak is cow. pig is something else. You lose
    • HouseFan, on 11/14/2007, -1/+8I'm glad it's all organic. Can you imagine an inorganic steak??....Yuck.
      • CedEx, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2And can you imagine the dental bills afterwards?
      • Lythium, on 11/13/2007, -1/+1Technically, anything that contains carbon atoms is organic. That means that the plastic in which your pork is wrapped is organic, too, if you go by the strict scientific definition. People yell at me when I tell them than =(
        • derek20cali, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Probably because not everything is based on the scientific definition. Organic foods are produced according to certain production standards. For crops, it means they were grown without the use of conventional pesticides, artificial fertilizers, human waste, or sewage sludge, and that they were processed without ionizing radiation or food additives. For animals, it means they were raised without the routine use of antibiotics and without the use of growth hormones. In most countries, organic produce must not be genetically modified.
      • HouseFan, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1PS: It was a joke... I had a similar discussion previously.
  • snowtwist, on 11/13/2007, -19/+2Ok helcat you are correct, but i do think that BigMacs can be so bad they are good, if that makes sense!
    • badjoke, on 11/13/2007, -3/+11There's a reply function, guys.
      • Lythium, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1To be perfectly fair, it doesn't always show up... but it's a good idea to specifically mention it in those cases to avoid sounding like a nub ;)
  • Wildhoney, on 11/13/2007, -11/+6Horrible fast food. Yuk!
    • ColonelJessup, on 11/13/2007, -5/+9Food snob! YUCK!
      • ucg1, on 11/13/2007, -0/+9There's something wrong here if people who call fast food "horrible" are being called "food snobs." The bar is being set really really low.
  • notque, on 11/14/2007, -11/+22Don't eat fast food. Am better off for it.
    • badjoke, on 11/14/2007, -5/+21Here, take this.

      http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/I
      • doctechnical, on 11/13/2007, -2/+5notque was typing with a southern accent.
        • stevealford, on 11/13/2007, -2/+5I'm from the south and I've never met anyone who doesn't use "I" in text or conversation. When spoken, it usually sounds more like "ah" than like "eye," but that's neither here nor there.
    • ColonelJessup, on 11/13/2007, -14/+4HEY! Another food snob! I wish I could pat you on the back, you are sooooooooooo cool!
      • orithidon, on 11/13/2007, -4/+9food snob? how ignorant are you?
        • Otto, on 11/14/2007, -10/+2Not as ignorant as you, who apparently cannot grasp the meaning of two words in a row. "Food snob". What's so hard about that?
        • TheUngod, on 11/13/2007, -8/+1Oooooh what a burn! I know you are but what am I!
      • ucg1, on 11/13/2007, -3/+4You have really low standards for food, huh?
    • halobender, on 11/14/2007, -5/+7Don't eat fast food + avoid English classes = success!
    • notque, on 11/14/2007, -2/+5Of course the one time I speak casually I'm attacked for it.
      • justAnother9, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3I didn't know there was some unwritten rule that everyone who posts a comment on Digg must do so in a way that is 100% grammatically correct. Apparently the grammar police are ever vigilant.

        I don't eat fast food either, except an occasional Subway or other type of vegetarian sandwich. The more I learn about meat processing, the fast food industry, etc., the more glad I am that I don't.
        • notque, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2Exactly. Frankly, I think the attacks are just because it's me, and I accept that. I have armies of people who digg me down, and I'm just surprised why. Usually it's over my opinions, not my random eating habits.
    • geddon, on 11/14/2007, -0/+4Give it another generation and the kids who think farm raised food tastes "gamey" will produce children who think home cooked meals taste "homey".
  • fantasmacanino, on 11/14/2007, -8/+43I remember going to Pisco, Peru after the earthquake a couple of months ago. I had to stay there for 5 days, and McDonald's was kind enough to donate 10'000 burgers to the victims and volunteers. I ate McDonald's for 5 straight nights, two hamburgers a night (plus french fries). I can honestly say that I never felt worse; I got depressed, I felt sick, and worst of all, I felt an urge to eat more McDonald's. Never again. If you eat that crap regularly, you're killing yourself the wrong way.
    • mydigga, on 11/14/2007, -5/+22You could have eaten the local delicacy, Guinea Pig. How's that burger sound now?
      • ElAssoWipo, on 11/14/2007, -3/+8At least there's food in guinea pig.
        • kuzotz, on 11/13/2007, -0/+4... yea guinea pig sounds really good right about now if it was that or McDonald's
      • fantasmacanino, on 11/14/2007, -2/+2In case you haven't heard mydigga (I'm pretty sure you haven't), Peruvian food is considered to be some of the best in the world (third or fourth best). I ate McDonald's during the night and during the day the locals would cook for us.
        I ate a local delicacy and I ate your country's (I'm assuming you're American). The first was made by someone who actually knows how to cook, the second by some underpaid teen. How's that burger sound now?
    • krets, on 11/14/2007, -9/+12That, or you're just a pussy.
      • QuickeningYak, on 11/14/2007, -0/+10Agreed, because eating a steady diet of grease-encrusted ***** is the sign of a real man.

