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bruno
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not to be like "can't relate, me I'm immune to propaganda" but this is so not my experience lol? I live near both a mcdonald's and a burger king and I do get them on occasion and when I do it's because I do want the specific experience of a mcdonald's burger or a burger king burger, which are distinct from a good burger. I can make a good burger at home, or I can walk to any of several equally nearby places that serve notionally good (or at least 'real') burgers. if I go to one of these places it's because I am looking for something that exists outside the realm of good and bad.

like if I get a whopper, I am not envisioning some mythical idealized whopper in my mind. I am like "I could go for a very heavily msg-laden burger with a thick slice of tomato in it that's bleeding all over the thing". they hit a certain place in the continuum of possible burgers. it's a place far away from what is aesthetically regarded as ideal for a burger, but sometimes the heart (or the stomach, I guess) wants what it wants. sometimes the soft animal of my body wants a fucking quarter pounder, god damn it.


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I gotta be honest. Even this I don't know that I relate to. When I get a mcdonalds burger it's because I don't want to cook or spend more than $5


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in reply to @blackle's post:

in reply to @bruno's post:

I am the same way with my Burger King double cheeseburger experience. I'm not getting the one in the images, I'm getting the melty mess where the cheese is fused to the wrapper that I can run my fries through.

YES! That's how I explain my Sonic cheeseburger cravings. I have had good burgers. I can get good burgers. But when I want a Sonic burger, a good burger does not scratch the itch. I want the thin, overly salty patty, the goopy American cheese, the smooshed bun that burns my hand because it's been sitting in a foil wrapper.

I can't remember the last time I saw a Sonic ad but I do see the pictures on the app and those might as well be burger emoji for how well they reflect the product I'm hoping to recieve.

Like how can the quoted paragraph represent anything but someone's very first fast food experience?

Fun personal fact - I generally don't have access to the hyperreal burger. They aren't advertised to me outside of the times when I already have entered the restaurant. And when I do, my most typical interaction is a small representative icon on the menu machine.

So yeah, the hyperreal advertising burger exists somewhere on the perifery of my decisions, but what I'm actually engaging with most is the memory construct of previous experiences.