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The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

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Re: The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

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Post by doubled112 »

implements wrote: post #250
seanhunter wrote: post #239

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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."

I was taught “Edible (fit to be eaten as food) vs Eatable (capable of being chewed up and swallowed)” but modern usage seems to treat them as synonyms (the former just being more pleasant to eat than the latter).

Hah, old memories unlocked. As a kid I remember using “eatable” to mess with people because it “wasn’t a word”.

Is it edible? Yeah, it is eatable.

Here I am, years later, learning I was right all along.

Re: The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

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rschiavone wrote: post #232
glenstein wrote: post #111

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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.

In Japan, pictures of food are legally required to faithfully represent the actual food you get, AI-generated pictures wouldn't fly with their laws.

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Re: The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

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Post by qnleigh »

raincole wrote: post #37
jdorfman wrote: post #10

I believe it has to do with https://boingboing.net/2026/04/08/japans-truth-in-packaging-...

I don't think so. Mos Burder and Burger King's websites don't look like that. https://www.mos.jp/menu/category/?c_id=1 https://www.burgerking.co.jp/menu

I would love to believe that a regulator got served a crooked McDonald's burger, looked at the pristine menu photos, and said 'nope.'

I'm half joking but this feels plausible.

Re: The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

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Post by danesparza »

evanjrowley wrote: post #52

I like how it makes the burgers look more "laid back", like some cool sunglasses-wearing skater/surfer dude leaning back, or a pin-up model whose pose invites you in. Standing up straight is for the man and that's not how I want my burgers to be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man

That's interesting, because I had a different take: The burgers are 'so big' they can't easily be contained.

If you notice, it's mostly the higher priced burgers that seem to be 'askew'

Re: The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

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Post by Itoldmyselfso »

ssl-3 wrote: post #120
bcrl wrote: post #71

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McDonalds actually seems to have learned to take latency seriously. When their touch screen ordering systems were first deployed, the delay between tapping on an item or button was quite noticeable. These days the systems respond nearly instantaneously. I'm very glad there are people inside such a large organization that pay attention to that aspect of usability. Now if only every other website on the internet would…

If that's true, then their mobile app team must be both completely separate and isolated from all communications. Because it's really bad. And it's been bad for a really long time. When all I want is to order a cheap cup of coffee, I get to stare at a throbbing box of fries while it tries to figure that out. Get to the restaurant and signal my arrival? More throbbing fries. Sometimes the fries never stop throbbing an…

Their app also blocks the use of it on GrapheneOS, for no proper reason.
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