        [Yes... sarcasm.]
        • lookadeez, on 11/14/2007, -5/+3no but eating Mcdonalds for 5 days instead of nothing? Depression yadayada, sounds like pussy to me
          • QuickeningYak, on 11/14/2007, -1/+5The early symptoms of food deprivation are not as severe as the ones reported above after days of sacking down turd-burgers. I'd rather not eat at all than eat something that isn't food, and I'd hold out longer than five days.
    • drmangrum, on 11/14/2007, -4/+13I have to ask. What's the right way to kill yourself?
      • insllvn, on 11/14/2007, -1/+13Sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
        • jake8689, on 11/13/2007, -1/+1no thats the fun way the right is to jump off somthing high and hope you hit the ground hard enough
          • razrielle, on 11/13/2007, -1/+5First you need to get some piano wire. Then get a length of rope longer than the piano wire. Next tie the piano wire around your head. Make sure that it is secure and over your neck so the only bones in the way are those of your spine, and not your collarbone. Next tie the rope around your ankles ... once again make sure to use a good solid knot.
            Now hopefully you have set yourself up at the top of a tall building. You tie both the rope and the piano wire to the building. Also hopefully you have made sure to have more than 50 feet of piano wire-probably 75 feet of rope and probably 150 feet of building. Now you have to hope no one interrupts you during the next part. You now Super Glue your hands to your head. Wait for the Super Glue to dry.
            Now jump.Now if you've done everything correctly you should be hanging face down holding your own decapitated head .... which is truly a gruesome thing.
            that is the right way
          • Lythium, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1@ razrielle:
            I call plagiarism: http://bash.org/?488793
            (sorry, couldn't reply to your post directly)
      • coyote1284, on 11/14/2007, -4/+1Down the river, not across the stream. Unless you want a slow death that allows you to enjoy your youth, then it's smoking.
    • icanrule, on 11/14/2007, -1/+1Why would you right such a horrible comment? By the sounds of it they may have saved your life and yet you have nothing good to say about them? If McDonald's saved my life I would have left out all the negative side effect stuff and been pro McDonald's, even if I didn't like their food.
  • snowtwist, on 11/13/2007, -17/+3ah fantamacanino, the legendary McDonalds comedown, like doing drugs, what goes up must come down - i feel sick after every McDonalds but still can't resist!
    • OMGWTFROFLMAOx2, on 11/13/2007, -2/+8What is it with you and not hitting the reply button? I'm not usually a thead Nazi, but that's already 2 offenses in 1 story! Come on!
      • calamnet, on 11/13/2007, -1/+1I don't know why this made me laugh, but it did.
    • mstoneburner, on 11/13/2007, -2/+6Use the God damned reply function *****.
  • EarlOfLade, on 11/14/2007, -5/+22What I have never understood with US fast food joints, is why they never grill the buns. Then buns are just some squishy mushy crap that falls through your fingers when you try to eat the damn thing.

