These Trickster Packaging Designs Were Filled With Broken Promises

2. If You Just Spread It Out, You'll Get a Whopping One Pepperoni per Slice

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Finding a frozen pizza with just a sparse top is a regular but annoying occurrence in consumer dishonesty. This specific scenario shows how clever photography and strategic commercial placement in food packaging could lead to irrational expectations. Suggesting a good dinner, the box features what looks to be a lavishly topped pepperoni pizza. But the reality shows a pizza where the pepperoni slices cluster on barely half of the surface, appearing to have created their own exclusive social circle. This clustering changes the eating experience rather than only looks bad. When distributed, you find the mathematical disaster of around one pepperoni per slice, hardly the filling recommended by the package. Though funny, the comparison to the antisocial friend group emphasises a major problem in food marketing whereby the product presentation deviates greatly from reality. This disparity between expectation and reality relates more to value for money and consumer confidence in food producers than only quantity.