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Posted by Michael Gonzalez (Member # 593) on 07-29-2006, 07:20 PM:

This has been somewhat of a running joke in movies and TV for years but I just bought the most pathetic looking "Beef and Cheddar" sandwich from Arby's that I have ever seen. I think Leo Getts was right as far as "They [sex]

you in the Drive Thu!" Has anyone ever gotten food from anyplace that actually looked the way it was suppose to?

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-29-2006, 07:49 PM:

The Chipotle burritos pictured in tinfoil look just like the ones I get wrapped in tinfoil in real life. [Big Grin]

The most amazing difference I have seen is at Wendy's. Has anyone noticed how small their 1/4 pound meat pattie has become?

Posted by Donna Siegwart (Member # 3232) on 07-29-2006, 08:09 PM:

The taco bell in my town gets things lookin' pretty accurate. I loooooove their food!

Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 07-29-2006, 09:51 PM:

I'm surprised nobody's started a website showing real pictures of food items next to the camera-ready versions.

I suppose there'd be legal concerns from lifting said camera-ready photos...

Speaking of photos, who replaced Brad's member picture with one of Jared from Subway? [Wink]

Posted by Dennis Benjamin (Member # 1137) on 07-29-2006, 10:11 PM:

Hey - when I lived out West I loved the Carl's Jr. commercials. They always showed what thier sandwiches really looked like - messy but delicious. Man - I miss them and In-and-Out.

Of course I did make to Cincinnati two weeks ago and had about 10 White Castles - another favorite restruant of mine.

Man this thread is making me hungry!

Posted by Matt Fields (Member # 3211) on 07-30-2006, 12:21 AM:

Steak and Shake's salads look just like the picture. They put the onions, green peppers, ect. in the same arrangement everytime.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 07-30-2006, 12:16 PM:

The camera ready food items look delicious...

...but you sure as hell would be best advised not to take a bite.

You wouldn't believe the kind of stuff photographers use on food to make it look good. Paints, varnishes, cleaning chemicals, shoe polishes and all sorts of other non-edible stuff get used all the time.

Also, one has to take into account the very different lighting setups. Even the best prepared fast food is going to look kinda grey and nasty under the yellow cast of a fluorescent lamp.

Speaking of Chipotle, their burritos do look pretty much like the photos on their website. Finally got to try out one while in Colorado Springs recently. Good stuff. I don't understand why there are no Chipotle locations in Oklahoma though. The company has offices in both Oklahoma City and Tulsa.

Posted by Bruce Hansen (Member # 281) on 07-31-2006, 09:40 AM:

That's the difference between hiring high dollar people to make the stuff look good on camera, and hiring minimum wage flunkies, who don't give a darn, to make the stuff you eat.

Posted by Frank Angel (Member # 248) on 07-31-2006, 11:20 AM:

I saw a shoot once that required milk to be poured into a glass and kind of fly out as it's poured. They had a guy whose only job was to make the pour look exciting and delicious -- he was called the "splash choreographer" -- I kid you not. And what was he pouring....milk? Not a chance -- it was white paint!

Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 07-31-2006, 08:18 PM:

like that nasty elmers glue concoction that they use in the "got milk?" photographs.

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 07-31-2006, 09:40 PM:

Chipotle is mentioned here so often, I wonder if there is some kind of endorsement deal going on between them and film-tech. I caved in to the suggestive pressure last night and stopped by one of their locations.
They make burritos! Like about 2.8 million other places in California. And they only have a few variations and not much else. Aiberto's 24h drivethru down the street has about 20 different burritos and all the other Mexican stuff. I purchased a steak fajita burrito. They wrapped it in aluminium foil and it looked like a burrito in aluminium foil. I could have taken a picture at home for this thread, but I was too lazy. Rather, I unwrapped and devoured it. It was OK, but nothing special.
The ambiente was very nice though. Simple, clean design with brick walls and b&w pictures of Mexico on the walls and the right music. The nice people who worked there hardly spoke English. Very authentic.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 07-31-2006, 09:53 PM:

Michael, I think all of that drinking has burned your taste buds right off.

