A Year Old Happy Meal

[Al Today]

Re: Why we're scared of Happy Meals


Why is there no mold on the bread after 17 days? or the taters? Have they been stored in a controlled environment? In NO WAY am I defending that garbage. The first day picture I see the cooled off grease residue on the meat and just looking at them gives me heart burn and an upset stomach...

 

[Bo]

Re: Why we're scared of Happy Meals

Why is there no mold on the bread after 17 days? or the taters? Have they been stored in a controlled environment? In NO WAY am I defending that garbage. The first day picture I see the cooled off grease residue on the meat and just looking at them gives me heart burn and an upset stomach...

That's what I noticed as well,

one of the comments say;

If you leave a piece of bread out on the counter, it will NOT get moldy, unless you have extremely high humidity. Unless you have a high moisture food, like a tomato, it will DRY OUT just like this food did. Bread gets moldy when left IN THE BAG where it retains the moisture. On the counter it quickly becomes stale and dries out, eliminating the possibility of mold.

Even an orange will frequently dry out into a dry husk without any indication of rot.

Fries and burgers don't have much moisture, and the thin patties will dry out very quickly.

Just another parlor trick, just like a vacuum salesperson does when trying to get you to buy the high dollar vacuum.

If this is how you decide what to eat, you will probably go hungry. Unless you want to eat tomatoes. They rot nicely on the counter.

 

[Al Today]

Re: Why we're scared of Happy Meals


I dunno, just my limited experience, but I have never seen bread NOT get mold on my counter. Methinks one would have to put extra effort into NOT growing mold on bread, unless they live in a desperately dry desert...

 

[Lilou]

Re: Why we're scared of Happy Meals

I was writing in my journal the other night, and wrote an entire paragraph about bread that will not mold. I had never seen anything like it. In the 1980's, here in the USA, bread still molded. In the 90's, I was living overseas, bread still molded. Now, here in the USA, this stuff will sit for weeks & never decompose. Not even critters or insects will eat it.

Eliminating gluten & this strange stuff being sold as the "staff of life", was the best thing I've done towards better health. I see people consuming copious amounts of this stuff & I just want to scream, "Wake up people! Doesn't it bother you that bread no longer molds?"

And BTW, Al, I did live in a dry desert for some time, and the bread still molded after being out on the counter for a few days. So it has to be the preservatives they add here.

 

[WhiteBear]

Re: Why we're scared of Happy Meals

I was scared of Happy Meals before this...now I'm absolutely terrified!
Remember, the Big Mac Attack happens -after- you eat it ;D

 

[rylek]

Here's an article trying to, in a semi scientific way, determine why those damn things won't decompose:

_http://www.salon.com/food/feature/2010/09/01/burger_that_wont_rot/index.html

Ultimately, says O’Keefe, the McDonald’s haters have gotten their science wrong. "The ingredients are similar to anything you’d see in processed fast food," he says. For better or for worse, McDonald’s is no more a chemical laboratory of secret compounds designed to embalm us from the inside than any other processed food maker. A Happy Meal manages to stay unspoiled because it is fatty, salty and practically empty of nutrients -- which, really, are all good reasons to avoid it anyway.

 

[dantem]

This one is a 2005 study... Mr. McDonald may have refined his art of plasticizing meals by then?

...Incidentally, Morgan Spurlock used individual glass jars for his experiment and didn't identify any appreciable differences in burger decay. His McDonald's fries, however, remained unvarnished and fungus-free for weeks. Since I contaminated my fries, I can neither confirm nor refute Spurlock's findings.