Before there was Supersize Me, before Eric Schlosser penned Fast Food Nation, Matt Malmgren was busy acquiring Big Macs for his Burger Museum. According to a video that has spread like wildfire throughout the blogosphere, Malmgren purchased two McDonald's hamburgers on Jan. 1, 1989. He ate one and placed the other in his jacket pocket and forgot about it. A year later the video tells us in large red text "It looked and smelled EXACTLY the same!"Since nobody believed him, gasp, he proceeded to amass more burgers and now has the world's largest, and probably the only, collection of
Immortal Big Macs, double cheeseburgers and hamburgers. As an ominous soundtrack plays, the video lists the "secret ingredients" that make such immortality possible. Among them are 1,1,1-trichloroethane, chloroform, ethyl benzene, styrene and toluene. In the interest of full disclosure, it also notes that the ingredients were taken from the FDA's report on pesticide residues in fast food. The Web site that hosts the video even has directions on how to make your own Immortal Hamburger. It bears pointing out the Web site, Best Day Ever, is a promotional vehicle for a raw foods guru. [via Neatorama]
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6-16-2007 @ 1:18AM
KevinL said...
Funnily enough, there was a story on "Eternal Cheeseburgers" screened here in NZ a couple of weeks ago - one woman had a burger that was almost 21 years old.
Skip to 3:20 for the geriatric cheeseburger:
http://www.tv3.co.nz/VideoBrowseAll/CampbellLive/tabid/367/articleID/27647/Default.aspx#video
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6-16-2007 @ 2:06PM
Tim said...
Why are we acting like this is a bug and not a feature? If it makes the burger live forever, why wouldn't it make humans live forever? ;)
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8-14-2007 @ 2:49AM
harker wade said...
What about In 'n Out burgers? Are they made with the same toxic preseratives?
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