Marketing Honesty
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I am constantly shocked by how often IT professionals and business people, where decision making is much more formal and less passionate, fall for marketing tricks. I see it literally every day.
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I generally try and avoid vendors meeting with managers or users here at work. Occasionally it happens though. I'm always amazed at how gullible some of them are. They come out of the meeting thinking some bit of software will be the answer to all their prayers, and when I try and give them a reality check they accuse me of just being a cynical, old man (which I am!).
The most obvious line I get from some vendor salesman in a shiny suit in reply to some question about a feature we require is "I'll have to double-check with technical, but I'm pretty sure it does that". That usually means "No! It definitely doesn't do that"
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I think a lot of those food tricks are now illegal, at least in the US. They're not allowed to use anything that isn't actually food. They accomplish similar things with other tricks though.
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@Nic said:
I think a lot of those food tricks are now illegal, at least in the US. They're not allowed to use anything that isn't actually food. They accomplish similar things with other tricks though.
The photo's are a little biased too. A couple of those burgers look purposly smashed. A lot of it has to do with who's assembling them and how they are being assembled. I've had Subway subs look just like the picture (even with all the veggies) because the person doing the assembly knew what they were doing. Same for McDonalds/BurgerKing/Taco Hell products.
It's all in how they are prepped.
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Even here in our country photo's are little biased. It happen to me before i ordered the food because it looks great thought that the taste is delicious but when i saw the actual food sigh not the same in the picture.
