McDonald's burger bought in Utah in 1999 looks exactly the same as the day it was first flipped

[n2doc]

If you need another reason to kick the junk food habit this should do it.
A Utah man has unearthed a McDonald's hamburger he bought in 1999 - and the sandwich looks exactly the same as the day it was first flipped.

David Whipple kept the fast food meal for a month to show friends how the preservative-packed hamburger would keep its composure.

But he forgot about it, finding it two years later in his coat pocket and then he decided to continue the bizarre experiment.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2313276/McDonalds-burger-bought-Utah-1999-looks-exactly-the-day-flipped.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Was it found in Ted Nugent's pants?

[darkangel218]

3. Ewwwwwwwwww!!

Why did you have to say that

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. He hasn't changed his shorts for a least that long.

[darkangel218]

11. OMG thanks

[darkangel218]

2. Better stock up on mc.d burgers then :P

We now know what will survive any disaster: twinkies and mc d!
Yum!

[HappyMe]

4. It was in coat pocket for 2 years?!

Good grief! The thing had to be pretty stinky. I would have thought that the bun would have crumbled into dust.

[Cleita]

6. But was it flipped the day it was bought?

It could have been a year or two old even then if it's this well preserved today. However, I question the veracity of this and would need more proof, or a better controlled experiment that has additional credible witnesses.

[Orrex]

15. I agree

I'm inclined to question the observational prowess of a guy who'd forget a hamburger in his pocket for 12 months.

[Ghost in the Machine]

46. Would you question the prowess of someone who thinks 2 years = 12 months??

[Orrex]

47. Nope. My powers of observation is unimpeachablelable

Damn you! Damn you!

[Ghost in the Machine]

50. How do you do it? I *HATE* getting peaches stuck in my observation powers, but can't seem to

stop it from happening! You must have one of those secret 'peach blocking' cloaks I keep hearing about, but have never seen. It's a CONSPIRACY, I tell ya!!!

[bike man]

7. Oddly enough, this is not the first article w/ photos the Daily Mail has run on burgers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1319562/McDonalds-Happy-Meal-bought-Sally-Davies-shows-sign-mould-6-months.html

This link (above) is a bit older, but the photos look similar. I find it hard to believe that burger buns have not molded/shrivelled more than the photos display.

And, I've read here on DU that the source cited is not always reliable.

[leveymg]

8. Forever Young. The fries didn't make it.

[PoliticAverse]

9. Sure, but does it taste the same?... n/t

[ret5hd]

10. The only possibility is that it would taste better.

[Skink]

12. mic it

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I mean just to find out.

[Sunlei]

13. I've noticed how a loaf of bread stays soft and no mold for years. Must load those foods /w chems.

I'm going to try hard as heck to never eat at fast food places again or buy any processed foods.

[get the red out]

14. McPrepper Paradise!

There is no expiration date, unlike life on Earth which will end tomorrow for anyone who hasn't McStocked their survival pit yet.

[sir pball]

16. NO hamburger, McD's or home-ground, will rot.

Serious Eats did a test a while back comparing various McDonald's burgers to identical (weight and construction) burgers made from fresh, home-ground beef:

A few weeks back, I started an experiment designed to prove or disprove whether or not the magic, non-decomposing McDonald's hamburgers that have been making their way around the internet are indeed worthy of disgust or even interest.
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The problem with coming to that conclusion, of course, is that if you are a believer in science (and I certainly hope you are!), in order to make a conclusion, you must first start with a few observable premises as a starting point with which you form a theorem, followed by a reasonably rigorous experiment with controls built in place to verify the validity of that theorem.
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Well, well, well. Turns out that not only did the regular McDonald's burgers not rot, but the home-ground burgers did not rot either. Samples one through five had shrunk a bit (especially the beef patties), but they showed no signs of decomposition. What does this mean?

It means that there's nothing that strange about a McDonald's burger not rotting. Any burger of the same shape will act the same way.

Spoiler - it's the size of the burger that preserves it; the standard McD's patty is so thin it dehydrates before mold can take hold. The same as the freshest home-ground beef will if the patty is the same size. The Quarter Pounder and Angus burgers both molded.

