Usually fine print doesn't make me smile. Usually I don't even read it. But as a college student, I get frequent occasions to study the fine print on packages of macaroni-and-cheese and pizza, as I wait for them to be micro-waved or baked. And they never fail to amuse me. The two little words next to the deliciously looking food: Serving suggestion.
Who seriously expects the actual snack to look like the herb-decorated and air-brushed shot of it on the package? And who, on the other hand, would go through the trouble of nicely arranging an instant meal on a plate with various nuts and spices around it?
A German project compared 100 food packages and photos with the actual product. The creators prepared the groceries according to the instructions, took pictures of them and, well, ate them. The time period and order in which they did so, is not specified and some of the stuff doesn't exactly look tasty. Maybe they could have spared themselves a lot of trouble and stomach aches, if they had only read the fine print. In that case, that would have been much less entertaining, though.
1 comment:
That packaged meat brought some serious LOLs on my end. So gross looking!
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