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McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’
(www.theguardian.com)
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IDK, I remember seeing a post a few years back of someone who left a McDonalds cheeseburger and fries out to see how long it would take to spoil. IIRC the damn things went on close to a decade without a single bit of decomposition. While that may not be directly poison per se, that amount of preservatives and chemicals can't be good for the human body.
There's a lot of food that won't rot if left out to dry.
Not that McDonald's is any good, just that that particular experiment was flawed because there was no control showing that other food left out in similar circumstances would have decomposed more (and even then, decent burger patties make McDonald's' look like jokes; "thick and juicy" is more likely to decompose than thin and whatever you'd call the moisture level in a McDonald's burger).
Food lasts way longer than what one would expect. I got a bunch of eggs in the fridge from CostCo from about a year ago. They still taste alright, much to my surprise.
Yeah, it's all about a) whether microbes can get to it, b) whether microbes can survive on it, and c) whether microbes can thrive on it. If the answer to any of those is no, then it won't decompose.
If it just relies on a, then opening it starts its countdown.
If it just relies on b, then it won't rot but the preservatives might be an issue for us, too. Though it could rot eventually if circumstances change (like it gets soaked with clean water or if the preservatives break down over time).
If it just relies on c, then it might just be waiting for some moisture for an existing colony to take off, but it'll just sit until then.
Eggs are a and maybe a bit of b mixed in. You don't even need to refridgerate eggs if they weren't washed like they do for commercially available ones (at least in north america, dunno about elsewhere). Not that unwashed eggs are necessarily better, as they can have bacteria on the outside of the shell from things like chicken shit.
Once I understood the role moisture plays, I stopped using a lid on my garbage so that it would dry out and stink less. It works unless I'm thowing out a bunch of fish guts or something that stores/traps moisture well, and even then, the stink isn't as bad.
It's not 'chemicals", it's grease. The frying process removes almost all the water in a McDonald's burger.
That doesn't explain the untarnished bun.
Bread doesn't rot, it molds. Whether mold can grow depends on the conditions it's kept in. The ingredients are availble to the public, the only preservative in the bun is calcium propionate which you'll find in just about any other baked good on store shelves.
I bought a twin pack of Nutella from Costco. The unopened one developed mold after awhile, but the opened jar in the fridge was just fine. If anything, I was expecting at least the reverse.
I never mentioned rot, I don't think so anyway. Any bread I've ever had doesn't look the same after 5 days.