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Whovian

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2. See link
Mon Oct 1, 2012, 02:26 PM
Oct 2012
http://www.bihartimes.in/Maneka/Real_foods_spoil_very_quicklY,_fast_foods_not.html

What do Egyptian mummies and Mcdonald’s Happy Meals have in common? Both refuse to decompose, judging by an experiment by New York artist Sally Davies who, in April 2010, bought a McDonald’s Happy Meal (MHM) and has since left it in her kitchen. Week after week she has taken and put pictures of the MHM on the net. Over six months later, the MHM has yet to even grow mouldy! ‘The only change that I can see,’ she records, ‘ is that it has become hard as a rock, plastic to the touch and has an acrylic feel’.

The media are startled at the results. Yet the health industry has known for years that junk food from fast food chains doesn’t decompose. Len Foley’s ‘Bionic Burger’ features a Big Mac bought in 1989 that has not decomposed over two decades. The buyer has a museum of undecomposed burgers in his basement. (http//
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Joan Bruso, author of ‘Baby Bites-- Transforming a Picky Eater into a Healthy Eater’, has been blogging the life of a MHM that she bought a year ago, " My Happy Meal is one year old today and it looks pretty good. It NEVER smelled bad. It did NOT decompose. It did NOT get mouldy. This morning, I took its birthday photo".

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A nice McD's graphic from FB [View all] Whovian Oct 2012 OP
How is it not biodegradable MattBaggins Oct 2012 #1
See link Whovian Oct 2012 #2
You could do that with all sorts of foods MattBaggins Oct 2012 #10
I second that ^ Confusious Oct 2012 #3
How's about a touch of malathion in your burger? Whovian Oct 2012 #4
Well, after looking up the reasons Confusious Oct 2012 #5
I'll halfway disagree. Whovian Oct 2012 #7
If you had read down below, it does mold Confusious Oct 2012 #9
That's just plain bad science tkmorris Oct 2012 #6
Thanks for the link tammywammy Oct 2012 #12
Window cleaning chemical injected into fast food hamburger meat Whovian Oct 2012 #8
Boogey man with "used in cleaning products" MattBaggins Oct 2012 #11
Amonia. Tasty, heh? Whovian Oct 2012 #13
I like the taste of a well ripened brie cheese MattBaggins Oct 2012 #14
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