14-year-old McDonald’s hamburger looks the same as the day it was bought
Even after being left in a coat pocket for two of those years. Plus, Hawaiian Tropic slips out of its bikini … contest, a futuristic mockumentary warns us about the perils of the Internet, terrible (but hilarious) places to work, and more.
Anyone who’s watched Morgan Spurlock’s haunting 2004 documentary “Super Size Me” on the fast food industry likely remembers the exposé’s infamous “Smoking Fry” scene, when an order of McDonald’s golden french fries was agelessly preserved in a jar for 10 weeks.
Oddly, the experiment left me hankering for the nearest drive-thru.
That wasn’t the case, however, when I read in the Daily Mail of David Whipple, a Utah man who in a segment on “The Doctors” revealed photos of a McDonald’s hamburger he bought in 1999. The burger, which was mistakenly left in a coat pocket for the first two of the past 14 years, is void of any visible mold or rot. The only sign of age is a disintegrated pickle, reports Business Insider.
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