This ad is the perfect example of why you shouldn't eat at MC Burger Wendy and all the other places we go for our fast food fixes. I mean why would you continually go to a place when you know the food is crap. Most of the time the food goes in your mouth with out a second look, but beware whats under the bun! It's not that juicy burger from the commercial or even the one on the menu behind the cash registers. It's a burger ,chicken sandwich, or fish fillet from an hour ago.I mean honestly would you make a burger at home and then wrap it up keep it hot for god knows how long and then decide let me eat it now! No, right you would cook it and then eat it because that's when it is hot, fresh and tastes the best. The only thing i know that tastes better a day later is soup and I don't see any soup on the menu here! Yet the lines are there and every day a new fast food junkie is born. I just wish they would serve a quality product, they have the money and the man power. I know that it would cut into there profit margin and honestly, why stop when you have customers who love it! As long there is a Burger King ,we shall be his loyal subjects ,even though he is kinda creepy!
I wanted to find a picture of the real food we are served, not that fake,plastic, or dipped in oil to make it look shinny and so many other things that are done to food in commercials to make them look oh sooo good! I mean you and I both know that what you see is rarely what you get but the images on television and in magazines make the food look almost perfect.The cheese is melted just right the lettuce is crisp and green the tomatoes are red as can be and look just great. This ad shows how different things are ,look at the buns, they are not even the same color.The cheese is melted perfectly on the left and the right it's like they put it on after it was microwaved.Flame broiled, when have you ever seen a burger you ordered flame broiled,if you consider hitting some buttons flame broiled then I guess their right. I can't say I have never eaten at Mac Donald's or any of the other fast food chains because for a time in my life I thought they actually served good food. The fact is they make millions of dollars each year because a lot of people like to eat it and are generally happy with what they get. For me being a chef I live on both sides of the counter. I know what its like when you have fifty burgers to make and no time to do it, you take shortcuts and get the food out, but what it looks and tastes like does matters. It's cheap somewhat and it will fill you up for the most part.I am sure that even if every person who eats fast food regularly saw this ad it would not stop them from going out and getting that Big Mac tomorrow for lunch. We have been trained since we were very young to associate these places with something pleasurable.I remember every time driving by Mac Donald's when I was younger, just hoping and praying that my mom would take me there. Now some of them have play lands and all kinds of things to make our little kids want it more than ever. I know that Mac Donald's helps out a lot of kids with serious illnesses and that is great. They are also responsible for clear cutting down large parts of the Amazon jungle to breed Brahma Cattle for all those Big Macs. Did they ever stop to think that so many cures have possibly been extinguished forever because of this? So what do we do to stop it? The solution is quite easy, just don't go and the more you don't, the less you will find it enjoyable. It has been proven that if you eat nothing but Mac Donald's for a month you do serious damage to your internal organs. I am not sure but I think if you eat at least somewhat healthy for a month, you will feel better. Food is something I think we take for granted because we have a lot of it. So why waste your time with this when there are so many better things out there, waiting to be eaten and are so much better for you. Think about it the next time your at the drive thru or in line.Turn around and do something for yourself and make your own Big Mac. I know the recipe for the secret sauce, just don't tell anyone!
I'm still not quite convinced that this is an ad exactly. If so, what is its message? That some fast food is good and other fast food bad? (The more appetizing images on the left are fast food as well, right?)
ReplyDeleteYou have lots of related ideas here (and possible ideas for research maybe?), but you don't really tackle the questions of the assignment: to describe the ad itself (though you do have a bit of that) and to analyze how effectively the visuals and text deliver a message aimed at a particular audience. (It makes it hard to do when there doesn't seem to be a clear message.)
In terms of general writing issues, the one thing I'd suggest is to try to focus more on "chunking" your main ideas by paragraphs--keeping yor paragraphs a little shorter will help to focus them better, I think.