Shake The Fake

Shake The Fake - Every time we pull in at a Fast Food place, we seem to have perfectly forgotten about the bold discrepancy between common demonstration and cold fact. Finally holding the desired products before our drooling mouths, it quickly starts to sink in for the umpteenth time how great of a difference we were willing to bargain again. Once more the sweet bubble bursts as the promised voluminous Tripple Burger ends up being a mere single version at best, and the single beef burger usually nothing but a yucky flat bun with a ridiculous eighth- of- an- inch thick patty. Whenever similar miraculously appearing products land on the commercial display, I seriously wonder how they go about making them look so incredibly humongous, juicy and overall delicious. I've personally come to the conclusion that they must be tricking around with the actual size of the actors' hands. Be honest, when was the last time you bit into the real deal? - Another scam that may easily tick off house wives and men is the constant lie about weight. Sure enough, we all prefer to fib about our body weight, ... . Just kidding, do those sales gurus really think we as weight experts are that stupid? When it says on bags, boxes and other containers that that's the content you can expect, why be so sneaky and put less in it? After all, the prices are hardly ever matched in such cases, are they? What's even more of a flat- out lie is the actual weight without water, ice or other fillers added. At times this may actually result in a third less while we're still sticking to the same if not higher prices. Specially lately we've been noticing a rather drastic shrinkage in portion sizes. Not that this would be a bad thing in times of epidemically spreading obesity being this nation's number one health issue - if only the prices didn't keep climbing at the same time. We're talking about all sorts of eat- outs here and elsewhere. Believe me, this is not about serving smaller portions per se but the fact that ultimately more of the cheaper and unhealthier starches rather than meat or poultry end up on your plate all pretty much priced up on top! Last weekend I ordered a chicken wrap but wound up with mostly bread and salad. I spotted about four pathetic shriveled up and non- chewable chicken nuggets, and the sauce that came with it was not just disgustingly bland but rancid and watered down. The meal came to a whopping and tasteless $13.50 - another slap in the face. - No idea how certain colors in catalogues are enforced or rather enriched as to perfectly fool us as customers, but in fact around 50% of all the advertised products do not look at all like that in reality. Often times I have a really hard time describing various colors for they simply don't exist out there. Even worse, just the other day I heard of a complaint concerning the authenticity of a renowned Swedish furniture chain's products as depicted in their catalogues. Some pictures are claimed to be mere computer generated objects which means this kind of furniture is nowhere else to be found! What a stunning sales gimmick - should this be true! - Why is it that we never really see average seized girls present fashion but quite contrarily too skinny models? Needless to say, most clothes only look terrific on thin folks, but you see, that's just not the norm anywhere. Instead of showing unrealistic sizes such as 0- 2, they should let full- figured women courageously and self- confidently come out in average sizes like 12- 16. Many times I've ignored the undeniably unflattering fact that worlds separate me from those super models, but still bought tons of clothes with the worst of fits ever and consequently thrown out a fortune. I'm sure, I'm not alone here, but why are we doing this over and over again?  I have a feeling that this is mainly because we keep chasing after dream images and concepts that are entirely misleading, phony and above all FAKE. I don't know about you, but I've had enough of all that BS! This being said, let's encourage each other to shake the fake at last and start living in the real world for a change.