@gmkb wrote:
I felt badly for Sharon today when she had to try that chicken and dumplings concoction being sold. It looked awful.
I don't know what it is, but almost all edibles of any kind that QVC shows look gross to me. It's the camera work, the angles and close-ups, and the fact that it's on video instead of film. Show me an extreme close-up of some indeterminate goop and it makes me want to toss my cookies more than eat them. Watching food close-ups on any of the various food channels doesn't affect me this way at all, just on QVC.
Also the food handling. Seeing candy or dried fruit squished and squeezed, or heaven-knows-what goo ooze out of something after it's poked and prodded is the opposite of appetizing to me. Telling me how juicy something is when it doesn't appear juicy at all just makes me disbelieve all claims about it and reinforces that what hosts and vendors claim is often far from the truth.
And then we have the freshness factor. If something is baked on a Friday, shipped on a Monday and received the following Friday *with no preservatives*, when you receive it, it's not going to be as moist as it looks during a demo.
Life without Mexican food is no life at all