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“The truth is most of what you see in food photographs is real. FTC laws state that whatever you’re selling with a photo must be real in the image. To use a familiar example, if you’re selling corn flakes the flakes must be real. But then it gets interesting. You can use white glue instead of milk in your bowl of flakes because you’re not selling the milk, only the corn flakes.”

While the dressed burgers aren’t exactly edible, they are a far cry from being plastic.

McDonald’s Canada famously gave a candid behind the scenes of dressing a burger:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pbh1UAWLOgU&ra=m

Yeah, but you know those are ads.