Yeah, that’s not how this kind of advertising works. Check this out.

Look at that ad for as long as it takes to read the article, then look away and immediately name the first three restaurant chains that come to mind.

Unless you’re coming from a place that is critical/cynical about the invasive nature of advertising, it’s possible you’ll just go along with “Chili’s” as one of a handful of options and not give it a second thought.

I appreciate the (icky) subtext that the reviewer is not only eating a good amount of food off of that, but is casually wearing it around town and also touching elevator buttons with it.

Exactly.

For medium sized rice, consider mochi or tteokbokki.