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...figment of your Imagination

TV fast food hamburgers are a figment of your imagination. So are TV submarine sandwiches, TV pizza and TV fast food chicken.

My best buddy and I were watching TV the other day. During one of the commercials, she said "Hamburgers don't really look like that!" I wasn't paying attention, but I think it was a Burger King commercial, showing just how wonderful and super-duper their burgers are. The real thing looks a lot different, of course.

It made me wonder about our society's standards. We see a commercial like that, and we go and buy the food. And even though it doesn't look anything like what was in the commercial, we eat it anyway. And we keep going back.

McDonald's obviously has it down to a science, because the last ad I saw on McDonald's said something like "Over 99 billion served". Now, I don't know if that means 99 billion hamburgers or 99 billion people. Either way, that's really scary.

It's scary because that pretty much means the entire population of earth has visited McDonald's about 6 times. Which means that we have no standards when it comes to food. As long as it's fast and cheap, that's what matters. It doesn't matter that the food on TV looks different than the real thing. If we can get a $3 hamburger at BK's, or a 6" sub at Subway for $5, then we're happy.

Makes you think twice, huh?