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McDonald’s Happy Meal resists decomposition for six months

For all the Mc D's lovers...

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Vladimir Lenin, King Tut and the McDonald's Happy Meal: What do they all have in common? A shocking resistance to Mother Nature's cycle of decomposition and biodegradability, apparently.

That's the disturbing point brought home by the latest project of New York City-based artist and photographer Sally Davies, who bought a McDonald's Happy Meal back in April and left it out in her kitchen to see how well it would hold up over time.

The results? "The only change that I can see is that it has become hard as a rock," Davies told the U.K. Daily Mail.

She proceeded to photograph the Happy Meal each week and posted the pictures to Flickr to record the results of her experiment. Now, just over six months later, the Happy Meal has yet to even grow mold. She told the Daily Mail that "the food is plastic to the touch and has an acrylic sheen to it."

Davies -- whose art has been featured in numerous films and television shows and is collected by several celebrities -- told The Upshot that she initiated the project to prove a friend wrong. He believed that any burger would mold or rot within two or three days of being left on a counter. Thus began what's become known as "The Happy Meal Art Project."

"I told my friend about a schoolteacher who's kept a McDonald's burger for 12 years that hasn't changed at all, and he didn't believe me when I told him about it," Davies told us. "He thought I was crazy and said I shouldn't believe everything that I read, so I decided to try it myself."

Davies' friend was the person who should have done the additional research. Wellness and nutrition educator Karen Hanrahan has indeed kept a McDonald's hamburger since 1996 to show clients and students how resistant fast food can be to decomposition.

As for Davies, she said that she might just keep her burger and fries hanging around for a while as well.

"It's sitting on a bookshelf right now, so it's not really taking up any space, so why not?" she said. It ceased giving off any sort of odor after 24 hours, she said, adding: "You have to see this thing."

In response to Davies' project, McDonald's spokeswoman Theresa Riley emailed The Upshot a statement defending the quality of the chain's food. Riley's email also blasted Davies' "completely unsubstantiated" work as something out of "the realm of urban legends."

"McDonald's hamburger patties in the United States are made with 100% USDA-inspected ground beef," Riley wrote. "Our hamburgers are cooked and prepared with salt, pepper and nothing else -- no preservatives, no fillers. Our hamburger buns are baked locally, are made from North American-grown wheat flour and include common government-approved ingredients designed to assure food quality and safety. ... According to Dr. Michael Doyle, Director, Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia, 'From a scientific perspective, I can safely say that the way McDonald's hamburgers are freshly processed, no hamburger would look like this after one year unless it was tampered with or held frozen.'"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot...for-six-months

WHOA, like really....wtf is it made of
:bullshit:

the human digestive system is nothing like a room full of air
who gives a crap?

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Originally Posted by ilvtofu (Post 7142040)

the human digestive system is nothing like a room full of air
who gives a crap?

Decomposable food (I.E. MEAT, BREAD) is supposed to break down in air due to bacteria and shit (I'm no fuckin science major)

Just the fact that their food can resist these natural effects obviously means they put some additives in the food which make the chemical composition highly stable, and therefore your digestive system has to work harder to break it down.

They aren't saying you CAN'T break down the food, stupid. Have you ever crapped out a whole cheeseburger?

And where is the ketchup or mustard. Bet it was left out on purpose. You have a cooked dry burger patty that has no bacteria on it. what you think is going to happen?

So.... This mean I will live longer if I eat more McDonalds?

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Originally Posted by sonick (Post 7142173)

So.... This mean I will live longer if I eat more McDonalds?

live forever young

if you ask to be turned into a McDicks hamburger, you'll live forever.

Those fries look good. I like stale cold McDonalds fries.

feed a baby once every 6 months?

live forever young....like a fatass lol

I don't believe that the bun wouldn't mold, that's improbable. But for the fries I believe it as when I got my first car in uni, one of my friends spilled some fries and I cleaned it all up after (so I thought). I never ate in my car again after that. 8 years later when I cleaned the car inside and out to post for sale, I found one stray fry under the seat on the side. Guess what, it looked exactly like the ones in the picture above and was hard as a rock. Have I stopped eating mcdonalds? Hell no!
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Originally Posted by Manic! (Post 7142052)

And where is the ketchup or mustard. Bet it was left out on purpose. You have a cooked dry burger patty that has no bacteria on it. what you think is going to happen?

Kidsmeal hambuger doesnt come with condiments.

For some reason, I'm hankerin' for a big mac.

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Originally Posted by Manic! (Post 7142052)

And where is the ketchup or mustard. Bet it was left out on purpose. You have a cooked dry burger patty that has no bacteria on it. what you think is going to happen?

Its suppose to grow bacteria. Are you not aware of air-borne bacteria?

*walks to mcdicks for a double 1/4 w/ cheese*

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Originally Posted by optiblue (Post 7142220)

I don't believe that the bun wouldn't mold, that's improbable.Posted via RS Mobile

when i worked at mcd's sometimes we had buns that were already growing mold in their plastic bags so i doubt the validity of this too. however, what they do in the US might be different.

the fries are no surprise at all.

i guess the mold on the bun depends on the humid environment its in.

lol, it's funny when people see these articles.
So many people go "WHOA!! CRAP! SERISOUYL?!!"
then a week later, forget about it and continue on with their lives eating McD just as they
have been doing all their life.

If you don't go to McD already, then you probably didn't in the first place, and reading this article
did nothing more than to just secure your opinion that you hate McD.

But articles like these don't change opinions. People that like McD will still go and eat there
regardless.

^agreed.

I only get fast food when i'm fucking drunk or stoned, and nothing else is open. For fuck sake's i can get pho for the price of a meal at mcds.

time to call mcdonald delievery!! nom nom nom nom

why do they only test McDicks ?

I wanna see some tests with Burger King, A&W, etc... see how those compare and which are really "better".

didn't Morgan Spurlock do a video on McD fries a long time ago?

http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/video-morgan.html

(dunno if this works Work comp can't watch vids...)