{"id":1697,"date":"2008-09-24T22:16:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T03:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2008-09-24T22:16:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T03:16:14","slug":"my-1996-mcdonalds-hamburgerlet-me-show-you-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1697","title":{"rendered":"My 1996 McDonald&#8217;s Hamburger&#8230;Let Me Show You It&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via SLOG&#8230;&nbsp; Ever wonder what a McDonald&#8217;s hamburger would look like after sitting for 12 years in a plastic container at room temperature?&nbsp; See it <a href=\"http:\/\/bestwellnessconsultant.com\/2008\/09\/23\/1996-mcdonalds-hamburger-karen-hanrahan-best-of-mother-earth.aspx\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be afraid to look.&nbsp; It actually won&#8217;t gross you out until you think about it for a while.&nbsp; Because&#8230;see&#8230;it looks perfectly normal.&nbsp; Not the slightest hint of rancidness.&nbsp; None.&nbsp; No sign of mold.&nbsp; Not on the meat, and even more alarmingly, not on the bun either, which according to the author of that blog post, is getting a tad crumbly.&nbsp; But&#8230;no mold.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a single guy&#8230;just in case my occasional public bouts of loneliness here on the blog haven&#8217;t clued anyone in to that fact.&nbsp; I buy food for one, and often that&#8217;s a hassle because it&#8217;s hard to find food in single guy portions, or packaged such that I can use just a part of it and keep the rest for later.&nbsp; So I buy, for example, a loaf of bread, and if it&#8217;s good bread, meaning it&#8217;s fresh baked locally and not loaded with preservatives and other additives, it starts getting stale before I finish it off more often then not.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t finish a whole loaf of bread by myself in under a week, and by the end of the week more often then not I see the first few specs of mold on it before it&#8217;s halfway finished and then I have to give the rest to the birds.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s this friggin&#8217; McDonald&#8217;s bun after twelve years and not a spec of mold on it anywhere.&nbsp; Wow&#8230;&nbsp; Just&#8230;wow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via SLOG&#8230;&nbsp; Ever wonder what a McDonald&#8217;s hamburger would look like after sitting for 12 years in a plastic container at room temperature?&nbsp; See it Here. Don&#8217;t be afraid to look.&nbsp; It actually won&#8217;t gross you out until you think about it for a while.&nbsp; Because&#8230;see&#8230;it looks perfectly normal.&nbsp; Not the slightest hint of rancidness.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-the-corporate-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}