    Where I come from, they have always grilled or toasted the buns to make them harder and minimize the risk for it falling apart and on your clothes.
    • typicalusername, on 11/13/2007, -6/+1Where is that? and are you talking about a chain? Problem is, that it's a CHAIN. Chain restaurants suck ass. I'm really not aware of any chains that are not in the US...
      • EarlOfLade, on 11/13/2007, -2/+3Chains, yes, both chains and mom&pop joints.
        And I have seen the same done in many countries around the world, but never in USA.
        • Sraza, on 11/13/2007, -0/+4I believe Sonic does. But you are right, it isn't the norm.
    • sundancekid503, on 11/14/2007, -3/+22We'll start grilling our buns when you start putting ice in your sodas.
      • EarlOfLade, on 11/13/2007, -3/+2Huh? What are you talking about? Where on earth did you not get ice in your soda?
      • knde, on 11/14/2007, -3/+10The beverage is already cold! I hated that the ALWAYS put ice in all my drinks when I lived in America. They didn't even ask, they just assumed I wanted ice. I only use ice when a drink hasn't been refrigerated already, but I guess that's ust us "weirdos" over the pond :-)
        • timusca, on 11/13/2007, -6/+1Yeah, so get over yourself and assume we'll be putting ice in your drink... simply ask for no ice and I promise we will comply. Oh, and in 15 minutes when your drink is room temperature, I'll still be sipping on my icy cold beverage.
          • CedEx, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3Do you put ice in your beer too?
          • knde, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Most restaurants in London (that I frequent) will ask if you want ice, before serving a beverage. I didn't mind the ice terribly, I minded more so that the staff couldn't take a second to ask if that's what I wanted.
        • NJank, on 11/14/2007, -0/+8correction: "I'll still be sipping on my icy cold, watered-down beverage"
        • ernasty10050, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2Just for the record, I work at a place that uses Coca-Cola syrup, the company itself recommends that we fill our cups 2/3 full of ice. Obviously they have a good reason for it, because it makes the syrup last longer...
        • burtonbe, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1And what's with the deep fried pizza?
        • Lanlost, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1If it makes you feel any better, I live in America and don't like ice in my drinks. Especially Tim Hortons, they use crushed ice filled to the top. .. I'm not exaggerating this, you get a few sips of ice cold drink and then its empty.
          I'm assuming they (Tim Hortons) do the same thing at every store.
    • yacks, on 11/14/2007, -0/+16Apparently, you never ate at a In n Out.. they do in fact grill their buns there.. :) not to mention make some awesomely tasty burgers..
      • DanaLynn86, on 11/14/2007, -2/+6Dairy Queen toasts their buns.
        • stevealford, on 11/13/2007, -3/+2Dairy Queen's flamethrower chicken sandwich has replaced Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich on my list as the best fastfood sandwich ever. They're not cheap like McD's dollar menu stuff, but they're ***** tasty and they're a single chicken breast without all the grease. Forget that organic kick, I'll eat fastfood wisely and outlive all you hippy bastards.

          *lights another red*
    • orithidon, on 11/13/2007, -1/+1I come from a place filled with candy canes and schnozberries. A place where the buns are toasted and the bun never gets soiled!

      • insllvn, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2The schnozberries taste like schnozberries! This is some good *****...
        • coyote1284, on 11/13/2007, -1/+1What's a schnozberry? ;)
        • Armitage2k, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2Nevermind that... what the heck is a candy cane?
    • codesuidae, on 11/13/2007, -1/+3Burger King does grill the buns on their burgers. They still come out as squishy mushy crap. I think the problem is more that they go into a steamer for holding for a bit (up to 10 minutes i think) after the come out of the grill, then after assembly they can sit on the shelf for another 10 or so minutes before consumption. Of course they are mushy crap.

      Years ago I worked at a burger king. I made my own food before break and while it was still not great, it was much better than those that sat on the shelf.
  • Calann, on 11/14/2007, -3/+91Are you telling me that TV ads are not completely factual? I thought if I joined the Marines, I would be given a sword and get to slay dragons.
    • typicalusername, on 11/14/2007, -1/+45The Army told me I'd be an Army of One, and then I got off the bus and was with 50 other people sleeping in the same room!
    • SteaminTmann, on 11/14/2007, -2/+45Waaaiiittt a minute... you mean to tell me If I wear Axe Body Spray, women WON'T randomly approach and molest me?
      • crashflow, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5Lets start a class action lawsuit...
      • Otto, on 11/13/2007, -8/+5It's not the body spray preventing them from doing that. It's your severe ugliness. Sorry to be the one to tell you, but you really had to know, man.
    • bonedead, on 11/14/2007, -1/+21You only get to do that AFTER you climb the volcano.
    • forcedfx, on 11/14/2007, -2/+10I can't believe it's not butter!
      • IllBeBack, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1I can.
      • Icetype, on 11/13/2007, -0/+0I trust you're enjoying your pornography... and toast.

