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Joann Bruso, whose website is called BabyBites.com, left a Happy Meal (a product primarily eaten by children) out for one year...that's right a whole year. The horrifying results? She alleges that the food did not change at all.
"It sat on my shelf for a year as a silent witness to our fast-food industry. It never smelled bad. The food did not decompose," she wrote.
McDonald's issued the following statement: "No preservatives are added to the beef patties in McDonald's hamburgers." It went on to trumpet McDonald's commitment to sanitation and freshness.
It may be true that there are no preservatives in the meat, but what they shrewdly omitted is what goes into the buns, lettuce, cheese and sauces.
On the McDonald's website over a dozen ingredients are listed for a Big Mac bun including azodicarbonamide. (Maybe they should include that in the little ditty listing the ingredients: Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese and onions on an azodicarbonamide sesame-seed bun!) The cheese has something called calcium disodium EDTA, to protect its flavor, and the fries have sodium acid pyrophosphate. Even the pickle slices contain preservatives. After reading the Dr. Seuss-like list of ingredients one could hardly describe it as a paragon to freshness (it barely even resembles food).
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3-23-2010 @2:51PM gobo said... As was pointed out on BoingBoing.net when this story first appeared, once food like this is dry and out in the open, it won't spontaneously rot. It doesn't mean that McD's infuses all their food with some mysterious preservative that keeps it eternally fresh. It's just normal food science.
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3-24-2010 @9:47AM k said... If it's cheap and tastes good, I'll eat it. Anyway, I could use a little preservative to keep me going.
3-24-2010 @10:54AM jen said... The fact that McD's food doesn't rot is just normal food science? Oh really? Watch the video short that comes with "Supersize Me." He puts a REAL hamburger and fries in a jar alongside McDonald's. The first one gets moldy very quickly. The McDonald's "food" never does.
3-24-2010 @12:45PM Reality Check said... So, gobo, how many shares of McDonald's stock do you own? Or are you just a paid shill for them? At this point I think you have to have been living under a rock for the last 40 years to be surprised that McDonald's and other fast food chains produce CRAP THAT POISONS YOU. Yeah, you can eat it occasionally and survive, just like you can eat a stick of butter and a quart of whiskey and probably make it to the next day, but the effects of a constant diet of that crap are obvious. Look at a group of a dozen Americans, and you can immediately see who eats at fast food all the time. They are fat and sloth-like.
3-24-2010 @1:00PM gobo said... @realitycheck: None. I don't even eat at McDonalds... not a fan at all. And please note, I was quoting from someone else's comments on BoingBoing.net, where this story first appeared. Don't be a troll.
3-24-2010 @1:44PM joel said... I am aware of only a few food that dry out and most of the time do not rot , Ham {injected with aslt} salami {loaded with sulfates} and chinese smoked tea duck , any thimng else is loaded with preservative of some kind , assuming Mc Donald food is not loaded with preservative and flavor enhancer{ they do not disclose ,but keep highly secret } then get yourself a nice piece of chicken grind it , bread it and leave it on a shelf ,. do the same with chicken nugget , and again the same with burgers patty .......the only thing that do not rot are Egyptians mumies , for one single reason they are loaded with natural preservative .
3-24-2010 @6:30PM Janeen said... They forgot pickles. Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, PICKLES, onions on a sesame seed bun. How quickly we forget.
3-24-2010 @6:50PM dshowse45 said... The food never spoils, but the toy breaks immediately.
3-24-2010 @7:00PM candace G Frates said... McDonalds probably uses something to maintain freshness, but as far as lasting a year? I think not. If they didn't they would be sued forever for something not perfectly "fresh". They are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Paul Newmans items are superior however. Try them.
3-31-2010 @7:15PM Mark Vaughan said... The burger is so dry it is disgusting. Of course it won't rot. Notice they didn't put any condiments on it? Food needs to be wet to rot! You can read more about that here: http://bit.ly/cEOB1T
3-23-2010 @3:55PM vaca said... wait... ahm... "natural beef flavor" on their fries!? really? we're not getting enough cow as it is?
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3-24-2010 @3:34PM Great said... Yeah they add the flavor as wierdo vegatarians complained as they used oils that contained it originally. Why vegans are ordering food at McDonalds makes you wonder anyways
3-23-2010 @4:02PM Terence Leung said... This "experiment" really has no merit scientifically speaking. One needs to have a "control" meal (ie - of a hand made burger and fries) put through the same conditions and time to determine what caused the meat to preserve.
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3-23-2010 @5:16PM Matt said... "Even the pickle contains preservatives..."
Did Slashfood really say this? Of course they do, they're a preserved food! Let nothing get between Slashfood and bashing McDs.
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3-24-2010 @12:05PM Amy said... By preservatives I think they mean chemical additives. Real pickles are preserved with just vinegar and salt.
3-23-2010 @6:09PM Dan said... You could always just not eat it if you don't want it...but then you wouldn't have anything to write about, I guess.
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3-24-2010 @11:13AM Gregory T. said... Yes, you could not eat it. I suppose you could also say that we shouldn't care about all the people getting shot down on the streets. After all, you could just stay indoors. Then your ass would be safe...who cares about all the people who die.
3-24-2010 @11:42AM Kman said... Gregory your comparison is like comparing a cucumber to cigarette. They are both choices to have but...
3-25-2010 @1:47PM steve said... What Gregory T. says makes sense to me.
3-25-2010 @1:53PM Dan said... Yes, I always equate eating a hamburger and fries to shooting and killing someone. Makes perfect sense.