GreenTeaChloe
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This McDonald's burger looks the same as the day it was cooked... 14 years ago.
David Whipple had been hoping to demonstrate the high levels of preservatives in fast food. He bought the hamburger from a McDonald's outlet way back in 1999, originally planning to keep it for a month to show friends the worrying power of preservatives.
But he forgot about it, finding it two years later in an old coat pocket. He then decided to continue the experiment, but admits even he was amazed that, 14 years on, the hamburger remains unchanged.
It has no signs of mould, fungus or even a strange odour. The only thing that has changed over the years is that the pickle has disintegrated.
"I was showing some people how enzymes work and I thought a hamburger would be a good idea. And I used it for a month and then I forgot about it. It ended up in a paper sack with the receipt in my coat pocket tossed in the back of my truck and it sat there for, I don't know, two or three months."
The coat was then hung up in a closet at his home.
"My wife didn't discover it until at least a year or two after that," he said. "And we pulled it out and said 'oh my gosh. I can't believe it looks the same way'."
In 2009, nutritionist Joann Bruso decide to keep a McDonald's Happy Meal uncovered on a shelf for a year. Apart from a few cracks in the bun, it remained unchanged. "Food is supposed to decompose, go bad and smell foul eventually," she wrote on her blog.
"The fact that it has not decomposed shows you how unhealthy it is for children."
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David Whipple had been hoping to demonstrate the high levels of preservatives in fast food. He bought the hamburger from a McDonald's outlet way back in 1999, originally planning to keep it for a month to show friends the worrying power of preservatives.
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But he forgot about it, finding it two years later in an old coat pocket. He then decided to continue the experiment, but admits even he was amazed that, 14 years on, the hamburger remains unchanged.
It has no signs of mould, fungus or even a strange odour. The only thing that has changed over the years is that the pickle has disintegrated.
You must be registered for see images
"I was showing some people how enzymes work and I thought a hamburger would be a good idea. And I used it for a month and then I forgot about it. It ended up in a paper sack with the receipt in my coat pocket tossed in the back of my truck and it sat there for, I don't know, two or three months."
The coat was then hung up in a closet at his home.
"My wife didn't discover it until at least a year or two after that," he said. "And we pulled it out and said 'oh my gosh. I can't believe it looks the same way'."
In 2009, nutritionist Joann Bruso decide to keep a McDonald's Happy Meal uncovered on a shelf for a year. Apart from a few cracks in the bun, it remained unchanged. "Food is supposed to decompose, go bad and smell foul eventually," she wrote on her blog.
"The fact that it has not decomposed shows you how unhealthy it is for children."
