If you want to try new foods, that's cool, I do too. Read local food reviews.

But if ads convince you to try 47 different restaurants and that otherwise you would have been perfectly happy to eat at home, then the ads did a disservice to society.

Relatively nobody goes out of their way for local food reviews. If advertising was suddenly banned I feel like people would end up much less likely to try anything new and life would be more stagnant overall. New businesses would struggle to attract customers and everyone would gravitate to McDonald's and Wal Mart even more than they already do.

I disagree. I and I lot of people I know go out of our ways for local food reviews, and word of mouth is also incredibly powerful.

And you must remember that for every local food ad there are 300 ads for McDonalds or Walmart, and they are just as effective, altough likely for another demographic.