        / if you don't know the reference you don't read the internets.
    • orithidon, on 11/14/2007, -6/+3actually it's where you will be exposed to D&D and stake claim that you can drink anyone under the table...

      ooh rah!
    • BrewBeau, on 11/14/2007, -0/+8Yeah, like someone sitting about on their couch, not sure what they want to do with their life, is ever going to see the inside of a fighter jet cockpit.
    • hummer13, on 11/14/2007, -1/+4Damn... I've been driving my Toyota truck around trying to get hit by an asteroid. Worst case scenario I sue when my truck blows up. wait...
    • MerryMortician, on 11/14/2007, -0/+7i was in the Marines for 8 years. I WAS given a sword. and.. um.. if you squint hard enough.. they COULD pass as dragons!
      • kuzotz, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2I remember being a kid and seeing my dad with a sword during his ceremony of becoming an officer in the Marine core.
  • tucsonsun13, on 11/14/2007, -1/+4Difference: substantially more petroleum-based chemicals used in preparation of those in the left column. Or is it those in the right column?
    • badjoke, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5I've read that you're not allowed to use fake substances in showing off what you're selling. You can, however, use fake substances for the products that aren't in the box. For example, that slow-falling, creamy-looking milk in the cereal commercials is most likely glue, but the cereal has to be the real deal.
      • doctechnical, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Google "food stylist". While the ads have to use the real ingredients that McDonalds (or whatever) uses, they're not using Suzie MinimumWage to fry it or put it together. And they may cook 100 burgers to get 1 "perfect" one. I also remember reading that they use toothpicks to hold things together.
      • doctechnical, on 11/14/2007, -0/+6Here's a good site with the tricks of the trade for making food look good in commercials:

        http://www.education-medias.ca/english/resources/e ...
        • avihappy, on 11/13/2007, -1/+1Why does digg eat links?
        • IllBeBack, on 11/13/2007, -1/+1"Why does digg eat links?"
          Some programmer over there thought it would be cool to make URLs appear shorter, but failed to test that when the comment was edited, the URL got truncated. So, it's another in the long line of examples of poor testing.
  • NCSUspoon, on 11/14/2007, -3/+31This article appears on digg about once every three months or so. Interesting but old.
    • wiirdo, on 11/14/2007, -1/+10When you submit an article, Digg lists past articles that may be similar. Do submitters simply ignore and post it anyway?
      • krets, on 11/14/2007, -0/+10Yes.
      • mikesbaker, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1its the exact same pictures as last time - i would be willing to bet a years salary that they say this content first on digg
    • spoonboy, on 11/13/2007, -1/+0Old, but interesting... ?
      Seriously, if anyone posted an article similar to an already posted articles, as long as it is interesting, than it still may be useful. Someone else may have not read it yet. If you don't like it, or already read it, than just ignore it.
  • TrogdorSmash24, on 11/13/2007, -2/+7If I have to eat fast food I would eat burger king at least the meat taste like beef, McDonald's meat has the texture of rubber.
    • tuxidomasx, on 11/13/2007, -1/+3ahhh. I'd go for 5 Guys or one of the other smaller chains.
      • TrogdorSmash24, on 11/14/2007, -1/+105 Guys? Is that some kind of gay orgy.
      • nicc, on 11/13/2007, -0/+15 guys is nasty...overly greasy nasty. burgers should be grilled, not fried!
    • ElAssoWipo, on 11/13/2007, -1/+2You never have to eat fast food.
      • Otto, on 11/14/2007, -1/+2And you never have to post your overly smug opinion either. But yet you do it anyway. Amazing, isn't it?
      • TrogdorSmash24, on 11/13/2007, -1/+1I try to pack my lunch but sometimes I do not have time, and when you only get a 30 minute lunch fast food is my only option.
  • roadtripper, on 11/14/2007, -1/+22. . . and yet it all comes out looking the same in the end.
  • ColonelJessup, on 11/14/2007, -9/+32Those pics made me cry.......... I feel like I have been cheated.

