Wednesday, October 13, 2010

This Is Why You Shouldn't Eat Happy Meals.....or McDonald's in General.

Stolen from Gizmodo.com (Go to the link to watch the creepy video):


http://gizmodo.com/5662271/watch-six-months-of-a-happy-meals-eternal-life?skyline=true&s=i

"Sally Davies bought a McDonald's Happy Meal on April 26, 2010. She placed it on her coffee table, uncovered, and took photos every day for six months. This video shows the results, which are quite scary.

180 days—and she says there were no worms, mold, smell, or visible decomposition of any kind.

Perhaps you have seen similar things before, but the fact that anyone can repeat this simple experiment, the fact that a burger and fries can survive through six months—including New York's fierce summer—is just scary and gross. Even more so than knowing how chicken nuggets are made and sterilized. Sally talked about his experiment to Good Morning America.

What I want to know now is what kind of technology does McDonald's use to create these things. Is a Happy Meal scientifically considered inert matter? Is it made of carbon-based polymers? Can it be recycled into jet fuel? They taste marginally better than asbestos, so it must be okay to use them to build houses.

I have no answers for you, but I hope there's a lesson in this for all of you, dear parents, would-be-parents, and I-don't-want-kids-but-I-like-Happy-Meals-anyway people out there. [Flickr]

This just goes to show how gross McDonald's really is. If their food can't mold after sitting out for SIX MONTHS, how can we trust that their food is good for us? It's so unnatural!!

I mean, this could be taken as a good OR a bad thing. It's bad because hello, it's freaking creepy and nasty....but it's good because this means food will never spoil!!! McDonald's must have discovered a super magical new form of preservatives that allows food to last FOREVER!!

Wait until terrorists get a hold of this stuff, they will be unstoppable. -___________- Yeahhh, I tried rooting for them, but I failed. That's just gross. Period!

2 comments:

  1. i have a similar opinion, no fast food for me.
    everybody should see not only "Super Size Me" but "Food, Inc" too.

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  2. yes! both very important, eye-opening, and equally awesome films!

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