Ahh, the ageless "Happy Meal"...

Just when you figured there wasn’t anything worse you could hear about a "Mikey D’s Happy Meal"…

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.

Goto:

McDonald’s Happy Meal resists decomposition for six months | The Upshot Yahoo! News - Yahoo! News

There is a sort of "disclaimer" in the final paragraph:

According to Dr. Michael Doyle, Director, Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia, 'From a scientific perspective, I can safely say that the way McDonald's hamburgers are freshly processed, no hamburger would look like this after one year unless it was tampered with or held frozen.'"

 

I bet Mac D's are happy that now there will be thousands of people trying this, so they will sell more

 

I call super BS on this. I have a better experiment. You need a few things though.
Get a 5 year old. Put him in his booster. Add a Happy Meal. Leave the vehicle. If you don't find rotten burger and moldy bread the next time you clean out your vehicle, I will believe this. What's next is somebody will get a $475,000 grant to study this.

 

Ahh, but that experiment includes the pathogens of a 5 year old's hair, lips, tongue, and fingers to be included in the equation. Clearly contaminating the "field".

Just having some fun here guys, don't get weird about this.

 

Maybe she should try the same with Lenin? From what I have read, Lenin has an arsenal of "caretakers" who work on a daily basis to preserve his body (appetizing, isn't it? ). I don't think that is quite the same as leaving an happy meal on the kitchen table.

Interesting none-the-less.

 

Agree with you on the 5-year old thing, having had a few of them myself (5-year olds, that is); I think I still have a 2-year old Happy Meal under the back seat of our minivan, just haven't found it yet.

 

there is some some truth to that. i once had McDonalds fries in my car and one dropped between the seat.. Months later when i washed the inside of my car, i found the lost french fry. It still looked the very way as it was when I dropped it months before. Only difference was that it was hard.


Now I can't confirm how a hamburger would look like in the car after a few months... that would be gross and smelly.

 

I dunno Clint, it's been a few years since I fired back a Happy Meal; but, I will tell you this: I have exactly 45 minutes to find porcelain after I eat a sausage McMuffin w/ egg , Hashbrown and Coffee. I can't imagine a Happy Meal lasing in the lower GI tract longer, provided you don't eat the toy.

I am just sayin'

 

yea well provided if it don't shoot out of your gut like fire hose... A bigMac can stay with you for a long time... it will stick to your ass-ets and stay stuck!

 

I felt the same way as you until I did a bit more snooping. There is a teacher somewhere who carries around a big mac that is 8 years old. Of course, it was ordered without vegetables and sauce. The meat and the bun look exactly the same as the day they were ordered.
Now, my question is this. Why is there a need to put such strong preservatives in this if MacDonalds manufacturing to supply to consumption line is a matter of a few weeks at most?

It's disgusting and it's evil.

 

I don't need to do any more snooping. Because every time I try to order a Happy Meal now, unless I have the kids (and let's be honest they just whine because I didn't order them anything) I get weird looks.

 

LOL ... you just gotta have the toys huh?

 

Who sez Americans don't build things to last anymore!

 

I have an aunt who was super into the beanie baby craze...she once bought 20 happy meals just for the toys. She gave the food to random people coming into the store. It was creepy.

 

Just to keep on McD's for a moment. Dont' fall in love with the idea of Chicken McNuggets. They are about 48% chicken meat.

Want to see what a "Chicken McNugget" looks like before it is, ammonia washed, injected with chicken stock to regain "chicken flavor", reformed with soy and corn filler, breaded and deep fried? See attachment.

Now, this pink glop is what is called "mechanically separated", and contrary to other sites which claim the entire bird, sans feathers is forced through the machine, it is not. No innards, no heads, no feet, no eyes, no large bones are allowed.

Defined: " Mechanically Separated (Species) is any finely comminuted product resulting from the mechanical separation and removal of most of the bone from attached skeletal muscle of livestock carcasses and parts of carcasses and meeting the other provisions of this paragraph. Examples of such product are Mechanically Separated Beef, Mechanically Separated Veal, Mechanically Separated Pork, Mechanically Separated Chicken, and Mechanically Separated Lamb. At least 98 percent of the bone particles present in such product shall have a maximum size no greater than 0.5 millimeter in their greatest dimension and there shall be no bone particles larger than 0.85 millimeter in their greatest dimension."

That comes from 9 CFR 319.5. (some separated meats are allowed to contain up to 30% fats).

 

Chickens don't have nuggets. I have always said the the toy was the best thing in the meal you could eat.

Is there something wrong with fying your own chicken scraps and keepng them in the freezer to nuke at your convienience?

I guess I am being a "home made" snob; but, I love the smell of my house when I fry chicken.

 

From what I'm hearing here, you could put a happy meal in a museum and it won't get stolen or get moldy. Since it lasts a long time, whoever steals it for their lunch will break their teeth when they take a bite. Anyways, these long-lasting happy meals prove why I'm a little on the wide side and, unless you have a major case of the runs, will keep coming back to haunt you

 

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