Friday, December 05, 2003

J'accuse!!

It was the President, in the Barracks, with....a fake turkey!

I, like the folks at TAPped, am sure glad a reporter was there to get to the bottom of this one. Heaven knows it's more important than all that, you know, policy stuff.

BTW, I once watched a TV show that detailed how food is "sexed up" to look perfect for TV ads, when in reality the stuff isn't even edible. For instance, those perfectly golden-brown turkeys on the Butterball commercials? They're golden brown because they are literally dipped in shellac. It's not even cooked. Ah, but how do they get that beautiful single cooked slice they always show being cut away from the succulent breast? Simple. They cut the uncooked slice from the uncooked turkey, and then they use a steam iron to "cook" the exposed surface of the meat so it looks right. So don't worry if your food doesn't look like the commercial, because if it did, you wouldn't be able to eat it. (Has any McDonald's ever served a Big Mac that was actually four inches high, as the pictures on TV make them look?)

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