Looking almost as fresh as the day it was bought, this McDonald's Happy Meal is in fact a staggering six months old.
Photographed every day for the past half a year by Manhattan artist Sally Davies the kids meal of fries and burger is without a hint of mould or decay.
In a work entitled The Happy Meal Project, Mrs Davies, 54, has charted the seemingly indestructible fast food meals progress as it refuses to yield to the forces of nature.
Expecting the food to begin moulding after a few days, Mrs Davies' surprise turned to shock as the fries and burger still had not shown any signs of decomposition after two weeks.
'It was then that I realised that something strange might be going on with this food that I had bought,' she explained.
'The fries shrivelled slightly as did the burger patty, but the overall appearance of the food did not change as the weeks turned to months.
'And now, at six months old, the food is plastic to the touch and has an acrylic sheen to it.
'The only change that I can see is that it has become hard as a rock.
Hey while posting this story a commentor makes a good point to the fact that this story is a waste of time. This is what a poster wrote:
"Wow, what a phenomenal level of ignorance.
ANY food that is dried will not rot.
The meal is air dried and therefor will last almost indefinitely.
Shame on the author for trying to sensationalize this.
Shame on McDonald's and Yahoo for not pointing this out.
Shame on all the people that have commented and shown their ignorance.
We use dried foods every day:
- beef jerky
- dried fruits and vegetables (raisins, sun-dried tomatoes etc.)
- all boxed pasta
- all types of flour
- powdered milk
- all powdered foods and drinks
- tea
- rice
and on and on and on.
Makes a lot of sense to me and I tend to agree.
-AL
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