Posted by Chris Hipp (Member # 1788) on 07-31-2006, 10:12 PM:

chipotle? It is ok. Relatively inexpensive and it keeps me full for about two hours. I've had better, and worse. I don't know of too many things that beat a 7 layer burrito from taco bell.

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 08-01-2006, 12:20 AM:

quote: Brad Miller
Michael, I think all of that drinking has burned your taste buds right off.

Aha! Apparently you have never been to Aiberto's 24h drivethru! Do Chipotle have shrimp burrito? No. Steak and eggs burrito? No. Carne asada burrito? No. Chorizo burrito? Well, OK, chorizo is a bit nasty, all the leftover scraps of meat ground together, but still, no.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 08-01-2006, 12:34 AM:

There is no need to, Chipotle is perfection "as is". [Razz]

Posted by Paul J. Neuhaus (Member # 3205) on 08-02-2006, 04:32 AM:

In the 3 Asian countries that I was in Japan, Korea, and Thailand almost every order looked exactly like the picture. Like it was manufactured and built. And it was always hot and made fresh!

In Japan they actually brought your food out to you at McDonalds!

I wish I could find that kind of service and pride here!!!

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 08-02-2006, 05:12 AM:

When I was in Japan, we traveled around and stopped at a diner at a highway rest area - which was a very nice and clean place, not the kind of overpriced tourist dirty rip off hole you find in many other places near highways. Anyway, they had wax models of all the food at the entrance (which is very typical) and I selected a bowl of noodles which was topped with vegetables and 3 little quail eggs (I love those). When the bowl arrived, it looked exactly like the model, except it was topped with surimi (the white crab imitation stuff) instead. I asked if they didn't have the eggs anymore and what then followed was pretty incredible, almost embarassing. They apologized several times and said they should have mentioned that they were out of the eggs when I placed the order and even though I said that's OK, I just wanted to ask, I like surimi, too, they insisted that the soup and my drink were free (!).

Posted by Evans A Criswell (Member # 381) on 08-02-2006, 09:26 AM:

I've noticed that in the Sunday paper where all the ads are, they haven't been putting any coupons/ads for non-fast-food restaurants like Red Lobster and Longhorn Steakhouse like they used to, but they're putting a few for fast food places like Quiznos.

It has repeatedly irked me that I'd see a picture of a sandwich that looks like it would be served at a nice restaurant and it's just a Quiznos ad.

Fast food places want to mislead people as much as they can about the appearance and quality of their food. I've had terrible luck with fast food and seldom eat it, and choose better places to eat instead.

I've noticed that the newer more upscale fast-food places have food that costs as much as the food does in full-service restaurants, so why pay the same if you have to spend time running around to get everything. Full-service works better when meeting people because you all get to sit down together and talk and you don't run the risk of the first ones to sit down with food being done eating by the time the last one works through the line.

But, pretty food ads make money, I guess.

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 08-02-2006, 09:43 AM:

Even better is to just buy the ingredients and make your own subs. Slicing the bun open and stuffing as much into it as you want and can doesn't take any longer than standing there and waiting for the minimum wage employee to do it. Then all you have to do is put it in the oven. It's also much, much cheaper, looks better than any of the pictures and you can really configure your sub exactly the way you like. Just remember which ingredients you want to bake and which you don't. It doesn't taste good with baked salad...

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 08-03-2006, 08:23 PM:

Here is one of Aiberto's 24h drivethru Chorizo burritos. Hmmm, with salsa caliente and crema, hmmm...

Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 08-04-2006, 12:13 AM:

Yes, I also don't get the whole chpotle thing. It's okay, I like the hint of salt lime on their chips.

But then again, not everyone gets me and my passion for In-n-out.

Other places that seem to get mentioned a lot on this board:
Chik-fil-A
El Pollo Loco