    Oh, and you food snobs should quit with the "I don't eat fast food so I am better than you" *****.
    • bovox, on 11/14/2007, -5/+5Read the book "Fast Food Nation". You'll reconsider calling the stuff they serve at McDonald's and KFC "Food".
    • ehalasey, on 11/13/2007, -3/+9Defensive much? Every single one of them is saying, ". . . and I'm better off for it," not, ". . . so I am better than you." But, you know, they all had you in mind when saying it just to piss you off, I'm sure . . .
    • naturemade, on 11/14/2007, -2/+8Honest to God can't remember the last time I ate fast food and I am 23 years old. I work and go to school full time and I still manage to find the time to eat healthy. The difference in the way I feel since I gave up fast food years ago is indescribable.
      • kuzotz, on 11/14/2007, -0/+5I kicked the habit when I had to move to Germany where fast food is expensive while healthy or real food is very inexpensive.

        Yea... Within two weeks my god two ***** weeks. I lost weight, gained muscle mass, and felt healthier. Only two weeks. When I came back to the states I felt a little worse, but not from the fast food. Just from the fact that this country tends to use High Fructose Corn Syrup in every thing including veggies.. But still I am healthier than I use to be in highschool.
        • huntersquid, on 11/14/2007, -0/+4High fructose corn syrup shows up in about everything nowadays. I felt similarly moving from Miami to London, then back.
    • BrewBeau, on 11/14/2007, -1/+11It doesn't take a food snob to realize that fast food is terrible. Not because it's "fast food" but because the industry has set it's standard of food quality so low. There are a lot of fast food places that use quality ingredients, but sadly, there aren't enough and they get put out of business by the megacompanies.
    • floatingpoints, on 11/14/2007, -1/+10"Oh, and you food snobs should quit with the "I don't eat fast food so I am better than you" *****."

      ...then don't be stupid and eat fast food. WTF.
  • Larakin, on 11/13/2007, -1/+9I have the same reaction here as when someone says Smoking will kill you, who doesn't already know this? and who thinks it will actually make a difference.
  • legatosans, on 11/13/2007, -6/+3stupidest article ever. while we're at it let's post one titled "CELEBRITIES IN MAGAZINES vs CELEBRITIES IN REALITY". OBVIOUSLY this stuff isn't supposed to look as good as the advertisement picture. what are you all stupid? who diggs this crap. buried.
  • wbeavis, on 11/13/2007, -1/+4I find the ads tend to look better, but the real thing USUALLY tastes better. There was this one bus...
    • BrewBeau, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2How do you know? Are you present at the ad filming to taste test?
  • bcos, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2This was on digg only a few months ago...
    • mikesbaker, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1and it was on a different blog that was ripping off yet another blog. can anyone on the internet get their own content?
  • jab26, on 11/14/2007, -1/+14i was at subway a few days ago and someone ordered their new philly cheesesteak. taking a look at the sandwich, she said "this doesn't look like the picture...how do we get it to look like the picture?" the guy making her sandwich just says "the picture is fake" while continuing to make her sandwich.
    • 7fields, on 11/14/2007, -2/+8Of all of them on that page, probably the Subway turkey sandwich is the closest to the ad picture.
      • ucg1, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3I think the Filet O Fish looks about the same. I think they just got a good one, though.
      • nicc, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1did you notice there was ham in the turkey sub no the right? there wasnt ham on the sub on the left...
      • QuickeningYak, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3May be ironic that Subway is the healthiest of them. Too bad Subway ***** up the construction of their sandwiches with misuse of isosceles cheese slices and abusive loaf splitting technique. Ingredient quality isn't terrible if limited, but lack of bread variety holds them back a bit.

