What a worthless article. I was expecting 137 pictures to show the gradual change from semi dried out over preserved food to totally dried out over preserved food. 3 pictures is just lazy.

The beef patties McDonald's uses are made in a plant here in Oklahoma. They use real beef, nothing else. I had a piece of pizza in my shop fridge for 3 years and it looked as good as new when I finally threw it out.

tfa:Far be it from me to tell you what to eat, but I am pretty sure your stomach can't break that down any better than the mold and microbes in the air

Wat?

Wasn't there one about 5 years old that looked the same, even featured in a glass case?

No mold on the bread?

old news

it was dried out

if left normally it moulds and rots like anything else

I'm gonna take a picture of a gummi bear over the same period.

Or maybe a lifesavers candy. Or maybe peanuts. Or maybe...an egg! Or...insert any of many non-fast-foods that we eat on a regular basis that don't degrade over time here.

I mean, I get it's bread and meat and you *expect* it to get moldy and old, but come on. So what if it doesn't? That doesn't mean it's some horrible poison.

Why did the bun move towards the fries?

One day I was overwhelmed by this death stench in my car only to find a quarter-pounder with cheese that somehow ended up under my car seat. I am fairly certain that this is not the case under all conditions.

Cervidanti: I mean, I get it's bread and meat and you *expect* it to get moldy and old, but come on. So what if it doesn't? That doesn't mean it's some horrible poison.

Fair enough. But what does it mean?

Yes, the author of the article is an idiot. That being said, McDonald's is terrible and your GI tract never did anything to deserve it.

Cervidanti 2010-09-07 09:16:55 PM

I'm gonna take a picture of a gummi bear over the same period.

Or maybe a lifesavers candy. Or maybe peanuts. Or maybe...an egg! Or...insert any of many non-fast-foods that we eat on a regular basis that don't degrade over time here.

I mean, I get it's bread and meat and you *expect* it to get moldy and old, but come on. So what if it doesn't? That doesn't mean it's some horrible poison.


Umm, about the egg on your list of "shelf-stable" items. Just go ahead and give that a whirl.

I'll be over here with the mega-sized bottle of febreze.

Kill the mentally ill: What a worthless article. I was expecting 137 pictures to show the gradual change from semi dried out over preserved food to totally dried out over preserved food. 3 pictures is just lazy.
It's there. Enjoy the slideshow.
Link (new window)

Kill the mentally ill: What a worthless article. I was expecting 137 pictures to show the gradual change from semi dried out over preserved food to totally dried out over preserved food. 3 pictures is just lazy.

Link in the article lists the 9 picture blog
http://www.refinery29.com/happy-meal-art-project.php/slideshow/1/image/9/#image - 0

I don't see how anti-rotting meat is considered sick. Personally seeing a pile of mold-covered maggot infested meat is sick as hell.

I applaud McDonalds for inventing their rot free meat-like substance.

But how'd it taste...?

Morgan Spurlock did this on Supersize Me. It's one of the special features on the DVD. The burger basically melted, but the fries were perfectly fine.

I call shenanigans. The layout of the fries change.

Chiun: It would be better for you to eat this can than what is inside of it. Why must everything in this country be coated with monositi-... monosoti...
Remo Williams: Monosodium glutamate. You can't even say it.
Chiun: I can say "rat droppings." That does not mean I want to eat them.

I dunno it sounds opposite of sick to me. :D

The average American has 3000 undigested burger patties in their bowel?

Yunus: Why did the bun move towards the fries?

IT'S ALIIIIIIIVE

(Some Guy) 300 years from now people will still be afraid of technology, and Michael Pollan's reanimated corpse will be preaching the virtues of eating "Fast Food, the way our ancestors did, instead of these unnatural nutritient condenser implants and simulated-matter foods."

//Also, be wary of tricorder medicine! Big Tricorder just wants your credits!

I guess that this "artist" is not familiar with Beef Jerky or methods of food preservation. Food + Salt + Dry Environment = Preserved.

I'll second "the fries moved". But I just figured it's because people kept eating the fries and they had to be replaced.

Who the hell leaves a hamburger sitting on their counter for 5 months? Wouldn't that attract bugs?

I call total BS.
Check the top of the bun, location of creases, fries etc.
Even a food photographer couldn't keep these looking exactly the same.

so what does it mean...
they use preservatives?? uh i think we all knew that.

RayD8

Brilliant.

/Plump
//Juicy
///Three inches thick

slimfast: ...or maybe just a plain old moldy loaf of bread.

Sadly, I see the cat; it's nose is all too human.

/sniff

Morgan Spurlock already did this.