What does a 142-day-old Happy Meal look like?

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We had this here before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1256516

I sometimes wonder why people expect every food item to dissolve into green goo.

We had this here before:

Yeah, it's dead; that's why this submission came through.

I sometimes wonder why people expect every food item to dissolve into green goo.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to expect something that would decompose in one's stomach to be decomposable by other living things (bacteria and insect larvae).

Well, it is. It's a bit silly to expect a dry, outside environment to be as bacterial fecund as the insides of your stomach, though. This is almost "area woman builds shrine to immortal fast food" territory.

I guess it's partly because we've got tinned food and fridges all over the place, so we aren't exposed to older methods of preserving food anymore.

Well, as the poster below suggests, leave an apple out for a few days (or even a peace of bread, as long as it's from a real bakery, not a supermarket), and see how long it lasts in its pristine state.

This would make the least interesting time-lapse video possible.

Agree, but the time-lapse video would suddenly be interesting if it had some other food next to it (like an apple) for comparison.

Good point. It could be a McDonald's vs WholeFoods bun.

I wouldn't want to run this half-year-long experiment at home, though.

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