Why Barbados rejected McDonald’s Restaurants – Reason #743
Photographer Sally Davies purchased a McDonald’s Happy Meal on April 10, 2010, put it on her kitchen counter and photographed it every day thereafter for six months to document the deterioration.
So what happened to the burger and fries as it sat on the counter at room temperature for six months?
Nothing. Not a thing.
The meal got a little hard, but there was no rot or mould. No bugs, no flies, no worms either. It looks as good as the day it was, ah, hatched? born? synthesized?
Yummie!
I’ll stick with cutters from Marcia’s Place at Oistins, thank you very much.
Further Reading if you can stomach it…
Grub Street, New York: McDonald’s Hamburgers: Almost Entirely Indestructible
Barbados Free Press 
How about the new PHD milk. I made a soup with it, quite unsuccessfully, two weeks ago. Yesterday I took the pot out of the fridge to dispose of it when my refrigerator broke down…not a single sign of any mold decay, nothing. Yuck. And this is Barbados’ only only option for milk???
After seeing the movie “supersize me”, about a guy who ate nothing but McDonald’s for 30 days (and nearly did not live to tell about it) I never went near another McD’s again. This movie should be required viewing – especially for children.
BFP – I have an assignment for you… collect a burger and fries from Chefette and carry out an identical experiment — and report. Standing by.
I wouldn’t know – but I don’t think McDonald is using produce any different than what all the other ‘fast food’ outlets use. ? ? ?
BetterYet has an interesting observation re PHDs ‘new’ ‘milk.’ Imagine: in 2010 Bajans can no longer buy fresh pasteurized milk in a supermarket.
Here’s something for everybody to ponder… if I made a cake and put some cyanide in it and poisoned and killed someone in 24 hours… I’d be charged with murder. But if I gave them cakes that take 24 years to kill them… it’s OK.
Yet the latter is what is obtaining. There are products being sold ‘lawfully’ in the marketplace that are slow-poisoning and killing people…. but it’s all right…
In addition to it not spoiling you can’t cook with it at all!!! It doesn’t make a roux, nothing…it is basically white water.
I agree with “Mortician”. Try the experiment with “fries” from Cheffette and see what happens!!!
@ Mortician…as interesting as the “experiment” is, the weather conditions in a temperate climate is obviously different from ours. The only way that a similar experiment with a burger from Chefette would be worth anything is if it were carried out under the same condition as the Mickey Dees experiment.
Other than that, it would be a waste of a good $10.00.
Why waste a good happy meal?
At those fast food joints, I wonder how must food is served each day and how much of it ends up the garbage?
Have you ever taken a dirty penny and dunked it in cola? Result. A shiny penny looking like it just came from the mint.
Visited NYC earlier this year.
Walked into both a McDonalds and a Burger King while there, in an attempt to use their restrooms somehow(desperation!)
As we opened the door, the smell hit us!
In that climate, so different to ours?,
it was like trying to inhale vaporized grease or something similarly vile.
To put it in a nutshell, we spent very little time in there
due to nothing but air quality issues.
i.e. our lungs were strenuously urging us to get the hell out of those two places.
Made us think, to say the least!!