Macdonalds Lovers...Read this!

[MarrickG]

Fast food resists rotting for six months?

What are they putting into food these days?

More specifically, what are they putting into fast food?

This is the foremost question in one's mind after reading about one woman's recent experiment with a McDonald's Happy Meal.

Sally Davies, an artist and photographer based in New York, bought a Happy Meal and left it out in the open air for two months, while taking photos of it every week to chart its 'progress'. According to reports, the Happy Meal did not decompose, but merely turned rock hard.

McDonalds reportedly issued a statement in response to defend the quality of its food, describing Ms Davies' "Happy Meal Project" as "the realm of urban legends".

A netizen in China conducted a similar experiment, in which the burger started to become mouldy after a week. However, the French fries held up amazingly well, turning completely rock hard and apparently able to withstand the weight of a 2.5kg dumbbell.

So, is the "Happy Meal Project" a hoax, a stunt, or one of those strange-but-true phenomenon? Does the humidity level in New York account for the supposed failure of the Happy Meal to decompose? Can French fries really become as rock solid as the Chinese netizen's experiment suggests?


AsiaOne Health and SoShiok.com invites their readers to conduct similar experiments using fast food (from any chain) and to photograph its decomposition (or lack thereof) over a period of one week. We are looking specifically at two types of food - French fries and hamburgers - that were used in the reported experiment by Ms Davies.

Send your photo logs (one photo a day for seven days), complete with descriptions of how you handled the food and what conditions you left them in, to [email protected] and [email protected]. How will fast food in Singapore hold up? We await your entries.

 

[shOUTloud]

SPH damn lazy. They can do this themselves. Ask others to do it and send the result to them. How fuck up is that?

 

[Ramseth]

This experiment is faulty because it lacks a comparative standard. Such an experiment should be conducted with two similar sets of food, one from the fast food restaurant and one by cooking oneself or from a supposedly classier and healthier restaurant. Then subject both sets of food to the same experiment conditions simultaneously. Then compare the results of both sets at the end of the experiment. For academic interests or trivial pursuits, well go ahead. But in practical terms, there's not need. I think all baked bread, cooked beef and fried potato are inedible after 30 days in open air, whether rotten or hardened.

 

[silverfox@]

The humidity level in Singapore will rot the food. Unless the patties and bread are all placed in the oven to oven dry beforehand.

 

[singveld]

too much ants in singapore to do this experiment.

once in a while, i have craving for quarter pounder and milk shake in macdonald.

even if it might kill me, i want to eat it.

 

[wikiphile]

too much ants in singapore to do this experiment.

once in a while, i have craving for quarter pounder and milk shake in macdonald.

even if it might kill me, i want to eat it.

Whats bad for you tastes good,

whats good for you tastes bad.

I don't expect to live forever, so i'll still have my burgers anytime i want it

 

[Ilovelamb]

it makes me want to eat Mac Donald's double quarter ponder with cheese now:o

 

[guy-uninterrupted]

just had a double quarter pounder w cheese..damn thing tastes like wood.