        I have no idea why or how this became a quasi-review of Subway sandwiches.
        • Lythium, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1"isosceles cheese slices and abusive loaf splitting technique"
          That was one of the funnest things I read all week XD
        • huntersquid, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1I get the cheese part, but loaf-splitting technique?
          • QuickeningYak, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1If I make my own sandwich, I start with a nice sandwich loaf of some kind and slice right through, parallel to the flatter side on which it sat in the oven. My personal rule is that after cutting, the less-rounded (bottom) half should have about half the depth of the top half. If that leaves the top too thick, then I'll slice off from the apex as necessary and save the left-over bread for other stuff.

            Subway, in it's near-infinite regress to screw me for an extra $0.11 worth of ingredients, instead carves this idiotic little furrow down the middle of the bread at a vertex angle of something like 60° - 70°. Ingredients are then dismissed into said furrow, resulting in a miniature open sandwich seamlessly hidden in a small canyon on the leeward side of a vast oceanic cross-section of unadorned bread.

            ...and then they put the canyon wedge back in place.

            ...as if to apologize for having just ***** up my sandwich.

            Subway has yet to figure out that I don't come for the ambience or for the Cash-And-Carry Lunch-Truck version of an All-The-Bread-You-Can-Eat buffet. Who knew the *****-overpriced-exploitative-sandwich retail market was so tight ?
    • rifter01, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1So much for 'truth in advertising'
      • skellener, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2There is ZERO truth in advertising. There never has been.
        • WoollyMittens, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1There was in the 1920's and 30's when the manufacturers simply stated the advantages of the product.
        • kuzotz, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1"wanna get all the women over you.. buy this hair product!!"
    • QuickeningYak, on 11/13/2007, -1/+2Typical McCustomer...
  • bovox, on 11/14/2007, -1/+33So what. It's not like your girlfriend looks anything like her Facebook profile photo either. Get over it.
  • coollettuce, on 11/14/2007, -3/+5That made me want fast food so bad.
    • warrenwebber, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2I agree, pictures in ads of fast food don't taste as good as real fast food
  • whatthefu, on 11/14/2007, -2/+6The fast food ads aren't even comprised entirely of real food.
    • jab26, on 11/14/2007, -1/+4i've heard that for the ads they do stuff like use glue instead of mayo...mmm
      • antiver, on 11/14/2007, -0/+5All this is true... don't digg them down. If it looks better on camera than the real thing, it will be subsituted. A lot of foods are, at the least, sprayed with chemicals before their photographed. Why do you think those cheap commercials for local Chinese joints look so bad? Because its the real food- and it looks like crap on camera.

        Another example- Cereal commercials have hordes of underpayed people spending hours picking out the best looking flakes (or whatever shape the cereal comes in) so that it looks good for the camera in a bowl.
    • nitrokev, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Not sure about US law but in the UK you cannot use food substitutes if the product you are advertising is food, it has to be theoretically possible for a customer to receive what is show in the ad. However there is no limit to the number of buns, burgers etc you can go through until you find the perfect one. Also, retouching isn't covered in these laws so as long as you've got basically good looking food you can perfect it in post.

  • Dralite, on 11/14/2007, -2/+2Was i the only person who thought there would be one ad with a bunch of thin people eating fries versus a bunch of fat asses eating a Double Quarter Pounder with bacon?
    • nicko68, on 11/13/2007, -1/+1Oh yeah, like fries are healthy. Unless you meant a bunch of people sharing a single order of fries. :)
  • tylerseeker, on 11/13/2007, -4/+0whatever people want they are gettin it, it's not hurting anyone else then them selves
    • millaround, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1That's ridiculously short sighted. Ever heard of "burdens on society?" How about taxes? There are many indirect ways that this can affect someone other than the person's self.
    • WoollyMittens, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2If you eat yourself to death, someone's going to have to dig a pit. A biiig pit.
  • slapded, on 11/14/2007, -1/+19I love eating animals.
    • themonkielives, on 11/14/2007, -0/+4Yes, animals are very very tasty! These burgers/sandwiches need more animal in them though, that real life subway sandwich is pathetic.
    • orbit1979, on 11/14/2007, -1/+2Ya, so do I, but I'm telling ya, that brown-matter in those pictures ain't no animals!
    • REsplin, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2amen, brother
    • wrestlingnrj, on 11/14/2007, -1/+3I had a shirt in high school that reminded me of that. On the front it said PETA and the back "People Eating Tasty Animals". My highly liberal english teacher thought I was the greatest student ever, until she saw the back, then I just got detention for offending other students in class.
      • kuzotz, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3... so by offending a teacher you somehow offended another student in the class.

