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You can't sell anything now in a plain box. Even cigarettes have photos on them. So advertising photography is a big business. And what appropriate photos they produce. Here are the first of what I expect to become a large list:


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This was on the packaging of a roti maker. The roti on the right looks plausible. But what's the pot? A kuali? That's not used in Indian cooking. And the food in it? I suppose you could think of it as a curry, but just barely.

And I use sweetener tablets for my coffee. A recent update of the obviously too boring image on the package had this serving suggestion:

 
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I can't decide whether this is indicative of stupidity or beating the system.


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