A story of sorts:
Every year, for some reason, we got the The Swiss Colony catalog by mail in the household I grew up in. We couldn’t afford any of it, but it was just as much a wish book as the Sears Christmas Toy Catalog, so I salivated over it every December. Cheeses! Sausages! Cakes! Chocolates! It all looked so delicious!
As an adult, I actually got a package of foodstuff from there as a present one year, and it hammered home the importance of being able to read and reckon weights and sizes. The pictures in the the catalog makes the food out to be these great big hunks of sausage and cheese and biscuits and so on, while the reality is that a 5 year old could probably polish off the contents of a $30 box in one sitting and not be the least bit full. Once one read the descriptions, then one realized the pictures were, shall we say, enhanced. :/