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Food seen in commercials has often been improved for the purpose of shooting the commercial. Lettuce will always be crisp, hamburger buns perfect and full, cake light and fluffy. Ice cream is never melting, unless that was the point. As good as the food may be made to look, however, actually eating that specific example is probably hazardous to your health. For starters, the food may have been coated in shellac to ensure that it stays looking good no matter how many takes are done. This is somewhat reasonable, as heat from any lamps being used can cause things to wilt. If the food comes in standard proportions, they may have to keep those proportions due to Truth in Advertising laws... but they can still engage in trickery. Arrange the items on the plate so that (at the angle chosen for the shot), where the view is blocked by other food, there's nothing behind it —but people won't realise that! Cut a wedge out of the hamburger patty, so you can spread it out a bit, making it look wider (this one's almost universal in fast food advertisements). Use camera angles and zooms that make it look larger than it actually is— essentially, the Hitler Cam as applied to food. And you can always just put those standard proportions on a really small plate. For a good example of the last of those tricks, watch a Dairy Queen ad for their Peanut Buster Parfait and compare how large it appears with what you actually get in the restaurant. You will notice that you rarely see an actor's hands in the picture to give you a sense of scale. The items used for photo layouts and "beauty shots" are often not even edible. Ice cream sundaes are often constructed of scoops of lard or mashed potato covered in motor oil, or other toxic-yet-pretty trickery. Likewise, "steam" rising from "hot" food is often smoke from a hidden cigarette, and ice cubes will really be deftly sculpted chunks of acrylic. Note that, in general, truth in advertising laws require that the product being advertised should be the same as the one shown (though some of the tricks described above are still applicable), so, for example in a commercial for chocolate syrup, the syrup will be real, but the ice cream onto which it is poured is just as likely to be made of plasticine.note In the director's defense though - YOU try keeping ice cream from melting for several takes under hot studio lights. The cereal shown in the bowl is, indeed, the product, but the pouring stream of milk is almost always watered-down glue. Fast food that is seen in commercials is usually sprayed with a sealant and painted so that it appears more perfect than it would when you order it in person. Compare Gourmet Pet Food, when pet food is advertised as fancy while, in reality, it's very plain-looking. |
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One episode of the British sitcom Saxondale has the titular character and his pest control assistant Raymond encountering a suicidal man who is revealed to be a food painter - as in, he paints the food that gets photographed for the packages of products to make them look more appealing rather than, for instance, a pastie coming out "battleship grey", to quote Tommy. | |
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In Flowers for Algernon, Charlie Gordon is tricked into trying to eat a piece of wax fruit. At this point, he's recently had surgery to boost his intelligence but the effects haven't kicked in yet, so he doesn't know that fake fruit even exists. | |
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An episode of The Gruen Transfer, a show about advertising, has an advertising executive mention that flowing molten chocolate in television ads is generally substituted with brown paint. Another describes in depth the process of making a steak appear appetizing. The final touch is apparently to soak a tampon in water, microwave it, and then put it under the steak to create those lovely wafts of steam. |
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Subverted in Glass Mask. Maya is playing a character that's supposed to eat manju on stage. Some of the other actors, who aren't happy to be performing with her, switch the real manju with mud balls. Which Maya then eats anyway, since to do otherwise would disrupt the play. | |
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Exception: in Coupling, actor Ben Miles decided that his character Patrick was a Guinness drinker. This may have had something to do with the fact that Guinness is very difficult to fake convincingly, so while his fellow actors were drinking coloured water with foam on top, he was drinking genuine Guinness... | |
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In The Simpsons Krusty the Klown is often seen to be disgusted with what he actually has to eat during commercials for his restaurant chain, and spits it out when the camera is off. This may have been a reference to George Foreman, in which leaked footage showed him spitting out food cooked by his signature grill (which is actually what they do when people eat for a shot, since after 30 takes he would have been throwing up with all he ate otherwise). Even better, it's shown that despite being Jewish Krusty has no problem putting his name on pork based products and eating them himself. One episode reveals that whatever he's putting in his food is even worse than "fake" food! | |
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In the Oh My Goddess: Adventures of the Mini-Goddesses manga, one of the strips depicts a certain voice actress as having a fetish for touching fake food samples and gets Squicked if they turn out to be real. (This is based on Belldandy's voice actress' real life tendency for such a habit.) | |
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There's a scene in Back to the Future where Marty McFly is supposed to do a Spit Take while drinking gin in the car with Lorraine - in reality, the flask was filled with water. Amusingly, production decided to play a prank on Michael J. Fox during one take, replacing the water with real gin. Fox, a teetotaler, did a spit take for real. | |
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Sometimes, couples looking to save money on their wedding cake (or to prevent heat-and-humidity-related disasters that end up on Cake Wrecks) do a "Rental Cake": The display cake is mostly Styrofoam (with the exception of the bottom layer for the cake-cutting), and then the "cake" is wheeled back into the kitchen after the cake-cutting "to be served" and replaced with sheet cake in the specified flavor and style. The guests (usually) do not know the difference unless they are told. | |
