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Have you ever just gasped at how unrealistic fast food advertising is with their fake, shiny, photo-edited burgers? Or, perhaps you’ve sat down to eat at McDonals and ordered a McChicken Sandwich; but the burger looks like it suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome, was thrown in a trash can, and then the trash can was tipped over by a truck, and the burger was run over by the truck, and stray dogs came and chewed on it for a bit, decided it’s not actually food, and then the burger somehow made its way back to the restaurant and onto your plastic platter?

Well, the good people over at the West Virginia Surf Report has done a side by side comparison of “Ads vs. Reality” for various fast foods:

Each item was purchased, taken home, and photographed immediately. Nothing was tampered with, run over by a car, or anything of the sort. It is an accurate representation in every case. Shiny, neon-orange, liquefied pump-cheese, and all.

See more pictures here.

Good work! Now, the next time I want to go to a fast food restaurant, I’ll first take a look at this page and decide if I REALLY want to eat what’s pictured there.

via Core77

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