I just lost my appetite.

haha what a funny experiment! some of them look moderately the same-most of them look like an entirely different dish.

I've heard most of the "food" in ads is actually plastic.

I'll tell you somtin, abbyink, but only you, promise to keep this secret. This "food" itself actually IS a kind of plastic. You can eat it, sure, but under your own responsibility for all harmful mandatory consequences. Better to stay hungry than poison yourself. Isn't it?

From what I understand, they use a variety of tricks to make the food look better in the ad. They use better qualities of meat, spray it to make it look juicy, use really fresh veggies that have nothing in common with what they serve in the restaurant except species. Then the rest comes from the fact that the food is carefully put together in the ad to look good, while the teenagers who work in the stores just throw them together and shove them in the bag.