On the LEFT: McDonald’s Hamburger from 1996 (12 years old)
On the RIGHT: McDonald’s Hamburger from 2008 (new, “fresh”)
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This is a hamburger from McDonalds that I purchased in 1996.
That was 12 years ago.
Note that it looks exactly like it did the very day I bought it.
The flecks on the bun are crumbs from the bun.
The burger is starting to crumble a bit
It has the oddest smell.
The paper and bag in the backround is circa 2008 – to add decor to the photo.
…People always ask me – what did you do to preserve it ?Nothing – it preserved itself.
Ladies, Gentleman, and children alike – this is a chemical food. There is absolutely no nutrition here.
Not one ounce of food value. Or at least value for why we are eating in the first place.
The burger on the right, off the paper is a 2008 burger. I had to buy it to get the groovy paper and bag.
The meat is a tad darker, the bun a little less golden but in 12 years it will look exactly like that too.
Do you find this horrifying?
McDonalds fills an empty space in your belly. It does nothing to nourish the cell, it is not a nutritious food.
It is not a treat.
I marvel at how McDonalds has infiltrated our entire world. A hamburger here tastes exactly the same in China or some around the world place.
It’s cloned.
Makes you wonder doesn’t it?
Now, the woman who has this hamburger claims she is not a scientist.
So, what do YOU think about this? Is McDonald’s food really this bad? Is this total BS? Hmmm…
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Surely you mean 1996…
Oh man. I’m such an idiot. And math was never my strongest subject… thanks for catching that, Sean! It’s been fixed. 🙂
What mania
She’s not a scientist, but she stayed at a Holiday Inn…
I DONT CARE. I AM ADDICTED TO THEM ANYWAY. EVERYTHING YOU EAT IS BAD FOR YOU.
Wow!
Talk about American Know How, Can Do!, Ingenuity and Manifesto Destiny.
Imagine Archeological excavations performed in a few million years turning up McDonald’s!
The odds however of finding one are probably very slim, as most people who buy one consume it.
Whatever posessed you to SAVE one?
Whatever reason at the time you surely did’nt foresee the amount of interest it would generate.
I think the next thing should be to try to identify if this burger is the 45,754,685,986th one sold.
How is there no mold?
geez what a crumby life…no pun intended
McDonalds burgers taste completely different in other countries.
Hmmm, did they have the “I’m lovin it” logo back in 1996 (see wrapper)? I don’t remember it being used back that far. Makes me suspicious…
Smoke, mirrors and wires friends Prepare to be truly amazed. The case you present seems to shall I say smell “fishy”. It is rather improbably that bread from ten years ago would look like you bought it yesterday, even using as many preservatives as we do. If we made our own food used, fresh or frozen vegetables, used simple sugars as well as ate simple carbhydrates, We all would be better off.
Now, I can see the meat being that old but are you saying even the bun is 12 years old?
I work with a bread bakery… and the patty might be from 1996 but the bun isn’t… ever heard of mold?
Put enough ketchup on it I’ll eat it.
This sounds like the woman is a bit of a freak, but W/E. ANyways, I found a half eaten burger in my daughters car that had been there for over a year and it just dried hard and looked exactly the same as it should except that is was rock hard. I have seen comments from other people on other sites wanting to know where is the mold, and such. But there was no monld on the one i found in her car. It was gross, but real.
This experiment you can do at home (as I did)… place a dollop of Cool Whip in a small, open glass bowl. Place in cupboard at room temperature. Leave for six months. It will harden some from the outside in, taking on a styrofoam consistency. Nothing else will change.
I would have continued the experiment, but there was no quantifiable change in the last few months and I presumed it had reached “equilibrium” 🙂 You have to distrust any food that won’t rot.
I don’t like McDonald’s anyway. Evil company. Anyways… Why would someone KEEP a hamburger that long? Also, what happened to the standard 2 pickles and pinch of fake onions with a squirt of ketchup? One would think the bun would get moldy.
I’m not here to tell you that McD’s is good for you, but simple preservation after 12 years proves next to nothing about the content, good or bad, of the food.
