This story is getting a lot of traction lately and I think it’s unfair since it’s not news. Morgan Spurlock already did this and included it in the special features of his documentary Super Size Me.
But whatever: McDonalds Happy Meal burger and fires doesn’t decompose. This chick Sally Davies bought the meal on April 10 of this year “with the express intention of leaving it out to see how it fared” Davies told the Daily Mail.
She told the Daily Mail that after the second day she had the Happy Meal in her home, “[M]y dogs stopped circling the shelf it was sitting on trying to see what was up there.”
vs.
The pictures are here. Wheeler @ DammitWheeler.com wanted to add this rebuttal:
this is bullshit. i have eaten pizza that was weeks old. food left out dries out and wont typically grow mold. another hippie trying to bring down the man. get a real job you old bitch (referencing the artist).
The more processed it is, the more it will likely just dry out and go stale, so its yes&no on the bullshit level.
Yes it’s bullshit cuz they’re implying that it’s like plastic (or like my headline says, Styrofoam) and will just sit in your stomach for a million years like the old chewing gum myth and that’s obviously not true. The food is just dried out and cardboardish like a rice cake. No one would keep a rice cake around for 6 months and claim it is shocking and gross that it hasn’t changed.
No it’s not bullshit though because pure food should mold. These apples should be rotted, a home made pizza should be moldy and a burger should smell terrible with its bun and fries covered in a blue and white Cruella DeVille outfit of fuzz. Yes, sometimes food doesn’t hold the ingredients necessary to foster bacteria in a way that makes it rot but bread and sliced fried potatoes and definitely ground beef should not be in that category.
Spurlock did his test as a REAL experiment: with a control group. He bought a mom and pop restaurant burger and fries and kept them around too and they decomposed naturally while the Mickey’s food looked just like the pictures on this Flickr album…