Q: The Picture Looks Healthy, Will My Food Be?
A: If the picture looks healthy, anything it represents must be as well.
This rule is most useful in Chinese restaurants that use stock photos for their menus. On the wall, your meal looks like a beautiful pairing of fresh vegetables and lean protein, basking in a light, cancer fighting sauce. If you squint, you can see the carrot smiling and the bok choy doing crunches. When it comes to the table, the carrot is crying and the bok choy is drinking a beer (it’s not even a light beer). The sauce is murkier than Loch Ness and if your lean protein has ever seen an animal, it certainly wasn’t one raised on a farm. Yet, it all looks so delicious. Do you send it back? Of course not. That was false advertising. Calculate the calories in the photo; the rest will be credited to the photographers who lied to you.
Pros: If the picture is cheery, you’re in the clear-y.
Cons: If your vegetables are showing emotion (or signs of alcoholism) you maybe be under too much stress.
No comments:
Post a Comment