{"id":654173,"date":"2013-04-24T09:35:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T13:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=226450"},"modified":"2013-04-24T09:35:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T13:35:58","slug":"14-year-old-burger-defies-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654173","title":{"rendered":"14-Year Old Burger Defies Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year old hamburger has refused to comply with what we know of decomposition, according to a man in Utah.<\/p>\n<p>David Whipple says he bought a burger with pickles, mustard, and ketchup from McDonald&#8217;s in July of 1999 to use as a visual aid for a presentation about enzymes and reactions. After letting it &#8220;age&#8221; for a month, he showed it to a group of students and was surprised even then at how little time had affected it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the little meeting, I showed the hamburger and the pickle, which was just starting to disintegrate,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/14-year-old-burger-mcdonald-s-burger-looks-just-grilled-after-14-years\">Whipple said<\/a>. &#8220;There was no decomposition to the meat or bun, nor any mold, fungus or smell. It had no bad odor at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the presentation, Whipple says he stuffed the burger in a bag and ended up leaving it in his truck, forgotten, over the summer months. It eventually landed in a closet in his home, and when he discovered it he says he was amazed. Lately, it&#8217;s gotten some attention and was even featured on the show &#8220;TV Doctors&#8221;. A photo of the burger, along with its story, has since gone viral.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This just came out in the last couple of months and it&#8217;s just been crazy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The burger hasn&#8217;t been dehydrated or refrigerated, and Whipple says he can&#8217;t understand why it&#8217;s survived as long as it has. He is currently working on a similar experiment with burgers from different fast food chains, to see if they hold up as well as the one from McDonald&#8217;s So far, he says, they&#8217;re right on track. As for McDonald&#8217;s, they can&#8217;t offer up an explanation as to why one of their burgers would hang around this long, either. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;McDonald&#8217;s hamburger patties in the U.S. are made with 100% USDA-inspected beef. They are cooked and prepared with salt, pepper and nothing else \u2014 no preservatives \u2014 no fillers. Our hamburger buns are made from North American-grown wheat flour. These are the same foods that people buy every day in their local grocery stores,&#8221; they said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/14-year-old-burger-mcdonald-s-burger-looks-just-grilled-after-14-years\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=11NXfR63Hy0:GMefCvQ5lo0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=11NXfR63Hy0:GMefCvQ5lo0:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=11NXfR63Hy0:GMefCvQ5lo0:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=11NXfR63Hy0:GMefCvQ5lo0:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=11NXfR63Hy0:GMefCvQ5lo0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=11NXfR63Hy0:GMefCvQ5lo0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=11NXfR63Hy0:GMefCvQ5lo0:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=11NXfR63Hy0:GMefCvQ5lo0:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=11NXfR63Hy0:GMefCvQ5lo0:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/11NXfR63Hy0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year old hamburger has refused to comply with what we know of decomposition, according to a man in Utah. David Whipple says he bought a burger with pickles, mustard, and ketchup from McDonald&#8217;s in July of 1999 to use as a visual aid for a presentation about enzymes and reactions. 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