Plenty of perfectly good reasons to hate McDs, and they certainly aren't what I would ever call "real food", but this is skirting with creationism.

[HappyMe]

18. That sounds reasonable.

Thanks for the info.

[TheManInTheMac]

20. You beat me to it.

[Atman]

27. You beat my meat...er, meat me blew it...oh, wait...

Is that also why the french fries look exactly the same when you find them under the car seat five years later?

[tridim]

29. And your McD's burger is expelled from the body as waste the same as any other food

So no, the big mac you had last week is not still rotting in your gut.. It's already at the sewage plant.

[Javaman]

43. McD's patty is so thin it dehydrates..

McD's Jerky.

a new marketing concept to retread old burgers. LOL

[global1]

17. I Don't See Condiments On This Burger....

no pickle, ketchup, mustard or onions. I thought McD's burgers has at least some of that on them. Maybe they are under the burger patty.

[TheManInTheMac]

19. It's been debunked and explained:

http://gizmodo.com/5682815/the-truth-behind-the-everlasting-happy-meal-no-burgers-that-size-rot

The larger burgers rot, the smaller ones just dry out. So the "preservative" that keeps the burgers looking fresh is the oldest preservative known to man: dehydration.

[PeaceNikki]

23. Yes, I was just going to post this. The Daily Mail is a rag.

[TheManInTheMac]

24. Haha. It seems this "story" holds up even longer than the mythic McDonalds hamburger or Twinkie.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

26. I never give enough thanks to beer

keeps us from dehydrating.

[darkangel218]

28. Yah. what would we do without it!

Thank god for beer

[ChairmanAgnostic]

31. who?

[darkangel218]

32. the god of beer!

Shame on you for not believing in the god of beer.


http://thechurchofbeer.com/

Our lager, Which art in barrels, Hallowed be thy drink. Thy will be drunk, (I will be drunk), At home as in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, And forgive us our spillages, As we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not to incarceration, But deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, The bitter and The lager. Forever and ever

[ChairmanAgnostic]

41. b r i l l i a n t !

[Coyotl]

21. What a weird website

Who gained weight, who is pregnant, who are these media clowns?

[truebluegreen]

22. We should all eat more preservatives.

They keep us young!

[darkangel218]

33. It could be true, never know

I'm a guinee pig 4 times a week I'm in my clinicals and all I get to eat is fast food from mc d across the hospital.

[RedstDem]

25. you are what you eat

IMMORTAL!!!!

[lpbk2713]

30. New McD slogan ... "Providing food for Doomsday Preppers for generations"

Yup, just put it away until the end of times and you're all set.

[darkangel218]

35. :D

That's all I've been saying all along Lmao!!

[olddots]

34. Whoes to say we all haven't eaten 10-20 year old "beef" burgers ?

[sinkingfeeling]

36. Well, now I can stock my anti-big-government bomb shelter with my

favorite food instead of all that hippie liberal freeze-dried stuff! Can you tell me if the fries hold up as well?

[darkangel218]

37. Fries dont hold up.

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I heard you can subtitute them with sun dried dead roaches instead.



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[OhioChick]

38. Disgusting

I've never been a fan of "fast food" and rarely eat it.

[yawnmaster]

49. Then better not eat home cooked hamburgers either as the same will happen to it...

it has nothing to do with preservatives. it is called dehydration.

[NoPasaran]

39. Fourteen year old burger laying around?

Was he sharing an apartment with the Tsarnaev brothers?

[siligut]

40. He was showing "a group of people" how these enzymes/preservatives worked

This is nothing more than an advertisement for this guy's preservation system.

Utah, the MLM and survivalist capital of the world.

[WI_DEM]

42. I wonder if he will finally eat it? put a pickle, mustard and catsup on first, though.

[JI7]

44. these stories seem to pop up a lot, and in his coat pocket ? how about the smell ?

yuk

[Coyotl]

45. Try our new crap

[cherokeeprogressive]

48. Yes, but I'm told the foreskin is a breeding ground for all kinds of bad things.

Oh, wait. This is April not May. Circumcision threads come in May. This is April; the "You Need to HATE Fast Food" month.

I wish I still had my list of when which dead horses will arise from their DU graves once more...