> For some reason, they didn't clean the kitchen before they shot the commercial. They also didn't realize that people don't want to know how their food is prepared. Why else would they show a basket of onion rings being deep-fried in a filthy fryer that has been used all day long?
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> AMAZE! as your food gets dropped into a sickly yellow boiling pit of filth with little burnt crispy... things floating on the surface! If you could pull your eyes from that disgusting sight, you'd realize that there was grease and oil splattered on all visible chrome surfaces.
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> THRILL! to the sight of gravy being scooped onto mashed potatoes from a ladel that has about a week's worth of old gravy encrustated on the lip of the utensil!
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> RECOIL IN HORROR! as someone holds a brisket steady for slicing with his bare hands in violation of several state health regulations!

well, you've got to give them credit for honesty. Although it does make you wonder about the test audience who sat through that and hought "Yes. That would make me eat there." Along the same lines, if the burger photos McDonalds have above the counter were just taken of random burgers actually made there (instead of by Egon Ronay trained chefs in a Paris resturaunt), how much would that put you off?

winter"Food adverts should be appetising"mute