Mar 18, 2010

No McDecomposition

Have you ever wondered what a McDonald's Happy Meal looks like after it's sat on a shelf (not in a freezer) for a year? This seems like one of those things I would learn accidentally, but writer Nonna Joann Bruso decided to find out on purpose.

The results? Not as disgusting as you might think, which itself is sort of disgusting.

She wrote:

“It smelled delicious for a few days. I’d get a whiff of those yummy French fries every time I walked into my office. After a week or so, you could hardly smell it. My husband worried that when the food began to decompose, there would be a terrible odor in our home. He also worried the food would attract ants and mice. He questioned my sanity.

NOPE, no worries at all. My Happy Meal is one year old today and it looks pretty good. It NEVER smelled bad. The food did NOT decompose. It did NOT get moldy, at all.”

The pitiful, slightly pained expression on the Littlest Pet Shop dog included with the meal says it all.

Happy Birthday to My Happy Meal [Baby Bites] (Thanks, Michelle!) Via Consumerist.

2 comments:

Britney Spear's Speculum said...

This says a lot about the nutritional value and additives in the food.

Glip-hoppa said...

nside each hamburger you can find meat from over 1000 cows
Plus a delicious blend of:
1,1,1,trichloroethane
1,2,4,trimethylbenzene
BHC,alpha
chloroform
chlorotoluene, o-
chlorpyrifos
DDE, p,p
DDT, p,p
Dichlorobenzene, p-
Dieldrin
Dyphnyl 2-ethylhexyl phosphate
Ethyl benzene
Heptachfor epoxide
Lindane
Octachlor epoxide
Styrene
Tetrachlorethylene
Toluene
Trichlorethylene
Xylene, m- and or p-
Xylene, o-
Chlorpyrifos
Chlorpyrifos Methyl
Cumene
Diazinon
Dicamba
Ethyl bezene
Ethylenelhiourea
Iprodione
Malathion
Primiphos-methyl
Propylbenzene
Trichloroehylene

the source for this cocktail
comes from the FDA offical report on pesticides in USA fastfood.