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This is such a dastardly psychological trick. Being slightly aswew really hard to fight the subconscious urge to reach out and 'fix' them. I almost want to rush out to a nearest McDonald's right now and buy one of these burgers so that I can make sure that it's buns are aligned properly....
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Elmers glue is edible.
Surely all glue is edible, you just have to commit a bit more to some glues than others. It's like that saying about mushrooms: "All mushrooms are edible. It's just that some mushrooms you only get to eat once."
Anyway, edible normally means "safe to eat," not just "possible to eat." (As you are no doubt aware). IIRC, Elmer's glue is considered safe to eat though not necessarily appetising.
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I was told once everything in those food photos in the United States had to be edible. You could substitute sour cream, but not glue, for whipped cream. I wonder if that was true.
Elmers glue is edible.
I believe that the stereotypical "craft food" is actually paste, which is often based on starches like corn or wheat. Children are very likely to put paste in their mouths and try eating it, because it is indeed based on food products.
I've frankly never been in a school that provided a lot of paste, and the switch to Elmer's glue may have been a strategy to stop kids from consuming the food-based stuff. However, I was in a summer science course where we crafted "Oobleck" which is also sort of "edible" if you like eating clay that's been squeezed between the filthy little hands of 8-year-old boys.
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That would be the charitable reason, but I wonder if it could be more related to their laws on accurate representations in ads (Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations [0]). [0] https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/2303/e...
That doesn't seem to bother burger king though: https://www.burgerking.co.jp/menu
https://www.hungryjacks.com.au/Upload/HJ/Media/Menu/product/...
compared to the Japanese:
https://www.burgerking.co.jp/images/menu/web/main/2025/09/04...
I just want to note how fast this page is. 806kB transferred. 766ms to finished. I hit the DFW AWS CloudFront pop from here. Similar page for BK https://www.burgerking.co.jp/menu 31MB transferred. 6.5s to finished. Hits the DEN pop (but it's a "miss"). I am in Colorado. uBlock is on. Even if you don't count the 7.5MB of fonts on the BK page, that's wild.
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I have been in elevators in which it does do something. I've timed the difference. This foul rumour must die.
They effectively don’t do anything in most elevators in the US during normal operation. The ADA requires elevator doors remain open at least 3-seconds. Usually, people-moving elevators are most efficient when doors close as quickly as possible, so they start closing exactly at 3 seconds. I’ve used elevators with less common use cases — huge ones in hospitals, freight elevators, hotel service elevators — that might be…
I can enter an elevator is under a second and push the button. This is doubly faster when not waiting for the doors to open fully, effectively making my button push at 0 seconds from door full open.
If you're saying "3 seconds is not long to wait, so it's the same as the button doing nothing", this is false, untrue, and I often use it.
Alternatively, requiring elevator door to wait 3 seconds as a default does not negate someone overriding that.
I've manipulated the button and seen timing differences. It does work. It does make a difference.
Did you mean something else?
A video posted by McDonalds Canada reveals how they stage the burgers for photographing them. They shift each layer backwards (bun, meat, etc) so that the ingredients of the layer are more visible when photographed. The top bun ends up being a few inches backward compared to the bottom bun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSd0keSj2W8
I used to work in food photography (in an admin role). Sprayed on glycerine for condensation on cool things. cigarette smoke for steam. It was super nasty, but the photos looked good.
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Yes! It's genuinely fascinating, and it's the kind of thing I trust this community to talk about in a reasonable way which is not quite always the case (Mozilla, many politics topics). But this feels like, potentially, AI prompting or even more interestingly an intentional stylistic choice.
> But this feels like, potentially, AI prompting Are you joking?
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Elmers glue is edible.
Surely all glue is edible, you just have to commit a bit more to some glues than others. It's like that saying about mushrooms: "All mushrooms are edible. It's just that some mushrooms you only get to eat once."
