Become the owner of your very own immortal hamburger

[Richter]

Some foods don't spoil naturally, like honey, IIRC.

[Freeky]

Some foods don't spoil naturally, like honey, IIRC.

Honey doesn't spoil, but it doesn't stay liquidy forever, either.

[Richter]

I'm certain those hamburgers ain't exactly poppin fresh either.

[Kai]

I'm certain those hamburgers ain't exactly poppin fresh either.

No, but they aren't undergoing normal decomposition that meat and bread does under exposed conditions. This would suggest that they are either A) not composed of edible biological materials (such as those fungi and bacteria would make short work of) or B) pumped so full of preservatives that they cannot physically degrade.

Either way is disgusting.

Lets put it this way. When you leave meat on a counter for several days, raw or cooked, it is going to sour. It's going to attract flies, it's going to smell bad, it will not look like how it started. When you leave bread on the counter, it goes stale, it molds, it gets ugly looking.

Meat and bread that don't do these things are horror, in Roger's sense of the word. They are completely unnatural and creeptacular.

[Kai]

Some foods don't spoil naturally, like honey, IIRC.

Honey doesn't spoil, but it doesn't stay liquidy forever, either.

It crystallizes, but you can reverse that with a bit of microwaving.

Honey is the only food substance that I would be not creeped out to find it didn't decompose. It has sugar concentrations so high that it kills bacteria by sucking the water out, and keeps all fungi from maturing. In that sense, as long as it's moisture content is low, it can literally last forever.

[Rumckle]

Bump for this:

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/10/the-burger-lab-the-myth-of-the-12-year-old-mcdonalds-hamburger.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seriouseatsfeaturesvideos+%28Serious+Eats%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Does no one remember santa cupcake? 

There are enough preservatives in most of the shit we eat fast food or not I seriously doubt our bodies need to be embalmed when we die.

[Rumckle]

 
I thought it was pixie dust and magic that preserved the Santa Cupcake.

[Cainad (dec.)]

I never liked the burgers anyway. I preferred the chicken nuggets, though when I found bits of stuff (garbage stuff) in one order, I rather lost my taste for them.

I lost my taste for chicken nuggets when I learned it was made out of this stuff:



Now, the fact that it's mechanically separated chicken is one thing, but the fact that this pink goo has to be soaked in ammonia to sanitize it and then artificially reflavored just makes the whole thing seem... pointless. Pointless and disgusting.

from: http://www.businessinsider.com/chicken-nuggets-are-made-of-this-pink-goop-2010-10

[Cain]

Bump for this:

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/10/the-burger-lab-the-myth-of-the-12-year-old-mcdonalds-hamburger.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seriouseatsfeaturesvideos+%28Serious+Eats%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

That's good, I'd like to see the result of a more rigorous test of this.

[Cuddlefish]

I am in awe... And jealous...

Liam wins thread.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's really probably not preservatives that make the Big Macs mummify, it's the high salt and low moisture content. If you got it wet and put it in a plastic bag so it couldn't dry out, it would rot normally.

[Rumckle]

Bump for this:

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/10/the-burger-lab-the-myth-of-the-12-year-old-mcdonalds-hamburger.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seriouseatsfeaturesvideos+%28Serious+Eats%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

For people still interested, the results:

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


SCIENCE!

[Don Coyote]

look for him on ebay in 2020 labeled 'Perfectly perserved Big Mac circa 2010' starting bid 10$

OMFG

LIAM FUCKING WINS

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Some foods don't spoil naturally, like honey, IIRC.

Honey doesn't spoil, but it doesn't stay liquidy forever, either.

It crystallizes, but you can reverse that with a bit of microwaving.

Honey is the only food substance that I would be not creeped out to find it didn't decompose. It has sugar concentrations so high that it kills bacteria by sucking the water out, and keeps all fungi from maturing. In that sense, as long as it's moisture content is low, it can literally last forever.

Yeah, I think they've found honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible, which I thought was kinda cool.

I never liked the burgers anyway. I preferred the chicken nuggets, though when I found bits of stuff (garbage stuff) in one order, I rather lost my taste for them.

I lost my taste for chicken nuggets when I learned it was made out of this stuff:



Now, the fact that it's mechanically separated chicken is one thing, but the fact that this pink goo has to be soaked in ammonia to sanitize it and then artificially reflavored just makes the whole thing seem... pointless. Pointless and disgusting.

from: http://www.businessinsider.com/chicken-nuggets-are-made-of-this-pink-goop-2010-10

Good Lord, why did I come back into this thread?

Blight,
-Actually feeling queasy at Cainad's whole thing here.