        Your teacher is a fascist, and thank god I've been out of highschool for 2 years now.
      • Icetype, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1I graduated in 99. One year before the country went to hell. Back then you could do what you want. How can a 15 year old kid be "offended" by a shirt. It's ridiculous.
  • Michas, on 11/13/2007, -2/+0This was on the frontpage like a year ago..
    • KingGorilla, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1well some of us weren't alive one year ago like you.
    • timusca, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Yeah, because we all must have seen it.
    • Icetype, on 11/13/2007, -0/+0You'd have to read digg for at least an hour every day for the last year to know that. 365 x $7 = $2555. You could buy a new 50" Plasma if you worked at McDonalds those hours instead!
  • arcooke, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1http://www.moonlime.com.nyud.net:8080/fast-foods-a ...

    Coral got most of it. Slow but working.
  • Ghazi, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Working link: http://altracking.com/index.php?fpp=10&did=2
  • drmangrum, on 11/14/2007, -1/+14What's really depressing is that this is only in America. If you eat at the same chains overseas you see a HUGE difference. When I was in Kuwait, the people that worked in burger king did their best to make the food look as good as possible. When they handed you the bag, it was neatly creased and not greased stained. If you actually took the time to look at the line workers, they took pride in their appearance. Their shirt was clean and tucked in. Their pants were clean and pressed.

    A coworker of mine was stationed in Okinawa for a few years. He said the McDonalds there were like going to a real reputable restaurant. They had snazzy lighting and interior decoration. The menu was vastly expanded to not be grease-coated cow parts. Once again, the employees took pride in their work and their appearance.

    I think the biggest problem is that we've disrespected those that work in the fast food industry to the point that only those that really don't deserve respect actually work there. They have no reason to take pride in their work because the customer just doesn't care. That's a shame.
    • rifter01, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2I was in Germany back in 1995, and visited the McD and BK over there.. And you are right.. The food tasted better, and better, cleaner tables, etc.. I think tho, the real blame for "They have no reason to take pride in their work because the customer just doesn't care..." is on the manager(s). Why they hire the youngest possible employees (whom probably don't even clean their own rooms at home) to work is beyond me.. But I strongly feel it's never the customers fault for the place being clean, sanitary, etc, etc
      • orbit1979, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1"it's never the customers fault for the place being clean, sanitary,"

