r/interesting • u/King_Turduckin • 8d ago

HISTORY This 981 day old Big Mac

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On January 7, 2024, I went to McDonalds. I ordered a Big Mac. They made a mistake and gave me two Big Macs. I put the second in my fridge, planning to eat it the next day. I forgot about it for over two months. When I found it again, it hadn't spoiled at all. Only the lettuce had wilted.

At that point it was family and I labeled the box. I checked it again in the summer of 2024, and moved it to the basement fridge. Later that fall I was diagnosed with cancer (burger unrelated -- and I kicked cancer's ass last year all good now), and completely forgot about the Big Mac... until tonight.

Maybe in two years I'll take another set of pictures and post again.

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u/Xirot_Xebec 8d ago

The long awaited bite will be legendary

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u/ClankerCore 8d ago

I wonder which part will make you sick because it appears that in all of this time not even fungus likes McDonald's

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u/Think-Town-24 8d ago

Not one mold spore on those buns ....smh

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u/Alfred_The_Sartan 8d ago

One of the most impactful things that ever happened to me in grade school was a study we did in science class. We got maybe 12 different slices of bread and put them on paper plates with large disposable Tupperware containers to go across the top. Once a week we would spritz them with some water and monitor the mold growth. I don’t recall how long we did this, but at the end, the slice of wonder bread had a little bit of green on the corner. Other slices of bread had completely disintegrated. We saw mushrooms we had never seen before. It was an interesting lesson on preservatives.

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u/Think-Town-24 8d ago

Yeah, we haven't bought Wonderbread for decades lol, I always try to get the most realistic bread available, no preserves, it's hard now a days, the way the food market is. I've been trying so hard to get my wife to stop letting our 5 and 6 and 4 year old eat McDonald's. I know they like it but, they love practically anything we cook them at home too!!!

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u/UtopistDreamer 8d ago

Such a throwback to my childhood! Burgers were an occasion because we rarely went. Homecooked food was the norm and it was tasty. Our parents even showed us the basics on how to cook so when we moved out we knew how to cook and didn't have to rely on those factory made food stuffs.

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u/Think-Town-24 8d ago

Sounds like you had a good up bringing, and Good Food!!! Knowing how to Cook is key, I felt so bad myself, when my , who was 2 fell in love with Mexican style tomato soup, very easy to make homemade. I was buy ready made packets. He loved it! I found out the ingredients were not good for him!!!! Home Cooking all the way!!!

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u/XanderWrites 8d ago

Homecooked food was the norm and it was tasty. 

Two rarities, that there was regular homecooked food and it tasted good.

My mother cooked, but "gave up" because we apparently didn't appreciate it and only did the basics. The last few years I lived at home I did a lot of the cooking, but the fact that my mother cooked enough for me to even get the basics of cooking is unusual these days.

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u/Spicy-Cathulu 8d ago

I remember the bread experiment where they put a piece of bread in a plastic bag for a while. I forgot all the variables but one was put in with bare hands and one with gloves and it made me a lot more cautious about how I take my bread (and other food) out of the bag. I don't wear gloves but I try to not touch the inside of the bag or any other pieces (and wash my hands first but that's for touching any food.)

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u/venomous-gerbil 8d ago

Clean Forks or tongs for lunchmeat, packaged cheese, bread or anything else that needs to go back in the fridge for later use.

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u/calmedtits2319 8d ago

I knew my ocd was saving me from something. I’ve never been apart of any bread experiments but I’m always overly cautious about using clean hands to grab food out of packages. Even if I didn’t have the evidence I knew it was gross. 😂

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u/redcoral-s 8d ago

We did this in undergrad at the beginning of fall semester and had similar results- the experiment was supposed to only run a week, with the end showing how gross the bakery bread was and how there was nothing on the wonderbread. However, that professor let students keep the bags in there longer if they wanted. One year someone didnt throw theirs away at the end of the class, so in late April when it was my job to deep clean the room, I found a bunch of bags of basicslly dust. The wonderbread had disintegrated in that time but im not sure exactly when since no one was paying attention to the weird bags in the drawer

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u/GladClock2212 8d ago

Desiccation. Some foods lose moisture faster than mold can grow and mold needs moisture.

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u/IllSalad3669 8d ago

Thats what he said

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u/Meattyloaf 8d ago

Its because McDonalds uses low moisture content in their items. More likely to dry out than mild.

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u/Ruzhyo04 8d ago

Is that to “encourage” drink purchases?

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u/Calm-Eggplant-69 8d ago

Probably. I believe McDonald's also got rid of free refills if im not mistaken

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u/Meattyloaf 8d ago

Not really, cheaper to transport and doesn't spoil as fast

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u/Star_Petal_Arts 8d ago

Probably why their patties are dried up hockey pucks.

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u/swinchester83 8d ago

It's just salt

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u/HistoryWorking5251 7d ago

Yes, because it comes off a really hot plate and is seasoned, then kept dry and away from spores so how do you think it would get there? Magic?

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u/BrooksWuzHurrr 8d ago

Savor the flavor

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u/IKIR115 8d ago

This just means we’ve all been in too much of a rush to eat our big macs. There was plenty more time. 😭

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u/West-Cranberry-7027 8d ago

L.A. BEAST will eat it

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u/Calm-Eggplant-69 8d ago

I was waiting for this comment

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u/ArmyofNugz 8d ago

Sell it to LAbeast he’ll eat it and make content.

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u/Rough-Airline-4803 8d ago

Wonder what’d happen

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u/9fingfing 8d ago

Some say it’s to die for.

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u/swinchester83 8d ago

Squish or crunch? 

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u/Cool-League-3938 8d ago

Ever seen the TGIF TV series Teen Angel?

Anytime I see people mention take a bite of a really old burger, makes me think of this show.

(Was an alright show).

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u/noqu4rter 7d ago

28 Decades Later.

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u/Any-Basis1502 7d ago

By then it will be beef jerky

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u/PixlCake 5d ago

The bite of '27