Sunday, August 15, 2010

The McDonald's Hamburger Experiment (Update 1)

OK...so the whole weekly update thing isn't really viable. It seems as though the work fates are aware anytime I intend to embark on a personal project and seek to intervene by keeping me at work until stupid o'clock in the damn morning. (02:00 this (damn) morning)

So here we are at almost the 2 month mark:


Not only have we lost weight, 4 grams at least, but it appears we have a guest organism!

Now I'm tempted to defend myself from the naysayers who would infer that I've "infected" this burger with mold somehow. But screw them! I haven't had enough time to take this frackin' photo and annotate it properly, much lees keep a culture of mold on-hand eagerly awaiting a new host.

Hell, I haven't even taken the time to regularly open it's airtight container!

Just as a refresher the other lady claimed she kept a hamburger in a non-airtight container and used it as a prop for her dissertation on nutrition.

I call bullshit. Which I, obviously, suspected when I undertook this little adventure anyway. There are just some things you can't do. Leaving a piece of bread exposed( even intermittently) without it getting moldy is one of those things. I don't care how many damn preservatives you inject it with.

As for the other two burgers:
The one that has remained sealed has lost weight, but I can see no signs of mold on it.

The one in the fridge, especially since I never unwrapped it, looks identical. :)

I'll attempt to get more frequent updates up...but paying bills has top priority folks.

2 comments:

  1. I suggest you find some poor unsuspecting soul to eat one of the non-moldy ones as a taste test.

    Or... you know... to see if he dies.

    -sc

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  2. Even with all the malnutrition that is McDs I knew there was no way for a hamburger to last that long without issue. As you said bread cannot stay, for any real length of time, exposed to air without getting mold. Unless it is pertified!

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