14-year-old burger: McDonald’s said Wednesday that a 14-year-old burger that showed no signs of decomposition--going viral this week--was the result of it being too dry.
David Whipple purchased a McDonald’s burger in mid-1999, kept it for all this time, and said it has no mold or shows any difference from a freshly made one.
After a video of the burger went viral this week, McDonald’s gave its take.
“In the example of cooking a McDonald’s hamburger, the patty loses water in the form of steam during the cooking process,” the company said in a statement, according to the Christian Post. “The bun, of course, is made out of bread. Toasting it reduces the amount of moisture. This means that after preparation, the hamburger is fairly dry.”
“When left out open in the room, there is further water loss as the humidity within most buildings is around 40%. So in the absence of moisture or high humidity, the hamburger simply dries out, rather than rot,” the company added.
Whipple said that the burger was placed in a coat pocket jacket, and it wasn’t intentional to keep it all this time.
Whipple explained: “Being always on a diet, I was involved with another weight loss gimmick and scheduled to do a home presentation the following month. This hamburger was going to be an object lesson about live enzymes. At the little meeting, I showed the hamburger and the pickle, which was just starting to disintegrate. There was no decomposition to the meat or bun, nor any mold, fungus or smell. It had no bad odor at all,” according to MyFox8.
He recently appeared on “The Doctors” television show, speaking about the unblemished burger, saying he will keep it around to reincorce good eating habits for his children.