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As if "D-FENS" wasn't dissatisfied enough in Falling Down, when he asks for lunch (with a gun) in a fast-food restaurant, his burger looks nothing like the one on the menu board. Given the Foo Fighters video for "Walk" is Affectionate Parody of Falling Down, it also happens there. (only difference is the lack of gun) Trivia: While almost all fake fast food signage shows the pickles hanging out of the sides of burgers, anyone who was paying any attention when they were trained for grill knows the pickle goes hidden in the center so it can be reached by a bite from any direction around the burger. |
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Discussed in a season 5 episode of Breaking Bad during a very awkward dinner between Walt, Jesse and Skyler. | |
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In some productions of Oliver! applesauce stands in for the gruel eaten by the workhouse orphans in the opening scene. It's easy to "set up" (no cooking required), easy to clean off of prop bowls and spoons, is readily gobbled by a group of 8-14 year-old kids, and looks "truly disgusting" from the audience. | |
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During Total Drama Action, one of the challenges was to find a key Chris had hidden amongst a pile of styrofoam prop food. Owen eats his way through the pile, not realizing it's fake, and ends by burping up the key. | |
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In Incompetence, Harry mentions that he once knew someone who photographed food for a living. Among the tricks used to make the food look more appetizing include secreting a boiled tampon on the plate. | |
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On the first Harry Potter movie, Chris Columbus insisted on using all real food for the Great Hall. This did not go well, as they had to replace food whenever it spoiled, essentially forcing them to churn out the Hogwarts feast over and over again. In subsequent films, much of the Great Hall food was cast out of resin. Subverted in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, where the cast was told that the candy, including the Mexican sugar skulls, was lacquer-coated, when it actually wasn't, in order to stop them from eating it between shots and causing continuity errors. While this was kept for the Hogwarts feast, in the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film, there was at least one instance of one of the Slug Club events (the small party for the inner circle) where the food (namely chocolate cake) was revealed and was replaced with every take. |
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In the comedy film The Interview, Skylark and Rappaport drive by a North Korean supermarket that makes them believe that all they heard about Kim Jong-Un starving his people was a lie. And then Skylark later visits the supermarket and discovers for himself that all the fruits and vegetables inside are made of plastic and plaster, and the food aisles themselves are just wallpaper. | |
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Subverted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for Tony Stark by a unique aspect. Word of God is that all the nibbles he kept eating and offering to the other people were unscripted, it was just Robert Downey Jr. kept eating on set, so it was more a case of Throw It In. | |
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In an episode of Stargate SG-1 called Window of Opportunity, O'Neill and Teal'c repeat the same 10-hour period over and over again. The period started with O'Neill eating Fruit Loops, and the start of each period began with the spoonful of Fruit Loops halfway to his mouth. In the DVD commentary, it was revealed that the Fruit Loops were glued to the spoon, to guarantee they'd be in the same place in every shot. | |
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This backfired in one of the films of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; the prop guys asked the director if he wanted the fake Turkish Delight for filming. The director said fake, meaning this trope. The prop guys handed Skander an inedible wire and fiberglass piece of candy. | |
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Subverted in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, where the cast was told that the candy, including the Mexican sugar skulls, was lacquer-coated, when it actually wasn't, in order to stop them from eating it between shots and causing continuity errors. | |
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The recurring "John and Peter" sketches on A Bit of Fry and Laurie featured the title characters guzzling truly ridiculous quantities of Scotch, generally punctuating their conversations by downing entire tumblerfuls at once. If it wasn't tea, they'd probably have been hurling by the end of a three-minute sketch... | |
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Big Night was set in an Italian restaurant, and all the food was undercooked to look better on screen. The actors would spit it out between takes. | |
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Used for a quick gag in The Muppet Christmas Carol, Big Eater Rizzo the Rat helps himself to fruit on the table at Scrooge's Nephew Fred's Christmas Party. When Gonzo tells him its made of wax, he can only say he was wondering about the texture. | |
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The giant cup of the "Caf-Pow" soda that NCIS lab rat Abby frequently drinks isn't actually any kind of soda. It was originally Hawaiian Punch up until around the fourth season, and then it became sugar-free cranberry juice when her actress Pauley Perrette started abstaining from digesting refined sugars. | |
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In the debut episode of the Chipettes in Alvin and the Chipmunks, the Chipettes are getting ready for their first American shows and they're all on edge. Eleanor immediately runs to the fruit bowl and starts eating. Theodore walks over and comments that he eats when he's nervous too. Eleanor asks how he can tell that she's nervous. He then tells her that she's eating wax fruit. | |
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While this was kept for the Hogwarts feast, in the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film, there was at least one instance of one of the Slug Club events (the small party for the inner circle) where the food (namely chocolate cake) was revealed and was replaced with every take. | |
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One Archie Comics story had Jughead, who normally drools over food commercials and mute the actual shows in-between, take a job at an advertising agency that films said food commercials. When asked to dispose of some food props, he learns the hard way that the props used are most certainly not food. Next he spots a delicious-looking pizza and leaves it alone thinking it's a prop, but it was actually lunch and by the time he gets near it it's all been eaten. He walks out on the job right then and there, and then can't even bring himself to look at those commercials anymore because of the "horrific" things they do to perfectly good food. | |
