Somewhere in the world, SpongeBob has a csi type theory board on his wall and hes posed in the Always Sunny meme explaining this concept to a completely disinterested squidward.
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Doesn't Japan have really strict food advertising laws, so the item you receive needs to VERY closely resemble the picture you saw on the packaging/advertising?
Ah yes, offsetting buns to spare us all from the ubiquitously relatable annoyance of being unable to see all the sandwich layers because we're in a cramped storefront or train station depot. Also fuck you too.
Fuck you. Just fuck you.
And here I was RIVETED
This comment has mad nineteen ninety eight mankind undertaker hell in a cell vibes.
The level of world-building packed into this made-up response about Japanese food advertising, is god-tier. Whoever wrote this needs to drop everything and start writing books.
By the end I was convinced. From now on I will be giving my burgers a "living tilt"
They got me in the first half
Then they got me in the second half
This is where ChatGPT gets all its facts
I asked ChatGPT this question and it almost entirely repeats what's in the screenshot here.
At this rate, current & future generations are doomed.
The 'haha fuck you' part is also still there at the end, just silent
Can confirm, the AIs all have a chuckle in the server room when they think we're not looking
The funny part is the core concept behind the bullshit is likely actually true. The reasons given are just nonsense bullshit tho lol
I can definitely tell you that food pictures look more appetizing if they don't look like the food was exported straight from Blender into the ad.
Amusingly, smoothie shops don't have nearly as many pictures and it's the food that is "exported straight from blender."
Lmao I'm not even mad. Bravo.
God dammit, I did not see that coming. 😂😂😂
Are you new to the internet? Very fun times ahead.
I somehow knew it was coming but still read it all like a dumbass
Good fucking god there needs to be a rule against lying on the internet
There already is!
Yeah. It's rule 34
It was actually pioneered by Thatcher in the 80s, if you don't believe me google Margaret Thatcher Rule 34
straight to jail, don't pass go, don't collect $200
Gosh darn it, ya got me.
masterful. perfection. 5/7, a perfect score
On rice?
7/7 is too "American showroom", which is why 5/7 is a perfect score.
Dude got me hook, line, and fucking sinker.
Gimme back my sinker
If they want a burger that looks like a human hastily assembled it, they should come to the US. The pictures on the menu show a perfectly crafted burger, but that’s not what you get.
Do you think that's a US thing?
Damn, my brain already commited that to its eFuse region.
It sounds good if you don't know most Japanese burger ads look like this
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I feel fucked :(
That was as smooth as a shark.
In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi(侘び寂び) centers on the acceptance of transience and imperfection.[2] It is often described as the appreciation of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete".[3]It is prevalent in many forms of Japanese art
You ain’t getting me twice today.
Yeah, ozymandias doesn't actually know if wabi-sabi has anything to do with the skewed buns, and neither do I, but the info is otherwise all accurate and seems like a decent guess to me. I'm big fan of the idea, and make a point to look for the beauty in the imperfections in everyday life.
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They're just posing for real estate billboards.
seriously though it's probably related to how Japan requires food packaging to look exactly like the food
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This is what my thoughts used to look like as a child. Just speculating until corrected.
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Even if that's all bullshit, there has to be some genuine reason this came to pass in Japan, and not in other places.
McDonalds are far from the only one. Native chain Mos Burger are doing it on their menu too, even leaving the top bun almost fully off with just the suggestion of being a sandwich.
The tradition of wax display food seems like it could honestly have traction, because the customer is looking 'down' on that in restaurant windows or display stands, and it's pretty useless just showing the undifferentiated top of a burger bun. You need to show off what's inside.
And if you're accustomed to that, then the side-shot we are used to in the west just doesn't seem to do the job very well in comparison.
The McDonald's menu feels like a compromise between the McDonalds global standard and the fully native Mos-style, as if they are putting as much flair on the menu as is allowed without going completely renegade.
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