Maybe you heard about the 2000 year old palm seed from an extinct plant that they got to grow recently?…
Check it out:
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/dn14125-jesusera-date-is-the-oldest-seed-to-germinate.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Yes, i’d say it’s true. Watch Super Size Me, it has everything about this sought of thing. I even tested the theory myself here in Fiji, but not for 12 years of course. I left a pack of fries on my cupboard for a month and it did not rot; it just got shrivelled up a bit. Yea, so it’d say that it is true and that McDonald’s is just plastic food not fit even for a dog. I have never been there ever since.
I personally think it’s BS, unless if she froze the thing. The meat would have had maggots in it TWELVE YEARS ago. Why would she ‘conduct this experiment’ anyway? And why randomly twelve years? It sounds completely bogus … But like I said, just my opinion 😉
I think the bigger question is… why did she decide to keep it in the first place? Was she purposefully going to wait 12 years? Also… where did she store it? Hmm….
I’d still eat it. Both of them. =3
I’ll believe it. Better living through modern chemistry!
I think the buns were crinckled 12 years ago from what I recall. That is one thing I do not like about the new buns. They look plastic and framed and not like they were just made locally. I think the look is the same from a historically perspective and no change in 12 years. That however, does not thwart your basic premise unfortunately about the nutritional basis of the burger. Why no mold though. Shouldn’t that be the first question.
my 8 year old cheese burger is now some thing to reckon with. i mean that may be a whole truck load of BS. but in the BS world ,it kinda makes allot of sense.
Incredible. Somebody saved a hamburger for 12 years without eating it? That’s amazing!
On a slightly more serious note: Has the lady in question actually looked at the nutritional information on McDonalds food? Has she analysed the meat content? Has she looked at the information McDonalds provide about their food that, by law, must be correct?
McDonalds use 100% meat in their burgers, 100% breast in their chicken, 100% potato in their chips and hash browns… You could go on. McDonalds never set out to be the healthiest food in the world (despite recently offering lots of alternatives like salads, bagels, fruit, etc) but slamming it, saying their is no nutritional content whatsoever, is ridiculous. Check a Weight Watchers manual and see how many points a BigMac – even if without the sauce.
McDonalds yield the power to demand the best ingredients at the lowest prices. I wonder if the lady with this view ever eats any other fast food — or any microwave food or processed food for that matter? Does she eat sweets or crisps? (Candy/french fries/whatever America calls them :P).
I could go on – If she ate a KFC, Burger King or Take Out a day for a year and I ate a McDonalds a day for a year, who would be affected the most?
I’m probably getting in to this too much 😉 But what I’m saying is: McDonalds is tasty, many people think so, but only as part of a varied diet, the same as ALL other food. Make yourself a Lasagne with all natural ingredients, and it will have more cheese, more oil and probably less meat content in your meat unless you get it from a proper butcher. Why not think before you write something, do a bit of research, and if all else fails, keep your childish opinions to yourself.
Thanks for bringing this little snippet to light Alex 😉
Why don’t we get a Subway foot long roll and put two chicken fillets in it, and leave it for a while and see what happens…
hey, i’ve read same kind of this ‘comparison’ junk-food, but it’s a donut… writer claim not from any company’s rival..but who knows ? …
I dout that the burger wouldn’t rot?
Anyways… why would anyone keep a burger for 12 years?
who cares??? what matters is that it tastes good…
unfortunately this is the case with MOST food available to us in North America. It’s not just McDonalds… all fast food belongs in this category and sadly enough, a lot of what you can purchase at the grocery store is in this category too. The more preservatives, the longer the food can stay on the shelf and the more money the store can make. Making smart choices and buying local, organic, whole foods is the best thing anyone can do for themselves.
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Okay, so you didn’t do anything to preserve the “12 year old sandwich,” but my question is, what did you keep it in? I’m wondering why you don’t have any packaging , a pic with a dated newspaper … something… from back in that time to support your claim?
Neat, if true the entire leftover structure is preservative. I call BS though.
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