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Gordito has a slight problem with fast foods. I think it could partially be because of advertisement. I'm not sure. However, advertisement of fast foods have become increasingly sexual over the years. What does this have to do with Gordito, you might ask? Well, he is a young, impressionable child who can be swayed by anything the advertising world throws at him.
Now, if the sexual content of these advertisements are unclear to you, congradulations, no matter your age, you aren't susceptible to these advertisements.
Sorry to be a buzz-kill here, but I can guarantee that none of the models shown above have ever eaten fast food, and if they do, they make a short visit to the privacy of the restroom several minutes later. Ew.
Now this advertisement is decent and clean, and from what appears to be from the 1950s. Since the 1950s, fast, junky foods have become increasingly popular and advertisers were there to scoop up the lard by the shovel full and then force-fed it to the American masses. Since the 1950s, the quality of advertising for fast foods have deminished and now that quality is alike the quality of the very same foods they are advertising.
As time goes on, Americans become more and more susceptible to the allure of fast foods, but why? What makes them so sought after? The grease? The bloating? The stomach pains? The acne? The lack of energy? The clogged arteries? I believe this picture below answers all of those questions.
Americans are buying fast foods because they are too busy to make healthier choices. They are too busy because of their hectic schedules. Their schedules are hectic because of the demanding, fast paced lifestyle that has become the American way. Then these over-worked Americans get into a slump and buy more fast food because they don't have the time and they start to crave more salt, sugar and fat (I learned that from a That's So Raven episode, the one where she inflates her jumpsuit to demonstrate unhealthy eating habits). Soon they enter an unfortunate cycle, one that ends in the emergency room.
This cycle is the advertisers dream. They can sluff off any crap they have left over in the cesspool of creative advertising and use it for fast foods because they know that Americans are weak for their grease.
And now poor Gordito has become the victim of advertising and corporate America's bidding because his parents are too busy to provide a healthier alternative and Gordito has seen the fast food commercials and advertisements and begs his parents to take him to McDonald's for some fries and the cycle begins. I can only imagine that his parents work for Michelin and look like the Michelin man because poor Gordito's arms are like tires. Thanks to the advertisements of fast foods that enticed him.
Something must be done. For Gordito's sake.
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