McDonalds impervious to decomposition

[brainhulk]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upsho...ppy-meal-resists-decomposition-for-six-months

Makes you wonder wtf they put in there

 

[AMDZen]

Again? Might as well post the comment again, prepare to LOL

 

[dank69]

What decade is this?

 

[AstroManLuca]

Preservatives. Lots and lots and lots of preservatives.

 

[DrPizza]

Cook french fries at home; same results. Make a hamburger as thin as theirs, so it's pretty low in total moisture & will dry out before molding, and again, same results. This isn't a phenomenon unique to McD's, although for some reason, it's been mentioned repeatedly in recent weeks, each time attributed solely to McD's food.

 

[nageov3t]

would any bread in a dry, clean enviornment fare much differently?

 

[Gibson486]

what do you expect? Fries are dry and the burger is full of salt and is cooked until it has no more juice.

 

[oddyager]

Cook french fries at home; same results. Make a hamburger as thin as theirs, so it's pretty low in total moisture & will dry out before molding, and again, same results. This isn't a phenomenon unique to McD's, although for some reason, it's been mentioned repeatedly in recent weeks, each time attributed solely to McD's food.

It's fun to knock on big corporations.

 

[masterxfob]

What decade is this?

super size me was made in 2004, but i think it was done before that as well.

 

[HumblePie]

Burger I can see. Fries I can see. The bun, not so much. Bread should mold after a week or two of being out in open air. Unless the lady is living in a desert with almost no moisture in the surrounding air, that should be plenty for mold to grow on the break and start breaking down the simpler sugar contained within.

 

[ShawnD1]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upsho...ppy-meal-resists-decomposition-for-six-months

Makes you wonder wtf they put in there

These results are actually quite typical. Have you ever left a dish of pasta out? It dries out and nothing ever grows on it. Food typically will not rot unless it's wet. The dish you leave under your couch will become impossible to clean, but it won't rot.

 

[Pardus]

Reminds me of the movie Supersize Me, at the end they put a bunch of food in jars to see how it looked. 10 weeks later, the mcdonalds french fries showed no sign of decay. Another reason not to eat at mcdonalds, ever.

Super Size Me Experiment 1st Part
Super Size Me Experiment 2nd Part

 

[dud]

So ...

If we eat a LOT of McDonald's ... do we get to live forever?


Why do people still eat this crap?

 

[nageov3t]

Reminds me of the movie Supersize Me, at the end they put a bunch of food in jars to see how it looked. 10 weeks later, the mcdonalds french fries showed no sign of decay. Another reason not to eat at mcdonalds, ever.

Super Size Me Experiment 1st Part
Super Size Me Experiment 2nd Part

there are plenty of good reasons not to eat at McDonald's.

that's not one of them.

 

[blamb425]

These so-called experiments are ridiculous. Granted, it's not the healthiest food in the world, but what do you expect when you stick food in a dry, clean environment (and in the case of the Super-Size Me experient, isolated in a jar)? I hope you guys don't expect the food to just sit there in your body after you chew it and swallow it the way it does in these "experiments."

 

[Wreckem]

Burger I can see. Fries I can see. The bun, not so much. Bread should mold after a week or two of being out in open air. Unless the lady is living in a desert with almost no moisture in the surrounding air, that should be plenty for mold to grow on the break and start breaking down the simpler sugar contained within.

Bread doesn't mold if it dries out before growing mold. A piece of bread left out in the open air will be as hard as a rock before it has a chance to grow mold.

 

[rh71]

Didn't you get the memo? Defending big corps is the in-thing now.

(good)

 

[0roo0roo]

Reminds me of the movie Supersize Me, at the end they put a bunch of food in jars to see how it looked. 10 weeks later, the mcdonalds french fries showed no sign of decay. Another reason not to eat at mcdonalds, ever.

Super Size Me Experiment 1st Part
Super Size Me Experiment 2nd Part

only shows some are bad at science and reason.
lots of surface area with salt + moisture driven out by frying= dried salted food.
no sh*t its preserved.

i'd be more impressed if these people ate their dried out mcdonalds food.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Didn't you get the memo? Defending big corps is the in-thing now.

(good)

When there's plenty of good reasons to hate on a company, it's annoying to watch retards pick the stuff that's completely defensible.

 

[0roo0roo]

When there's plenty of good reasons to hate on a company, it's annoying to watch retards pick the stuff that's completely defensible.

yup irrational thinking is not justified.

 

[yhelothar]

I've neglected a bowl of unfinished chinese food that consisted of rice and chopped beef for two weeks once. It looked quite similar to that mcdeez. Once it dries up, it preserves itself, and if you leave it out uncovered, it'll dry fast.

But then again, it's always fun to pick on fast food and you'll get lots of attention for it regardless of the fact that they never actually show you how fast food is different from non fast food.

 

[ShawnD1]

But then again, it's always fun to pick on fast food and you'll get lots of attention for it regardless of the fact that they never actually show you how fast food is different from non fast food.

Honestly, the only difference is that non-fast food is fresh. At McDonalds, we would make 3 trays of 1:10 meat and it would sit in the heating thing for a good 4 hours. Fresh McDonalds burgers are excellent. The 4 hour ones....not so much.

When you go to a fancier place and pay $10 for the same burger, it's expensive because it's fresh. It was frozen until you ordered it, and it was brought out immediately after cooking it.

 

[yhelothar]

Honestly, the only difference is that non-fast food is fresh. At McDonalds, we would make 3 trays of 1:10 meat and it would sit in the heating thing for a good 4 hours. Fresh McDonalds burgers are excellent. The 4 hour ones....not so much.

When you go to a fancier place and pay $10 for the same burger, it's expensive because it's fresh. It was frozen until you ordered it, and it was brought out immediately after cooking it.

Good point, and that's why it's called fast food. It wouldn't be fast if they had to make it fresh. But you could actually just ask them to make you a fresh one and they don't even mind. I asked my friend who's a manager at McD's about it. They actually assume you want the old one so you can be in and out of the drive thru.

That said, a lot of fast food places make it fresh all the time, like jack in the box.

 

[ElFenix]

how to make beef jerky:

salt the meat

let it dry (hard to do in humid environs)


this isn't a much different concept.

(doesn't work in houston)

 

[IcePickFreak]

So ...

If we eat a LOT of McDonald's ... do we get to live forever?


Why do people still eat this crap?

I had to laugh today when I was out during the lunch hour madness. There was a McD's coming up on my right and the line of cars wrapped around the lot and right to the entrance, and some jackass going the other way had turned left and stopped in the middle of traffic since the line was so long. He was so intent on getting his McD's he felt it was fine to block two lanes of traffic.