{"id":13087,"date":"2011-04-09T14:06:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T21:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2011-04-09T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T21:06:44","slug":"this-week%e2%80%99s-cartoon-%e2%80%9cold-mcdonald%e2%80%99s-had-a-farm%e2%80%9d-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13087","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Cartoon: \u201cOld McDonald\u2019s Had a Farm\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/mcdonaldsfarm.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"McDonalds for Foodies\" src=\"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/mcdonaldsfarm.png\" alt=\"comic about McDonald's marketing to foodies\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Blogging this one a bit late, as it&#8217;s been a busy week. I had a big freelance deadline, spazzed my lower back out, and hosted my sister-in-law and her husband while waddling about like a duck. But better late than never, right?<\/p>\n<p>I originally intended to draw a cartoon about that douchetastic governor of Maine who wanted to remove a mural depicting the history of labor from the Department of Labor. But while checking Daily Show clips to see if they&#8217;d done my idea (they had, dammit), I came across this utterly ridiculous McDonald&#8217;s ad touting the artisanal nature of Big Macs. It&#8217;s only 17 seconds &#8212; check it out!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6tK5fhPy9g4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I just love the perky smile on the McDonald&#8217;s employee&#8217;s face as she pours her heart and soul into that Big Mac. Notice those chic, Asian-style bowls she&#8217;s grabbing the pickles and lettuce from. Why do I get the feeling those are <em>not<\/em> standard-issue at all McDonald&#8217;s? And then there&#8217;s the barn. Why, all Big Macs start out in cute little red barns, don&#8217;tcha know!\u00a0 Heck, why go to your local farmer&#8217;s market at all when you can get hand-crafted, 100% beef burgers, lovingly made <em>just for you<\/em> by a chipper woman in a cute ponytail?<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, my friend Anne pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/fast-food-ads-vs-reality\/?p\" >this article<\/a>, in which a photographer compares advertised images of fast food with what you actually get.<\/p>\n<p>[UPDATE: Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fUjz_eiIX8k\" >video on how burgers are prepped<\/a> to look perfect in ads &#8212; fascinating!]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging this one a bit late, as it&#8217;s been a busy week. I had a big freelance deadline, spazzed my lower back out, and hosted my sister-in-law and her husband while waddling about like a duck. But better late than never, right?<br \/>\nI originally intended to draw a cartoon about that douchetastic governor of Maine who [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13087\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13087"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13094,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13087\/revisions\/13094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}