Dude got me hook, line, and fucking sinker.

The level of world-building packed into this made-up response about Japanese food advertising, is god-tier. Whoever wrote this needs to drop everything and start writing books.

This is where ChatGPT gets all its facts

God dammit, I did not see that coming. 😂😂😂

Damn, my brain already commited that to its eFuse region.

masterful. perfection. 5/7, a perfect score

In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi(侘び寂び) centers on the acceptance of transience and imperfection.[2] It is often described as the appreciation of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete".[3]It is prevalent in many forms of Japanese art

They're just posing for real estate billboards.

Good fucking god there needs to be a rule against lying on the internet

Lmao I'm not even mad. Bravo.

They got me in the first half

Then they got me in the second half

Gosh darn it, ya got me.

That was as smooth as a shark.

... back in nineteen ninety eight...

And here I was RIVETED

Fuck you. Just fuck you.

seriously though it's probably related to how Japan requires food packaging to look exactly like the food

Even if that's all bullshit, there has to be some genuine reason this came to pass in Japan, and not in other places.

McDonalds are far from the only one. Native chain Mos Burger are doing it on their menu too, even leaving the top bun almost fully off with just the suggestion of being a sandwich.

The tradition of wax display food seems like it could honestly have traction, because the customer is looking 'down' on that in restaurant windows or display stands, and it's pretty useless just showing the undifferentiated top of a burger bun. You need to show off what's inside.

And if you're accustomed to that, then the side-shot we are used to in the west just doesn't seem to do the job very well in comparison.

The McDonald's menu feels like a compromise between the McDonalds global standard and the fully native Mos-style, as if they are putting as much flair on the menu as is allowed without going completely renegade.

I feel fucked :(

If they want a burger that looks like a human hastily assembled it, they should come to the US. The pictures on the menu show a perfectly crafted burger, but that’s not what you get.

It sounds good if you don't know most Japanese burger ads look like this

This is what my thoughts used to look like as a child. Just speculating until corrected.

I was shenaniganed!

This comment has mad nineteen ninety eight mankind undertaker hell in a cell vibes.

Some real shittymorph material there

I mean, I do find the American burger chain food aesthetic rather unappetizing. The food looks like it's made out of plastic and rubber.

With the offset bun, it's not massively better, because it's still the same food, but at least you get the impression that it didn't fall out of a 3D printer.

What a delightful little journey that was. A+

Somewhere in the world, SpongeBob has a csi type theory board on his wall and hes posed in the Always Sunny meme explaining this concept to a completely disinterested squidward.

Ah yes, offsetting buns to spare us all from the ubiquitously relatable annoyance of being unable to see all the sandwich layers because we're in a cramped storefront or train station depot. Also fuck you too.

I believed

Anyone else just skip to the end to see if it was a troll?

I just kept thinking, yeah right 😅

This is what bad people do. Madness awaits them.

the burger had been placed together that morning

Is this a post about not believing convincing-sounding LLM output?

Doesn't Japan have really strict food advertising laws, so the item you receive needs to VERY closely resemble the picture you saw on the packaging/advertising?

It's called style, look it up

Just curious, where does the double beef-n-cheddar from arby's weigh on this...answer needed soon.