# 14 year old McDonalds burger found. Looks new. yuck! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691 "2013-04-25T19:29:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/21 "2013-04-26T01:07:20Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > He could have sold it for thousands of dollars but didn’t. That is the incomprehensible part to me. It’s garbage and he’s hanging on to it, because it’s amazing? :dubious: If he could manage to find an image of Jesus in the meat, he’d be golden. ---
**Author:** ![Meyer6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/22 "2013-04-26T01:31:47Z")
> [@randwill](#): > > How do we know how old that burger is? Because somebody said so? I think the bigger question is why would someone put a hamburger in their coat pocket? How big is this coat pocket anyway? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/23 "2013-04-26T01:48:26Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > He could have sold it for thousands of dollars but didn’t. That is the incomprehensible part to me. It’s garbage and he’s hanging on to it, because it’s amazing? :dubious: It’s _only_ 14 years old. Clearly that thing is only going to continue to appreciate. I myself have recently converted my IRA to desiccated meat. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/24 "2013-04-26T02:26:56Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > That’s what I’d like to know. > > Beef is cheap. Low quality beef is even cheaper. > > You’d think if they’re bothering to pump all sorts of chemicals into the food, they’d find a formulation that tastes like Wagyu beef instead of tasting exactly like generic, mass produced beef patties. That’s what’s so profoundly stupid about all the “Food/Drink X isn’t real food! It’s filled with chemicals and what-not”! bullshit. (where X = Budweiser, McDonald’s, or some other mass-market food). The very cheapest things on the planet are basic agricultural commodities like wheat, cheap beef, barley malt, water, etc… exactly the things that mass-market food that competes on price are made of. It’s like they don’t understand that ADDING additives to McDonald’s burgers or Budweiser beer would increase the cost, and is something that if they do at all, would be in tiny quantities with the probable purpose of making their food/beer entirely uniform from batch to batch/burger to burger, not because it’s somehow cheaper. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/25 "2013-04-26T02:36:59Z")
Just another example of McDonalds bashing. “Look at the way this old burger is untouched! That proves McDonalds food is bad for you!” Now imagine they had gotten the exact opposite results. “Look at the way this old burger rotted away! That proves McDonalds food is bad for you!” ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/26 "2013-04-26T02:45:22Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > it’s like you just ignored the posts by **mozchron** and **Great Antibob.** Drying is an old, _old_ method of food preservation. Do you get all bent out of shape about how long beef jerky lasts? Nope. I was stating what I think is the point of the news story, flawed though it is. I also don’t think Coca Cola makes pennies dissolve nor that police use it to get blood off streets. I’m not bent out of shape. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/27 "2013-04-26T03:32:06Z")
The bun not molding is what freaked me out. I’ve never seen bread that didn’t mold within a week or two. Depending on the weather. It’ll mold in four or five days in a hot unairconditioned house in July. Air conditioning helps a lot and you can go over a week on the countertop. But even then I start checking my bread for mold before making a sandwich. I don’t like discovering the mold when I’m half done with the sandwich. It must of been the really dry desert air that saved that burger bun from molding. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/28 "2013-04-26T05:28:58Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > The bun not molding is what freaked me out. I’ve never seen bread that didn’t mold within a week or two. Utah is really dry but not being in a relatively air/water-tight enclosed space helped. That same McDonald’s burger put in a a sandwich bag would probably mold pretty quickly. In an air-conditioned home, a standard slice of Wonder bread (or local equivalent) might not mold if taken out of the bag and left out on the counter. Or even not in air conditioning if left out in the sun. It’ll dry out fast enough. I’ve seen and/or deliberately attempted both. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/29 "2013-04-26T06:08:59Z")
The real question is how much money would someone have to pay you to eat it. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/30 "2013-04-26T06:34:39Z")