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On an episode of Sale of the Century, The Announcer Jay Stewart was wearing a giant hat with fruit and what appeared to be whipped cream. Host Jim Perry walked up to the hat, dipped his finger in, and licked some off... only to discover that it was actually shaving cream. | |
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In Big Bird in Japan, Big Bird picks out what to eat from a restaurant's outside display case. But due to the language barrier, he doesn't understand when the maitre d' tries to tell him the display food is fake and insists on eating it. Or trying to, at least, considering it's inedible. | |
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Averted in A Clockwork Orange. For the scenes in the Korova Milkbar, the dispensers were filled with real milk. They had to be emptied and scrubbed out every hour because the milk curdled quickly under the studio lights. | |
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When he hosted Saturday Night Live, Ron Howard talked about drinking fake beer while filming Happy Days in his opening monologue. He then pulled out a can, declaring it to be the real thing, then chugging it. | |
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Averted in the production of Babylon 5, where the food is almost always real because they actually show the actors eating it. Note that, for practical purposes, a lot of shows tend to cut away before the actor can be shown swallowing what they've just put in their mouths. B5 often didn't use those tricks. You start to understand why most shows do when you read what J. Michael Straczynski had to say on Usenet about using real food on set: | |
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In one notable scene in Animal House, John Belushi's character downs an entire bottle of whiskey; reportedly, the bottle was actually filled with tea. | |
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Given the Foo Fighters video for "Walk" is Affectionate Parody of Falling Down, it also happens there. (only difference is the lack of gun) | |
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The Monkees episode "Success Story", while pretending to be rich and successful, Davy is served rubber food while his grandfather gets the real stuff. Also, the fruit in the center of the table is plastic. | |
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Ditto bakeries that have display cakes, which generally consists of frosted Styrofoam. For example, if you watch Ace of Cakes on the Food Network, you'll see them cutting foam for display-only cakes sometimes (but most of their creations are actual cake). | |
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Men in Black: When Bug!!Edgar was drinking sugar water, Vincent D'Onofrio was actually just drinking regular water. | |
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Actors from the classic British television series Upstairs Downstairs have stated that, while those performers playing servants (the "Downstairs" characters) often had real, good food to eat in meal scenes, those portraying members of the family upstairs had things like "grouse that had gone off" and stuff painted or coated in glycerin and other product to make it look "perfect." | |
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In episode 10 of Season 17 of The Amazing Race, teams were sent to a restaurant in Japan's Kappabashi-dori district, and had to pick out the fake food from a buffet table covered with real and fake display-food items. They could only use chopsticks, and if they touched a piece of real food, they had to eat it. The fakes were convincing enough that even close up, many of the Racers had difficulty identifying them; the task took some teams several hours, and a couple of racers picked wrong (real food) so often that they got sick from the amount they had to eat. | |
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In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, cyborgs who do not need to eat can still eat food that looks real but isn't. It's still edible and nutritious, but tastes awful, at least to normal humans and to the Major, who finds the fake sandwiches (made from gluten and amino-acid-based micromachines) disgusting, while Batou chomps them down several at a time. It's mentioned earlier in the series that, because of their Cyber-Brains, full-prosthetic cyborgs can alter their brains' perception of how the "fake food" tastes, allowing it to register in their augmented brain as having the same taste as the real thing, which is presumably what Batou is doing. He also mentions in 2nd Gig that cyborgs sometimes miss the experience of eating, and that's why they make novelty food specifically for people who are cyberized. | |
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In Gunpowder Milkshake, Samantha's milkshake somehow has perfectly fresh whipped cream on top despite sitting out for three hour as she waits for her mother. Then both woman start drinking the shake, whose level doesn't move at all until the camera angle changes | |
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There was a similar article in a Nickelodeon Magazine about food photography. The photographer they were interviewing explained that the bun is hand-picked out of several other buns, and sometimes extra sesame seeds are glued on for show. Ketchup and mustard are applied artfully via eyedropper. | |
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In a short on You Can't Do That on Television, Lisa complains that the Barfy Burger she got is nothing like the one in the picture hanging on the wall. Barth defends himself, saying her burger is not only just like the burger in that picture, it is the burger from that picture. How long ago said picture was taken is best not contemplated. | |
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Cadaver (2020): Early in the movie, as the guests are being led through the kitchen, they see chefs cooking meals in a kitchen stocked with piles of vegetables and meat hanging from each hook. When Leonora and her husband Jacob go back through it while looking for Alice, they end up knocking a couple pieces of meat off the hooks. When they hit the ground, they make hollow thud sounds, revealing that they're made of plastic. And what's more, all the vegetables are just pictures of vegetables on the walls, make to look like huge piles of vegetables from a certain angle. | |
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