If You Can't Take the Heat

San Antonio has been ridiculously hot lately. The average temperature has hovered around 100 degrees every day since June, and even the toughest blades of grass that grow in this city have started to brown. More impacting to my life, however, is the fact that my sweet husband's disposition turns increasingly sour as the mercury in the thermometer climbs. The guy just doesn't like heat. (I know, I know--if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen/San Antonio.)

Anyway, with the combined heat and Jeffrey's desperation growing, we began to pray for rain, and today it came! The rainstorm refreshed our grass, washed our cars, and (unfortunately) knocked out the traffic lights in a three block radius from our apartment (a fact that I did not learn until I was waiting my turn in a very slow-moving, non-policeman directed left turn lane at an intersection). In any case, we're still happy for the break in temperatures--although my skin is so unused to double digit temperatures I've had to go find a sweater to wear in the "chilly" eighty degree climate.

Every once in a while I stumble upon a gem of entertainment as I surf the internet. A few days ago, such a diamond in the rough was found. It's a website that compares fast food advertisement pictures to pictures of the same food when ordered. It is commonly known that there are special "food preparation experts" who are hired to make fast food ads, and it is also commonly known that these experts sometimes use non-food products to make the ads look more appealing. For example, I've heard that they use white Elmer's glue in the place of milk when shooting ads because the glue looks better after time and shows up as a more pure white color on camera. Nevertheless, after looking at some of these pictures, one would think that no real food products are used in the making of these ads, or perhaps that the preparers of these real items intentionally smash each one with their feet before serving. Take a look:

Fast food Ad of the McDonald's Breakfast Burrito Beautiful, right? Now take a look at an actual McDonald's Breakfast Burrito as ordered by the website designer: Slightly different than the ad.

Ad for the six inch turkey and ham sub at Subway
And a real six inch turkey and ham Not quite the same attention to detail in perfectly ruffling the edges of the meat.

The Taco Bueno Bell Grande Nachos Ad
Taco Bueno Bell Grande Nachos in reality

And last but not least, my favorite--the Arby's Beef 'n' Cheddar Burger Ad
The real Arby's Beef 'n' CheddarI think that one should qualify as false advertising, don't you?