Iceland's Last McDonald's Burger That Won't Rot, Even After 10 Years

[jpak]

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/icelands-last-mcdonalds-burger-that-wont-rot-even-after-10-years-2126456

One of Northern Europe's arguably most distinctive exports is "slow TV": real-time recordings of train journeys, ferry crossings or the migration of reindeer, which regularly draw record audiences.
Among perhaps the most successful - and least exciting - examples of that genre is the live stream of a McDonald's cheeseburger with fries. At its peak, it drew 2 million viewers a month. The only element on the screen that moves, however, is the time display.

The burger looks the same way, hour after hour.

As of this week, it has looked like that for 10 years.

Purchased hours before the corporation pulled out of the country in 2009, in the wake of Iceland's devastating financial crisis, the last surviving McDonald's burger has become much more than a burger. To some, it stands for the greed and excessive capitalism that "created an economic collapse that was so bad that even McDonald's had to close down," said Hjortur Smarason, 43, who purchased the fateful burger in 2009. To others, the eerily fresh look of the 10-year-old meal has served as a warning against the excessive consumption of fast food.

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. It also points out the hypocrisy that McDonalds and all of these mega Corporations stand for...

when things get tough in a community, guess what? These companies are going to fold up shop, lay off or fire all of their employees, and go running away. Nice, isn't it! Just remember this when you have a McDonald's franchisee trying to open a shop near you in the future, that if times get tough, McDonald's is going to run away.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

2. It's dry. Rot requires moisture. nt

[Major Nikon]

3. You could make the same thing in your home kitchen

Placed in the same environment the results would be the same.

https://aht.seriouseats.com/2010/11/the-burger-lab-revisiting-the-myth-of-the-12-year-old-burger-testing-results.html

[Dr Hobbitstein]

5. Indeed.

Yet, this regularly comes up as if it’s unique to fast food.

[ailsagirl]

4. That's comforting