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Tue Oct-12-10 06:42 PM
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McDonald's Happy Meal resists decomposition for six months |
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Vladimir Lenin, King Tut and the McDonald's Happy Meal: What do they all have in common? A shocking resistance to Mother Nature's cycle of decomposition and biodegradability, apparently.
That's the disturbing point brought home by the latest project of New York City-based artist and photographer Sally Davies, who bought a McDonald's Happy Meal back in April and left it out in her kitchen to see how well it would hold up over time.
The results? "The only change that I can see is that it has become hard as a rock," Davies told the U.K. Daily Mail.
She proceeded to photograph the Happy Meal each week and posted the pictures to Flickr to record the results of her experiment. Now, just over six months later, the Happy Meal has yet to even grow mold. She told the Daily Mail that "the food is plastic to the touch and has an acrylic sheen to it."http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101012/bs_yblog_upshot/mcdonalds-happy-meal-resists-decomposition-for-six-months
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Tue Oct-12-10 06:43 PM
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1. It's probably healthier now than it was when it was "fresh". |
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Tue Oct-12-10 06:53 PM
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7. it'd probably cure what ails |
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Repubs ... at least, what makes them burn when they pee ...
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Tue Oct-12-10 06:45 PM
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If not, what's the point?
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Tue Oct-12-10 06:46 PM
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4. This reinforces what Morgan Spurlock observed about those burgers |
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Which means I may not be getting any sausage burritos from them for a long time.
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Tue Oct-12-10 06:46 PM
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The toys start breaking down far earlier than that. :P
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Tue Oct-12-10 06:51 PM
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5. This same thing was done for the movie Super Size Me. |
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One of the extras on the CD was an experiment with french fries, comparing fresh fries with McD's fries. Frightening. I have no idea how it is possible that the McD's food did not grow anything on it.
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Tue Oct-12-10 06:52 PM
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6. That means if I eat a Happy Meal every six months I'll live forever, right? |
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Or do I have to only eat Happy Meals to avoid decay? :shrug:
:)
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Tue Oct-12-10 06:54 PM
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9. you'd probably die ... |
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but your corpse would look fabulous ...
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Tue Oct-12-10 07:07 PM
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12. A fabulous corpse? sounds good! Will it still work even if I don't |
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look fabulous now? Or will the Happy Meals cause me to look fabulous even before I croak? :)
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Tue Oct-12-10 07:22 PM
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19. relatively speaking ... |
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for a corpse, you'd look fabulous ... for a living being, not so good ...
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Tue Oct-12-10 06:55 PM
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10. That's looking at the sunny side. From here, I know they won't have to embalm me. |
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Then, I'll probably be used as an onboard companion driving in the car-pool only lanes.
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Tue Oct-12-10 07:09 PM
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13. I think you've hit on the fully-integrated McDonald's business model: |
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a McDonald's, next to a McFuneral Home, next to a store selling McCarpool Companions... :)
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Tue Oct-12-10 06:54 PM
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8. Omnomnomnom... dry-aged beef... omnomnomnom! n/t |
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Tue Oct-12-10 06:56 PM
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11. I guess food doesn't rot when it was never food to begin with. |
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Tue Oct-12-10 07:11 PM
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14. Well, at least you don't have to worry about how those teenagers... |
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Handle your food. Ew... just grossed myself out!
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Tue Oct-12-10 07:13 PM
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15. it's a lot more that just fast food. i once found a thomas english muffin in the back of the |
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cupboard, it had been there for over 6 months.
if was still soft to the touch, and had no mold. i didn't eat it ,but i could have gave it to someone and they probably wouldn't have known...
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Tue Oct-12-10 07:16 PM
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Tue Oct-12-10 07:18 PM
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17. I wonder how long it takes |
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for the stomach to digest it. :puke:
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Tue Oct-12-10 10:20 PM
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22. Self delete: Wrong place. n/t |
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Edited on Tue Oct-12-10 10:22 PM by laconicsax
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Tue Oct-12-10 07:22 PM
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18. After looking at those pics, I am not so sure about the story. |
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Tue Oct-12-10 07:49 PM
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20. This post from March shows a HappyMeal a year old, so it |
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Tue Oct-12-10 07:58 PM
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21. I'm pretty sure this is a hoax. Come on, the source is the fucking DAILY MAIL! |
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Kind of like that McD cheeseburger that supposedly had not composed after 5 years. Bullshit. :eyes:
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