There’s nothing wrong with preservatives. Preserving food so that it’s edible for longer periods mean you can enjoy out-of-season foods and exotic foodstuffs from foreign locales, as well as comfortably and cheaply feed the world. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/31 "2013-04-26T23:32:41Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Do all fast food places freeze their meat? I thought some advertised that their meat was never frozen. I think Wendy’s is the one that claim their meat is never frozen. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/32 "2013-04-27T00:04:56Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > I think Wendy’s is the one that claim their meat is never frozen. I think - and don’t quote me on this - that In-n-Out Burger\* don’t freeze their meat. I vaguely recall it being one of the reasons they’re not all over the US. \*Insert obligatory _Big Lebowski_ reference here ---
**Author:** ![BrianJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/54ee81/32.png) [@BrianJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrianJ)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/33 "2013-04-28T12:59:18Z")
> [@bump](#): > > That’s what’s so profoundly stupid about all the “Food/Drink X isn’t real food! It’s filled with chemicals and what-not”! bullshit. (where X = Budweiser, McDonald’s, or some other mass-market food). > > The very cheapest things on the planet are basic agricultural commodities like wheat, cheap beef, barley malt, water, etc… exactly the things that mass-market food that competes on price are made of. > > It’s like they don’t understand that ADDING additives to McDonald’s burgers or Budweiser beer would increase the cost, and is something that if they do at all, would be in tiny quantities with the probable purpose of making their food/beer entirely uniform from batch to batch/burger to burger, not because it’s somehow cheaper. A cioworker of mine tried to convince me KFC chicken was all chemicals, no actual chicken. I don’t know how that would even be possible. So all the bone, cartilage and meat was made from different chemicals made to look like real bone, tendon and meat? Suuurrree.. He said the same thing about DQ ice cream ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/34 "2013-04-28T13:44:25Z")
One day, I stuck a dinner roll in my coat pocket at lunch in middle school. I then hung that jacket up for a few years. Well for some reason I decided to wear it again and reached in and felt something REALLY hard in the pocket. Thought it was a rock. Pulled it out, and there was the roll, solidified completely. It was almost impossible to chip. WHAT WAS THE SCHOOL FEEDING US??? 😉 😉 😉 Also, why doesn’t my 401k have a fund dedicated to desiccated meats??? ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/35 "2013-04-28T14:50:02Z")
The patty being fine doesn’t surprise me, it’s basically jerky at this point. A bit surprised the bun didn’t become a pile of mold though. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/36 "2013-04-28T16:50:08Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > The bun not molding is what freaked me out. I’ve never seen bread that didn’t mold within a week or two. Depending on the weather. It’ll mold in four or five days in a hot unairconditioned house in July. Air conditioning helps a lot and you can go over a week on the countertop. But even then I start checking my bread for mold before making a sandwich. I don’t like discovering the mold when I’m half done with the sandwich. > > It must of been the really dry desert air that saved that burger bun from molding. yes. most people I’ve encountered keep bread in a plastic bag; usually the one it came with (for store-bought bread.) Plastic bags hold in moisture, ergo bread stored in them go moldy relatively fast. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/37 "2013-04-28T17:01:11Z")
> [@BrianJ](#): > > A cioworker of mine tried to convince me KFC chicken was all chemicals, no actual chicken. I don’t know how that would even be possible. So all the bone, cartilage and meat was made from different chemicals made to look like real bone, tendon and meat? Suuurrree.. > > He said the same thing about DQ ice cream It’s funny how people come up with these things, like it’s so hard to produce chickens. All you need are some initial chickens, some roosters, and they make themselves! ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/38 "2013-04-28T17:52:51Z")
Modern agribusiness has turned chicken farming into a highly efficient mechanism for turning fossil fuels into chicken nuggets. There is still a step in the middle involving an actual chickens though. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/39 "2013-04-28T18:30:50Z")
> [@BrianJ](#): > > A cioworker of mine tried to convince me KFC chicken was all chemicals, no actual chicken. I don’t know how that would even be possible. So all the bone, cartilage and meat was made from different chemicals made to look like real bone, tendon and meat? Suuurrree.. > > He said the same thing about DQ ice cream Where on earth does DQ ice cream bone, cartilage, and meat?! ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691/40 "2013-04-28T18:56:29Z")
Maybe us posters here on the SDMB should perform an experiment? Buy a dollar value burger and just put it someplace. Report the results. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-mcdonalds-burger-found-looks-new-yuck/656691.md?page=3)