        Actually, when I worked at Taco Hell years ago, it was always the typical trailer-trash "entitlement" customers typical in fast food that were ALWAYS responsible for the filth in the "dinning" room. That and their ***** bratty spawn they brought with them.
        It was tough to take "pride" in my work for minimum wage to endure serving the lowest common denominator.
      • Lythium, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1I dunno, the McDonald's in Heathrow Airport had the most revolting Big Macs in history - made the US version seem positively gourmet. To be fair, this was in 9th grade, so - some 7 years ago.
    • skellener, on 11/13/2007, -1/+1Don't eat there in the first place.
    • SteveKubrick, on 02/11/2008, -0/+1Those pictures pretty much look like what the food looks in the UK to so don't let us off. Also when I went to Tokyo the McDonalds was... you guessed it exactly the same so your mate must have been one lucky son of a bitch!
  • grapfx, on 11/13/2007, -2/+1Whammy burger, anyone?
  • mpdickso, on 11/13/2007, -0/+4mirror?
    http://www.thewvsr.com/adsvsreality.htm
    • Graeleight, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2This is actually the original source. This other guy just swiped it.
  • simbelmyrne, on 11/14/2007, -5/+2Meh, I'll eat it. When I have $5 and nothing in the fridge, why the hell not? It's not like health food is aesthetically pleasing. Has anyone ever even looked at tofu?
    • rifter01, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1I agree.. It costs ALOT to eat healthy.. I tried a diet that emphasized fresh, unprocessed foods (totally opposite of fast food basically), and at our equivalent to Whole Foods each meal (excepting maybe breakfast) was around $10/per meal or more. For $10, I'd rather just have a steak than all that bland, tasteless, raw, "bleh". lol
    • skellener, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2An apple looks a lot better than one of those hideous things. Try a market one day. Lots of great healthy stuff there for under $5.
    • millaround, on 11/14/2007, -1/+1Has anyone ever looked at your McDonald's flab? That's not very aesthetically pleasing either.
    • geddon, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2You could buy a bag of potatoes for $5 -- enough to last a week! The illusion of price is really a lack of understanding.
  • NightOwl4, on 11/14/2007, -4/+1Supersize please...
  • bonds, on 11/14/2007, -8/+0The ads all look better.
    • Lythium, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2Duh?
      • bonds, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1No seriously, the ads look a lot better. You can't see the difference?
  • givinupthefight, on 11/14/2007, -1/+4Maybe I'm just lucky but all the fast food around me looks a hell of a lot more like the left column than the right (not exactly mind you, but closer to). And honestly it looks like someone punched that Whopper before taking the picture to make their point.
    • johnnall, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1I agree. All of the pictures on the right look like they drove over the bag before they took the picture. I've never had fast food that looked that bad.
    • Clordio, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1Dugg simply for the idea of punching a whopper.
  • MioTheGreat, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3I once went to a studio where they make commercials, and they said that on a good day, for these commercials, they generally make like 3 or 4 burgers a day. Everything has to be _perfect_. Every droplet of water on the slice of tomato.....It's a pretty involved process.
    • skellener, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Yes. It usually takes more than 3 or 4 though. It's an entire art for advertising food. I'd never eat anything from a shoot. It all might look good but most of the time it's unfit to eat. Things are uncooked, painted, etc.
    • golgotha, on 11/13/2007, -1/+1Not sure about television commercials, but all the food in the pictures are pure plastic.
      • nitrokev, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1rubbish, that would be totally illegal - I'm an advertising photographer who has worked with food.
      • Jedimonkey27, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1He is correct. The food that they are advertising has to be made of the real stuff. That doesn't mean that they can't do stuff to it though. Also, any other stuff that is not technically part of the food that you are advertising can be made of anything. The "milk" in cereal advertisements is often glue. It pours much more nicely for the cameras.
  • 1gunners4, on 11/13/2007, -1/+1Is it sad that this is making me hungry?
  • skellener, on 11/13/2007, -2/+3What? Advertising lies? When did that start? ;)

    Stay off the fat...er...um...fast food. You'll feel better.
  • lilaliend, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2"Buried" cause really.... Duhh?
  • wolfboyZ, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1It's not easy to photograph/tape food and make it look appealing. I've tried.
    • bellapria, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1I think the subway one doesn't look too bad....definitely the best of all of them
  • mentor972, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2That's why I've been working on a fast food consumer protection website. It will be called ratemyfastfood.com, but it's still being developed, so the submit section is working, but not formated correctly. If you want to check out what I have so far it's here... http://www.mediasplash.net/rmff/
    Suggestions are appreciated. If you want to submit anything feel free. The registration section is fully functioning. Again, still building it.

  • SteveKubrick, on 02/11/2008, -0/+1Thing is even though I've seen that... I just know I'm randomly still going to go and get a big mac every so often! Damn their secret sauce!
  • thewump, on 11/13/2007, -1/+2I understand why Arbies is not represented. It looks inedible even in their ads.
  • arizonagroove, on 11/14/2007, -1/+3Looks rather like they just nicked the images from here and didn't bother to give credit:

    http://www.thewvsr.com/kfcbowl.htm
    http://www.thewvsr.com/adsvsreality.htm
  • agent42, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1hey... that whopper didn't look THAT bad... c'mon!
  • Kidsturk, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2What strikes me is that they managed to find 'real' fast food that STILL looks a hell of a lot better than the stuff that I usually get whenever I make the mistake of ordering fast food.
  • Dan2552, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2The Burger King Whopper looks like someone poked it a bit...

    I don't care what the food looks like, the problem I have with these burgers is all the stuff falls out the back when you try to eat - how do I prevent this?
  • ctc803, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1woahh I dug this like 4 months ago!!
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